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WOWOW was recorded live on November 14 and 15, 1997, as the New Orchestra Workshop (or NOW Orchestra) was celebrating its 20th anniversary with a concert series in hometown Vancouver, Canada. Three new works were created for the occasion, all of them featured (in part) on this CD.
The Big Top
a circus ballet
A one act story ballet. A little girl runs away to the circus and discovers the bright lights, the dark shadows, and finally friendship under the Big Top.
"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." – WholeNote
Child 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 miniature
David 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.Titre
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