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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.
Imprints represents a twenty-five year retrospective of the work of Canadian composer Colin Mack.
This CD contains works by composers, Joseph Canteloube (1879-1957), Walter Rein (1893-1955) and Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Laughton & Humphreys is one of Canada's most exciting ensembles, winning critical and public acclaim for their versatility in performing music of Bach and Handel alongside contemporary works. All of the music on this recording was written or arranged for Laughton & Humphreys, and celebrates Canada's cultural heritage and natural beauty.
The Hannaford Street Silver Band is Toronto’s award-winning professional brass band and Resident Company of Toronto’s St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts.
Trio Lyra's repertoire ranges from the Baroque through the twentieth century. They have commissioned and premiered works from some of the most prominent Canadian composers.
Pure Delight features the premiere Ottawa new music ensemble Pierrot Ensemble with its artistic director Robert Cram in a program of highly listenable pieces with a fresh musical outlook.
The music of Dances & Dirges is either lively and dance-like or more pensive and memorial in character.
The repertoire on Playing Tribute was chosen by the Aulos Trio to honour six Canadian composers who all celebrated significant birthdays in the first half of the 1990s.
The most compelling statements of composers can often be found in their miniatures. In celebration of their twentieth anniversary, Thirteen Strings of Ottawa is pleased to present this collection of reflective works from the 17th century to the present day.
The story about a singer tied to railways tracks in the middle of the desert; a myopic monster who marches towards her; a romantic lead who would like to save her; and two military trains rushing towards each other.
The two works on this recording, La porte (The Door) and Plume, belong to a genre that can be called monodrama: one solo vioce tells a story set to music. In both pieces, the vocal style emphasizes the different levels of the text, that is, the general narration and the characters. The musical accompaniment further evokes the characters and the situations.
Internationally-acclaimed Vancouver clarinetist performs the music of Pierre Boulez, Paul Dolden, Giorgio Magnanensi, and John Oliver. Houle has taken the idea of Boulez' "shadow dialogue" as inspiration for a program of works where the sound of his clarinet becomes the core of rich sound textures.
Icicle Blue Avalanche rolls over the listener with extraordinary, sculpted sounds. The collection features both electroacoustic studio works and solo electric/MIDI guitar and live electronics.
A complex sonic tapestry - Without Fear features works for solo instrument and interactive computer electronics, as well as works for "tape" alone. Performances by Miriam Arnold, flute, and Günter Marx, violin, reveal such a close integral relationship between musician and electronics that it truly sounds like extensions of the instruments themselves.
Rich, intricate, rhythmic, layered. A virtuosic performer, Andrew Czink wrings hidden orchestras from his instrument and changes how we hear piano music.Title
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