8pM concert - Vancouver New Music

Hildegard Westerkamp
(Vancouver)
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16 2
OCTOBER
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THURS
8pm Concert
7PM artist talk with
Annea Lockwood
Orpheum Annex
823 Seymour Street, 2nd Floor
$
35 / $15
Akio Suzuki (Japan)
A legendary Japanese sound artist
Akio Suzuki has been performing,
building instruments, and presenting
sound installations for nearly 40
years. His music is simple and pure,
exploring how natural atmospheres
and sounds can be harnessed and
then set free. To experience his art
is to lose oneself in the sound that
surrounds us.
www.akiosuzuki.com
Liebes-Lied/Love Song (2005)
For cello and electroacoustic
soundtrack.
Based on the poem Liebes-Lied by
Rainer Maria Rilke and its English
translation by Norbert Ruebsaat,
Liebes-Lied/Love Song is a meditation
on love. Readings of the text combine
with recordings of Anne Bourne’s
improvised explorations on the cello
and environmental sounds to create
the soundscape of the piece, over
which cellist Peggy Lee performs live
improvisations.
www.sfu.ca/~westerka
www.peggylee.net
Annea Lockwood (New Zealand)
Jitterbug (2007)
For six channel tape and THREE musicians.
Jitterbug counterpoints hydrophone
recordings of aquatic insects and fish,
with three musicians’ interpretations
of the markings on rocks collected
from the area near Glacier Park,
Montana in which Lockwood made
the recordings. Featuring JP Carter
(trumpet), Peggy Lee (cello), and Lisa
Cay Miller (piano). Graphic score
photography by Gwen Deely.
www.annealockwood.com
John Luther Adams (US)
Ilimaq (2012)
For solo percussion and electronics.
Virtuosic percussionist Scott Deal
(US) performs Adams’ expansive,
richly layered work for solo percussion.
Ilimaq was commissioned by University
of Texas, Stanford University, the
Walker Art Center, and Duke
University.
www.johnlutheradams.com
scottdeal.net
Georg Friedrich Haas (Austria/US)
Sextett (1992/1996)
Raven Chacon (US)
From the Navajo Nation, Raven
Chacon uses unique instruments in
this live performance: bone whistles,
light-drums, and antler harps, in
addition to voice, are all processed
and over-driven by various electronic
and electric devices. Chacon’s music
ranges in dynamics from meditative
quiet hums to abrasive scrapes and
piercing screeches, speeding up and
slowing down throughout its course.
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FRI
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4
201
OCTOBER
8pm CONCERT
7PM artist talk with
Raven Chacon and
Leslie García
Orpheum Annex
823 Seymour Street, 2nd Floor
$
35 / $15
www.spiderwebsinthesky.com
www.postcommodity.com
John Luther Adams (US)
The Light Within (2007)
For alto flute, bass clarinet, vibraphone/
crotales, piano, violin, cello, and
electronics.
Vancouver’s Ethos Collective perform
Adam’s The Light Within, a sublimely
textured work for small ensemble
inspired by installation artist James
Turrell’s explorations of light and
space.
www.johnlutheradams.com
ethosmusic.ca
For flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin
and violoncello.
Written in 1992 and completely
reworked in 1996, Haas’ Sextett begins
with two voices, moving in quartertones, evolving into a complex, and
precise exploration of pitch, in concert
with the “absence or loss of pitch”
(UE). Sextett will be performed by Ethos
Collective (Vancouver).
ethosmusic.ca
Hildegard Westerkamp (Vancouver)
Like a Memory (2002)
For piano and two digital soundtracks.
Like a Memory explores that area of
aural perception in which we hear music
in sounds and sounds in music, where
scrap metal structures become musical
instruments and the piano becomes a
strange sound sculpture.
www.sfu.ca/~westerka
Tristan Murail (France)
Territoires de l’oubli (1977)
For solo piano
Murail’s longest single-movement work
to date, Territoires de l’oubli is a massive
exploration of the piano’s resonance,
unfolding in a huge curve of continuously
evolving textures. Masterfully performed
by William Fried (US), this is a musical
experience not to be missed!
www.tristanmurail.com
Hildegard Westerkamp SATUR
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Bio-Box – Leslie García (Mexico)
Sound artist Leslie García performs
live with her plant-based, biofeedback
interface, Bio-Box. At once live
performance and laboratory, BioBox establishes audio communications
between different living systems
(mosses and algae) generating microvoltage from the gestural responses
of these bodies to physical stimuli
such as light, vibration and touch. By
rendering these electrical responses
audible, the interface gives us access
to the high sensitivity and complex
sensory systems of different plants.
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014
18 2
OCTOBER
8pm CONCERT
7PM artist talk with
Hildegard
Westerkamp
Orpheum Annex
823 Seymour Street, 2nd Floor
$
35 / 15
$
John Luther Adams (US)
Four Thousand Holes (2010)
For piano, percussion, and electronics.
Percussionist Scott Deal (US),
and pianist William Fried, (US) come
together to perform Adams’ Four
Thousand Holes, a piece described as
a “sometimes lush, sometimes fragile,
rhythmically complex and technically
demanding work for piano, mallet
percussion and ghostly electronic
“auras”—electronic sounds created by
processing the acoustic instruments’
sonorities” (Jim Fox, Cold Blue
Records).
www.johnlutheradams.com
scottdeal.net
willfriedweb.blogspot.ca
(Vancouver)
Fantasie for Horns II (1979)
For solo French horn and TWO
soundtracks.
Composed in two stages, beginning
with a composition created from
recordings of horns from the
Canadian Pacific and Atlantic coasts
– trainhorns, foghorns, factory horns
and others – in Fantasie for Horns II,
the tape composition becomes the
acoustic environment for a live French
horn, an instrument which, in turn, has
had a long history as sound signal
in many parts of the world. Featuring
Nick Anderson (French horn)
www.sfu.ca/~westerka
Annea Lockwood (New Zealand)
Buoyant (2013)
Stereo electroacoustic work
Buoyant interweaves water recordings
made on the shore of Flathead Lake,
Montana, and clangorous gangplanks
moving with the Hudson River at the
Hoboken Ferry Terminal, with a small
boat harbor on Lake Como, Italy.
Dusk (2012)
Stereo electroacoustic work
In Annea Lockwood’s Dusk, bats zip
past and Willie Winant creates long
sonic trails with large gongs above
the deep pulsings of a hydrothermal
vent in the Pacific seabed.
www.annealockwood.com
Michael O’Neill (Vancouver)
stone garden *
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2
19
For gamelan, bagpipes, and voices
OCTOBER
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SUN
stone garden is an intercultural work
for Balinese gamelan beleganjur,
Scottish bagpipes, Ukrainian bilij
holos (white voice or pure voice)
singing, and chorus. It is a rumination
from a personal perspective on
end-of-life matters, recognizing the
shared traditional role of beleganjur
and bagpipes in cremation/funeral
ceremonies. Weaving through
the piece, with light, humour, and
gravitas are the words of celebrated
Vancouver poet Gerry Gilbert.
* World premiere, commissioned
by Vancouver New Music with the
assistance of the Canada Council for
the Arts.
3:30pm
CONCERT
Centre for
Interactive Research
2:00PM
on Sustainability
note early start time!
panel discussion
(CIRS)
University of British Columbia
2260 West Mall
UBC Point Grey Campus
$
35 / 15
$
see Alternative Energies
descriptions for details
John Luther Adams (US)
Songbirdsongs (1974-1980)
For two piccolos, and three percussion
John Luther Adams’ Songbirdsongs
creates a mesmerizing, and shifting
sonic landscape of birdcalls, water,
and wind.
www.johnlutheradams.com
Annea Lockwood (New Zealand) floating world (1999)
For stereo tape
floating world is an immersion in
place and transience. Lockwood
invited eleven friends whose own
work with environmental sound she
much admires to make recordings
in places of personal, spiritual
significance to them.
www.annealockwood.com
Hildegard Westerkamp (Vancouver)
école polytechnique (1990)
For eight churchbells, mixed choir, bass
clarinet, trumpet, percussion, and two–
channel tape
Dedicated to the 14 women slain at
École Polytechnique in Montreal in
1989, école polytechnique invites
the audience to listen inward and
search for what is sacred, what
cannot be compromised, what cannot
be allowed to be killed inside us
and therefore not in the world. école
polytechnique is meant to provide the
sonic environment for such a journey
inward. Performed by Musica Intima,
Daniel Tones (percussion), Al Cannon
(trumpet), and AK Coope (bass
clarinet).
www.sfu.ca/~westerka
Hildegard Westerkamp
John Luther AdamS
Annea Lockwood - photo: Nicole Tavenner
Ethos Collective
Raven Chacon
Akio Suzuki - photo: Michaela di Savino
Leslie García
william Fried