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Evergreen Club is an ensemble of eight highly skilled Canadian musicians who perform and record using an assortment of bronze and wooden instruments from Indonesia. Collectively these instruments are known as a gamelan – a traditional instrument ensemble that plays an important role in the Indonesian culture.The pieces and instruments of this recording are an unexpected weave of cross-cultural and anachronistic interconnections.Butterfield: Music for Klein and Beuys - Pillar of Snails
Schwitters: UrsonateAnother excellent compilation of acoustic works by Arraymusic.Blue Quilt
40 Fingers Saxophone Quartet
Founded in September, 1993, 40 fingers is a group of experienced and active composers and performers in the Toronto scene.Susan Layard (vocals), Chris Devonshire (electronics), Adele Armin (violin), Marc Sabat (violin), Richard Sacks (percussion)Five major works by Rui Shi Zhuo, who has found his own path to express traditional Chinese music through contemporary western forms.JUNO AWARD: Best Classical Composition. (2003) Requiem Mass for a Charred Skull.Spirit Journies, proposes a symbolic and dreamlike journey that envelops the listener with rich and diverse sounds.Celebrating 40 years of Electroacoustic Music at Simon Fraser University 1965-2005Inside is a Cd issued in 1996 by Canadian composer Barry Truax.An electroacoustic opera by Barry Truax.Twin Souls is a collection of electroacoustic compositions by Barry Truax that incorporate texts which deal with various gender issues.Soundscape Studies is a field that was born in Vancouver through the World Soundscape Project under the direction of R. Murray Schafer in the early seventies.The disc is framed by two works (East Wind and Pacific) that refer to the environment and cultures of the Pacific region, but all of the pieces are influenced by a growing awareness of the interplay between Eastern and Western ideas, just as the world increasingly looks to the Pacific Rim as the new centre of economic activity.Islands metaphorically refers to islands of place, event, and community. Many places drift in and out of consciousness over the sixty-three minutes of the CD.Barry Truax’s Digital Soundscapes is a collection of five pieces that integrate computer and electroacoustic music.The CD is based on the celebrated Song of Solomon text from the Old Testament whose lyrical and sensual imagery is portrayed in a cycle of four movements subtitled Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and Night & Daybreak.Go to Top