Wende Bartley
Wende Bartley is a composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music using her widely varied skills in state-of-the-art digital audio technologies to design innovative musical and sonic textures from original sound sources. Her works include electroacoustic and instrumental concert music, music-theater and opera, as well as music for dance, radio drama, independent film & video.
Bartley has been investigating sound images important in the collective stories of women developing new timbral textures while giving voice to women's cultural experience. Her more recent work has concerned itself with explorations of voice as sacred communicator, creating a field of sonic energy through the connection of breath and voice, awakening the forces of internal healing held within the body through sound vibration.
She has received numerous commissions and awards from the Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and the Laidlaw Foundation. Her works have been performed and broadcast throughout Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Her works are released on the empreintes DIGITALes label, the Artifact label, and Hornblower Recordings.
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