Wiib' part 2
Wiib' part 2
Album Released September 20, 2025 at Central Commons of Dallas, TX
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Wiib' part 2
Wiib', the Mayan Q'eqchi' word for two, represents the second composer-collaborative release for the Sounds New Chapter of the National Association of Composers USA. This album represents music from big cities to not-quite-cities (rural locales hidden or near forests and wilderness). Wiib' represents an eclectic mix of story-telling: death and life, dust and joy, or psychosis and bliss—across electrifying chamber music to fixed media textures.
Titles and Composers
1. Fanfare That Once Was a Postlude - David R. Peoples
2. Flow - Jakub Polaczyk
3. HUMAN - Droki Ouro
4. Four Noise Studies - Michael Boyd
5. Superposition - Richard Montalto
6. Feather Hunt - Mat Ward
7. Swan Song - Amirhossein Zeinali
8. Rejection Junction - Sunny Knable
9. Eloquence II - Lori Ardovino
Fanfare That Once Was a Postlude - David R. Peoples
This was composed for this album featuring a performance on FM8.
Flow - Jakub Polaczyk
Flow is an short piece inspired by the boiling water whistling sound and composed in 2013 for my flute friends from Carnegie Mellon University.
HUMAN - Droki Ouro
I. Frogs
II. Street
III. Failing Windows
IV. Mineral II
V. The Project
VI. Create Freedom
HUMAN was inspired by Mia Rickenbach’s Create Freedom, an online community of artist advocates that surround the issues of human trafficking and
modern slavery with hope, joy, and art. Rickenbach, an active social entrepreneur and artist, notes: “To make art is a bold statement: that it’s worth it to create
something new. To buy art is a bold statement: to declare “this of value” and add life and color to your spaces. Together, we are creating freedom.” HUMAN selects six works of art that examine societal issues in different regions of the world. Each miniature musically explores the creative style of each artist and
the associated sociological baggage of the regional topic.
Four Noise Studies - Michael Boyd
4a
5d
6b
7
Four Noise Studies represents my first work with electro-acoustic music more than twenty years ago. Composed using CSound, each study explores noise and the boundary between noise and pitch using different techniques: inharmonic partials (4a), quasi-random number generation (5d, 7) and FM synthesis (6b).
Superposition - Richard Montalto
Many years ago, I debated whether to major in physics or music in college. Music won out, but I have continued to hold an interest in physics. I have composed a number of works illustrating my somewhat rudimentary understanding of the science. Superposition is one of them.
Feather Hunt - Mat Ward
Feather Hunt uses an organ drone as the foundation for a series of rhythmic and tonal experiments via layers of acoustic and electronic instruments ( percussion, double bass, modular synths, field recordings and woodwinds). The methodology behind its creation is one of chance and sonic collage: Ward invites people (not just musicians) from across the world, to send audio files which he listens to, manipulates and arranges ‘as suggested by the work’. Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods use what Frank Zappa called Xenocrony - the mixing of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions.
Swan Song - Amirhossein Zeinali
The piece is inspired by “Swan Song,” a poem by the Persian poet Mehdi Hamidi Shirazi (1914-1986). It offers a haunting meditation on love, mortality, and the myths surrounding the swan’s final song.
They say when the time comes for a swan to die,
it goes where other swans have gone to die.
They say as the last night begins to fall,
it trails behind the setting sun to die.
...
(Translation by Armen Davoudian)
Rooted in an old belief, the swan’s voice is said to break its long silence only twice: once in the moment of love, and once in the face of death. In these rare and fleeting songs, love and farewell become one.
Rejection Junction - Sunny Knable
What is your relationship with rejection? That was the question in my mind as I sat down one summer after a season of artistic rejection. What better way to deal with it than to write a piece about it? I searched for quotes from famous authors on rejection and was happy to find a treasure trove of them. Happily, I set them to music, fulfilling a piece for my friends. As a testament to the power of music, I can reveal to you, dear audience, that when I sat at the piano singing Emerson’s line, “Do not waste yourself in rejection... but chant the beauty of the good,” with tears in my eyes, I was finally able to find calm.
Eloquence II - Lori Ardovino
Eloquence II was composed in 2010 as the second piece in a series of solo works for various orchestral instruments. The work is in ABA' form, featuring a flowing and free-form A section that emphasizes intervals centered around seconds and sevenths. Its style is expressive, highlighting tone color and lyricism. The B section requires more movement and incorporates resonance trills for additional coloristic effect. Demanding technical passages accompany these timbral effects. The final A' returns to the free-flowing intervallic connection, interrupted by percussive interjections and extreme dynamics.
David R. Peoples writes with a ginger ale in hand on a balcony surrounded by forest. It’s from Flowery Branch, Georgia, surrounded by nature, that all his compositions begin before being released into and around the world. David enjoys sharing his own and other composers’ new music in recitals. From April 2021 to May 2022, he presented recitals featuring 100+ composers in all 50 states through the National Association of Composers, Music Teachers National Association, Research on Contemporary Composition Conference, and Electrophonic Concerts. David is the founder and owner of Space Bear Records.
Jakub Polaczyk is a Polish-American composer, pianist and pedagogue awarded Poland’s President Gold Cross of Merit. Currently based in New York City and faculty at the New York Conservatory of Music. Polaczyk’s works have won more than 20 national and international awards in composition, including the New York Composers Circle Competition (2024), Composers Guild of New Jersey (2022), First Prize in the American Prize in Composition (2020) and many others. Polaczyk's compositions have been performed and broadcast around the world. His works have been premiered in Carnegie Hall and Musikverein. Polaczyk's music is published by Donemus, Universal Edition Vienna, with releases by: Albany Records, Ablaze Records. A documentary: Conversation With Jakub Polaczyk, won the Bronze at the 43rd Telly Awards in New York (2023). In 2025, Polaczyk’s work earned a nomination at the prestigious Polish Grammy Awards (“Fryderyki”). You can learn more about his projects and background at www.jakub.polaczyk.com.
| Described as “lyrical, distant, [and] eerie” (EarRelevant), “spatially nuanced” (MIT Press), and “unsettling [yet] interesting” (Cycling ’74), Droki Ouro’s music longs for the experiential allure of balance and introspection. Their music blends pictorial properties with organizing principles of philosophical and sociological intent. Ouro’s music has been performed at the Aspen Music Festival, NYCEMF, and Cube Fest, performed by Hypercube, Duo Sequenza, and ensemble vim, and featured on several record labels including Navona Records, Petrichor Records, and RMN Music.
Droki currently serves as an Associate Professor of Music Technology where they teach courses in computer music programming, sound design, synthesis, instrument modeling, studio recording, digital art, and composition. Ouro earned their Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music.
Michael Boyd, Professor of Music and Music Program Coordinator at Chatham University, is a biracial South Asian-American composer, scholar, and experimental improviser. His music embraces experimental practices such as installation, multimedia, and performance art, and has been performed in a variety of venues throughout the United States and abroad. His user-driven installation Confessional won the 2016 FETA Prize in Sound Art, and he has published articles in Intégral, Perspectives of New Music, Tempo, and Notes. Boyd is currently serving a fourth elected term on the Wilkins Township Board of Commissioners and competes in mountain bike and sub-ultra trail running races.
Richard Montalto earned a DMA from the University of North Texas. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including an ASCAP Grants to Young Composers Award, over 40 ASCAP Standard Awards, and a Mississippi Artist Fellowship. Montalto has composed over 300 works, with performances at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space in New York, the Montreaux International Jazz Festival, the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, and the International Computer Music Conference. He has served as President of the Southeastern Composers’ League, the NACUSA Mid-South Chapter, and the College Music Society Southern Chapter.
Richard retired in 2016 as Professor Emeritus at the Mississippi University for Women.
Mat Ward is a musician and researcher whose practice includes performance, installation, expanded cinema , noise art, sonic portraiture and improvisation. He collaborates extensively across the world. His research examines the acoustic properties of noise and its relationship to human emotion and communication. In 2022 he formed the art collective Then She Reaches For The Gun to explore sonic collage and xenography. The submitted piece Feather Hunt is a result of this project where Ward is manipulated and arranged sounds sent to him from participants across the globe.
Amirhossein Zeinali (b. 2000), Iranian composer, holds a bachelor's degree in composition from the Art University of Isfahan, and master's degree in the same field from the University of Utah. His music is deeply rooted in his cultural heritage, combining elements of traditional Persian music—including its modal structures and rhythms—with contemporary musical idioms to craft a cross-cultural artistic voice.
SUNNY KNABLE (b. 1983) is an award-winning composer, a multi-instrumental performer, an educator, and an author of multiple essays and books. Knable’s music has been described as "genius" (Anchorage Press), "great!" (TheWholeNote), "well-crafted" (New York Concert Review), "entertaining" (Audiophile Audition), "witty, romantic and lilting" (TheaterScene.net), offering up "sparks of color and inventiveness" (Sacramento Bee), and possessing a "wealth of thematic invention" (feastofmusic.com). Dr. Knable is an Assistant Professor of Music at Central Connecticut State University and Music Director of The Church-in-the-Gardens. His discography includes his debut album "American Variations" on Centaur Records; his second composition album with bassoonist Scott Pool and pianist Natsuki Fukasawa, "Song of the Redwood Tree" on MSR Classics; and his third composition album "Keys" featuring Faythe Vollrath and Matthew Lau on Trouvère Records. He resides in Forest Hills, NY, with his wife, son, and cat.
Dr. Lori Ardovino is an artist and clinician affiliated with Conn-Selmer Company and D’Addario Woodwinds, and she is a Fulbright Specialist. She currently serves as a Professor of Music at the University of Montevallo. Her teaching includes clarinet, saxophone, and woodwind methods and ensembles. Additionally, Dr. Ardovino serves as the faculty advisor for the Mu Eta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota and is the Music Editor for the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors. She is also an active performer with the LeBaron Trio, the Meàllo Trio, the Vinna Trio, and the Cahaba Saxophone Quartet. She has composed numerous works for voice, woodwinds, trumpet, and ensemble settings. Her music has been performed and recorded across the United States, Italy, Ireland, Japan, Norway, and Canada.
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