Rendu visible

Rendered Visible
Compact-compact 10
IMED 9841
1998
CD
1 disc
15.00 CAD -7%

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Rendered Visible (1995), 5m43s [excerpt]
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CD: empreintes DIGITALes (1998) IMED 9841
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      Rendered Visible (1995), 5m43s
      • Premiere: September 1995 (Montréal, Québec)

      You are in a concert hall. The lights have been dimmed. It is time to listen for images — something other than music. It is time to listen to what we normally see.

      After being awakened by a disturbance in the middle of the night, I will lie in bed picturing the event that roused me. Never will I reflect directly on what it was I heard, but rather on what I did not see. The ear then awakens the eye and asks it to tell the story. Such are the stories of western civilization — even those from the lips of Homer.

      The acousmatic storytellers and listeners see their ‘music’ exactly as Homer had seen a sunrise; that is, through the mind’s eye.

      The work originates from soundtracks made for Pink Ink Theatre and Ghanaian musician-dancer Modesto Amegago. The source material for the melody in the low register is derived from an improvisation on a traditional Ghanaian tune performed on the flute by Modesto.

      Rendered Visible premiered at ISEA95 in Montréal in September 1995 under the title In A Visible Darkness.

      piste@imed_9841-1.1 oeuvre@14423 ISRC CAD509813280
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      Reaching for Tomorrow (1995), 9m50s
      • Premiere: September 1995 (Montréal, Québec)

      Reaching for Tomorrow premiered at ISEA95 in Montréal in September 1995. The work received a mention in the Luigi Russolo International Competition (Varese, Italy, 1995). Special thanks to: Conrad Alexandrowicz Theatrical Dance, Rumble Theatre, and Mandrake Theatre for the memorable creative interaction; Paul Dolden and the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University (SFU) (Vancouver, BC) for providing studio resources; and DB Boyko of the Western Front for providing support through the Recommender Program of the Province of British Columbia’s Cultural Services Branch.

      piste@imed_9841-1.2 oeuvre@14424 ISRC CAD509813290
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      Night Camera (1993, 96), 24m41s
      • Maritime Vision
      • Prairie Dream
      • Vanishing at Sea
      • Premiere: December 1993, Western Front (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

      A ‘night camera’ is an imaginary listening aid that like an infrared scanner allows one to probe regions lying beyond the common, everyday frame of experience. Each scene of the composition Night Camera is situated in its own identifiable, and rather ordinary, environmental setting. The listener’s journey is a quest for worlds existing within the territory of the ordinary. As Don Ihde puts it in Listening and Voice, “listening begins with the ordinary, by proximately working its way into what is as yet unheard.”

      Each scene unfolds inside a recording from the World Soundscape Collection housed at Simon Fraser University.

      Night Camera premiered at the Western Front in Vancouver during Journées Électro-Radio Days (JERD) in December 1993. Special thanks to the individuals who made the recordings for the World Soundscape Collection, and to Barry Truax for his critical and technical support through the compositional process.

      piste@imed_9841-1.3 oeuvre@14425 ISRC CAD509813300

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