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CD in gatefold ecosleeve with 16 page full colour booklet that includes liner notes, score excerpts and productions stills from our forth-coming audio video installation!
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Seashore
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Coastal Forest
about
In early 2012 we were invited by Chris O’Connor at the Royal BC Museum to sonically reimagine the sounds of the Natural History Gallery for his upcoming program Site and Sound. We had never met and were somewhat taken aback when Chris suggested that we work together on this project. However, this was the beginning of a longstanding collaboration that has spun out in many directions.
Our collective response to Chris’s invitation was Music for Natural History, our sound performance work, in which we studied the flora and fauna presented in the Gallery’s two main dioramas —the Coastal Forest and the Pacific Seashore, and the sounds that would be made through them in the wild. With transcriptions, we worked with musicians, artists, and students to attempt to embody these sounds. M4NH, as we like to call it, was performed that spring and was very well received.
In 2015 the Museum invited us to present M4NH as a standalone performance program. This gave us the opportunity to refine our work with deeper attention to the nuances of the animal and bird calls, and the winds and water sounds that surround them, and to develop staging and presentation elements to engage the audience. We also had time to work with our talented troop of performers for an extended period. In 2016, the revised M4NH was presented in a series of sold-out concerts.
Following the performances, the Museum allowed us unprecedented access to film the dioramas and performance stagings over several evenings, and with a series of recordings at the University of Victoria’s School of Music, we attained remarkable documentation materials.
In the following years we added to these recordings and started the enormous task of assembling the clips into the two sound compositions on this publication prepared for the home listener.
We could not have expected 10 years earlier that we would still be engaged with this project; however, the acceleration of habitat destruction and the effects of global warming have sadly only made this work more poignant as the soundscapes that we have performed no longer exist in this way.
– Tina Pearson and Paul Walde on lək̓ʷəŋən Territories, 2022
credits
releases June 15, 2022
Concept, Compositions, and Direction by Tina Pearson and Paul Walde
John G Boehme: voice
Geraldine Bulosan: voice, recorder
Arlene Carson: accordion, water whistle, voice
Ajtony Csaba: cello
Tancha Dirickson: recorder, antlers
Nathan Friedman: clarinets
Alisa Gordaneer: voice
Joanna Hood: viola
Claire le Nobel: percussion
Julio Lopezhiler: violin
Tina Pearson: flute, recorders, voice
Chris Tooley: voice, whistles, recorders
George Tzanetakis: clarinets, sax, flutes
Janet Sit: recorders, percussion, voice
Rachael Wadham: percussion, recorders
Paul Walde: percussion, recorders, voice
Production: Tina Pearson and Paul Walde
Recordings 2016: Kirk McNally
Additional Recordings 2017-2022: Tina Pearson and Paul Walde
Recomposition, Editing, and Mixing: Tina Pearson
Audio Editing Technical Consultation: Penelope Walcott
Mastering : Kirk McNally
Publication Design: Paul Walde and Michael Huston
Production stills from the audio video installation and score excerpts
from Music for Natural History by Tina Pearson and Paul Walde
Cinematography: Daniel Carruthers
There are no field recordings or electronic sounds used in these recordings
This production was made possible through the assistance of the Music Section of the Canada Canada Council for the Arts
Thank you George Tzanetakis and to Chris O’Connor, Kim Gough, and Janet MacDonald of the Royal BC Museum
Tina Pearson and Paul WaldeVictoria, British Columbia
Tina Pearson and Paul Walde have been collaborating since 2012 when they were first commissioned to work on Music for
Natural History together. With George Tzanetakis they are co-Artistic Directors of LASAM Music and its trio Experimental Music Unit. Pearson and Walde practice on unceded lək̓ʷəŋən territory also known as Victoria, Canada....more
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