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BRASS IN THE ATRIUM
Soundstreams Canada: CBC Broadcast Centre
Atrium
Crisp and powerful sounds of brass quintets fill the CBC Atrium
for our opening fanfare performance. Featuring the Stockholm
Chamber Brass (Sweden), Musik Fabrik (Germany) and Canadian
brass players. Presented in association with Soundstreams’
Toronto Fanfare Project.
XENAKIS BY ESPRIT
Esprit Orchestra
Esprit Orchestra presents ‘Jonchaies’ by Iannis
Xenakis', for very large orchestra, a work full of volcanic
energy yet containing some of Xenakis’ most melodically
expressive music. The concert will also feature John
Rea's 'Hommage à Vasarely' - a work inspired
by the lines and networks, grids, superimpositions and transparencies
and optical-kinetic illusions often experienced in the art
works of the great painter and designer; it is a sonic parallel
to the to the visual textures of the artist Vasarely.
Alexina Louie's 'Imaginary Opera' will also be presented .
Visceral, dramatic, compelling - this chamber ensemble work
creates a musical trajectory allowing each listener to imagine
their own personal operatic scenario.
X MARKS THE SPOT
NMAP: Various venues
In-your-face, unannounced music in high-traffic public spaces.
This small portable ensemble of musicians will perform on
street corners and in the lobbies of public spaces, around
town, intermittently. Compositions of Louis Andriessen, Steve
Reich, Ken Ueno and Iannis Xenakis will be featured.
AERIAL VAULT
Arraymusic: Great Hall, Hart House
Arraymusic presents multi-instrumentalist and virtual reality
kingpin Jaron Lanier in concert with the Arraymusic Ensemble.
The concert will feature a newly commissioned work from Jaron,
interactive work by Montreal interdisciplinary wizard Zack
Settel, as well as a performance of Henry Kucharzyk's spatially
intriguing 'Room'.
GUERILLA CONCERTS
NMAP: Various venues
Reflections of Iannis Xenakis: This concert will explore,
in words and music, ideas from Xenakis published interviews.
The intent is to deal with a variety of subjects, ranging
from Xenakis’s notions of composition, to reflections
on his time and life, and explore a diversity of sound possibility.
The concert will include a re-setting of Xenakis’ Psappha,
and new works by Canadian composers which will exist as expressions
of today’s ideas of musical composition.
SONIC ARCHITECTURE
NMAP: The Music Galley
French harpsichordist Elisabeth Chojnacka, grapples with notions
of sonic architecture in a recital featuring works written
for her (and tape) by Iannis Xenakis, György Ligeti,
Cristobal Hallfter, François-Bernard Mâche, Graciane
Finzi and Stephen Montague.
BRASS FOR ALL TIMES
Soundstreams Canada: St. Anne's Anglican
Church
Visiting artists Stockholm Chamber Brass (Sweden) and MusikFabrik
(Germany) join top Canadian brass players for performances
of great Renaissance masterpieces and world premieres including
R. Murray Schafer and Kelly Marie Murphy and works by Toru
Takemitsu (Japan), Sir Michael Tippett (USA), Jacques Hétu
(Canada), Joan Tower (USA), Mark Antony Turnage (UK), Anders
Hillborg (Sweden), Kaija Saariaho (Finland), and many others.
LES AMIS DE XENAKIS
Les AMIS Concerts / Hart House: Great
Hall, Hart House
Pianist Nada Kolundzija animates Xenakis’ piano solo
work ‘Evryali’. Violinist Lynn Kuo joins her in
performing works by Katarina Miljkovi, Irena Popovi, Daniel
Foley, Dennis Patrick and Michael Pepa..
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
The Music Gallery: Various venues
The Music Gallery presents a performance of the entire 'Inner
Cities' set of piano works by Alvin Curran. These performances,
with pianist Stephen Clarke, will be presented over three
successive noon-time concerts. The performances will amplify
our understanding of the effect of acoustic space on our daily
lives.
VOX HUMANA
Talisker Players Chamber Music: MaRS
Centre
An exploration of the human voice as a pure instrument among
equals: works of abstract music for the human voice, devoid
of textual significance. The concert features works
by Abigail Richardson (Agon), Harry Freedman (Toccata for
soprano and flute) David Diamond (Vocalises for voice and
viola), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Three Vocalises for soprano
and clarinet) and Heitor Villa-Lobos (Suite for voice and
violin).
FOUR LINES
Continuum Contemporary Music
'Four Lines' is a city-wide performance event by four of Toronto's
most inventive composer-performers: Rob Clutton (double bass),
Nilan Perera (guitar + percussion), Sarah Peebles (electronics)
and Barnyard Drama (Christine Duncan, vocals + Jean Martin,
percussion). A mobile prelude: performing original works,
the "sound travelers" follow separate paths across
the city to converge on the performance site of Continuum's
touch space concert. The routes and means of travel are determined
by the individual artists — via ravines, laneways, streetcars,
subway, bike, foot, car, supermarket trolley, or stroller.
four lines map a sonic journey through the urban landscape.
TOUCH SPACE
Continuum Contemporary Music
Imprints of sound: Xenakis’ visceral Okho (for 3 djembes
and bass drum) transforms mathematical concepts into a physically
charged work of almost ritualistic power. Gossamer lines entangle
in Salvatore Sciarrino’s seductive Lo Spazio Inverso
– a transparent pairing with mathematician and composer
André Ristic’s turbulent Environments improvisés.
Paul Steenhuisen’s new work for Continuum (Kina Sex
Tablets) is a tribute to both Xenakis and the mind-altering
world of pharmacology.
PLUCKING SOUND & SPACE
New Music Concerts: Glenn Gould Studio
New Music Concerts will present a program of works by Xenakis
and a commissioned work of James Harley. The Xenakis
works will include ‘Echange’, ‘A l’île
de Gorée’, ‘Khoaï’ and ‘Phlegra.
Elisabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord) and Lori Freedman
(bass clarinet) will be featured guest artists.
XENAKIS AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
Les AMIS Concerts/ Music Gallery
Nada Kolundzija (piano), Lynn Kuo (violin) and Rachel Mercer
(cello) present solo and duo works by Iannis Xenakis, Morton
Feldman and Mauricio Kagel.
STEEL AND PLUNDER
CONTACT Contemporary Music and New
Adventures in Sound Art: Ontario College of Art and
Design
This concert will include Xenakis’ percussion piece
‘Psappha’ along with a program of classic works
in the electroacoustic genre by Barry Truax (River Run), Paul
Dolden (Veils) an Michael Gordon (Industry) that have taken
Xenakis’ ideas of stochastic music a stage further.
A new work by Wende Bartley will also be performed.
QUADRAPHONICS
NUMUS: Ontario College of Art and Design
A tribute to the life and work of Xenakis. The concert will
feature the Penderecki String Quartet, the Lafayette String
Quartet and the Rocca String Quartet. The concert will include
Xenakis’ ‘Tetras’ (based on Brownian motion),
a new work for two string quartets and acoustic structure
by James Harley, Triple Quartet by Steve Reich, and an arrangement
of the Adagio movement of Mozart’s ‘Dissonance
Quartet’ arranged by Jeremy Bell for four displaced
quartets. A post-concert event will feature ‘La Legende
d’Eer’, a multi-channel work of Xenakis produced
for the opening of the Centre Pompidou, with projection of
images from the laser/light show from the original presentation.
INSTRUMENTAL BUILDING
Ontario College of Art and Design
Two faculty members, Wende Bartley and Bentley Jarvis, will
present new works which explore the acoustic features of the
new OCAD building during the intermissions of the two concerts
at OCAD. Several stations featuring live musicians,
electroacoustics, and image projections will be distributed
throughout the new OCAD building, including the lobby, stairwells,
the Transit Space and the outdoor parkette. The premiere
of Wende Bartley's work entitled "Oracle", commissioned
by CONTACT Contemporary Music, will begin during one intermission.
The work will continue as a full ensemble performance in the auditorium
within a 16 loud speaker environment. Performers include
members of the CONTACT Contemporary Music ensemble, with guest
vocalists Maryem Tollar and David Wall. The work is
based on sound materials gathered at ancient temple sites
in Greece and Malta. One movement of a work in progress
by Bentley Jarvis, “City of Glass”, will be performed
during the other intermission. This work will be performed
by three live musicians and numerous cloned musicians found
within projected computer animations.
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