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1Baron Samedi (2016) AVAILABLE ON CD ONLY Composed by Éric Normand. Performed by Raphaël Arsenault (violin), Antoine Létourneau-Berger (percussion), Philippe Lauzier (bass clarinet, soprano saxophone), Alexandre Robichaud (pocket trumpet), and Éric Normand (electric bass, electronics, branches). Recorded in St-René-de-Matane forest in August 2015. From the album Mattempa (Tour de Bras). © Normand 7:09
2Fumée (2016) AVAILABLE ON CD ONLY Composed and performed by Xavier Charles (clarinet) and Éric Normand (electric bass, objects, loudspeaker, snare drum). Recorded in performance in Toronto in May 2016. This was recorded during a duo tour in May 2016 of ten concerts around Canada. It was my first duo collaboration with Xavier, whom I met in 2013. We have also collaborated with the improvising musicians Martin Tétreault and Pascal Battus. —Éric Normand © Charles, Normand 4:54
3Torche! (2016) Music improvised by the quintet Torche!: Xavier Charles (clarinet), Franz Hautzinger (trumpet), Philippe Lauzier (bass clarinet), Éric Normand (electric bass), and Michel F. Côté (drum). Recorded live at Côté Cours, in Jonquière, Québec, in May 2016. As part of Festival de Musiques de Création, this concert was a unique performance by this fantastic band for which I've gathered together top players. It was a pretty good time. —Éric Normand © Torche! 4:56
4Waltz of Wing and Claw (The Raven Conspiracy, second movement) (2016) Composed by Carmen Braden. Performed by Andrea Bettger (violin), Kathryn Oraas (violin), Osmond Chiu (viola), and Anne-Marie Guedon (cello). From the album Ravens (Centrediscs, forthcoming January 2017). Recorded at the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre, Yellowknife NT, August 24, 2016. Recorded by Denis Martin. Produced by Mark Adam. The second movement in a string quartet that explores the qualities of ravens. “Waltz” evokes the flight-dance of groups of ravens that hover and dive in air drafts near Yellowknife. —Carmen Braden © Black Ice Sound 2:50
5Breath’s Length (excerpt) (2016) AVAILABLE ON CD ONLY Composed and performed by Roarke Menzies. Recorded live by Scott Murakami for Bentwave FM on WNYU, November 5, 2015. Breath’s Length is a new work for amplified voice, loop station, and audio effects that considers both the indeterminate length of a breath, and the indeterminate length of time one has left to breathe (i.e., to be alive). The work attempts to poetically extend both lengths with technological assistance. The excerpted section builds from Steve Reich’s notion of using “the human breath as the measure of musical duration.” Each sung tone is held for one breath's length, recorded, looped, and overlayed, accreting into a heaving mass of sound—an audible sonic body that 'breathes' indefinitely. This recording is an excerpt from a work-in-progress performance, recorded live on WNYU’s Bentwave FM. The full work will be released in 2017. —Roarke Menzies © Menzies 11:10
6MG_0036&0037-64bitfloat (2011) AVAILABLE ON CD ONLY Composed by Erin Gee. Performed by Audacity 2.0 and Photoshop 6.0. From the album Voice of Echo (2011). I was really interested in the conundrum of the mythological character Echo's voice—her voice/voicelessness is really a process, a bouncing, born of materiality but beyond the signal. I wondered what a technological myth of Echo would resemble. I made a video performance of myself pulling mirrors from my mouth and placing them on my face, to create silent images to work from. I bounced the data between sound software and image software many, many times, and also did temporal edits like reverb and delays. The resulting sounds are not as important as the act of data translation, the way that the sounds might illustrate movement from translation to translation. —Erin Gee © Erin Gee 7:01
7Morning Gong (2016) Composed and performed by Nick Dourado, James Goddard, and Andrew MacKelvie. Recorded and produced by Nick Dourado at home in Halifax, N.S. © xxvii and James Goddard 3:47
8BUDI’S BUMP (2016) AVAILABVLE ON CD ONLY Composed and performed by Nick Dourado Recorded and produced by Nick Dourado at home in Halifax, N.S. © BUDI 1:00
9Hubris (2016) AVAILABLE ON CD ONLY Composed and produced by Bachelard. From the digital album No More Gun Violence: Vol. II. (http://nomoregunviolence.bandcamp.com/album/no-more-gun-violence-vol-ii) © Heidi Chan, SOCAN 4:33
10Oh Orwell (2014) Composed by Veronica Charnley. Performed by Plumes Ensemble: Veronica Charnley (voice), Eveline Grégoire-Rousseau (harp), Saam Hashemi (synths, acoustic and electric guitar, percussion), Geof Holbrook (trumpet, French horn, trombone, electric guitar, bass, synth), and Karl Jannuska (drums). Unreleased track on an upcoming unreleased album. Recorded between 2014 and 2016 at Schloss Röhrsdorf in Dresden, Germany, and in private residences in Guelph, Ontario, and Paris, France. Recording Engineers Arno Jordan, Saam Hashemi, and Ludovic Palabaud. Mixed and produced by Saam Hashemi The song was inspired by George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London and was recorded thanks to the generous Streaming Café Recording Grant. —Veronica Charnley © Plumes, SOCAN 4:02
