New Musings on New Music

This was a very entertaining episode, with all sorts of interesting diversions!

First of all, you MUST listen to Emily and Kristen Cooke (oboes) performing with the very musical whippet, Idris Donut on YouTube!

You can learn more about Emily at her website. There you'll find scores to look at and links to her music.

Emily has some videos (including the above) on her YouTube Page.

Emily referenced several ensembles like Halifax's Fifth Wind

She also talked about adapting folk songs performed by England's The Copper Family and also found in the research of Nova Scotian folklorist Helen Creighton.

This episode was sponsored by The Canadian Music Centre. Learn more about the work of The CMC at their website where you can hear Canadian music, order scores and learn about Canadian composers and their work.

To learn more about Andrew visit his website. There you can link to the sites of his digital instruments Jade and Mune.

There are lots of videos of Andrew's music on YouTube. And recordings on Soundcloud!

During the episode, Andrew referenced his teacher Gary Kulesha 

And he frequently mentioned his collaborator, the Toronto percussionist Ryan Scott.

This episode of NMNM was supported by the Canadian Music Centre. Learn more about the CMC here. And attend the CMC / Debut Atlantic Classical Showcase at this year's East Coast Music Awards on May 7 in Fredericton! more information here.

Learn more about Louise on her website here.

During the episode Louise spoke about One Yellow Rabbit Theatre Company in Calgary. You can learn more about OYR here.

Louise has done a lot of creative work with C.A.R.E. Centre, and has made the Stories of Care podcast there! You can listen to it here. 

Louise spoke about (and both her and Norm are involved with) The Canadian New Music Network. You can learn more about CNMN here.

Finally, Louise is the manager of the Participatory Creative Music Hub hosted by CNMN, you can see the hub here.

Wow! In this episode Nadia spoke about many people from contemporary music! Check out the list below and learn a lot!

First, be sure to listen to the NMNM episodes we reference in our conversation!

Linda Catlin Smith 

NMNM Episode #5 with Linda Smith https://new-musings-on-new-music.simplecast.com/episodes/nmnm-episode-5-linda-catlin-smith-part-1

Monica Pearce 

NMNM Episode #8 with Monica Pearce https://new-musings-on-new-music.simplecast.com/episodes/nmnm-episode-8-monica-pearce

Emily Kennedy 

NMNM Episode with Emily Kennedy https://new-musings-on-new-music.simplecast.com/episodes/nmnm-kennedy-dionne
 

Some of the other composers and composers Nadia mentions are:

Canadian composer Jocelyn Morlock 

The great Latvian musician Gidon Kremer 

Ethel Smyth 

Jennifer Walshe 

The Muse Cafe, Fredericton NB 

Canadian saxophonist Joel Miller 

and his brother Andrew Miller 

The great Canadian composer and improviser Martin Arnold 

Listen for our talk with Nicole Lizée coming up this spring!

Hope Salmonson https://www.hopeariamusic.com/

Joan Tower https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=3066

Luigi Nono http://www.luiginono.it/en/

Pierre Boulez https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-Boulez

More information can be found on Carmen at her website.

You can watch Carmen's videos, including the frozen piano video at her YouTube channel.

We keep referring to Acadia University School of Music and the great faculty there. 

Norm can't stop talking about Carolyn Shaw, so you should head to her website to listen to her music too!

More information on Dale Sorensen can be found at his website.

You can see Dale's multi-trombone videos on YouTube.
 

During the episode, Dale spoke about Island composers:

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

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

Monica Pearce - http://www.monicapearce.com/ and https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?lang=en-CA

Jim O'Leary - https://www.jimoleary.net/home and https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?lang=en-CA

as well as non Islander Barbara York - https://www.barbarayork.com/

Dale teaches at the UPEI Dept of Music

Learn about and listen to many Canadian composers at the Canadian Music Centre website.

The suddenlyLISTEN website is home to more information on the artists, the complete pieces created during the project, as well as some new combinations and solos we discovered as we complied these recordings!

The Seeds Project Live concert will be presented in Halifax, at 7:30pm, on December 10, 2021 at The Bus Stop Theatre. This concert will feature all twelve Seeds Project artists playing in three quartets. More information is at the sL website.

The suddenlyLISTEN website is home to more information on the artists, the complete pieces created during the project, as well as some new combinations and solos we discovered as we complied these recordings!

The Seeds Project Live concert will be presented in Halifax, Canada, at 7:30pm, on December 10, 2021 at The Bus Stop Theatre. This concert will feature all twelve Seeds Project artists playing in three quartets. More information is at the sL website.

The suddenlyLISTEN website is home to more information on the artists, the complete pieces created during the project, as well as some new combinations and solos we discovered as we complied these recordings!

The Seeds Project Live concert will be presented in Halifax, at 7:30pm, on December 10, 2021 at The Bus Stop Theatre. This concert will feature all twelve Seeds Project artists playing in three quartets. More information is at the sL website.

There is more information on Juliet on her website here

There are lots of videos of Juliet speaking, and her compositions on YouTube here

There is information on Urbanvessel here

Information on the Canadian New Music Network here

The CNMN FORUM 2021 can be found here

Norm and Barbara talk about suddenlyLISTEN the producer of NMNM. Their website is found here 

They also talk about sL's Facebook page which is here. 

Watch for Juliet Palmer in 2 weeks or so!

Find out more about John Beckwith here.

Learn about John's teacher Nadia Boulanger here

There are two nice articles about John from SOCAN Magazine here

And William Littler from The Toronto Star here

Search out and listen to some of John's music on Youtube

Finally, head to the website of The Canadian Music Centre for information on all the Canadian composers!

Learn more about Jacqueline at her Dalhousie webpage here.

Read a couple of Jacqueline's very interesting articles at The Conversation 

During the episode Jacqueline references Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" and Tomson Highways's "Kiss of the Fur Queen"

Also Jacqueline references Dalhousie alumnus and singer/composer/activist/musicologist Jeremy Dutcher. Learn more about him here 

Learn more about Emily Kennedy at her website here.

Learn more about Louis-Charles Dionne at his website here.

Learn more about suddenlyLISTEN's Artist in Residence program here.

Some links you might want to follow, to learn more about Amy, her work and influences:

Amy Brandon's website

The 21st Century Guitar Conference website

The website for Jeffery Zeigler for whom Amy is composing. cello concerto.

Amy's composition prof at U of Ottawa: https://johngordonarmstrong.ca/about/

Two guitarists Amy is composing for: https://emma-rush.com/   http://kmwarren.org/

The Acadia University's Electronic Music Studio: https://aems.acadiau.ca/home.html

An example of some of Amy's augmented reality work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALlPCj1evpY&t=115s

The Augmented reality app that Amy developed for Gaudeamus is called Boundary and is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Wow we touched on a lot of musical connections during this episode! Check out these links

Alex Eddington's website. www.AlexEddington.com

Alex's debut album, which came out Feb 19 A Present From a Small Distant World

Alex's SoundCloud page

The Podcast Alex hosts is Fresh Sounds, Open Ears.

Odin String Quartet playing Alex's "gibbons vs Gibbons"  (scroll down a bit) 

Toronto Consort - Early Music TV

Viva Youth Singers

Juliet Palmer

The Gather Round Singers

Canadian Music Centre - New Music For Young Musicians

Chronos Vocal Ensemble singing their version of  Barrett's Privateers : Choristers' Private Tears, just for fun!

Howard Cable

As always visit suddenlyLISTEN for news on this podcast and our other activities.

For more information on Hildegard Westerkamp, visit her website here.

See some examples of Hildegard's work on YouTube.

In this episode Hildegard speaks about the work of legendary Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. You can learn more about him here.

Hildegard speaks about Vancouver New Music's sound walk program. There's more information on that here.

We also mention Pauline Oliveros. Watch this nice little video about Pauline where she explains her work in listening and we see the Extreme Slow Walk. 

For more information on Hildegard Westerkamp visit her website here.

See some examples of Hildegards work on YouTube.

In this episode Hildegard speaks about the work of legendary Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. You can learn more about him here.

Schafer's World Soundscape Project is also referenced. Find information on that project here.

Hildegard spoke about composer Barry Truax. Information about him is here.

And she spoke about composing for Vancouver pianist Rachel Iwaasa. Visit her website.

For more information on Dinuk Wijeratne visit his website

For info on Dinuk's Creativity Consulting work and to download his brochure "Define Your Artistic Voice" visit here.

During the episode Dinuk mentioned his teacher John Corigliano. You can learn more about him here

Dinuk also mentioned Edward De Bono and his work in creative thinking. Learn more here

We spoke about a couple of pieces: Walton's 1st Symphony and Kodaly's solo cello Sonata. Listen this recording of the Walton and there are a bunch of recordings of the Kodaly here. Check out the Starker recording for historic significance and the Santiago Canon Valencia for youthful virtuosity!

For more information on D. Andrew Stewart, visit his website and Vimeo Page

During the episode Andrew referred to the following:

A performance of Working Song and the Last Dead Leftover for Karlax and string quartet.

The website of Karlax manufacturer Da Fact. See images and other examples of Karlax work.

Articulation by Gyorgy Ligeti, with visual score!

Music for Solo Performer by Alvin Lucier. Be patient with this one. Sound seems to start around 6 minutes!

And how about our new theme music? The Intro is Norm playing a sliver of Vez by Ana Sokolovic. The Outro music is Barbara playing and excerpt of Iceberg by Linda Catlin Smith.

suddenlyLISTEN thanks Arts Nova Scotia for their support of this podcast.