Work-in-progress version of the Phth rendition of Claude Vivier's Love Songs.
Live at Café Résonance - June 27, 2018
Presented by Montreal Contemporary Music Lab / Labo de musique contemporaine de Montréal (LMCML)

Notes du compositeur:
Être mis en scène ou pas
Être senti, non compris
Laissez les sons des autres inspirer les vôtres.
Laissez la musique sortir de vous comme si vous étiez un enfant.
La notation n’est qu’un repère de certains états
ne suivez jamais les signes mais seulement leur esprit.
dans cette partition vous faites ce qui est bien pour vous de faire
et laissez faire le reste par les autres. “Always be in love.”

— Claude Vivier

Composer's Notes:
To be staged or not
To be felt not understood
Let tones from the others inspire your own.
Let the music flow out of you as if you were a kid.
Notation is only a reminder for certain states
never follow the signs but only their spirit.
In this score you do what is appropriate for you to do 
and let the rest to the others. Always be in love!

— Claude Vivier

Photo: Jonathan Goulet

Love Songs (extrait/excerpt), Claude Vivier (1977)

Original version by Sarah Albu and Miles Andrew Albu, performed as a solo by Sarah Albu based on a pocket text sent by Miles Andrew Albu. Arrangement for vocal ensemble by Sarah Albu and Phth.

Live at Café Résonance - June 27, 2018
Presented by Montreal Contemporary Music Lab / Labo de musique contemporaine de Montréal (LMCML)

Expanded Full Cast Butt Dial (a digital emotional embodiment étude), Sarah Albu (arr. Phth)

3 extraits tirées de nos improvisations vocales
3 excerpts from vocal improvisations

Live at Café Résonance - June 27, 2018
Presented by Montreal Contemporary Music Lab / Labo de musique contemporaine de Montréal (LMCML)

Improvisation (3 extraits - 3 excerpts)

“Myself On” is a short composition written specifically for the Phth ensemble in 2019. It unfolds a large palette of musical expressions from a quasi-medieval chant-like exactly written down modal music to an “impromptu” situation, where one of the singers leaves the stage and the others don’t know in advance what they do next and simply follow the instructions on their phones. The composition explores the ways how a singer incorporates new information received on stage and how that merges with and affects the development of the pre-learned musical material. “Myself On” (or alternatively “My Cell Phone”) implies the influence of the smartphones and social media on our daily life as well as on the creative expression.
Performers: Sarah Albu, David Cronkite, Gabriel Dharmoo, Kathy Kennedy, Elizabeth Lima, Andrea Young, Priya Shah and Vahram Sarkissian
photo credit: Pamela Duns

Vahram Sarkissian - Myself On for 8 voices

ensemble vocal experimental. experimental vocal ensemble.
Sarah Albu, Andrea Young, David Cronkite, Gabriel Dharmoo, Kathy Kennedy, Elizabeth Lima, Vahram Sarkissian
(photos: Jonathan Goulet)

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