The Standing Wave Society in collaboration with CBC Radio 2 presents
STANDING WAVE
LIVE AT CBC STUDIO ONE
Tuesday, May 31, 8pm
CBC Studio One, 700 Hamilton Street
$20 general / $15 students & seniors
Tickets: www.ticketstonight.ca
or by phone 604.684.2787 or at the door
For more info: www.standingwave.ca
or phone 604.683.8240
A-K Coope, clarinet
Rebecca Whitling, violin
Peggy Lee, cello
Allen Stiles, piano
Vern Griffiths , percussion
On May 31, at CBC Studio One, Standing Wave, Vancouver’s premiere contemporary chamber ensemble, presents a concert of 21st Century classics. Avant-garde chamber music inspired by Pop culture, industrial noise, Renaissance dance, and magical realist literature from five leading Canadian composers will comprise this riveting program. The programme will feature music by Canadian composers Rodney Sharman, Jeffrey Ryan, Jocelyn Morlock, Linda Bouchard, and Cameron Wilson, along with John Kastelic’s From the Crazy Place Outbroken, the Audience Choice from Standing Wave’s concert at the 2011 Sonic Boom Festival.
Revel in the intimacy of live, conductorless chamber music; thrill at the kineticism and immediacy of cutting edge contemporary sounds.
This special concert is being recorded by CBC Radio 2 for broadcast on The Signal with host Laurie Brown.
SONIC BOOM FESTIVAL of new music
March 24 – 27, 2011
THE WESTERN FRONT
303 E 8TH AVE, VANCOUVER
Composer in Residence: R. Murray Schafer
Ensemble in Residence: Standing Wave
Featured Ensemble: Nu:Bc Collective
Guest Artist: Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa
Plenary Lecturer: Dr. Andrew Schloss
Tickets: $25 regular / $15 students, seniors and artists
Festival Pass: $60
Available at the door, cash only
Schedule of Events
Thursday, March 24, 7:30PM – Lafayette String Quartet, other artists
Friday, March 25, 7:30PM – Standing Wave Ensemble
Saturday, March 26, 3:00PM-4:00PM – Dr. Andrew Schloss Plenary Lecture (Free)
Saturday, March 26, 7:30PM – Nu:BC Collective, Dr. Andrew Schloss, other artists
Sunday, March 27, 10AM-1PM – Student Composers’ Master Class (Free)
Sunday, March 27, 7:30PM – Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa
Terminal City Soundscape
Presented by the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Music on Main and CABINET Interdisciplinary Collaborations
January 23-25, 2011
Heritage Hall
Main Street at East 15th
Bar opens at 7PM, Concert at 8PM
Tickets
$29 General, $15 Students
ticketstonight.ca or 604.684.2787
Discover the essential aesthetics that have come to define Vancouver musically. Through intercultural music and free improv, through the World Soundscape Project and a musical fascination with beauty, Vancouver’s leading composers, performers and musical thinkers have shown us how the local is universal.
Curated by Music on Main’s David Pay, Terminal City Soundscape focuses our ears–and eyes–on this idea. You’ll experience ALL, an immersive, interdisciplinary collaboration between award-winning filmmaker Mina Shum and Vancouver’s Standing Wave Ensemble, and hear Jocelyn Morlock’s transcendent Exaudi with musica intima and cellist Ariel Barnes. Other works include Hildegard Westerkamp’s Kits Beach Soundwalk and Barry Truax’s Riverrun alongside music by Veda Hille, Bramwell Tovey, Rodney Sharman, and many others.
“Music on Main … provides western Canada with one of the finest windows onto the post-classical scene”
Gramophone Magazine
More info: musiconmain.ca | pushfestival.ca
standing wave ensemble
vintage machines
Monday November 29, 2010, 8pm
The Cultch, 1895 Venables Street
On November 29, 2010 at The Cultch, experience the rush at the intersection of electronic and acoustic music. Standing Wave presents an intrepid programme of cutting edge chamber music by Canadian and International composers. Montreal’s Nicole Lizée will join the ensemble on vintage electronic instruments for the premiere of her new piece Sculptress, an homage to electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Lizée’s piece will be preceded by a screening of Kara Blake’s Genie Award-winning documentary portrait of Delia Derbyshire, The Delian Mode. The programme will also feature far-out sounds by Missy Mazzoli and Sean Varah, including the Canadian premiere of Mazzoli’s Still Life With Avalanche, as well as Structural Integrity, a new work by the Wave’s own Vern Griffiths. Join Standing Wave for this evening of bold new music exploration.
Vancouver Special
Monday May 10, 2010 at The Cultch
Take 6 Vancouver composers from different backgrounds and disciplines. Ask each of them to write 2 minutes of music inspired by the city we all call home. Weave this raw material into one musical tapestry. Turn it over to award-winning Vancouver filmmaker Mina Shum. The result is ALL, Standing Wave’s musical and visual tribute to Vancouver, featuring music by Bramwell Tovey, Veda Hille, Ron Samworth, Alfredo Santa Ana, Brent Belke, and Martin Ritter.
The program also featured the premieres of a Renaissance-inspired work by Rodney Sharman and Giorgio Magnanensi’s electronica-inspired piece, aBK. Flutist Christie Reside joined the ensemble for a performance of Dorothy Chang’s Wind/Unwind, while guest percussionist Aaron McDonald and Standing Wave’s Vern Griffiths rocked the house with the Canadian premiere of Nebojsa Zivkovic’s Sex in the Kitchen.
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Too Strange…
Sunday October 11, 2009 at The Cultch
On Oct 11, 2009 at the Cultch, Standing Wave presented Too Strange….
Time is distorted, perspectives challenged; the familiar becomes foreign and the foreign familiar in this evening of musical magical realism. The group premiered new works by visionary Vancouver composer Jocelyn Morlock and Amsterdam’s famed improvisor/pianist/composer Achim Kaufmann. George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae, Salvatore Sciarrino’s Lo Spazio Inverso, Greg Newsome’s in medias res (commissioned and premiered by Standing Wave in 2005), and Jeffrey Cotton’s Meditation, Rhapsody, and Bacchanale were also featured in this concert programme.
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Dance : Music
Sunday May 31, 2009 at The Norman Rothstein Theatre
On Sunday May 31, 2009, Standing Wave presented the third instalment of their Curator/Creator Series. Dance : Music, curated by accomplished composer Arne Eigenfeldt, celebrated Eigenfeldt’s role as one of the major compositional forces in both the Canadian electroacoustic and dance scenes.
This diverse programme of music for dance, featured Eigenfeldt’s Les Yeux Fermes with a remount of Serge Bennathan’s choreography for dancer Katherine Labelle and Flying Time/Armande, a collaboration while Bennathan was with Toronto’s Dancemakers, where Standing Wave performed with new synthesized accompaniment to the video projection of the original 1994 piece. Also featured were John Cage’s Bacchanale, with new choreography and performance by Rob Kitsos, a re-orchestration/ arrangement of dance music of the 1950’s by composer Cam Wilson, as well as that of the Renaissance by composer Rodney Sharman. The programme culminated with the premiere of Eigenfeldt’s new work, The Title of Your Book for Standing Wave and 2 dancers.
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Shapeshifters
Tuesday March 31, 2009 at The Western Front
Shapeshifters, 21st Century music that morphs through time, space, and genre. In this programme, Standing Wave, Vancouver’s cutting edge chamber ensemble, presented Tristan Murail’s sparse and ethereal Feuilles à Travers les Cloches and Linda Bouchard’s densely mechanical Liquid States. Also featured were the Canadian premieres of Kati Agocs’s Immutable Dreams and Kaija Saariaho’s Serenatas; Jocelyn Morlock’s marginalia, her tribute to Vancouver’s legendary artistic shapeshifter Roy Kiyooka; as well a new work by Vancouver guitar hero Ford Pier.
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One Tree, Many Branches
Thursday May 15, 2008 at The Roundhouse Performance Centre
On May 15 2008, Standing Wave presented the second in their Creator/Curator Series, One Tree, Many Branches, the brainchild of local composer Jeffrey Ryan. Ryan curated a diverse programme that features the Canadian premieres of Sprint by American composer Rob Smith, Timelessly This by Irish composer Ian Wilson, and pieces by two Canadian composers, Alexina Louie (Cadenzas) and Kelly-Marie Murphy (Memory, Distance and No Time for Dances). The concert also included Ryan’s own Bellatrix, Timepieces, Chemistry and the world premiere of Burn.
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teatro dell’udito (theatre for the ears)
Sunday December 9, 2007 at The Vancouver East Cultural Centre
On December 9, 2007, Standing Wave and guest artists Giorgio Magnanensi (conductor/live electronics), Veda Hille (piano/vocals), Steve Wright (guitar) and Kedrick James (sound poetry) presented teatro dell’udito, the first instalment in their Creator/Curator Series. Not simply a concert, but an event in itself, this was indeed “theatre for the ears.” teatro dell’udito featured works curated and composed by Giorgio Magnanensi. The focal point of the evening was the premiere of his piece ethuiá VII, which explored concepts of gesture and figure in a musical context structured to enhance the virtuosity of the performers. Magnanensi worked in collaboration with the members of Standing Wave to allow each musician’s personal reaction to his music a chance to shine forth. The concert programme included compositions by a wide variety of composers, each of which embody and reinforce a sense of movement and space and enhance cultural and poetic links among diverse styles of contemporary idioms. The evening featured excerpts and sonic collages, performed in seamless continuity, of works by a multitude of 20th century icons from Gustav Mahler to Neil Young, to contemporary composers such as Monaural and Aki Tsuyuko.
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STANDING WAVE in Concert
Sunday February 18, 2007 at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre
On February 18, 2007, Standing Wave presented a program of dynamic, dramatic and virtuosic works. Hornby Island-based Tony Wilson is known as the “king of Canadian avant-garde guitar.” John Cage is generally regarded as one of the most important composers of his era. Thomas Adès is an innovative young British composer who has become a “hit” on the European contemporary music scene. Zack Browning’s Impact Addiction has received worldwide recognition. Luciernagas (Fireflies) by Mexican-born Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez has been described as “a hard-driving quintet … practically burst with energy, its quick, darting melodies punctuated by tense, breath-holding solo trills [and] a brilliant marimba solo.”
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STANDING WAVE in Concert
Sunday June 4, 2006 at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre
In this concert on June 4, 2006 the ensemble performed works commissioned by the group in recent seasons. The program included works by three talented and acclaimed Canadian composers — Bradshaw Pack, Howard Bashaw, and Chris Paul Harman – and by French composer Thierry Pécou.
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PALIMPSEST
Thursday June 2 and Friday June 3, 2005 at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre
In Palimpsest, Bradshaw Pack composed, arranged, and curated a program inspired by Orpheus, a mythological figure of terrific wanderlust who represents timeless themes of love and death. Central to the myth and to the concert was music’s affective power, intensified to literal enchantment. Based on a transfigured version of Dal mio Permesso from Monteverdi’s opera LOrfeo, Palimpsest included selections and arrangements from Bach’s Musical Offering, Webern’s Bagatelles for String Quartet, and selections from Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano. Inspired by the paintings of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Palimpsest recontextualized these works in a visual performance. The music is continuous and oratorio-like. The audience experiences in one sitting a great breadth of musical travel from period to period and style to style. Each piece was chosen because of its sheer enigmatic and transcendent beauty. The Standing Wave Ensemble was joined by soprano Phoebe MacRae, mezzo-soprano Viviane Houle, violinist Cameron Wilson, violist David Harding, bassist Eric Lee, and Ray Nurse on chitarone. Scenography by Andreas Kahre.
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- Program – if we can see all of it – some pages are blank – there are three versions and I think that between all of them all the pages are there….if it’s a pain to make one version with all three then let’s skip it.
Standing Wave in Concert
Sunday March 20, 2005 at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre
For Standing Wave’s second concert of their 2004-2005 season, the Ensemble premiered new commissioned work by Canadian composers Howard Bashaw (10M-5P-17M) and Greg Newsome (in medias res). The program also included Trio for clarinet, violin and piano by Paul Schoenfield, Adawura by Keith Hamel, an improv duo for cello and percussion and a piece from the ensembles’ extensive repertoire of Canadian and International works.
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Standing Wave in Concert
Sunday October 17, 2004 at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre
For Standing Wave’s first concert of their 2004-2005 season, the Ensemble premiered two new commissioned works, Liquid States by French Canadian Linda Bouchard and reflectere by Vancouverite James Maxwell. Also included in the program was Bradshaw Pack’s palladia, Jeffrey Ryan’s Elemental (Sonata for Violin and Percussion) and Thierry Pécou’s Quelqu’un parle au Tango.
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