spaces, between
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A concert-installation featuring a live performance of the musical piece within an immersive visual environment. The work interrogates thresholds of perception across the musical, visual and spatial components, exploring the experience of liminality in each medium.
Music, concept and direction by Lydia Winsor Brindamour Video and projection design by Elizabeth Barrett Sound design by Stewart Blackwood
Kyle Adam Blair, piano Andrew McIntosh, violin Myra Hinrichs, violin Alex Taylor, viola. Charles Curtis, cello Matt Kline, double bass
empty spaces
Album available via Bandcamp
Featuring performances by:
James Beauton, percussion Kyle Adam Blair, piano Erik Carlson, violin. Madison Greenstone, clarinets Myra Hinrichs, violin Peter Ko, cello Michael Matsuno, bass flute
A portrait album featuring a collection of works which explore the notions of absence and loss in relation to sound and temporality. Each investigates the dissipation of sound into silence and the moment at which resonance fades entirely from audibility. Each work takes the temporality of photography as a model for musical time and form.
The release was featured in "Best of Bandcamp" for July 2022, and called "a minimalist gem" in the accompanying review by Peter Margasak.
Crystalline
Julia Glenn, violin
A piano trio exploring the polyphonic possibilities of the instrument. Semi-autonomous lines weave together, intertwine and overlap, creating a fragile, fragmented texture that seeks to recall a chorale.
(of the) ether
Recorded by: Kyle Adam Blair, piano Myra Hinrichs, violin Peter Ko, cello
A piano trio, originally written for the Kalv Festivalen and Ensemble Mimitabu (Sweden), exploring the creation of harmonic beating on the piano, which is then echoed and expanded through harmonies articulated by the violin and cello.
the empty room
A series of duets which explore emptiness, simplicity and the tension between stasis and development.
Michael Matsuno, bass flute Madison Greenstone, clarinets Erik Carlson, violin
through a mist, lightly
An immersive concert-installation incorporating live-performance, spatialized sound diffusion and lighting design. Audience members were free to move around through the course of the performance.
Michael Matsuno, bass flute Madison Greenstone, bass clarinet TJ Borden, cello Matt Kline, double bass
a thin line between
A work for solo tam-tam which explores the interaction between the instrument’s extensive resonance and the acoustics of a given performance space. The work has been staged as a concert piece, a durational, site-specific performance and as part of a performance installation.
James Beauton, tam-tam
pale, pale light
A setting of phonemes derived from the line “white apples and the taste of stone” from Donald Hall’s poem “White Apples.” (Used with permission from Houghton Mifflin.)
Ashley Cutright, mezzo-soprano James Beauton, gong