MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS
CONFLUENCES
Featuring field recordings from Maryland, New York, Delaware, Sierra Nevada in Colombia, and Chubut in Argentina; and handmade flutes built and played by Anna Demetrides, David Benham, Georgia Beatty, Rachel Beetz, Robin Wilson, and Sean Conroy.
The field recordings feature sounds of birdsong at dusk, bubbling streams, buzzing summer insect song, a powerful thunderstorm, and a high tide during horseshoe crab mating season. The flute songs arranged over top were played and recorded by community members, on clay flutes that they built themselves in workshops with me between 2022-2024.
© 2025 Melissa Hyatt Foss
PALINGENESIS
Composition for hand-built triple flute, tree branches, field recordings, and electronics. The piece is a contemplation on the circular nature of time, both in relation to natural cycles, and the processes of inner healing.
Composed using a hand-crafted ceramic triple flute, which features three different tubular flutes with intuitive microtonal tunings, the composition ebbs and flows along a patient, purposeful journey into the depths of the flute’s unique sonic material, stretching it to its limits and finally disintegrating it completely with digital processing like sampling and granular synthesis before ultimately reaching a quiet corner of focused integration.
Mixing and mastering by Ricardo Wheelock
© 2024 Melissa Hyatt Foss
WHEWAN
Composition for synth, tree branches, handcrafted horn and flutes, and voice.
© 2023 Melissa Hyatt Foss