Elainie Lillios
Elainie Lillios
electroacoustics | composition | performance

Instrument(s) with Electronics

Elainie Lillios conjures amazing electronic textures from acoustic instruments, bringing interactive electronic music to sublime heights of wonder. As an electroacoustic performer, I find her music to be at the very top of this field.
— Scott Deal, percussionist, electronic musician, composer
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Woodwinds

Undertow (2018) bass clarinet [10:00] [Purchase] [Download] [Watch] [Listen] [CD]

Sleep’s Undulating Tide (2016) flute [12:49] [Purchase] [Download] [Watch] [CD]

Among Fireflies (2010) alto flute [10:50] [Purchase] [Download] [Watch] [Watch]

Veiled Resonance (2008) soprano saxophone [14:10] [Purchase] [Download] [Watch Mvt. 1] [Watch Mvt. 2] [Watch Mvt. 3] [CD] [CD] [CD]

of a Single Mind? (1995) alto saxophone [12:07]

Brass

November Twilight (2011) trumpet [11:04] [Purchase] [Download] [Listen] [CD]

Percussion

Time-Lapse (2021) vibraphone [10:11] [Purchase] [Download] [Watch]

Immeasurable Distance (2019) mixed metals [9:12] [Listen] [Watch]

After Long Drought (2016) vibraphone [11:31] [Purchase] [Download] [Watch] [Watch]

The Rush of the Brook Stills the Mind (2013) multi-percussion [15:40] [Purchase] [Download] [Listen] [Watch] [CD]

Strings

Liquid|Crystal|Vapor (2018) viola [12:30] [Listen] [Watch]

Keyboard … Voice

Nostalgic Visions (2009) piano [11:15] [Listen] [Listen] [Watch] [Watch] [CD] [CD]

Earth Ascending (2000) female voice, electroacoustic music [15:09] [Listen] [CD] [CD]

Ensemble (two or more players)

Living Between Seconds (2021) trumpet in c, drum set and piano (Fromm Foundation commission) [14:45]

Don’t. Blink. (2021) clarinet, violin, viola, cello, electronics (live and fixed), and video [7:00] [Watch]

Hazy Moonlight (2016) soprano saxophone and percussion (Barlow Endowment commission) [12:30] [Listen]

Dry Wind (2012) trumpet in C, violin, viola [3:00]

 
 

Fixed Media

Lillios’s music is a blanket of white quietude huddled around a single wriggling/writhing element, a texture of remarkable crispness, sybillance and spacial precision, presented with origins obscured.
— Josh Landry, Musique Machine
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Multichannel/Ambisonic

Ice Fields (2022)–Fifth order Ambisonic [16:00]

Night Sky (2022)–10 channel [8:40]

Contemplating Larry (2015)–8 channel [12:12] [Listen] [CD]

A Little Austinato (2009)–8 channel [3:02]

Listening Beyond… (2007)–First order Ambisonic [8:41] [Listen] [CD]

Hastening Toward the Half Moon (2004)–8 channel [9:25] [Listen] [CD]

Stereo

Tonic in G (2022) for Jonty Harrison [1:20]

Vox Magma (2020) for Pete Stollery [:58]

On The Essence of Memory (2014) [withdrawn]

La fête de la huitième décennie (2012) for François Bayle [2:10] [Listen] [CD]

Last Night I Dreamed That My Whole House Was Clean (2012) [1:00]

Entract (2011) [1:00]

Deep Fire (2011) for Annette Vande Gorne [1:00]

Exit Variations I (2008) [1:33]

Toronto Island Contrasts (2008) [1:00] [Listen] [CD]

Stargazing (2008) [1:00] [Listen]

Three “B” Textures (2005) [4:27]

Speaking…again (2003) [11:00] [Listen] [CD]

Backroads (2002) [10:56] [Listen] [CD]

Dreams in the Desert (2001) [10:48] [Listen] [CD]

Stumbling Dance (1998/99) [14:53] [Listen] [CD] [CD]

Threads (1998) [4:50] [Listen] [CD]

Arturo (1998) [13:39] [Listen] [CD] [CD]

au deuxième étage (1996) [3:00] [CD]

CELLAR (1994-5) [5:02] [CD]

 
 

CollaborationS, Film, and Video ArT

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[Watch]/listen online [Info]rmation

Electroacoustics

The Langston Hughes Project Volume 1 - David Bixler (2024) [Info]

Video/Film

When a Circle Decides not to be a Circle Anymore (2022) [Info]

Paradigm Shift (2015) animation with electroacoustic music [5:52] [Watch]

Sweeping Memories (2012) animation with electroacoustic music [3:28] [Watch]

Textural Encounters (2008) animation with electroacoustic music [10:00]

2BTextures (2008) animation with electroacoustic music [3:09] [Watch]

Installations

Emergent Submergence (2014) immersive audio/visual environment [variable]

Internal Distances (2010) immersive audio/visual environment [variable]

Inhabitants (2009) interactive audio/visual installation [variable] [Watch]

Encounter(s) (2007) immersive, interactive audio/visual installation [variable] [Watch]

Experiential Extremism (2003) immersive, interactive audio/visual installation [variable]

 

Just like a Hughes poem, the material is wide ranging and provocative, demanding respect and a response.

George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly January 2024

 

ACOUSTIC

Elainie crafts artful magic out of silence, gifting audiences and performers unique spaces to explore wide-eared while reconnecting with the world around them and their own humanity.
— Lindsey Goodman, flutist, electronic musician, and fierce new music advocate
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Flute Solo

Whistle~ Whisper~ Wisp (2018) alto flute [10:00] [Watch]

Piano Solo

Solitude’s Stark Wilderness (2015) piano solo [4:21] [Watch]

Sibylline Glimpses (2011) piano solo [5:45]

Chamber

Summer Sketches (2013) flute trio [Watch Mvt. 1] [Watch Mvt. 2] [CD]

The Long Way Home (2008) soprano and percussion [7:48] [Purchase]

Wedge (2007) alto saxophone and piano [3:50] [CD]

One for Two (2007) bass clarinet and percussion