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Musicworks issue # 129
1Seal Flipper (2008) Composed and performed by Geronimo Inutiq. From the digital album Developments (self-released, 2008, Bandcamp). I played the qilauti, an Inuit-style drum with caribou skin, which the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation brought to an interview, and I got to record with it during their visit. Usually, I only have access to cloth-skin drums so that was a treat. I produced and recorded everything in Ableton software, using some commercial sample packs. I had recorded Sylvia Cloutier’s throat-singing samples in CoolEdit from another session. —Geronimo Inutiq © Inutiq, SOCAN 4:59
2Underworld (2017) AVAILABLE ON #129 CD Composed and performed by Geronimo Inutiq as Natural Gift, aka Destiny. From the limited-edition cassette release Transmission (2017, Indigene Audio). The Destiny release was composed using hardware—notably, the Yamaha RS7000 MIDI sequencer, the Roland JV1080 and JV880 digital synthesizers, and an Alesis Quadraverb for effects—and recorded on a portable ZOOM digital recorder, before being mastered in Audacity software on the PC and distributed on thirty-two-minute type-II cassette tape. I should re-release this somehow, sometime soon. —Geronimo Inutiq © Inutiq, SOCAN 7:37
3Tranzac Solo Improv Set excerpt (2017) Improvisation composed and performed by Karen Ng (alto saxophone). Recorded in concert, Tranzac Southern Cross Lounge, Toronto, April 2017. A solo improvisation set performed as part of Colin Fisher's monthly series at the Tranzac Club. © Ng 7:25
4Serpentine (2017) Improvisation composed and performed by Kamancello: Shahriyar Jamshidi (kamanche) and Raphael Weinroth-Browne (cello). From the album Kamancello (self-released, 2017). Recorded in concert at Union Sound Company, Toronto, April 2016. Recorded and mixed by Leon Taheny, mastered by Fedge. © Kamancello7:16
5each one: enfolded...loved... excerpt (2017) Composed by Daniel Brandes. Performed by APTL Ensemble: Erik Abbink (tenor sax), Daniel Brandes (melodica, objects), Laura Brandes (voice, objects), Kristy Farkas (objects), Nathan Friedman (clarinet), Alex Jang (mandolin), Christopher Reiche (piano). Recorded in concert at A Place to Listen, James Bay United Church, Victoria, BC, October 2017. © Daniel Brandes, SOCAN, edition wandelweiser. EXCERPT PLAYS ON "VICTORIA COMPOSERS CULTIVATE A PLACE TO LISTEN." https://www.musicworks.ca/victoria-composers-cultivate-place-listen14:58
6The continuum of something—nothing excerpt (2015) AVAILABLE ON #129 CD. Composed and performed by Kristy Farkas (piano). Recorded in Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, October 2017. In this piece, composed for A Place to Listen, the performer determines the order of the measures, which may be repeated, revisited, or not played at all. —Kristy Farkas © Farkas 4:57
7a grey, bent interior horizon excerpt (2016) AVAILABLE ON #129 CD. Composed by Alex Jang. Performed by Adrian Verdejo (guitar). Recorded in concert at Murray Adaskin Salon, Canadian Music Centre, Vancouver, BC, March 2017. The title is borrowed from an essay by Sean Scully about the Italian still-life painter Giorgio Morandi. For me, Morandi's paintings inhabit a borderland between representational and abstract art. With my work I ask, how does a piece of music exist in the grey areas between tone and timbre—sound and silence—movement and stillness? —Alex Jang © Jang 4:33
8How to get to Arnhem excerpt (2010) AVAILABLE ON #129 CD. Composed by Hollas Longton, performed on electronics. I was trying to figure out how to take the train from The Hague to Arnhem. On the train Web site there is a “hear this” button that reads you the Web page. I took the first eighty-eight chords of the "Heiliger Dankgesang” from Beethoven’s String Quartet op.132 and mapped them onto key words like travel and ticket. Each new key word is mapped onto the next chord of the chorale. As key words repeat, the chorale rewrites itself. —Hollas Longton © Hollas Longton 5:51
9Palästinalied: Álrêrst Lébe (2016) Composed by Maria Eduarda Mendes Martins. Performed by the Orkest de Ereprijs (conducted by Rob Vermeulen), Apeldoorn, Holland, February 2016. My successful entry submission for the 22nd Young Composers Meeting, this arrangement of the first verse of “Palästinalied,” a medieval melody composed for the fifth crusade, uses spectral music techniques and ideas inspired by the vibrations of the harmonic series. —Maria Eduarda Mendes Martins © Maria Eduarda Mendes Martins 3:44
10Double Shadow (2017) 8:22 Composed by Christopher Reiche. Written for and performed by ContaQt: Mary Katherine Finch (cello), Sara Fraser Raff, (violin), Alex Kotyk (bass), Rob MacDonald (guitar), Michael Murphy (percussion), Chelsea Shanoff (saxophone), Allison Wiebe Benstead (piano), with Jerry Pergolesi (artistic director). Recorded by John Gray. This is a recording of the premiere performance at The 519, Toronto, June 2017. © Reiche, SOCAN8:25
11 Biophilia excerpt (2016) 3:07 AVAILABLE ON #129 CD. Composed by Simon Lysander Overstall. Performed by Julie Andreyev (theremin, field recordings). Recorded in Fillongley National Park, Denman Island, BC. Mixed and composed in Vancouver, BC. Created with field recordings in Fillongley National Park and theremin accompaniment, the composition is based on listening within this old-growth forest community. Contributions from raven, crow, robin, flicker, cricket, cedar, and fir are processed with granular synthesis and other techniques to generate texture and rhythm over time, representing the affective events experienced in the real-world locale. This soundscape is a fixed media version of the generative work installed at the Western Front as part of the International Society for Contemporary Music’s 2017 festival. —Julie Andreyev © Overstall 3:07
