OCT 17 OCT 18 · Friedrich Haas, tristan Murail), consider social, listening and ecological practices (Annea lockwood, Akio suzuki, Hildegard Westerkamp), and acknowledge the possibility

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SINGLE TIckETS(incl. taxes, venue surcharges)$35 regular $15 students

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Artist tAlk Annea lockwood

Artist tAlk raven Chacon and leslie Garcia

Artist tAlk Hildegard Westerkamp

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OCT 19

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Art and sustainability Panel Discussion

Michael O’Neill (Vancouver)

stone garden

Jl Adams (UsA)Songbirdsongs

Annea lockwood(NZ)

Floating World

Hildegard Westerkamp (Vancouver)

École Polytechnique featuringMusica intima (Vancouver)

leslie García(Mexico)

Jl Adams (UsA)Four Thousand Holesfeaturingscott Deal, percussion (UsA)andWilliam Fried, piano (UsA)


Fantasie for Horns IIfeaturingNick Anderson, French horn (Vancouver)

Annea lockwood(NZ)

Dusk Buoyant

raven Chacon(UsA)

Jl Adams (UsA)The Light Within

GF Haas (Austria/UsA)

Sextett featuringEthos Collective (Vancouver)


Like a Memory

tristan Murail(France)

Territoires de l’oublifeaturingWilliam Fried, piano (UsA)

Akio suzuki(JAPAN)

Annea lockwood(NZ)

Jitterbug


Liebes-Lied/ Love SongfeaturingPeggy lee, cello (Vancouver)

Jl Adams (UsA)Ilimaqfeaturingscott Deal, percussion (UsA)

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2014 festival schedule

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Over the last few decades, artists all over the world have been embracing an impetus for art and creative activities to serve as a transformative path, not only as an expression of the individual, but to express the need and demand for both social and ethical changes.

With Sonic Topographies we wish to reflect upon, and listen to energies inspired by the awareness that “many composers and sound artists all over the world are turning their ears to the music of the earth” (Jl Adams). We encourage people to reconsider what artistic creation means in a context that fosters sustainable ideas about creativity, culture and tradition.

in presenting this very diverse group of musicians, composers and performers we wish to instigate discussion around questions of how contemporary sound art and music practices can contribute to the larger discourse on sustainable systems in a post-aesthetic world. We wish to connect with those ideas and soundscapes that suggest ways of thinking in terms of patterns or sonic ideas emerging from – or transducing into – natural interlocking cycles and aural resonances (John luther Adams, Michael O’Neill), reveal alternative systems of thought that arise from the re-definition of timbre as a correlated ensemble of energies (Georg Friedrich Haas, tristan Murail), consider social, listening and ecological practices (Annea lockwood, Akio suzuki, Hildegard Westerkamp), and acknowledge the possibility of transdiscliplinary approaches and perspectives (raven Chacon, leslie García).

All of the artists involved in this year’s festival embody the larger community of creators who offer the opportunity to access wonderful expressions of human creative power in hopes of further nurturing and treasuring the evolutionary-revolutionary power of creativity, beauty, personal expression and the power of imagination.

GiOrGiO MaGnanensi

sonic topographies sound, Music and sustainability

8pM concert 7pM artist talk with annea lockwoodorpheuM annex823 sEyMOUr strEEt, 2ND FlOOr

$35 / $15

akio Suzuki (Japan)A legendary Japanese sound artist Akio suzuki has been performing, building instruments, and presenting sound installations for nearly 40 years. His music is simple and pure, exploring how natural atmospheres and sounds can be harnessed and then set free. to experience his art is to lose oneself in the sound that surrounds us.

www.akiosuzuki.com

annea Lockwood (New Zealand)Jitterbug (2007)FOr six CHANNEl tAPE AND tHrEE MUsiCiANs.

Jitterbug counterpoints hydrophone recordings of aquatic insects and fish, with three musicians’ interpretations of the markings on rocks collected from the area near Glacier Park, Montana in which lockwood made the recordings. Featuring JP Carter (trumpet), Peggy lee (cello), and lisa Cay Miller (piano). Graphic score photography by Gwen Deely.

www.annealockwood.com

Hildegard Westerkamp(Vancouver)

Liebes-Lied/Love Song (2005)FOr CEllO AND ElECtrOACOUstiC sOUNDtrACk.

Based on the poem Liebes-Lied by rainer Maria rilke and its English translation by Norbert ruebsaat, Liebes-Lied/Love Song is a meditation on love. readings of the text combine with recordings of Anne Bourne’s improvised explorations on the cello and environmental sounds to create the soundscape of the piece, over which cellist Peggy lee performs live improvisations.

www.sfu.ca/~westerka

www.peggylee.net

John Luther adams (Us)Ilimaq (2012)FOr sOlO PErCUssiON AND ElECtrONiCs.

Virtuosic percussionist scott Deal (Us) performs Adams’ expansive, richly layered work for solo percussion. Ilimaq was commissioned by University of texas, stanford University, the Walker Art Center, and Duke University.

www.johnlutheradams.com

scottdeal.net

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8pM concert7pM artist talk with raven chacon and leslie garcíaorpheuM annex823 sEyMOUr strEEt, 2ND FlOOr

$35 / $15

Raven chacon (Us)From the Navajo Nation, raven Chacon uses unique instruments in this live performance: bone whistles, light-drums, and antler harps, in addition to voice, are all processed and over-driven by various electronic and electric devices. Chacon’s music ranges in dynamics from meditative quiet hums to abrasive scrapes and piercing screeches, speeding up and slowing down throughout its course.

www.spiderwebsinthesky.com

www.postcommodity.com

John Luther adams (Us)The Light Within (2007)FOr AltO FlUtE, BAss ClAriNEt, ViBrAPHONE/CrOtAlEs, PiANO, ViOliN, CEllO, AND ElECtrONiCs.

Vancouver’s Ethos Collective perform Adam’s The Light Within, a sublimely textured work for small ensemble inspired by installation artist James turrell’s explorations of light and space.


ethosmusic.ca

Georg Friedrich Haas (Austria/Us)

Sextett (1992/1996) FOr FlUtE, ClAriNEt, PErCUssiON, PiANO, ViOliN AND ViOlONCEllO.

Written in 1992 and completely reworked in 1996, Haas’ Sextett begins with two voices, moving in quarter-tones, evolving into a complex, and precise exploration of pitch, in concert with the “absence or loss of pitch” (UE). Sextett will be performed by Ethos Collective (Vancouver).

ethosmusic.ca


Like a Memory (2002)FOr PiANO AND tWO DiGitAl sOUNDtrACks.

Like a Memory 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.


Tristan Murail (France)Territoires de l’oubli (1977)FOr sOlO PiANO

Murail’s longest single-movement work to date, Territoires de l’oubli is a massive exploration of the piano’s resonance, unfolding in a huge curve of continuously evolving textures. Masterfully performed by William Fried (Us), this is a musical experience not to be missed!

www.tristanmurail.com

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Bio-Box – Leslie García (Mexico) sound artist leslie Garcìa performs live with her plant-based, biofeedback interface, Bio-Box. At once live performance and laboratory, Bio-Box establishes audio communications between different living systems (mosses and algae) generating micro-voltage from the gestural responses of these bodies to physical stimuli such as light, vibration and touch. By rendering these electrical responses audible, the interface gives us access to the high sensitivity and complex sensory systems of different plants.

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John Luther adams (Us)Four Thousand Holes (2010)FOr PiANO, PErCUssiON, AND ElECtrONiCs.

Percussionist scott Deal (Us), and pianist William Fried, (Us) come together to perform Adams’ Four Thousand Holes, a piece described as a “sometimes lush, sometimes fragile, rhythmically complex and technically demanding work for piano, mallet percussion and ghostly electronic “auras”—electronic sounds created by processing the acoustic instruments’ sonorities” (Jim Fox, Cold Blue records).


scottdeal.net

willfriedweb.blogspot.ca


Fantasie for Horns II (1979)FOr sOlO FrENCH HOrN AND tWO sOUNDtrACks.

Composed in two stages, beginning with a composition created from recordings of horns from the Canadian Pacific and Atlantic coasts – trainhorns, foghorns, factory horns and others – in Fantasie for Horns II, the tape composition becomes the acoustic environment for a live French horn, an instrument which, in turn, has had a long history as sound signal in many parts of the world. Featuring Nick Anderson (French horn)

www.sfu.ca/~westerka annea Lockwood (New Zealand)Buoyant (2013)stErEO ElECtrOACOUstiC WOrk

Buoyant interweaves water recordings made on the shore of Flathead lake, Montana, and clangorous gangplanks moving with the Hudson river at the Hoboken Ferry terminal, with a small boat harbor on lake Como, italy.

Dusk (2012)stErEO ElECtrOACOUstiC WOrk

in Annea lockwood’s Dusk, bats zip past and Willie Winant creates long sonic trails with large gongs above the deep pulsings of a hydrothermal vent in the Pacific seabed.


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orpheuM annex823 sEyMOUr strEEt, 2ND FlOOr

$35 / $15

saturday

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Michael O’Neill (Vancouver)stone garden *FOr GAMElAN, BAGPiPEs, AND VOiCEs

stone garden is an intercultural work for Balinese gamelan beleganjur, scottish bagpipes, Ukrainian bilij holos (white voice or pure voice) singing, and chorus. it is a rumination from a personal perspective on end-of-life matters, recognizing the shared traditional role of beleganjur and bagpipes in cremation/funeral ceremonies. Weaving through the piece, with light, humour, and gravitas are the words of celebrated Vancouver poet Gerry Gilbert.

* World premiere, commissioned by Vancouver New Music with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts.

John Luther adams (Us)Songbirdsongs (1974-1980)FOr tWO PiCCOlOs, AND tHrEE PErCUssiON

John luther Adams’ Songbirdsongs creates a mesmerizing, and shifting sonic landscape of birdcalls, water, and wind.


annea Lockwood (New Zealand) floating world (1999)FOr stErEO tAPE

floating world is an immersion in place and transience. lockwood invited eleven friends whose own work with environmental sound she much admires to make recordings in places of personal, spiritual significance to them. Performed by Musica intima, Daniel tones (percussion), Al Cannon (trumpet), and Ak Coope (bass clarinet).



école polytechnique (1990)FOr EiGHt CHUrCHBElls, MixED CHOir, BAss ClAriNEt, trUMPEt, PErCUssiON, AND tWO–CHANNEl tAPE

Dedicated to the 14 women slain at École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989, école polytechnique invites the audience to listen inward and search for what is sacred, what cannot be compromised, what cannot be allowed to be killed inside us and therefore not in the world. école polytechnique is meant to provide the sonic environment for such a journey inward.


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centre for interactive research on sustainability (cirs)UNiVErsity OF BritisH COlUMBiA 2260 WEst MAllUBC POiNt GrEy CAMPUs

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CANADiAN MUsiC CENtrE – BC rEGiON & VANCOUVEr NEW MUsiCpresent

At the edge of WildernesscreAted by hildegArd WesterkAMP And florence debeugnyOPeninG reCePTiOn sPeCial PerfOrManCe by PeGGy leesEPtEMBEr 26, 20145PM-7PM sEPtEMBEr 29–OCtOBEr 17, 2014 MONDAy-FriDAy 9AM-5PM

Canadian Music Centre 837 DAViE strEEt

FREE • When resource industry moves into BC’s landscapes, industrial sites and company towns are cut into the wilderness. Natural rhythms and movements eventually soften the edges, transforming an abandoned sites into mysterious rusty shapes and collapsed, overgrown wooden structures. through images and sounds gathered in various BC ghost towns, At the Edge of Wilderness explores a strange moment of excitement and magic, discovery and adventure, the moment when the contemporary visitor encounters an abandoned industrial site. At the opening reception on september 26, cellist Peggy lee will perform excerpts of Hildegard Westerkamp’s Liebes-Lied/Love Song.

www.musiccentre.ca/regions/british-columbia

Originally commissioned by the Western Front Society in Vancouver for the group show Industrial Ear, September 8-16, 2000.

Alternative Energies is made possible with the financial assistance of the Province of British Columbia.

VANCOUVEr NEW MUsiC presents

vAncouver electronic enseMble PlAys Music by dAvid dunnsAtUrDAys OCtOBEr 4 & 11, 20148PM

Vancouver Community College atrium 1155 EAst BrOADWAy

BY DONATION • Members of the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble (VEE) perform works based on the music of composer and sound ecologist David Dunn. Currently based in New Mexico, Dunn’s music and sound work uses environmental and field recordings to explore intersections of art and nature.

www.davidddunn.com

DOxA & tHE CiNEMAtHEqUE present

A selectionof filMs bybill MorrisontUEsDAy OCtOBEr 14, 2014 7PM

The Cinematheque 1131 HOWE strEEt

TICKETS $12 • Called “one of the most adventurous American filmmakers” by Variety, Bill Morrison‘s films often combine archival film material and found footage set to contemporary music. He has collaborated with some of the most influential composers of our time, including John Adams, laurie Anderson, Gavin Bryars, Philip Glass, Michael Gordon, Bill Frisell, David lang, Julia Wolfe, and steve reich, among many others.

doxafestival.cathecinematheque.ca

screened as part of Motion Pictures, DOxA’s monthly film series.

tHE CONtEMPOrAry Art GAllEry presents

vAncouver electronic enseMble At the cAgMONDAy OCtOBEr 6, 2014 7PM

Contemporary art Gallery 555 NElsON strEEt

FREE • An sound performance inspired by the recent works of German artist Jürgen Partenheimer whose exhibition, The Archive – The Raven Diaries, runs from september 12 to November 9, 2014 at the CAG.

www.contemporaryartgallery.ca

VANCOUVEr NEW MUsiC presents

sound And sustAinAbility soundWAlkssUNDAys OCtOBEr 5 & 12, 2014 2PM

FREE • Take some time to listen to the underlying sounds and rhythms of the city on a soundwalk. Members of the Vancouver soundwalk Collective lead two, free guided walks through the urban environment.

www.vancouversoundwalk.com

EMily CArr UNiVErsity & VANCOUVEr NEW MUsiCpresent

rAven chAcon:Artist tAlktHUrsDAy OCtOBEr 16, 2014 11:30AM

aboriginal Gathering Place emily Carr University 1399 JOHNstON strEEt

FREE • Join us for a talk by composer, experimental noise musician, and installation artist raven Chacon. Chacon’s work explores sounds of acoustic handmade instruments overdriven through electric systems and the direct and indirect audio feedback responses from their interactions.

This event is free and open to the public. Please note space is limited.

www.ecuad.ca

sFU WOODWArDs presents

Art Music’s indigenous inclusions And the Politics of forMWith dylAn robinsonMONDAy OCtOBEr 20, 20147PMDjavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre Goldcorp Centre for the Arts149 WEst HAstiNGs

FREE • Concerti for throat singers, operas on indigenous subjects, and powwow symphonies. Despite an increasing number of collaborations between indigenous artists and classical music ensembles, the political exigencies of First Nations communities across Canada are scarcely referenced in such work. this talk examines the space between classical and indigenous musical forms, and the attendant politics of recognition in such collaborative processes that often celebrate indigenous inclusion at the cost of political engagement.

sfuwoodwards.ca

MOrris AND HElEN BElkiN Art GAllEry in collaboration with the UBC sCHOOl OF MUsiC present

soundWAlk With tyler kinneArWEDNEsDAy OCtOBEr 22, 2014 2PM–3:30PMMeet at:Belkin Art Gallery UBC Point Grey Campus 1825 MAiN MAll

FREE • Join Tyler Kinnear for a guided soundwalk on the campus of the University of British Columbia. During this excursion we will give our ears priority, paying attention to the sounds around us as well as to our own listening. in what ways do we interpret the sonic environment? in what ways do we contribute to its composition?

This event will happen rain or shine. Participants should wear appropriate footwear and clothing.

WorkshoP series

PAuline oliveros’ “sonic MeditAtions” With dAvid Metzer And hedy lAWtUEsDAys OCtOBEr 14 & 28, 2014 2PMBelkin Art Gallery UBC Point Grey Campus 1825 MAiN MAll

FREE • UBC Professors of Musicology David Metzer and Hedy law lead a workshop exploring Pauline Oliveros’ pioneering work. Oliveros expanded the characteristics of the “new sensibility” by bringing her fascination with long continuous sounds to bear on her deep involvement with meditations. Participants will revisit this revolutionary exploration of expanded consciousness through practice and discussion.

Registration required. For more information visit belkin.ubc.ca.

belkin.ubc.ca

CENtrE FOr iNtErACtiVE rEsEArCH ON sUstAiNABility (Cirs) and VANCOUVEr NEW MUsiC present

PAnel discussion on Arts And sustAinAbilitysUNDAyOCtOBEr 19, 2014 2PMCentre for interactive research on sustainability at UBC 2260 WEst MAll

FREE • Join UBC’s Associate Provost, sustainability John robinson, the suzuki Foundation’s Jay ritchlin, and artists leslie Garcìa, Annea lockwood, David Maggs, and Hildegard Westerkamp for a discussion about intersections of art and sustainability. Moderated by Giorgio Magnanensi.

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OCT 17 OCT 18 · Friedrich Haas, tristan Murail), consider social, listening and ecological practices (Annea lockwood, Akio suzuki, Hildegard Westerkamp), and acknowledge the possibility