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Newsletter: News, Concerts, Events, & Critical Thought
16 October 2010, 9:51 amTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This is a reprint of the first edition of my e-mail newsletter.

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Contents
  • Upcoming Concert: Halo Ballet Première – 24 Oct 2010 – Toronto
  • Upcoming Concert: Hockey Story – 20 Jan 2011 – San Diego
  • Oksana G. Opera Development Workshop
  • Results of Experiment: Can I Avoid Choosing the Music I Listen to?
  • Help Me Help You: Collaborative Audience Building

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20 Jan 2011
Hockey Story at UCSD’s Sonic Diasporas Festival
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Luciane Cardassi and I have the privilege of opening UCSD’s first Sonic Diasporas Festival, featuring the works of the music department’s alumni. On this concert, Luciane gives a repeat performance of Hockey Story, which she commissioned in 2009. The piece, for piano, electronics, and the voice of the pianist, takes a look at hockey in all of its dimensions, from the pro level to young children, players to fans, suspense to stats.

10:30am, Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive (map)
San Diego, CA, USA
Free admission
musicweb.ucsd.edu/concerts/    
Hockey Story (2009)
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Instru­men­ta­tion: pno, elec. kybrd, performer's voice
Dura­tion: 15'00
Commissioned by Luciane Cardassi
score view score
mp3 listen to Hockey Story Part 1
mp3 listen to Hockey Story Part 2
mp3 listen to Hockey Story Part 3
code down­load source code
cmc get per­for­mance materials
Per­form­ers: Piano, Keyboard, Voice – Luciane Cardassi
Pro­gramme Note

I wrote Hockey Story for Brazilian-Canadian pianist, Luciane Cardassi. Luciane had immigrated to Canada a couple of years beforehand and was interested in exploring the hockey culture of Canada. She was also looking for a piece that involved electronics and speaking or singing, which was a good fit for my compositional interests. A hockey theme is somewhat outside of my usual work, but I decided it would be a good challenge and provide me with some fresh perspectives.

The text is taken entirely from hockey terminology. I weave together short word-units in order to create a narrative that references what I see as aspects of the spirit of hockey, playing with both the meaning and sound of the words. Throughout the piece, there is a counterpoint between the voice, electronics (controlled by the pianist), and piano, creating a three-way dialogue.

Performance Videos
27 Jan 2010
Hockey Story at the Banff Centre
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Pianist Luciane Cardassi gives a repeat performance of Hockey Story on the Banff Centre’s matinee Wednesday Meldey series. This piece on the theme of hockey is for speaking pianist and electronics.

4:30pm, Rolston Recital Hall
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive (map)
Banff, Canada
Admission: Free
www.banffcentre.ca/music    www.lucianecardassi.com    
New Performances and Projects
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This year is off to a busy start, with two pre­mières in Feb. One is a col­lage piece based on love songs, for the orkest de ereprijs in Hol­land. The other piece, for soprano and speak­ing pianist, is based on spam email texts and is being pre­mièred in Toronto’s SHIFT Fes­ti­val by pianist Greg Oh and soprano Xin Wang.

In addi­tion, I’m work­ing on a piece for Brazilian-Canadian pianist, Luciane Car­dassi, which will involve elec­tron­ics and her voice (in addi­tion to her piano play­ing). I’m also work­ing on a col­lab­o­ra­tive mul­ti­me­dia piece with Amsterdam-based flautist/composer Anne La Berge.

Lastly, after a suc­cess­ful pre­mière in Banff last month, I’m putting together mate­ri­als based on Recy­cled 80s Live, which will be acces­si­ble here once they’re ready. I’m cur­rently in the plan­ning phases for an even­tual tour of the piece; details TBA as they become avail­able.

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