New Musings on New Music

The second portion of Norm and Barbara's talk with Toronto composer Linda Catlin Smith. Linda touches on Listening, teaching composition and her large work for cello and piano, Ballad.

Episode Notes

For more information on Linda Catlin Smith please visit her website.

During the talk, Linda reference Faure's Piano Quintet it can be heard on Youtube

Linda mentioned Morton Feldman's works For Philip Guston and String Quartet #2. They can be heard on Apple Music here and here

Norm and Barbara made a concert recording of Linda's piece Ballad which you can listen to on Soundcloud

If you would like to help fund New Musing on New Music you can do so on the suddenlyLISTEN website. 

Thanks for your support!

Learn more about Linda Catlin Smith

Listen to Linda's music at Apple Music and go out and buy her CDs!

During this episode Linda referenced: 

American composer Elliot Carter

Canadian composer Rudolph Komorous

American composer Morton Feldman

and Italian painter Giorgio Morandi 

If you would like to help fund New Musing on New Music you can do so on the suddenlyLISTEN website. 

Thanks for your support!

For more information on Olivia please visit their website. There are lots of links there to many of Olivia's collaborators referenced in this episode.

Importantly, Raven Chacon the Diné composer and artist has been a collaborator and mentor to Olivia.

Also please jump back and listen to Gabriel Dharmoo's episode from NMNM's first season.

Learn more information on Essential Opera here

Erin Bardua's personal site

Maureen Batt's personal site

Maureen and Erin have worked a lot with composer Monica Pearse. Her website is here

Monica Pearse's New Musings on New Music episode can be listened to (again) here

One of the composers currently working with Essential Opera is Fiona Ryan. Their Facebook Page

Music Nova Scotia who sponsors Nova Scotia Music Week can be found here

Leaf Music Essential Opera's record label where you can link to Etiquette is here. 

Tom Belding, Essential Opera's video maker

Essential Opera's YouTube page

suddenlyLISTEN, the presenter of New Musings on New Music www.suddenlylisten.com

Barbara Pritchard's website 

Norm Adams' website

The Canadian Music Centre's Atlantic office (our generous sponsor) website

We and suddenlyLISTEN also thank Arts Nova Scotia the city of Halifax and The Canada Council for the Arts for their funding support!

Terri's website 

Terri's Vimeo site for multimedia recordings

John Estacio

Howard Bashaw

Amsterdam Conservatory

Peter Hannan

Ableton Live

Anagam Kilns

Luciane Cardassi, Synchronisms No. 6, by Davidovsky

Andrea Tyniec

Division on a Ground

Anthony Holborne 5-part Viol Music - (We LOVE viol music!)

Helen Pridmore - NMNM episode 

Canadian New Music Network

Circuit, Musiques Contemporaines

Musicworks Magazine

Julie Richard

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Lampshades and Offlights Julia's original band!

Jerry Granelli, recently passed originator of the Creative Music Workshop held each summer in Halifax.

Toronto composer and electronic music mentor Rose Bolton  

Julia's favourite choreographer Angela Blumberg  

Toronto's venerable new music orchestra Esprit Orchestra   

The Association of Canadian Women Composers that Julia Chairs.

The Canadian Music Centre, our valued co-sponsor!

For more information on Giorgio and to explore his "labyrinthian" website, head here. Have fun!

Giorgio mentions Hildegard Westerkamp in this episode, so maybe you'd like to listen to our conversations with her, in 2 episodes, #1 here and #2 here.

Giorgio is the long time Artistic Director of Vancouver New Music.

Giorgio mentions David Tudor's Rainforest Project 

And Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi  

Learn more about Adam Clarke at his website

Learn more about Adam's dance theatre company Amok Amok here

Listen and watch some of Adam's works here

During the episode Adam referenced the following people and pieces:

Pina Bausch's "Rite of Spring"  

Lore Borremans

Jan Fabre 

Peeping Tom Dance 

Derek Charke 

Dinuk Wijeratne

This episode is sponsored by the Canadian Music Centre. Many thanks to them for their support of New Musings on New Music!

Learn more about Bekah on her website

Listen to Bekah's music on Bandcamp here. Make sure to listen to Bestiaries her Juno Award nominated recording!

The singular Chik White AKA Darcy Spidle

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where Bekah teaches

New Adventures in Sound Art 

The Canadian League of Composers

Continuum Contemporary Music from Toronto.

New Music Concerts also of Toronto

Bekah's Juno nomination - https://junoawards.ca/nomination/2023-classical-composition-of-the-year-bekah-simms/

Dublin's Crash Ensemble

Canadian composer living in Berlin Marc Sabat

And our sponsors, The Canadian Music Centre!

Learn more about Allison at her website here.

You can hear Allison's music at: allison cameron Pliny (excerpt) Another Timbre

allison cameron in-memoriam-robert-ashley by the avens

allisoncameron 3rds-4ths-5ths

theallisoncameronband mach shorn

allison cameronmusic In Svalbard 2013
 

Here are more links: from Allisons early years: Lloyd Burritt  https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lloyd-burritt-emc

From the Victoria and later Toronto time: Martin Arnold  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Arnold_%28composer%29

John Abram  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abram

Rudolf Komorous  https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?lang=en-CA

Henryk Górecki  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_G%C3%B3recki

From the Amsterdam time: Frederic Rzewski  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Rzewski

Walter Zimmerman  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Zimmermann

Per Nørgård  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_N%C3%B8rg%C3%A5rd

Louis Andriessen  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Andriessen

Maarten Altena  https://maartenaltena.nl/

The great UK record label that is very sympathetic to Canadian composers: Another Timbre http://www.anothertimbre.com/

For more information on Patrick, and to listen to his favourite music, including memento mori and Canvas Study, head to his website here.

During the episode Patrick referenced Peter Allen, Malcolm Goldstein, and Gillian Smith - (search out Gillian's new CD coming soon!)

Longy School of Music is where Patrick is currently studying.

And read more about the story behind Patrick's Lego Beach here

And here!

To learn more about Nicole and see and hear some of her music, head to her website.

You can also see a lot of video and music by searching Nicole Lizée on YouTube.

Nicole specifically suggests we start with listening to Black MIDI

and Death to Kosmische played by Kronos Quartet.

and Book Burners performed by Stéphan Tétreault and DJ P-Love.

Nicole also spoke about the RCA Select a vision. Learn more here.

This episode we're including links to Bandcamp for listening. Sure, Apple Music has SO MUCH music, and it may be a great place to start, but, Bandcamp is far more generous to artists, so we recommend you discover new music and support artists by buying their music, there! 

Listen to Sam's solo releases here.

Sam's important bands, although he didn't mention them all by name, include:

Shalabi Effect

Dwarves of East Agouza

Land of Kush

Collateral

more information on the December 2 suddenlyLISTEN concert

Please check out these links to performances of David's notable pieces:

Constables Clouds performed by Winona Zelenka

Favour performed by Rivka Golani

A Blessing performed by Karen Usha Gray. This is the David Cameron poem David recites in the episode!

There are many other pieces by David Jaeger on Youtube, search them out!

Some links you might enjoy clicking:

David Jaeger's bio from the CMC site - cmccanada.org

Canadian Electronic Ensemble -  https://www.canadianelectronicensemble.com/

Winnipeg New Music Festival - https://www.wnmf.ca/

Christina Petrowska Quilico - https://christinapetrowskaquilico.com/

Lawrence Cherney - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lawrence-cherney-emc

Soundstreams - https://soundstreams.ca

Glenn Gould Studio - https://www.cbc.ca/glenngouldstudio/

Here are some links:

FIrst, the Canadian Music Centre 

This website has listings of Associate Composers, and their works. Spend some time on this site!

NMNM and suddenlyLISTEN wish to thank the CMC for their support this past season! Thanks to a donation from the CMC, we release 4 episodes featuring Atlantic Canadian composers and creators! Dale Sorenson from PEI; Andrew Staniland, from Newfoundland and Labrador; Emily Doolittle (and Peter Togni) from Nova Scotia, and André Cormier (and Nadia Francavilla) from New Brunswick. Please check out those episodes!

Picanto is the CMC's new streaming service.

During the episode, Glenn mentioned a lot of interesting references in passing. check these out if you're curious. Go ahead head down a rabbit hole!:

Classical Next

The International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC)

Toronto jazz musician and composer Phil Nimmons

The Canadian League of Composers

Legendary Toronto educator and arts leader Ezra Schabas

Montreal composer, guitarist and arts leader Tim Brady

One of André's recommended pieces to listen to is InSitu•2019. Listen to it here.

The second choice of André's is Zwischen den Wolken which can be heard on Apple Music here

Check out some of André's other music at Soundcloud. 

Read a review of Zwischen Den Wolken from MusicWorks Magazine here.

Read a short article on André's Conversations2019 project in Barachois NB here.

During the podcast André speaks of 3 compersers who were important to him: 

Christopher Butterfield. His Soundcloud page is here

James Tenny

Antoine Beuger

André speaks a lot about the Wandelweiser school of music making https://www.wandelweiser.de/home.html.

La Rouère is the chocolate shop André runs with his partner Robin Streb!

This is the fourth and final NMNM episode sponsored by the Canadian Music Centre. Many thanks to the CMC for their support of this podcast!

Thanks to Arts Nova Scotia for their support of NMNM over the past 2 seasons, and next season as well!

In this episode we have started a new "If you can listen to one piece, listen to THIS one" portion of our podcast. 

So the first thing you should do after listening is head to Spotify here to listen to The Lamentations of Jeremiah. Peter recommends the 5th movement, but you can listen to the whole thing!

He also recommended Responsio. There's an excerpt on Youtube here. Or on Spotify

And Sea Dreams. There's an excerpt on Youtube here. Or on Spotify

On YouTube there's a film on Peter's latest composition Voice of the Weaver.

And there's another film on YouTube about the making of Living Flame of Love

Check Peter's website here

Learn more about Jeff Reilly, Peter's regular collaborator here

Here's a link to Peter's father Victor Togni

And info on Jean Langlais Peter's teacher at the Schola Cantorum Paris

Finally the donor of the "quote of the episode": the great conductor Bernhard Gueller!

This was a fun episode! It is dense with references to dig into, so brace yourself for some links!

After hearing Akasha at a Symphony Nova Scotia school concert, Daryl eventually went on to study composition with Glenn Buhr, Akasha's composer.

Daryl referred numerous times, to Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith and her effect on his path as an artist: 

You can also listen to the New Musings episode which featured Linda Catlin Smith here. And there's a Part 2 as well! 

Peter Hatch is another Canadian with whom Daryl studied composition.

Daryl has composed frequently for Joe Browning,  he's a little tough to track down, but here is a link to his bio.

At York in the UK Daryl studied with Nicola LeFanu. 

Morton Feldman was an inspiration to Daryl, and many of us frankly! Here is his bio, and recordings of his music can be found on all the platforms

Daryl studied and was mentored by Jo Kondo in Japan. His music is played all over the world!

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival takes place each year in the UK

IRCAM the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Musicis the research centre in Paris that virtually at which Daryl spoke recently. This is a very interesting site with many resources for music and technology!