Predator/Prey and Erin Saoirse Adair curated a mixtape, made up of a broad-range of independent Canadian artists from coast to coast to coast, discovered from within  the ongoing CBC Searchlight competition.  Finding a large group of like-minded artists from every corner of the country, we all connected as like-minded musicians and are working together to promote independent Canadian music .  This loose association of Canadian independent musicians reflects our favourite discoveries from the first round of the ongoing 2014 CBC Searchlight.

Wonderful (Du Bist Wunderbar) - Danniel Oickle

World premiere of my song cycle "White Gloves and Party Manners", recorded May 5, 2014
     Soprano - Katie Rothstein
     Piano - Karen Stoody

Lyrics based on "White Gloves and Party Manners" by Mariabelle Young, used by permission of publisher

1. The Curtsy

2. The Fine Young Art of Conversation

3. Going Places and Doing Things

Music for 6 percussionists encircling the audience, inspired by Jean Tinguely's self-destructing machines. Performed by Studio Percussion graz, Dir. Günter Meinhart.

"What interested me wasn't the mechanical aspect of a machine, but the sudden transition of the mechanical into a living, open situation, which is no longer predictable. This is why there are no repetitions in the piece, although there are cyclic processes. The events, however, are not repeated mechanically; they continually lead to new, unpredictable constellations." (Karlheinz Essl)

Score and more: http://www.essl.at/works/ex-machina.html

Info

ex machina (2002) - for 6 percussionists

Watch our video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGpWTQq9A04

Lamma Bada Yatathanna
Suad Bushnaq and Friends

Suad Bushnaq, recomposition and piano
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Didem Basar, qanoun
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Ali El Farouk, guitar
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Amar Lazam, riq

Sound Engineer 
Stuart Bremner

Mastering Engineer
Wim Bult

Produced by Silk Road Institute Canada
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Recorded live at McGill University Studios
Montreal
©2014

Lamma Bada Yatathanna | لما بدا يتثنى | Suad Bushnaq

I WANT DRUGS

Composed by Donald Yu in 2011
Drinking Alone under the Moon for mezzo-soprano and piano.  Premiere: Mezzo-soprano, Clio Montrey; Pianist, Genevieve Jalbert. Fleurs Rejetées Concert Series. Resonance Café, Montreal, Canada. (November 10th, 2015) 

The poem was written by renowned Chinese poet Li Bai in Tang Dynasty.Generally speaking, the music is characterized by the amalgamation of atonal languages with Chinese colours. I would like to use my personal refined musical language to express my feeling towards the loneliness of the poet.

Li Bai
Drinking Alone under the Moon
Amid the flowers, from a pot of wine
I drink alone beneath the bright moonshine.
I raise my cup to invite the Moon who blends
Her light with my Shadow and we’re three friends.
The Moon does not know how to drink her share;
In vain my Shadow follows me here and there.
Together with them for the time I stay
And make merry before spring’s spent away.
I sing and the Moon lingers to hear my songs;
My Shadow’s a mess while I dance along.
Sober, we three remain cheerful and gay;
Drunken, we part and each may go his way.
Our friendship will outshine all earthly love,
Next time we’ll meet beyond the starts above

Drinking Alone Under the Moon (2011) for mezzo-soprano and piano

SLEEP is a science-fiction chamber opera by Anthony R. Green (music) and Clio Em (libretto) that tells the story of two women – an Organic (human woman) and a Mech(her technological copy) - who look exactly alike. They are stuck in a testing centre dormitory and regard each other during a sleepless night. Each woman sings about how she will defeat the other – the triumph of one will mean the death of her twin|opponent. Sometimes their vocal lines join; sometimes they diverge. Their perspectives mirror each other but have subtle, significant differences. 

This workshop version was put on by Chants libres as part of their Works in progress concerts on March 16 and 17, 2019 at Gesù at Quartier des spectacles, Montréal.

Image by Hali Rey.

Anthony Green/Clio Em - SLEEP - Chants libres workshop version

Ways Of Knowing, Written In The Stars

mezzo-soprano • composer • writer
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Anthony Green/Clio Em - SLEEP - Chants libres workshop version

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