Passage of a Smile is inspired by a work of the same name by the French Surrealist painter,
Yves Tanguy. I was struck by the unsettling familiarity of Tanguy's landscape, like staring
at a desert on an alien planet, or somewhere deep underwater. I wanted to evoke that
strangeness in a musical landscape.
This piece is built on a series of 'fake' harmonic spectrums, consisting of imposed intervalic
patterns (eg. 2 perfect fifths, 2 diminished fifths, 2 perfect fourths, 2 major thirds, etc.). These
spectrums come in and out of focus throughout the work.

Passage of a Smile

Cedar Wood (Ontario-based musician Evan Pointner) presents his ongoing solo project Cedarwood Sounds: ethereal sound meditations for deep explorations of consciousness - a lush blend of improvised melodies, loops, drones and field recordings - all recorded & mixed from 2019 to present.

This page is an extension of the Cedarwood Sounds page, which features music from 2018 and earlier:
https://soundcloud.com/cedarwoodsounds

A recurring process with shifting sound sources and modest production.

And sometimes recordings of songs/improvisations by Anna.

Conductor/Composer

Sometimes I'm serious, but most of the time I'm not

Passage of a Smile

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