From our forthcoming album MONDEGREEN
Out March 24th 2014
Available from http://peelerrecords.bandcamp.com/

Quinta - Violin, Piano
Rebecca Waterworth - Cello
Caroline Weeks - Flute
Alice Eldridge - Cello

Spell

Written for the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival 2014 
at MASS MoCA, conducted by Brad Lubman and played by Bang on a Can Fellows

Ascension

Ken Thomson, clarinet
Emileigh Vandiver, cello
Stuart Fisher, electric guitar
Jeff Kolega, percussion
Jani Parsons, piano/synthesizer
Tristan Kasten-Krause, double bass

Cirrus (live, Bang On A Can Summer Festival @ Mass MoCA, 2014)

Knotted Silk

A demo in one take. 

voice - Charlotte Mundy
guitar - Jordan Dodson

composed by Charlotte Mundy.

Inspired by the art of Alberto Burri. Text by Duncan McFarlane.
Commissioned with the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council.

Thin Edge New Music Collective, 2016
Stacie Dunlop, soprano
Ilana Waniuk, violin
Dobrochna Zubek, cello
Nathan Petitpas, percussion

'Strange Flesh' responds to the art of Alberto Burri, whose sculpture-paintings drew on his experience as a doctor and WWII POW, witness to so many injuries to so much flesh. His canvas becomes skin – sewn, burned, scarred, webbed with melted plastic, gaping in strange vacuoles. In his art, wounds are both fresh, and glimpsed long afterwards; they linger, sutured and bruised. Even the necessary injuries of modern surgery hold terror in their very deliberateness. Even at its most refined, any intrusion on skin is ultimately unnatural, strange. Skin becomes flesh, and then meat, and injured it has an electric hypersensitivity to touch.

'Strange Flesh' falls in two large sections which repeat. Enmeshed in a sonic skin, the singer offers a ghostly narrative of implied violence that also hints at the cycle of the earth’s skin (ashes to ashes, dust to dust: Burri’s last paintings evoke the parched skin of dried mud, cracked, wrinkled, waiting for rain). The singer slowly sheds her agitation; each half of the piece concludes with a gentle C major lullaby – sound that soothes.

Strange Flesh (for soprano, violin, cello, and percussion)

These Fragile Snowflakes is a piece for SATB choir and piano. It is based on the poem "Poetry on Lake Simcoe" by Desi Di Nardo, and was commissioned and premiered by Jubilate Singers of Toronto ON in May 2014. It was the winner of the 2015 U of T Choral Composition Competition.

This recording is sung by the MacMillan Singers on December 6, 2015 in MacMillan Theatre, Toronto ON.

Lara Dodds-Eden, piano. Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor.

These Fragile Snowflakes (MacMillan Singers)

Euphrosine's aria from Star-Shaped Biscuit, a semi-improvised opera conceived by David Toop.

Euphrosine's Aria from Star-Shaped Biscuit, a semi-improvised opera conceived by David Toop.

Composed for and performed by Quartet New Generation - recorder collective 
Susanne Fröhlich, Andrea Guttmann, Heide Schwarz und Petra Wurz (recorders)

Airlines for recorders/four perfromers

Composer-in-residence @ the Canadian Opera Company (2022-)
Composer-in-residence @ Glyndebourne (2019-22)

Photo: Daniel Alexander Denino

Strange Flesh (for soprano, violin, cello, and percussion)

Cecilia Livingston

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