THE BEDROOM (2013, world premiere)
postcard score piece using Vincent Van Gogh's painting 'The Bedroom, 1888'. The different colour surfaces suggest different pitches to be played freely in any direction. 

NEGATIVE ZED: PING! 
an evening of postcards pieces, ringtones from across the globe 
Pyatt Hall, Vancouver, BC - CANADA 
10 AUG 2014 


NEGATIVE ZED: 
Mark McGregor, flute 
Marguerite Witvoet, piano/voice 
Colin MacDonald, saxophones 
Karen Gerbrecht, violin 
Adrian Verdejo, guitar 
Doug Gorkoff, cello 
Martin Fisk, percussion 
Mark Haney - doublebass

THE BEDROOM

maybe i'll delete it soon, idk
old man
guitar TomBaileyMusic

tears for fears

The moral life, Marie Howe says, is lived out in what we say as much as what we do. She became known for her poetry collection What the Living Do, about her brother’s death at 28 from AIDS. Now she has a new book, Magdalene. Poetry is her exuberant and open-hearted way into the words and the silences we live by. She works and plays with a Catholic upbringing, the universal drama of family, the ordinary rituals that sustain us — and how language, again and again, has a power to save us.

On Being with Krista Tippett 

Marie Howe — The Power of Words to Save Us

lyrics:
Matthew Yeager: http://sixthfinch.com/yeager2.html
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Borusiade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyPlyrSwWSo

A. Copland - Night Thoughts

This audio walk explores the history and aesthetics of gay sex cruising in city parks, making a number of arguments about the links between gay men and trees, unpacking the etymology of the word faggot, proposing the bassoon as the voice of arboreal homosexuality, and asking the listener to tune in to the temporal modes of arboreal life. A shuffling collection of choreographic cues, based on the gestural and affective dimensions of cruising, guide the listener on a search not for another human, but for a tree who might be their lover. The cues are programmed so that each user has a different experience of the piece, and is led on a different path.  https://lux.org.uk/trees-are-fags

Trees Are Fags

In collaboration with Jannick Oeben http://www.jannickoeben.nl/

Based on a drawing by Michiel Ragnar Nonnekes: http://michielragnar.nl/2011/11/28/p-17/

Part of a series of soundtracks for still images, this sound was put together during Jannick Oeben's "Instant Composition Project", and it involved improvisation as well as some heavy-duty sample editing.

Staring Sound 3

Benny Nemer is a Montreal-born artist and diarist based in Paris. His artistic work mediates emotional encounters with musical, art historical and Queer cultural material, encouraging deep listening and empathic viewing. In his work you will find bells, bouquets, ceramic vases, enchanted forests, folding screens, gay elders, glitter, gold leaf, love letters, imaginary paintings, madrigals, megaphones, mirrors, naked men, sex-changing flowers, sign language, subtitles, and the voices of birds, boy sopranos, contraltos, countertenors, and sirens. Nemerofsky’s work has been exhibited internationally, and is part of the permanent collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, the Polin Museum for the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Thielska Galleriet Stockholm and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

Trees Are Fags

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