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What Brings You In

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12 - Leslie Ting — What Brings You In smallWhat Brings You In is an album of music for violin and electronics that consists mostly of work that was composed for performance as part of an art installation or a site specific performance or as therapy rather than a conventional concert hall experience.  It features violinist Leslie Ting and various collaborators on percussion and live electronics.  It’s one of the most “experimental” records I’ve listened to.  There are five tracks and I’m going to describe each piece as best I can.  Conventional music vocabulary; melody, harmony, rhythm etc isn’t much help! Continue reading →

Doing different things with a cello

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India Gailey — Problematica (cover)Problematica is an upcoming solo CD with some interesting twists from Canadian cellist+ India Gailey.  I can’t call it a solo cello CD because Gailey contributes vocals as well as some truly virtuosic cello playing and there’s lots of electronics and electronic processing involved.  There are also some unusual presentation options.  There are seven works by younger Canadian composers on the disk and recording engineer John DS Adams of Stonehouse Sound makes a major contribution.

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Gimeno and Hannigan

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To Roy Thomson Hall last night for the first time in over two years to see Gustavo Gimeno conduct (my first time) with Barbara Hannigan featuring in a major premiere in the first half.  The concert kicked off with a 3 minute piece by Julia Mermelstein; in moments, into bloom.  It was over too quickly to register much of an impression with me.  I certainly enjoyed the Stravinsky Scherzo fantastique that followed.  This seems to be Gimeno’s type of music and he had excellent control of rhythm, dynamics and colour which augured well for The Firebird coming up after the interval.

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