Montréalers Isaiah Ceccarelli (composer/ percussionist / etc.) and Katelyn Clark (early keyboard specialist) have a long collaborative history that includes improvising together, the latter interpreting the former’s music, and shared membership in the new, slow-moving avant-pop outfit House of Gold. Ceccarelli’s music often luxuriates in the microcosms encapsulated within sustained sonorities of various kinds. Its patient unfolding allows listeners to contemplate the distinct character of those spaces, while transitioning between them quickly enough that one also senses the import of each shift. Such pieces serve as meditations on the evocative potential of music’s fundamental mechanics. The two works presented here are pared-down keyboard duos whose surface simplicity provides a vehicle for rich sonorous panels.
Isaiah Ceccarelli: synth, reed organ
Katelyn Clark: harpsichord, organetto
Recorded 2 June 2021 in Montréal, QC
Program
Make not haste in the time of clouds, Isaiah Ceccarelli (2018)
Oslo Harmonies (excerpt), Isaiah Ceccarelli (2014)
Thanks | To Patrick Dupuis for assistance with recording and video, and to Frédérique Roy for loaning the big reed organ
Isaiah Ceccarelli & Katelyn Clark. Credit: Patrick Dupuis
Isaiah Ceccarelli is a drummer, composer, and improviser. He composes for musicians and ensembles such as Architek Percussion, Sarah Albu, Mira Benjamin, the Bozzini Quartet, Katelyn Clark, the GGRIL, the London Contemporary Orchestra Soloists, the Suoni per il Popolo festival (Stretch Wood), Ensemble SuperMusique, TAK, and Voces Boreales. He has recorded albums for Ambiances Magnétiques (Montréal), Drip Audio (Vancouver), and Another Timbre (United Kingdom). As a drummer, he has performed and recorded in countless jazz and improvised music settings since the late 1990s. He is the composer, drummer, and lyricist for House of Gold, his quartet with Katelyn Clark, Eugénie Jobin, and Frédérique Roy. Photo credit: Isaiah Ceccarelli
Katelyn Clark is a Canadian musician specializing in early keyboard instruments (pianoforte/harpsichord/organ). She frequently experiments with temperament, digital processes, and improvisatory performance practice in solo and collaborative work. Originally from Victoria BC, Katelyn studied with Bob van Asperen in Amsterdam and holds a doctorate in early music performance from McGill University in Montréal QC. Photo credit: Rita Taylor
CMC Presents Multilocation is generously supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, The SOCAN Foundation, FACTOR, The Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, and the Ontario Arts Foundation. This presentation is also supported by The McLean Foundation and the Canada Arts Presentation Fund.
