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...like a memory for piano and two digital soundtracks
RSN:
58718
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Composition Date:
2002
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
Not Provided
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Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MI 9101 W526li
Genre
Solo Keyboard with Electronics / Multi-Media
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2007-12-13
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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Additional Information
Piano and two digital soundtracks
Master Location
Toronto
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Physical Description
Found 1 record(s)
Available Actions
Extent of Item
1 score ([14] p.) ; 28 x 43 cm.
Instrumentation
Found 2 record(s)
Available Actions
Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
30242
Keyboard
Piano
1
30242
Electronic
Tape / Fixed media
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
16/8/2002, the Valhalla Summer School of Music, Silverton, B.C. pianist: Jamie Syer
This composition explores that area of aural perception in which we hear music in sounds and sounds in music, where scrap metal structures become musical instruments and the piano becomes a strange sound sculpture. Many things came together in this composition. In 1985 I took my tape recorder and microphone and walked along Slocan Lake in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, to an abandoned old house I had discovered some days before. Among the few remains inside was a piano. Many strings had broken, pieces of wood, some rusty nails and wires were lying among the strings, and rats had nested in its sounding board. Some keys were missing and of the remaining ones, not all keys were working. I had found a "prepared piano" in the deepest Cagean sense and delighted in improvising on this "instrument" and recording the sounds that emerged. I also played and recorded snippets of classical music that I remembered from piano lessons years ago. They sounded delightfully out of tune and "off". In 2000 I went back to the same region with photographer Florence Debeugny to collect sounds and images for a project on ghost towns called At the Edge of Wilderness. Fallen down buildings and rusty metal structures became soundmaking devices as I moved through the abandoned industrial sites, "playing" on anything and everything and finding the most fascinating resonances. Whether the sounds came from on an old steam engine or an out-of-tune piano with broken strings, they have become the musical instruments for Like A Memory. The majority of the sounds for the piece - the natural sounds, soundmaking on the rusty structures, or our footsteps and spoken voices - were recorded on the ghost town sites themselves. Recordings of steam trains and of old machinery come from the environmental sound archives of the World Soundscape Project at Simon Fraser University. A short time after I had completed At the Edge of Wilderness pianist Jamie Syer contacted me to see whether I was interested in composing a piece for piano and environmental sounds. I told him that I had never really composed for live piano, but that perhaps one could do something with my old recordings from the abandoned house with the piano and from the ghost towns. It turned out that Jamie knew this area of B.C. very well and that he teaches every summer in the recently established Valhalla Summer School of Music in Silverton, B.C., a small community right in the middle of this area. How could we not do a piece together after discovering so many strands that were coming together around piano composition. Some of the other excerpts of classical piano music that appear on the digital soundtrack of the piece were played by Jamie Syer and recorded by myself at his home near Calgary, Alberta, in May of 2002. Like A Memory was commissioned by Jamie Syer and the Valhalla Summer School of Music and was composed with financial assistance from the Vancouver Foundation. It was premiered in Silverton, B.C. - in the area from where all sound materials originated - on August 16, 2002
Found 5 record(s)
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CMC Location
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Number of Copies
Toronto
02TO58718
In Circulation
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1
Toronto
01TO58718
In Circulation
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1
Vancouver
01VA58718
In Circulation
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1
Montréal
01MO58718
In Circulation
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1
Calgary
01CA58718
In Circulation
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1
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