Evelyn Saylor: Watch/Listen

Solo voice and electronics

Pastoral
for solo voice and live electronics (2024)
recording of live premiere in KM28, Nov. 19, 2024, performed by Evelyn Saylor

Pastoral

No Such Virtue (There Is No Rose Permutation)
for solo voice and live electronics (2023) (Demo)
performed by Evelyn Saylor

No Such Virtue (There Is No Rose Permutation)

Shattered, Shimmering
for solo voice and live electronics (2023)
performed by Evelyn Saylor

Shattered, Shimmering

Voices and electronics

A to B
for two voices and live electronics (2024)
Link to score
recording of concert performance (premiere) by Evelyn Saylor and Dina Maccabee on June 6, 2024 in KM28, Berlin

A to B

Astral Circuits
for voices and live electronics (2023)
recording of concert performance (premiere) by Evelyn Saylor and Nina Guo on March 30, 2023 in KM28, Berlin

Astral Circuits

Fantas Variation for Voices
for voices and electronics (2021)
Album version, for release on Editions Mego: “Fantas Variations” (EMEGO 279), a recomposition of “Fantas” by Caterina Barbieri
Performed by Evelyn Saylor, Lyra Pramuk, Stine Janvin and Annie Garlid
A version of the piece for live performance by a cappella vocal quartet also exists.

Voices, flutes and electronics

Unearthly Bioacoustics by Evelyn Saylor and Rebecca Lane
for voices, flute, organ pipes & quadraphonic live electronics (2022)
performed by Evelyn Saylor and Rebecca Lane

A cappella voices

Scherzo
for SSA a cappella vocal trio (2024)
a setting of a text by Dora Greenwell
Link to score
recording of concert premiere by Evelyn Saylor, Nina Guo, & Dina Maccabee on Nov. 19, 2024, in KM28, Berlin

Scherzo

For After
for vocal quartet (2024)
Link to score
recording of concert performance by Evelyn Saylor, Nina Guo, Dina Maccabee, & Marco Wessnigk, Sept. 22, 2024, Seanaps Festival, Westflügel, Leipzig

For After

The Autumn Day Its Course Has Run
for SAB voices (2023)
Transposed version for SSA voices also available
A setting of a text by Charlotte Brontë
Link to score
recording of concert performance by Evelyn Saylor, Nina Guo, & Marco Wessnigk on Sept. 22, 2024, in Seanaps Festival, Westflügel, Leipzig

The Autumn Day Its Course Has Run

Change Patterns No. 2 by Evelyn Saylor and Rebecca Lane
for two a cappella voices (2018)
Link to Score
Link to Part I
Link to Part II
recording of concert performance by Evelyn Saylor and Nina Guo on March 30, 2023 in KM28, Berlin

Change Patterns No. 2

Electronics (fixed media)

Vel Piling Grimtra (Traveling Pilgrim Permutation)
for fixed media electronics (composed 2020, premiered 2023)

Vel Piling Grimtra (Traveling Pilgrim Permutation)

This piece is one of several pieces which I call “permutations”, in which I take a recording I’ve made and algorithmically reorder it. The “bits” slowly move through the file, giving rise to a slow change despite the quick tempo. This particular permutation reorders a recording of myself, Cherilyn Neilson, Graham DeZarn, and Marco Wessnigk singing the American shape note song “Traveling Pilgrim”. I composed this piece in 2020 and now dedicate it to Graham DeZarn who died two years later.

Enter
for fixed media electronics (2022)

Enter