This is a piece I did for an ambient compilation on Hypnos (Portland Oregon)




An Unheard Message

Dream Sequence I (Title TBA)

Dream Sequence II (Title TBA)

This is the second in the London Nanosessions. First is Shoreditch Distant Memory

Rose Petal

Stereo version of an eight channel piece


The Crown of the Bell

Internal Time Span

New Viola Sketch01

This is part of a series of tracks designed for headphones.... although it works on speakers too. 
It is about memory and place. 

Place, Time, Space

Choir, strings and electronics
composed in 2016

Birth Of Sorrow (from Song of Extinction)

electronics and bells. 
from Song of Extinction (2016)

The Calf (from Song of Extinction)

Poetry/lyrics by Don McKay, music by Rose Bolton

June 22, 2016

Where Are We To? (from Song of Extinction)

Premiere date: Feb. 5, 2016
Edwin Outwater, conductor
Rose Bolton, laptop and 8 speaker electronics
Permission to post granted by the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony

Transported

Transported (orchestra version)

For Piano with delay effects and ambient electronics

Firewall

Firewall (2017)

Piano, multiple channel electronics and delay effects

Eve Egoyan, piano
Rose Bolton, laptop

Premiered at the Canadian Music Centre, April 6, 2017

...first attempt at a remix, but it is more of a re-work. 
Ambient downtempo experimental

Beck&Gainsbourg Paradisco (Redsheep remix)

Hope for the Future

Buzz

Commissioned by New Adventures in Sound Art, to be listened to through headphones. 
Also part of an installation that includes video. 
http://www.naisa.ca/soundtravels/

Kew Beach

Kitchener Waterloo Symphony
Edwin Outwater, conductor

The entire piece is 10'30", in three movements
Excerpt is from the third movement

A Day of Infinite Time (excerpt)

Originally for 8 speakers, surrounding the audience, and piano. Some of the piano sound also came through the speakers, and the sounds drifted slowly around the audience. 
John Kameel Farah: pianist at the premiere performance.
New Adventures in Sound Art, Sound Travels festival.

Firmament of Time

Time Eternal

This is a version of a documentary soundtrack I am doing. I come from more of a composing background then producer... so it is a bit of a work in progress for me. Thanks for listening and any feedback would be welcome :)

Inner Child

This was originally to be the beginning of a longer piece, which I did not end up writing so it remains as a vocal sketch.

Mind, Soul, Psyche

Shoreditch Distant Memory

Bells

Premiere recording by Continuum Contemporary Music
February 10, 2013, Toronto

Transported Premiere

Rose Bolton, Sonic Landscapist

New album available on cassette and digital: Important Records: Cassauna
https://importantrecords.com/products/rose-bolton-the-lost-clock

https://cassauna.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-clock

Rose Bolton is one of Canada’s most innovative and multi-faceted composers. She has been creating full-length film scores for broadcasters such as CBC, TVO, Arte and Super Channel for over a decade. She also has a thriving compositional practice creating electronic and instrumental music for innovative multimedia projects, as well as for concert performers. These concert compositions include major works such as Song of Extinction, a 45 minute work for Toronto’s Luminato festival and created in collaboration with filmmaker Marc de Guerre and Griffin Award winning poet Don McKay. Other recent concert and electronic works include a piece for the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony with ambient electronics, and a sound and video installation at the Canadian Music Centre for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche. Her concert music has been performed across Canada by Canada’s leading ensembles, including the Vancouver Symphony, the Esprit Orchestra. Rose Bolton has a Masters degree in composition from McGill University.

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