Madelyn Byrne
Madelyn Byrne is a composer and computer-music specialist at Palomar College in California. Her writing often pairs acoustic instruments with electronics in atmospheric, lyrical textures.
Her In a Winter Landscape opens Monologues & Dialogues (MD 3349), setting bass flute over resonant electronic sounds that suggest an austere winter scene after a storm.
On Continental Drift (MD 3403) her Suite in Sea (2013) moves from wave-like dance and a brief soliloquy through playful sea sprites to an Argentinian Ghost Tango, among the more harmonically adventurous pieces written for low flutes on that programme.
Compositions by Madelyn Byrne appear on
Continental Drift
Continental Drift features compositions for two bass flutes and cello. As the Earth’s continents drift across the ocean floor, new music makes its own slow migration around the globe, across time and space into various lands and cultures.
Monologues & Dialogues
This recording features the resonant, meditative colours of modern low flutes. Austere, breathy and at times eerie, these deep registers open a sound-world still little explored in woodwind writing, and invite a wide range of musical imaginings.