'A Cellist on the Skytrain' was composed in 2004, while I was an undergraduate student at Simon Fraser University (in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada).  Being a music student, and a cellist, I would often have to lug my cello with me up to school, a journey which involved two bus connections and a skytrain.  I have always been fascinated with the musicality of Metro Vancouver’s skytrains—the audible glissandi, the harmonic overtones, and the rhythmic motion of the trains were all things I could relate to as a string player.  The piece is simply a field recording taken of one such journey to school, with a superimposed cello counterpoint.

A Cellist on the Skytrain

Elizabeth Knudson is an internationally award-winning composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal & electroacoustic music, and an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre.  

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