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"Wu in Zen is ‘not’ the expected. The pleasure of Rudolf Komorous' Wu is the pleasure of the unexpected. Listening to a line of notes falling like water drops from a melting icicle, at irregular intervals, a note rising when you anticipate it will descend, a chord appearing in a line of single notes like a crow in a flight of sparrows. The pleasure of the unexpected." – WholeNoteChild With The Starry Crayon is the result of a collaboration between the ORIANA Women’s Choir and the Toronto District School Board. Six composers were commissioned by the choir to set selected student poetry to music for our special Poetry and Music Project.Dimiter Terziev has proved himself as a versatile pianist and a real master of the piano miniatureDavid French and Louis Simão celebrate the sounds of the world as they combine the power of folkloric music with the improvisational spirit of jazz.On Immaterial Tomas Jirku embodies headphone minimalism through a blend of very subtle, quiet passages constructed from field recordings, drones and stereo effects, combined with layers of his signature minimal-click dub sound.Created by Steve Venright, this two-and-a-half-hour-long sonic interpretation consists of over five hundred original recordings, made at locations specific to the text and woven into a reading of the entire four-book poem by the author Christopher Dewdney.Bruce Pennycook's selected electroacoustic works composed and realized over a period of more than twenty years.
Magic Breath
English, Yiddish and Hebrew Arts Songs
Helen Medwedeff Greenberg's recording, Magic Breath is full of musical colour, emotion and life.Helvetia
Orchestral Works by Paul M. Douglas
A beautiful disc of lush melodies and catchy rhythms by Paul M. Douglas.Close
Queen Mab
Marilyn Lerner and Lori Freedman pair up as Queen Mab.dearness features Fred Frith, certainly one of the great contributors to adventurous new music, John Oswald, (in)famous for his landmark plunderphonics work, and Anne Bourne, who carries her sense of musical adventure along with her cello gracefully across the musical spectrum.Alogos was released by Spool Records in 2001, and was unanimously described by critics as "innovative" and "thrilling."The Oriana Women's Choir presents works by prominent Canadian composers, Ruth Watson Henderson, Eleanor Daley, Ramona Leungen, and David MacIntyre.Hommage à André Mathieu
oeuvres pour piano seul / solo paino works
André Mathieu tribute album by pianist, Alain Lefèvre.This uniquely thrilling brassy ensemble includes Hugh Fraser's most diverse compositions from African, Latin to European forms that invoke the full contemporary musical spectrum and create a sonic feast like never heard before."Images is a fascinating collection of contemporary compositions compiled by Canadian guitar visionary, Rob MacDonald."Titre
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