Learn more about Bekah on her website
Listen to Bekah's music on Bandcamp here. Make sure to listen to Bestiaries her Juno Award nominated recording!
The singular Chik White AKA Darcy Spidle
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where Bekah teaches
The Canadian League of Composers
Continuum Contemporary Music from Toronto.
New Music Concerts also of Toronto
Bekah's Juno nomination - https://junoawards.ca/nomination/2023-classical-composition-of-the-year-bekah-simms/
Dublin's Crash Ensemble
Canadian composer living in Berlin Marc Sabat
And our sponsors, The Canadian Music Centre!
Learn more about Allison at her website here.
You can hear Allison's music at: allison cameron Pliny (excerpt) Another Timbre
allison cameron in-memoriam-robert-ashley by the avens
theallisoncameronband mach shorn
allison cameronmusic In Svalbard 2013
Here are more links: from Allisons early years: Lloyd Burritt https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lloyd-burritt-emc
From the Victoria and later Toronto time: Martin Arnold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Arnold_%28composer%29
John Abram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abram
Rudolf Komorous https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?lang=en-CA
Henryk Górecki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_G%C3%B3recki
From the Amsterdam time: Frederic Rzewski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Rzewski
Walter Zimmerman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Zimmermann
Per Nørgård https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_N%C3%B8rg%C3%A5rd
Louis Andriessen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Andriessen
Maarten Altena https://maartenaltena.nl/
The great UK record label that is very sympathetic to Canadian composers: Another Timbre http://www.anothertimbre.com/
For more information on Patrick, and to listen to his favourite music, including memento mori and Canvas Study, head to his website here.
During the episode Patrick referenced Peter Allen, Malcolm Goldstein, and Gillian Smith - (search out Gillian's new CD coming soon!)
Longy School of Music is where Patrick is currently studying.
And read more about the story behind Patrick's Lego Beach here
And here!
To learn more about Nicole and see and hear some of her music, head to her website.
You can also see a lot of video and music by searching Nicole Lizée on YouTube.
Nicole specifically suggests we start with listening to Black MIDI
and Death to Kosmische played by Kronos Quartet.
and Book Burners performed by Stéphan Tétreault and DJ P-Love.
Nicole also spoke about the RCA Select a vision. Learn more here.
This episode we're including links to Bandcamp for listening. Sure, Apple Music has SO MUCH music, and it may be a great place to start, but, Bandcamp is far more generous to artists, so we recommend you discover new music and support artists by buying their music, there!
Listen to Sam's solo releases here.
Sam's important bands, although he didn't mention them all by name, include:
more information on the December 2 suddenlyLISTEN concert
Please check out these links to performances of David's notable pieces:
Constables Clouds performed by Winona Zelenka
Favour performed by Rivka Golani
A Blessing performed by Karen Usha Gray. This is the David Cameron poem David recites in the episode!
There are many other pieces by David Jaeger on Youtube, search them out!
Some links you might enjoy clicking:
David Jaeger's bio from the CMC site - cmccanada.org
Canadian Electronic Ensemble - https://www.canadianelectronicensemble.com/
Winnipeg New Music Festival - https://www.wnmf.ca/
Christina Petrowska Quilico - https://christinapetrowskaquilico.com/
Lawrence Cherney - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lawrence-cherney-emc
Soundstreams - https://soundstreams.ca
Glenn Gould Studio - https://www.cbc.ca/glenngouldstudio/
Here are some links:
FIrst, the Canadian Music Centre
This website has listings of Associate Composers, and their works. Spend some time on this site!
NMNM and suddenlyLISTEN wish to thank the CMC for their support this past season! Thanks to a donation from the CMC, we release 4 episodes featuring Atlantic Canadian composers and creators! Dale Sorenson from PEI; Andrew Staniland, from Newfoundland and Labrador; Emily Doolittle (and Peter Togni) from Nova Scotia, and André Cormier (and Nadia Francavilla) from New Brunswick. Please check out those episodes!
Picanto is the CMC's new streaming service.
During the episode, Glenn mentioned a lot of interesting references in passing. check these out if you're curious. Go ahead head down a rabbit hole!:
The International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC)
Toronto jazz musician and composer Phil Nimmons
The Canadian League of Composers
Legendary Toronto educator and arts leader Ezra Schabas
Montreal composer, guitarist and arts leader Tim Brady
One of André's recommended pieces to listen to is InSitu•2019. Listen to it here.
The second choice of André's is Zwischen den Wolken which can be heard on Apple Music here
Check out some of André's other music at Soundcloud.
Read a review of Zwischen Den Wolken from MusicWorks Magazine here.
Read a short article on André's Conversations2019 project in Barachois NB here.
During the podcast André speaks of 3 compersers who were important to him:
Christopher Butterfield. His Soundcloud page is here
André speaks a lot about the Wandelweiser school of music making https://www.wandelweiser.de/home.html.
La Rouère is the chocolate shop André runs with his partner Robin Streb!
This is the fourth and final NMNM episode sponsored by the Canadian Music Centre. Many thanks to the CMC for their support of this podcast!
Thanks to Arts Nova Scotia for their support of NMNM over the past 2 seasons, and next season as well!
In this episode we have started a new "If you can listen to one piece, listen to THIS one" portion of our podcast.
So the first thing you should do after listening is head to Spotify here to listen to The Lamentations of Jeremiah. Peter recommends the 5th movement, but you can listen to the whole thing!
He also recommended Responsio. There's an excerpt on Youtube here. Or on Spotify
And Sea Dreams. There's an excerpt on Youtube here. Or on Spotify
On YouTube there's a film on Peter's latest composition Voice of the Weaver.
And there's another film on YouTube about the making of Living Flame of Love
Check Peter's website here
Learn more about Jeff Reilly, Peter's regular collaborator here
Here's a link to Peter's father Victor Togni
And info on Jean Langlais Peter's teacher at the Schola Cantorum Paris
Finally the donor of the "quote of the episode": the great conductor Bernhard Gueller!
This was a fun episode! It is dense with references to dig into, so brace yourself for some links!
After hearing Akasha at a Symphony Nova Scotia school concert, Daryl eventually went on to study composition with Glenn Buhr, Akasha's composer.
Daryl referred numerous times, to Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith and her effect on his path as an artist:
You can also listen to the New Musings episode which featured Linda Catlin Smith here. And there's a Part 2 as well!
Peter Hatch is another Canadian with whom Daryl studied composition.
Daryl has composed frequently for Joe Browning, he's a little tough to track down, but here is a link to his bio.
At York in the UK Daryl studied with Nicola LeFanu.
Morton Feldman was an inspiration to Daryl, and many of us frankly! Here is his bio, and recordings of his music can be found on all the platforms
Daryl studied and was mentored by Jo Kondo in Japan. His music is played all over the world!
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival takes place each year in the UK
IRCAM the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Musicis the research centre in Paris that virtually at which Daryl spoke recently. This is a very interesting site with many resources for music and technology!
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!
NMNM Episode #5 with Linda Smith https://new-musings-on-new-music.simplecast.com/episodes/nmnm-episode-5-linda-catlin-smith-part-1
NMNM Episode #8 with Monica Pearce https://new-musings-on-new-music.simplecast.com/episodes/nmnm-episode-8-monica-pearce
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
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, 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.
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
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
Canadian Music Centre - New Music For Young Musicians
Chronos Vocal Ensemble singing their version of Barrett's Privateers : Choristers' Private Tears, just for fun!
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.
In this Episode Barbara and Norm bring 2020 to a close with a conversation on what they're up to, their favourite episodes, and what they have learned so far! Stay tuned for new NMNM episodes in 2021.
During the episode the work of Francois Houle was referenced. Check out Francois' work at www.francoishoule.ca
AND if you'd like to write us and make comments or suggestions for future guests, lease write Norm at norm@suddenlylisten.com
Learn more about Helen Pridmore at: www.helenpridmore.ca
You can hear some of Helen's performances on Youtube: A Pandemic Opera and excerpts from Helen's Centrediscs release Janet.
There's more great listening at Helen's Soundcloud page as well!
You can learn more about Helen's work with Regina's Voice Lab here
During the podcast Helen referenced the multiPLAY projects, including the regular online music making. The multiPLAY site is here.
Learn more about Gabriel Dharmoo at: gabrieldharmoo.org
You can hear some of Gabriel's music at his Soundcloud stream
During the episode Gabriel spoke about Anthropologies Imaginaire. There's a trailer video here.
He also referenced his new work Portraits, which you can (and should!) watch here
You can watch some more of Gabriel's videos here on YouTube
Follow Bijuriya on Instagram
Learn more about Monica Pearce at www.monicapearce.com
You can hear some of Monica's music at Soundcloud
Other organizations Monica spoke about during the episode included Toy Piano Composers and Essential Opera
Monica has written several articles for Musicwork Magazine. There's lots of good reading there.
And check out where McAllen Texas is. It's sunny and 26 C there, right now!
https://goo.gl/maps/pGEDtYZZ7aa3K4zq7
James Rolfe's website: www.jamesrolfe.ca
James' music on Soundcloud
James' piece "Raw" - performed by Continuum on Youtube
During Episode 7 James referenced the Stravinsky Piano Sonata - on Youtube
James' teacher John Beckwith - http://individual.utoronto.ca/John_Beckwith/
The Canadian Music Centre, which is a great resource for people curious about Canadian composers and their music - https://cmccanada.org/
An excerpt from Beatrice Chancy, by James and George Eliot Clarke
Information on our great poet George Elliott Clarke - https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/george-elliott-clarke
or https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/george-elliott-clarke
or https://www.georgeelliottclarke.net/full-biography
For more information on Linda Catlin Smith please visit her website.
During the talk, Linda reference Faure's Piano Quintet it can be heard on Youtube
Linda mentioned Morton Feldman's works For Philip Guston and String Quartet #2. They can be heard on Apple Music here and here
Norm and Barbara made a concert recording of Linda's piece Ballad which you can listen to on Soundcloud
Learn more about Linda Catlin Smith
Listen to Linda's music at Apple Music and go out and buy her CDs!
During this episode Linda referenced:
American composer Elliot Carter
Canadian composer Rudolph Komorous
American composer Morton Feldman
and Italian painter Giorgio Morandi
We encourage you to dig deeper into the work of these artists!
Please note: Our production techniques are still a work in progress! In this episode Barbara sounds like she's reporting from the Sistine Chapel! Please bear with us.
Learn more about Daniel at www.danielbartholomewpoyser.com
Watch the CBC documentary about Daniel: Disruptor Conductor, here.
Daniel also mentioned an article he wrote for Orchestras Canada entitled Perfect Fifth of Diversity. it is here
And he mentioned a book by Brene Brown entitled Rising Strong which can be purchased here
Listen to some of Simon's collaborative work on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/lady-of-the-lake/1241379807
and
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/oiseaux-exotiques/301190306?i=301190338
See Introduction Part 1 Notes for examples of the work of Norm Adams and Barbara Pritchard.
Check out some of your host's recorded music:
Barbara Pritchard - https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/barbara-pritchard/305836417
Norman Adams - https://music.apple.com/ca/album/in-sonorous-falling-tones/1235126766 and https://suddenlylisten.bandcamp.com
