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Newsletter: News, Concerts, Events, & Critical Thought
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This is a reprint of the first edi­tion of my e-mail newslet­ter.

For some time I’ve had a newslet­ter signup form on my web­site but this is the first time I’m actu­ally send­ing a newslet­ter out!

I plan on doing this 2–3 times per year. For more fre­quent info, see my web­site or Twit­ter. Unsub­scribe link at the bottom.

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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