Banff Centre for the Arts
Banff (October 20, 1999)
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New Works Calgary
Calgary (October 22, 1999)
Sound Travels touches down in Alberta!
The 1999-2000 season kicks off in Banff with a month long residency to expand the Canadian Sound Travels repertoire and also to develop new interactive diffusion controls.
At the start of the Banff residency, Calgary composers David Eagle and Hope Lee and Toronto composer Sarah Peebles will work in close conjunction with ABControl software designer Chris Rolfe on developing new tools for live interactive 8 channel diffusion. ABControl is the software that controls the Richmond Sound Design Audiobox, a digital mixing matrix that is the foundation of the unique Sound Travels audio experience. David Eagle has been developing algorithmic and live electronic works with his instrument the Axi0. Sarah Peebles has been exploring algorithmic and interactive composing using Max and SampleCell since 1990.
Later on in the residency, Wende Bartley from Toronto, David Berezan from Calgary, and Chantal Dumas from Montreal will arrive to realize 8 channel interpretations of recent tape works. Wende Bartley has concentrated heavily through her career on the use of extended vocal techniques in electroacoustic music, and more recently has focused her efforts on the healing properties of the voice. David Berezan is a versatile young that will draw from sounds recorded in Banff and Calgary in a new large-scale work. Chantal Dumas is a radio artist that has produced a number of works for the state radio in Germany. Her soundscape radio compositions strike an interesting balance between music and documentary that should interest listeners new to electroacoustic music.
All in all, the work produced at the residency will represent a broad cross-section of Canadian electroacoustic music at the turn of the millennium. Therefore it is imperative to have the residency culminate in two concerts. The first concert on October 20 will open the Banff Centre's winter recital season, and the second on October 22 at the Nickel Arts Museum will open New Works Calgary's 1999-2000 season. On the afternoon of the Calgary concert there will be a public seminar in the same venue demonstrating 8-channel diffusion and discussing the works presented. Contact New Works Calgary for more details.
October 20, 1999 at 12:00 PMBanff Centre for the Arts (Music & Sound program)
October 22, 1999 at 8:00 PMNickel Arts Museum
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Presented byNew Adventures in Sound, New Works Calgary, and the Banff Centre for the Arts (Music & Sound program).
Supported byHarmonic Functions, Third Monk Software, Richmond Sound Design, Canada Council for the Arts, and The SOCAN Foundation.
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