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2024
2024 was a landmark year for UNPOP. For the first time, we ran the installation via 100% solar power instead of a gasoline generator, which not only increased the sustainability of the piece but also made its operation silent! UNPOP opened on Sunday, August 25, and began running each night with just a few technical snags interrupting our first nights. By Wednesday, we judged that we had the power capacity and enough protection from heat that we could run the piece 24 hours, so for the first time UNPOP played all day and night. As in 2022, we used an algorithm to generate a randomized playlist, ensuring that all pieces were played the same number of times while also ensuring that no piece was repeated too closely together.
This year our collection grew to 145 total pieces, created by 106 different composers (or teams). A list of all of the played pieces for 2024 follows:
Playlist:
| Artist | Title of Work |
| Alejandro Albornoz | The Light |
| Nico Arnaez | Electrofuga |
| Nico Arnaez | El Lenguaje de la Piel |
| Cindy Baker | things i've forgotten |
| Jon Bellona | Lying In Fireflies Beside Brown Curls |
| Christopher Biggs | New Year's Eve |
| Olivia Block | Dissolution |
| Beth Bradfish | Catch Your Breath |
| Serge Bulat | Inkblot |
| Rachel Buller | Winter Walking |
| Landon Caldwell | BLOOM |
| Landon Caldwell | Rings |
| Raylene Campbell | Landing 23 |
| Nicole Carroll | In The Liminal Space |
| Anna Chaurize | Voce |
| Ted Coffey | Petals 8 |
| Nick Collins | 8 |
| Nicolas Collins | Immortal Coil |
| Darren Copeland | While Working and Walking |
| Ian Crutchley | Fontana Mix |
| Troy Cruz | Highway Hypnosis |
| Luke Dahl | Assessment Postponement Nexus No. 5 |
| Shawn Decker | Mare |
| Shawn Decker | Rusk |
| Wayne DeFehr, Linn R. Friberg, Jon Shuemaker, Danica Hoffart, Trevor DePagie | Floating for a Time |
| Hou Lam Wu (Eagle) | Fragile |
| Frank Ekeberg | Hyperthermic |
| Barbara Ellison | Cybersongs Excerpt |
| Barbara Ellison | Fairsinge Series |
| Evidence | Go Where Light Is |
| Evidence | The Way In |
| Evidence | Visuals |
| Vincent Fillion | Densifications |
| Vincent Fillion | Stridulations |
| Hugo Flores Garcia | World of Mouth |
| Hannah Foerschler | Over Under |
| forceghost | a.m. funk |
| forceghost | attention (a tension) |
| forceghost | where does the time go? |
| Rob Funkhouser | Iris |
| Rob Funkhouser | Space Station |
| Brian Garbet | Would You Like Fries With That? |
| Jeffrey Nils Gardner | Five Twenty Three AM |
| Thierry Gauthier | Ambient Background Spectrum |
| Madhav Ghei | Partial Occluder |
| Russell Gillespie | Center |
| Big Pal (Doug Barber, Patrick Glennon, Chrystine Rayburn) | Florets |
| Big Pal (Doug Barber, Patrick Glennon, Chrystine Rayburn) | Under The Mind/Tacky Airport Swag |
| Lyn Goeringer | Louhi |
| Mark Hannesson | Chorale |
| Louise Harris | sys_m1 |
| Florian Hartleib | Verzweigung |
| Olive Haugh | Remakings |
| Olive Haugh | Solar Winds |
| Helene Hedsund | Klinga |
| Jullian Hoff | Machine In The Shell |
| Hu Yu | Undo |
| Anthony Janas | When The Sunshine Acid Turned Sour |
| Whitney Johnson | Plasmaether |
| Jonesy Jones | Purgatory Park |
| Jonathan Kawchuk | Everywhen |
| Kertayuda & Bill Parod | Yudha Hati |
| Panayiotis Kokoras | Qualia |
| Mikel Kuehn | Dancing In The Ether |
| Sébastien Lavoie | The Four Seasons |
| Vanissa Law | Exhaled Rhyme |
| Felix Lebrun-Pare | La Volonte du Periscope |
| Fiona Lee | Horizon |
| Han geul Lee | Superdensity Noir |
| Elainie Lillios | Hastening Toward The Half-Moon |
| Elainie Lillios | Contemplating Larry |
| Elainie Lillios | Listening Beyond |
| localStyle | Ignis Noster |
| Stephanie Loveless | Some Day |
| Francisco López | Untitled #370 |
| Johnathan D. Martin | Open Doors |
| Johnathan D. Martin | Walkways I – Interchange |
| Paula Matthusen | within the social history of saltpeter |
| Chris Mercer | Collatz |
| Chris Mercer | The Audible Phylogeny Of Lemurs |
| Tom Merklinger | Caterpillar Cocoon |
| Christina Masha Milinusic | Marmot Meteorite |
| Alyssa Miserendino | Coancoan |
| Moldover | Fear of Silence |
| Allen Moore | Solar Church |
| Stephan Moore | A Grid Against The Sky |
| Stephan Moore | Caldera |
| Stephan Moore | Calling Up |
| Stephan Moore | Dusk in Goa |
| James Moses | Oscillator Pond After Dark |
| Jascha Narveson | 8-Ply |
| Jascha Narveson | Doors |
| Jascha Narveson | Pennsylvania Frogs |
| Frank Niehusmann | Fragrance |
| Bill Parod | Evening Forest |
| Bill Parod | Forest At Raja Berneh |
| Bill Parod | Garnet |
| Bill Parod | Lovina Morning |
| Bill Parod | Morning Water |
| Shawn Pinchbeck | Koidulinn |
| Shawn Pinchbeck | Pathways |
| Sam Pluta | Endangered Species |
| Kasey Pocius | Piano Dreamscapes I: Winter Rhythms |
| Kasey Pocius | Piano Dreamscapes II: Snowglobe Bells |
| Kasey Pocius | Piano Dreamscapes III: Ice Flow Isolation |
| Christophe Preissing | Ambiguation |
| Laurie Radford | Vagus II |
| Brad Robin | Consumption |
| Tommaso Rosati | sy |
| Danilo Rossetti | Substâncias Moldáveis |
| Kelly Ruth | Transcendant To Space Transcendant To Time |
| Michael J. Schumacher | Vague Awareness |
| Larry Shuen | Partials |
| Andy Slater | Olde Castlemaigne Gaol |
| Scott Smallwood | Colton Swarm |
| Scott Smallwood | Cosimos Stars |
| Scott Smallwood | Floe |
| Scott Smallwood | Green Stone Cylinder |
| Scott Smallwood | Grove |
| Stefan Smulovitz | 68 Paths Canon |
| Stefan Smulovitz | A Constant Sea |
| Stark | Point Cloud |
| Eli Stine | Murmuration No. 5 |
| Colin Sullivan & Chromatest Pantsmaker | Phoenix Summer Solstice 2022 |
| Colin Sullivan | Live Demo Spring 2022 |
| Stephen Syverud | EIRTH |
| Stephen Syverud | REBORN |
| Stephen Syverud | TIMIN |
| Gen Tanaka | Halfway There |
| Tat Sham | What Is Your Soundmark Of The Year? |
| Matt Test | Bloop |
| Matt Test | Viola |
| Spencer Topel | Deus Gratias |
| Barry Truax | Earth and Steel |
| Sam Tymorek | Heliotropic Patterns |
| Federico Visi | The Desert Changes |
| Federico Visi | Unfolding Clusters |
| Hildegard Westerkamp | Für Dich - For You |
| Hildegard Westerkamp | Into the Labyrinth |
| Hildegard Westerkamp | Talking Rain |
| Alex Yiu | Alter Ego |
| Gayle Young | Cascade |
| Katherine Young | Diligence |
| Samson Young | Bookshelf Music |
| Lidia Zielińska | Insektarion | |
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2022
UNPOP was open for 6 nights, 6:30pm to 7:00am, each night of the event in 2022, which was a really hot one! This year we did not make playlists, rather, we used a computer instead of the Tsunami to play back the audio files, and we decided to randomize the playlist process, with a few simple rules. We were unable to generate an exact list of each night's pieces, but below is the list of all pieces that were played in 2022. Most of these pieces would have played 3-4 times during the event.
Playlist:
Alejandro Albornoz | The Light |
Jon Bellona | Lying In Fireflies Beside Brown Curls |
Christopher Biggs | New Year's Eve |
Olivia Block | Dissolution |
Beth Bradfish | Catch Your Breath |
Serge Bulat | Inkblot |
Rachel Buller Winter | Walking |
Raylene Campbell | Landing 23 |
Nicole Carroll | In The Liminal Space |
Ted Coffey | Petals 8 |
Nick Collins | 8 |
Nicolas Collins | Immortal Coil |
Ian Crutchley | Fontana Mix |
Luke Dahl | Assessment Postponement Nexus No. 5 |
Shawn Decker | Mare |
Hou Lam Wu (Eagle) | Fragile |
Frank Ekeberg | Hyperthermic |
Evidence | Go Where Light Is |
Evidence | Visuals |
Vincent Fillion | Densifications |
Vincent Fillion | Stridulations |
Hannah Foerschler | Over Under |
Jeffrey Gardner | Five Twenty Three AM |
Thierry Gauthier | Ambient Background Spectrum |
Madhav Ghei | Partial Occluder |
Russell Gillespie | Center |
Lyn Goeringer | Louhi |
Louise Harris | sys_m1 |
Florian Hartleib | Verzweigung |
Helene Hedsund | Klinga |
Jullian Hoff | Machine In The Shell |
Hu Yu | Undo |
Whitney Johnson | Plamaether |
Jonesy Jones | Purgatory Park |
Jonathan Kawchuck | Everywhen |
Kertayuda & Bill Parod | Yudha Hati |
Panayiotis Kokoras | Qualia |
Mikel Kuehn | Dancing In The Ether |
Sébastien Lavoie | The Four Seasons |
Felix Lebrun-Pare | La Volonte du Periscope |
Fiona Lee | Horizon |
Elainie Lillios | Hastening Toward The Half-Moon |
Elainie Lillios | Contemplating Larry |
localStyle | Ignis Noster |
Stephanie Loveless | Some Day |
Johnathan D. Martin | Open Doors |
Johnathan D. Martin | Walkways I – Interchange |
Chris Mercer | Collatz |
Chris Mercer | The Audible Phylogeny Of Lemurs |
Tom Merklinger | Caterpillar Cocoon |
Stephan Moore | A Grid Against The Sky |
Stephan Moore | Calling Up |
Stephan Moore | Dusk in Goa |
James Moses | Oscillator Pond After Dark |
Jascha Narveson | Doors |
Jascha Narveson | Pennsylvania Frogs |
Frank Niehusmann | Fragrance |
Bill Parod | Evening Forest |
Bill Parod | Forest At Raja Berneh |
Bill Parod | Garnet |
Bill Parod | Lovina Morning |
Bill Parod | Morning Water |
Shawn Pinchbeck | Pathways |
Sam Pluta | Endangered Species |
Kasey Pocius | Piano Dreamscapes I: Winter Rhythms |
Kasey Pocius | Piano Dreamscapes II: Snowglobe Bells |
Kasey Pocius | Piano Dreamscapes III: Ice Flow Isolation |
Laurie Radford | Vagus II |
Danilo Rossetti | Substâncias Moldáveis |
Kelly Ruth | Transcendant To Space Transcendant To Time |
Larry Shuen | Partials |
Andy Slater | Olde Castlemaigne Gaol |
Scott Smallwood | Colton Swarm |
Scott Smallwood | Cosimos Stars |
Scott Smallwood | Floe |
Scott Smallwood | Green Stone Cylinder |
Scott Smallwood | Grove |
Stephen Smulovitz | 68 Paths Canon |
Stephen Smulovitz | A Constant Sea |
Eli Stine | Murmuration No. 5 |
Colin Sullivan & Chromatest Pantsmaker | Phoenix Summer Solstice 2022 |
Colin Sullivan | Live Demo Spring 2022 |
Tat Sham | What Is Your Soundmark Of The Year? |
Matt Test | Bloop |
Matt Test | Viola |
Spencer Topel | Deus Gratias |
Barry Truax | Earth and Steel |
Federico Visi | The Desert Changes |
Federico Visi | Unfolding Clusters |
Hildegard Westerkamp | Für Dich |
Hildegard Westerkamp | Into the Labyrinth |
Hildegard Westerkamp | Talking Rain |
Alex Yiu | Alter Ego |
Gayle Young | Cascade |
Gayle Young | Diligence |
Lidia Zielińska | Insektarion |
2019
UNPOP was open for 6 nights, 6:30pm to 7:00am, starting Monday, August 26 and ending Sunday, September 1, 2019. Three different programs of music were offered in the 8-channel system, each 6 hours and 15 minutes in length. The programs were repeated once each night to account for the full 12 hour, 30 minute running time. Program 1 was played on Monday and Thursday evenings, Program 2 on Tuesday and Friday, and Program 3 on Wednesday and Saturday. Therefore, each program was played in its entirety four times over the course of the week.
The music presented was composed by 57 different composers, mostly working in octophonic (8-channel) format, but also in 7.1, 5.1, quadraphonic (4-channel), and even stereo, all adapted to suit the 8-channel system. The complete sequence of each of the three programs is listed below.
Program 1:
Smallwood, Scott | Cosimo's Stars |
Crutchley, Ian | Fontana Mix, September 20th |
Yiu, Alex | Alter Ego |
Narveson, Jascha | Pennsylvania Frogs |
Hartlieb, Florian | Verzweigung |
Smallwood, Scott | Floe |
Lillios, Elainie | Hastening Toward the Half Moon |
Visi, Federico | Unfolding/Clusters |
Parod, Bill | Lovina Morning |
Martin, Jon | Open Doors |
Evidence | Go Where Light Is |
Narveson, Jascha | Doors |
Moses, Jim | Oscillator Pond - After Dark |
Smallwood, Scott | Green Stone Cylinder |
Mercer, Chris | Collatz |
Moore, Stephan | A Grid Against The Sky |
Fillion, Vincent | Stridulations |
Smallwood, Scott | Grove |
Coffey, Ted | Petals8 |
Stine, Eli | Murmuration No. 5 |
Niehusmann, Frank | Fragrance |
Program 2:
Loveless, Stephanie | Some Day |
Radford, Laurie | Vagus II |
Smulovitz, Stefan | A Constant Sea |
Law, Vanissa | Exhaled Rhyme |
Biggs, Christopher | New Years |
Carroll, Nicole | In the Liminal Space |
Young, Katherine | Diligence |
Pluta, Sam | Endangered Species |
Campbell, Raylene | Landing 23 |
Pinchbeck, Shawn | Pathways |
Arnáez, Nico | Electrofuga |
Jones, Jonesy | Purgatory Park |
Dahl, Luke | Assessment Postponement Nexus No. 0.5 |
Test, Matt | Bloop |
Smallwood, Scott | Colton Swarm |
Moore, Stephan | Toowoomba Looproom: Music of Transmission Damage |
Gillespie, Russell | Center |
Collins, Nicolas | Immortal Coil |
Senécal, Pierre-Luc | Schrei |
Fillion, Vincent | Densifications |
Shuen, Larry | Partials |
Young, Gayle | Cascade |
Smulovitz, Stefan | 68 Paths: Canon |
Gardner, Jeffrey Nils | Five Twenty Three AM |
Slater, Andy | Old Castlemaine Gaol |
Johnson, Whitney (Matchess) | Plasmaether |
Bellona, Jon | Lying in Fireflies Beside Brown Curls |
Moore, Stephan | Calling Up |
Program 3:
Hoff, Julian | Machine in the Shell |
Moore, Stephan | Dusk in Goa |
localStyle (Jay Alan Yim and Marlena Novak) | Ignis Noster |
Foerschler, Hannah | Over Under |
Parod, Bill | Forest at Raja Berneh |
Ruth, Kelly | Transcendant to Space Transcendent to Time |
Lillios, Elainie | Contemplating Larry |
Truax, Barry | Earth & Steel |
Evidence | Visuals |
Test, Matt | Viola |
Lebrun-Paré, Félix | La Volonte du Periscope |
Martin, Jon | Walkways mvmt 1: Interchange |
Block, Olivia | Dissolution |
Martin, Jon | Walkways mvmt 2: Passage |
Smallwood, Scott | Bull Dozes |
Goeringer, Lyn | Louhi |
Siu, Remy | Qanimts |
Copeland, Darren | While Working and Walking |
Ghei, Madhav | Partial Occluder |
Lavoie, Sebastian | Wow Concert |
Visi, Federico | The Desert Changes |
Westerkamp, Hildegard | Into the Labyrinth |
Parod, Bill | Garnet |
Topel, Spencer | Deus Gratias |
2018
UNPOP was open for 6 nights, 6:30pm to 7:00am, starting Monday, August 26 and ending Sunday, September 2, 2018. Three different programs of music were offered in the 8-channel system, each 6 hours and 15 minutes in length. The programs were repeated once each night to account for the full 12 hour, 30 minute running time. Program 1 was played on Monday and Thursday evenings, Program 2 on Tuesday and Friday, and Program 3 on Wednesday and Saturday. Therefore, each program was played in its entirety four times over the course of the week.
The music presented was composed by 40 different composers, mostly working in octophonic (8-channel) format, but also in 7.1, 5.1, quadraphonic (4-channel), and even stereo, all adapted to suit the 8-channel system. The complete sequence of each of the three programs is listed below.
Program 1:
Smallwood, Scott | Cosimo's Stars |
Crutchley, Ian | Fontana Mix, September 20th |
Yiu, Alex | Alter Ego |
Narvesson, Jascha | Pennsylvania Frogs |
Siu, Remy | Qanimts |
Smallwood, Scott | Floe |
Lillios, Elainie | Hastening Toward the Half Moon |
Visi, Federico | Unfolding/Clusters |
Parod, Bill | Lovina Morning |
Martin, Jon | Open Doors |
Evidence | Go Where Light Is |
Narveson, Jascha | Doors |
Moses, Jim | Oscillator Pond - After Dark |
Smallwood, Scott | Green Stone Cylinder |
Lavoie, Sebastien | The Four Seasons |
Moore, Stephan | A Grid Against The Sky |
Fillion, Vincent | Stridulations |
Smallwood, Scott | Grove |
Coffey, Ted | Petals8 |
Stine, Eli | Murmuration No. 5 |
Niehusmann, Frank | Fragrance |
Program 2:
Loveless, Stephanie | Some Day |
Radford, Laurie | Vagus II |
Smulovitz, Stefan | A Constant Sea |
Law, Vanissa | Exhaled Rhyme |
Smallwood, Scott | Wave Passage Effects |
Carroll, Nicole | In the Liminal Space |
Biggs, Christopher | New Years |
Campbell, Raylene | Landing 23 |
Evidence | Visuals [Render 2] |
Arnáez, Nico | Electrofuga |
Moses, Jim | Westminster Street |
Dahl, Luke | Assessment Postponement Nexus No. 0.5 |
Test, Matt | Bloop |
Smallwood, Scott | Colton Swarm |
Moore, Stephan | Toowoomba Looproom: Music of Transmission Damage |
Topel, Spencer | Syr |
Senécal, Pierre-Luc | Schrei |
Martin, Jon | Parallel Windows |
Fillion, Vincent | Densifications |
Parod, Bill | Brastagi |
Shuen, Larry | Partials |
Young, Gayle | Cascade |
Smulovitz, Stefan | 68 Paths: Canon |
Topel, Spencer | Ambient Chaconne |
Bellona, Jon | Lying in Fireflies Beside Brown Curls |
Moore, Stephan | Calling Up |
Program 3:
Hoff, Julian | Machine in the Shell |
Moore, Stephan | Dusk in Goa |
Smallwood, Scott | Slow Heating |
Young, Samson | Bookshelf Music |
Parod, Bill | Forest at Raja Berneh |
Topel, Spencer | Rán |
Lillios, Elainie | Contemplating Larry |
Truax, Barry | Earth & Steel |
Evidence | Visuals [Render 1] |
Test, Matt | Viola |
Lebrun-Paré, Félix | La Volonte du Periscope |
Moses, Jim | Passing Landscapes |
Martin, Jon | Seven Vignettes |
Smallwood, Scott | Bull Dozes |
Goeringer, Lyn | Louhi |
Siu, Remy | Qanimts |
Mercer, Chris | The Audible Phylogeny of Lemurs |
Lavoie, Sebastien | Basketball Glitch |
Visi, Federico | The Desert Changes |
Westerkamp, Hildegard | Into the Labyrinth |
Parod, Bill | Garnet |
Topel, Spencer | Deus Gratias |
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