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If you’re in the Banff or Cal­gary area, come out to the pre­mière of my new pro­ject. Also pass this along to your friends.

For those liv­ing too far away to attend, a pro­ject web­site is in the works, with video and audio clips, slated for early 2009.

handbill for Recycled 80s Live pre­mière
14 Nov 2008
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Per­for­mance of Community-Normed at Aberdeen’s Sound Fes­ti­val

12:45pm, Cowdray Hall, Schoolhill

Aberdeen, UK
Admission: Free
www.continuummusic.org    
9 Dec 2008
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Pre­mière of Recy­cled 80s Live at the Banff Cen­tre for the Arts, a mash-up of ‘80s tunes per­formed live.

4:30pm, Bentley Music Studio
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive (map)
Banff, Canada
Admission: Free
www.banffcentre.ca/events    
Instru­men­ta­tion: sop, pno, keys, drums (all amplified)
Dura­tion: 90’00
Made possible through the financial support of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Banff Centre
Pro­gramme Note

Recy­cled 80s Live is a col­lage of small frag­ments of ‘80s pop songs, recom­posed and recon­tex­tu­al­ized into a new, larger work. I chose this approach because artists have always bor­rowed mate­r­ial from one another, but copy­right is increas­ingly being abused to pre­vent bor­row­ing. This sit­u­a­tion is a threat to cul­ture and cre­ativ­ity in gen­eral and it deserves to receive atten­tion. Addi­tional infor­ma­tion, sound clips, a promo video, and other details are avail­able on the project web­site.

Con­tin­uum per­formed a piece of mine on their SHIFT Fes­ti­val tour in Europe in Novem­ber 2008 and Toca Loca per­formed a­no­ther as part of the To­ron­to branch of the fes­ti­val in Feb­ru­ary 2009.