21. =====Chimaera (1999)===== electroacoustic music; computer-generated recording.\\ {{ :defiant.jpg}} \\ **Duration:** 13' 54''\\ **Channels:** 2 \\ \\ Composed with bits and pieces of sounds from real wind instruments, this work presents the life and adventures of a huge sound monster made of amalgams of all sorts of sonic entities, including thick walls of cluster sounds made up with 20,000 horns.\\ \\ //In the words of [[http://www.music.columbia.edu/~chris | Chris Bailey]]://\\ Like a snarling dragon, rising from the deep,\\ Chimaera looms before us, breathing fiery,\\ massive plumes of grungy, noise-laced audio;\\ vast skyscraper chords - hundreds of horns or\\ piccolos playing at once, the twittering machine,\\ exploding out of control ...\\ \\ This work has been included in the [[http://www.emcollective.org | Electric Music Collective]] CD [[http://www.amazon.com/Defiant-Christopher-Bailey/dp/B0002X4O70 | Defiant]] of 2004. ---- **recording:**\\ | {{:mp3s:chimaera.mp3}} | \\