Listening Club 01 -- The Shaman Ascending

LC.01_BarryTruax_Shaman Ascending

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Eight digital soundtracks soundscape composition downmixed to binaural (HEADPHONES ONLY) using Dolby ATMOS renderer.

PENDLERDRØM (1997)

June 19th, 2010
Concluding remarks by Prof. Barry Truax (Simon Fraser University)

Recording edit: Juhana Venäläinen

WFAE Koli 2010

Concluding Remarks: Barry Truax

30 November talk from Barry Truax.
https://www.sfu.ca/~truax/
SIML, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Barry Truax Talk and Listening Event, 30 November 2018

With computer graphic images by Theo Goldberg  

The lyrical and sensual imagery of the Old Testament’s Song of Solomon is portrayed in four movements: “Morning,” “Afternoon,” “Evening,” and “Night and Daybreak.” The soundscape is derived from vocal recordings of the text and from other recorded sources: a monk singing with the monastery bells at Santissima Annunziata, near Amelia, Italy, together with cicadas and crickets recorded there by the composer; the dawn chorus in Brittany; a stream and a crackling fire. All these sounds are digitally stretched and harmonized, bringing out their inner voices and colours. The result is a Mediterranean soundscape in which all voices are singing, and the boundaries between the self and the environment are blurred. The voice becomes the environment and the environment sings with its own voice, its refrain of “I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine” accompanied by the Hebrew cantillation melody traditionally associated with the text.

Instrumentation:
for oboe d’amore/english horn, two digital soundtracks, and computer graphic images

Performed by: Lawrence Cherney (oboe).

To learn more about this composer and his work, please visit our SoundMakers website: http://www.SoundMakers.ca/composers/barry-truax

Song of Songs by Barry Truax

The lyrical and sensual imagery of the Old Testament’s Song of Solomon is portrayed in four movements: “Morning,” “Afternoon,” “Evening,” and “Night and Daybreak.” The soundscape is derived from vocal recordings of the text and from other recorded sources: a monk singing with the monastery bells at Santissima Annunziata, near Amelia, Italy, together with cicadas and crickets recorded there by the composer; the dawn chorus in Brittany; a stream and a crackling fire. All these sounds are digitally stretched and harmonized, bringing out their inner voices and colours. The result is a Mediterranean soundscape in which all voices are singing, and the boundaries between the self and the environment are blurred. The voice becomes the environment and the environment sings with its own voice, its refrain of “I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine” accompanied by the Hebrew cantillation melody traditionally associated with the text.

Instrumentation: 
for oboe d’amore/english horn, two digital soundtracks, and computer graphic images. 
Computer graphic images by Theo Goldberg.

Full recording available on our SoundMakers website: http://www.SoundMakers.ca or at http://soundcloud.com/soundstreams/song-of-songs-by-barry-truax


Song of Songs by Barry Truax (Sample 66)

"The Garden of Sonic Delights" invites the listener to enter an imaginary soundscape (one that R. Murray Schafer might describe as a “soniferous garden”) richly filled with sounds that may remind us of the actual sounds of water, wind, insects, animals and birds. Our visit will take us through the afternoon until the next morning, hopefully leaving us delighted and refreshed.

Barry Truax is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication and formerly the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University where he taught courses in acoustic communication and electroacoustic music.Truax’s multi-channel soundscape compositions are frequently featured in concerts and festivals around the world. His music is published on Cambridge Street Records (https://www.sfu.ca/~truax/cdlist.html) and 50 complete stereo versions of his pieces are available on Sonus (https://sonus.ca/artiste/CP-1811/Barry_D_Truax?tri=titre) in recognition of his fifty years composing electroacoustic music.

The Sound Travels Online Album #1 is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2020 edition of the annual Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art. The contents of the album are curated by NAISA from an international call for submissions on the theme "Transformations."

Editions 9 through 14 of the Deep Wireless Compilation of Radio and Transmission Art are available on NAISA's Soundcloud site. Previous compact disc editions (1-8) can be heard online at https://naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/

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Note that Sound Travels Online Album is not available for download. Community and public radio or internet broadcasters should contact NAISA directly for access to the works for airplay. Contact naisa at naisa dot ca for more information.

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