Keith Hamel one of Bob's teachers and a prof at UBC

Megumi Masaki, one of Bob's collaborators 

An article about Bob's work with Vancouver's Turning Point ensemble. There is a great video link here.

Bob's students:

Kiran Bhumber there is beautiful video work here.

Chantelle Ko-Mitchell, there are video links here!

Fidelia Lam with more video links

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Episode Notes

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

If you would like to help fund New Musing on New Music you can do so on the suddenlyLISTEN website. 

Thanks for your support!

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 

If you would like to help fund New Musing on New Music you can do so on the suddenlyLISTEN website. 

Thanks for your support!

Importantly, Raven Chacon the Diné composer and artist has been a collaborator and mentor to Olivia.

Also please jump back and listen to Gabriel Dharmoo's episode from NMNM's first season.

Erin Bardua's personal site

Maureen Batt's personal site

Maureen and Erin have worked a lot with composer Monica Pearse. Her website is here

Monica Pearse's New Musings on New Music episode can be listened to (again) here

One of the composers currently working with Essential Opera is Fiona Ryan. Their Facebook Page

Music Nova Scotia who sponsors Nova Scotia Music Week can be found here

Leaf Music Essential Opera's record label where you can link to Etiquette is here. 

Tom Belding, Essential Opera's video maker

Essential Opera's YouTube page

Barbara Pritchard's website 

Norm Adams' website

The Canadian Music Centre's Atlantic office (our generous sponsor) website

We and suddenlyLISTEN also thank Arts Nova Scotia the city of Halifax and The Canada Council for the Arts for their funding support!

Terri's Vimeo site for multimedia recordings

John Estacio

Howard Bashaw

Amsterdam Conservatory

Peter Hannan

Ableton Live

Anagam Kilns

Luciane Cardassi, Synchronisms No. 6, by Davidovsky

Andrea Tyniec

Division on a Ground

Anthony Holborne 5-part Viol Music - (We LOVE viol music!)

Helen Pridmore - NMNM episode 

Canadian New Music Network

Circuit, Musiques Contemporaines

Musicworks Magazine

Julie Richard

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Jerry Granelli, recently passed originator of the Creative Music Workshop held each summer in Halifax.

Toronto composer and electronic music mentor Rose Bolton  

Julia's favourite choreographer Angela Blumberg  

Toronto's venerable new music orchestra Esprit Orchestra   

The Association of Canadian Women Composers that Julia Chairs.

The Canadian Music Centre, our valued co-sponsor!

Giorgio mentions Hildegard Westerkamp in this episode, so maybe you'd like to listen to our conversations with her, in 2 episodes, #1 here and #2 here.

Giorgio is the long time Artistic Director of Vancouver New Music.

Giorgio mentions David Tudor's Rainforest Project 

And Italian composer Giacinto Scelsi  

Learn more about Adam's dance theatre company Amok Amok here

Listen and watch some of Adam's works here

During the episode Adam referenced the following people and pieces:

Pina Bausch's "Rite of Spring"  

Lore Borremans

Jan Fabre 

Peeping Tom Dance 

Derek Charke 

Dinuk Wijeratne

This episode is sponsored by the Canadian Music Centre. Many thanks to them for their support of New Musings on New Music!

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

New Adventures in Sound Art 

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!

You can hear Allison's music at: allison cameron Pliny (excerpt) Another Timbre

allison cameron in-memoriam-robert-ashley by the avens

allisoncameron 3rds-4ths-5ths

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/

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!

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.

Listen to Sam's solo releases here.

Sam's important bands, although he didn't mention them all by name, include:

Shalabi Effect

Dwarves of East Agouza

Land of Kush

Collateral

more information on the December 2 suddenlyLISTEN concert

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!

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/

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!:

Classical Next

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

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

James Tenny

Antoine Beuger

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!

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

First, be sure to listen to the NMNM episodes we reference in our conversation!

Linda Catlin Smith 

NMNM Episode #5 with Linda Smith https://new-musings-on-new-music.simplecast.com/episodes/nmnm-episode-5-linda-catlin-smith-part-1

Monica Pearce 

NMNM Episode #8 with Monica Pearce https://new-musings-on-new-music.simplecast.com/episodes/nmnm-episode-8-monica-pearce

Emily Kennedy 

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 

Ethel Smyth 

Jennifer Walshe 

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

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!

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 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 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 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.

There are lots of videos of Juliet speaking, and her compositions on YouTube here

There is information on Urbanvessel here

Information on the Canadian New Music Network here

The CNMN FORUM 2021 can be found here

They also talk about sL's Facebook page which is here. 

Watch for Juliet Palmer in 2 weeks or so!

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!

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 

Learn more about Louis-Charles Dionne at his website here.

Learn more about suddenlyLISTEN's Artist in Residence program here.

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.

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

Viva Youth Singers

Juliet Palmer

The Gather Round Singers

Canadian Music Centre - New Music For Young Musicians

Chronos Vocal Ensemble singing their version of  Barrett's Privateers : Choristers' Private Tears, just for fun!

Howard Cable

As always visit suddenlyLISTEN for news on this podcast and our other activities.

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. 

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 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!

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.

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

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.

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 

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' 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

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

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.

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

and 

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/oiseaux-exotiques/301190306?i=301190338

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