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Lazio Strut from François Houle on Vimeo.

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AIM FOR THE ROSES - JOCELYN MORLOCK from Opus 59 Films on Vimeo.

Composer Jocelyn Morlock discusses her colleague Mark Haney's piece "Aim For The Roses" in John Bolton's film of the same name.

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Axiomatix Ken Butler 2023 from Ken Butler on Vimeo.

Axiomatix: a suite for hybrid instruments” (in 6 movements) Ken Butler, video and music, 12:55, 2023 Credits: Sam Schild-editor, Yuli Beeri-sound assistance. Original clips shot by D. Carlton Bright in 1992. Thanks to Frédérique Trunk.

Axiomatix is an experimental music video in six movements with overlapping layers of the artist playing 29 of his hybrid string instruments constructed from diverse objects. Disembodied hands and arms bow and pluck at noisy strings with a fluttering Cubist/Futurist sensibility, with genre-bending music, and lighting by Rembrandt. Hybrid violins and guitars descend a dissonant sonic staircase as function and form collide in an atmosphere of experimentation and transformation.

Recalling the early 20th century chrono-photography of Marey and Bragaglia, the work has a time capsule sensibility as technology finally enabled an old concept technically unfeasible at the time of conception.

The music was composed by layering short video clips of the artist playing just one note of a melody, each on a different instrument (called “hocketing”). Manipulating the speed and pitch of the video yielded a unique and edgy audio-visual soundscape. The work moves from violins to “violas”, guitars, and then cellos, revealing the full melody in the fifth section (Axilla), containing all 29 instruments. The sixth and final section, (Axis), functions as an epilogue or coda to the piece.

Live versions of the song, with a full band, appear on the Tzadik CD “Voices of Anxious Objects” from 1997, and “KB’s Greatest Hits”, on Hybrid Visions Music, in 2005, as “Axioms.”

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Bestiaire à hauteur d'oreille (2022) from Totem Contemporain on Vimeo.

Bestiaire à hauteur d'oreilles est une oeuvre pour Table de Babel et Bande du compositeur Stéphane Roy.

L'oeuvre à été capté à l'Espace Bleu de l'Édifice Wilder le 24-25 Août 2022. Interprétation : Jean-François Laporte Captation : La conserve Média

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Music and video by John Oliver featuring excerpts from his performances and compositions.

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Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra artistic director Erik Paetkau reminiscences about his 7 years at the helm with GM Mark Turner. When asked about "his favourite piece", he does not name a single piece, but instead names the all-Canadian concert that closed their main Masterworks series in 2017 and the citizenship ceremony that took place on stage. On the program: John Burge, Vincent Ho, and myself (Raven Steals the Light with narrator). Free to watch. Scroll to 15:40 to hear the segment. https://ift.tt/aQBN38y They took a risk on Canadian music and sold out the show!

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