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7 Sonatine: III. Scherzo

10 Fagottino: I. Allegro - Rene Duclos

11 Fagottino: II. Lied & Rondo

Interweaving sound, language and image, The Altering Shores is a four-screen video performance with live music. Set in the marshlands and industrial wastelands of our local Delaware River watershed and others worldwide, the experience presents a kaleidoscope of climate futures through fragmented language and multi-layered sounds and images. Participants are guided through this uncertain terrain by lead artist Roderick Coover, poet Nick Montfort, and composer Adam Vidiksis. 

Altering Shores - Headset Track 4C

Binary Orbital Dynamics is a graphic score composition exploring gravitational interaction between two orbiting bodies. Inspired by the physics of orbital mechanics, the piece renders dynamic relationships—proximity, mass disparity, velocity, eccentricity—as abstract visual forms. These images guide the performers in creating sound through interpretation rather than conventional notation. The work may be performed by one or more musicians, with or without electronics. In this version, a fixed audio track—created specifically for this performance and never before heard—acts as a gravitational counterpart, shaping the musical field like a second celestial body. The performers respond to the sonic environment not as accompaniment, but as a force: pulling, resisting, drifting, or converging, depending on the evolving context. Rather than following a fixed tempo or score order, the players navigate the piece as a kind of sonic orbit—interpreting each graphic relationship as a moment of interaction. When performed by two musicians, they may represent distinct bodies (A and B), each with their own trajectory and influence. Binary Orbital Dynamics was commissioned by Bowerbird in Philadelphia for the Arcana New Music Ensemble. Like much of Vidiksis’s work, it explores systems of interaction—between performer and environment, between structure and interpretation—using sound to investigate complex, often invisible forces that shape our experience. 

This track is a live concert recording from the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Rome, Italy, July 2, 2025. 

Binary Orbital Mechanics (Rome.2025.07.02)

A Short Answer
Trio for alto saxophone, cello and piano

Composer: Robert Lemay
Performers: Wind, String, and Hammer (Christopher Curry, saxophone, Conrad Sobieraj, cello, and Nicholas Ma, piano)

Recorded in February 2025 in the Multimedia Media Room (MMR, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building) at McGill University in Montreal. Sound engineer: Rebecca Lee.

A Short Answer

Das Fagott Mannschaft (German for 'the bassoon team') is a quartet of classically trained yet slightly unhinged bassoonists whose creativity cannot be contained by your typical symphony orchestra.

Das Fagott Mannschaft has performed for thousands at Yonge-Dundas Square, appeared at the Northern Lights Festival Boréal, and played to standing-room only crowds at pubs, cabarets and burlesque shows in the Greater Toronto Area.

Their covers of great tunes from today and yesteryear have been entertaining audiences in pubs, cabarets and on street corners since 2011, and prove that the bassoon can rock out as well as any hairspray guitarist or disheveled yet unnaturally mellow drummer.