Faking The Books

Moons In My Mirror - H Hawkline

Composed by Christina Campanella and The Great Learning Orchestra

Presented in a gallery with 4-channel sound, the piece is a 45-min electronic score looped 4 times with live interactions performed in real time by the Great Learning Orchestra. 

2019 - Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm

Commissioned by The Great Learning Orchestra for their 20-year anniversary season with funds from Kulturrådet

Artist’s  Note:
Everything you hear in the electronic score was originally played live by the GLO and recorded by me during individual meetings in June 2019. I engaged each player in conversation and asked them to demonstrate their instrument using three musical notes (D, E and G#) as the tonal locus for an improvisation. Each note and musical phrase was conceived without any knowledge of a whole. Over the next 6 months, I composed the piece out of snippets taken from 9-hours of recorded material, compositing them into an interlocking tapestry of music wherein the content dictates the form. I then created a visual rendering of the electronic score—a roadmap for live performance in which players engage in real time with recorded versions of themselves.
-CC

The Great Learning Orchestra is a group of roughly 100 improvising musicians, visual artists and other soundmakers based in Stockholm, Sweden. Inspired by Cornelius Cardew’s Scratch Orchestra and named after his most famous work, the GLO sees ensemble music as an opportunity to perform in a kind of pure present and is fully committed to the philosophy of active listening and improvisation. They work mainly with graphic scores. Many play traditional orchestral instruments, some play amplified or homemade ones, some electronics. Many play professionally, some are teachers, some have returned to music in their retirement. Backgrounds range from classical to free jazz to visual arts and everything in between. The number of participants and what instruments they play is always changing, so these elements in scores created for them must be indeterminate.

All Things From Zero

From the album Glider on Western Vinyl
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Tracked live at Type Foundry recording studio in Portland, OR with Peter Broderick on drums and Dave Depper on bass

Heather Woods Broderick excels at distilling her experiences into a soulful melancholy that's enduring both for it's intimate relatable moments and its persistent sense of mystery. Her uncanny ear for evocative production and gorgeous vocal harmonies serves her well on her new album Glider. Throughout the album, the rich dreamlike atmospheres she creates hint at a darkness looming on the horizon, while the singularity of her ethereal voice always seems to linger long after the music has stopped.

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Heather Woods Broderick - A Call For Distance

Honey

For harp, flute, viola, banjo, and electronics. Recorded by janus trio for their album "I Am Not" (New Amsterdam Records 2011).

Drawings for Meyoko

For electronic gamelan ensemble and string quartet. Performed live at MASS MoCa during  the Bang on a Can Summer Institute 2011.

Bubblegum Grass Peppermint Field

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "I Will Make Room For You (Four Tet Remix)"

Some music I'm composing for a new play ("Sound House", by Stephanie Fleischmann) about one of my lady-sound heroes, Ms. Daphne Oram.

Daphne - Tower Folly 2

We Found Love w/harp - Rihanna Cover

Available now. Stream/buy here: http://smarturl.it/factx8

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CHRISTINA CAMPANELLA is a composer, vocalist, and sound artist with a deep history as a performer in theater, film, and opera. Her “moody, driving music”, “hymn-like songs” (New York Times), and “ethereal voice” (BUST Magazine) are the mainspring of her work across disciplines. Fusing songwriting and music composition with aural design, Campanella weaves ambient textures and a dreamy avant-pop sensibility into cinematic soundscapes and deconstructed art songs.

She has created 3 large scale works for The Great Learning Orchestra (Stockholm) - an improvising orchestra that specializes in concert-installation and premiere performances of graphically notated scores. She is a recipient of Opera America’s Discovery Grant for Female Composers, 3 NYSCA Individual Artist Commissions in Film, Media and New Technologies, a performance grant from Café Royal Cultural Foundation, commissioning from the Swedish Cultural Council, HERE Arts Center and independent curators, funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Anti-Social Music, NY State Music Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New Music USA, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and individual patrons. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Harvestworks, HERE Arts Center, and Whitman College.

Selected works: BETWEEN THE, for “Just Rhodes”, commissioned by Music for Contemplation (2025), TRACES, a soundwalk for Boston Common, created for the International Computer Music Conference (2025), THE VISITATION, an opera for a vanishing world (in-process), THE VISITATION, site-specific sound walk (Jackie Robinson Park), ALL THINGS FROM ZERO (concert-installation for The Great Learning Orchestra, Stockholm), FIND ME (12:1 sound installation, HERE), LIGHTHOUSE 40°N, 73°W (headphone installation, NY Electronic Art Festival), PARTS ARE EXTRA (experimental cinema, Fylkingen), BREATHE (sound installation, Museum at MIT), RED FLY BLUE BOTTLE (music-theater, EMPAC, Noorderzon, HERE) and TINDER (music-theater, EXIT Festival, HERE).

Campanella has performed in downtown theater and independent film since 1997, in works created and/or directed by Richard Foreman, Phil Soltanoff, Theodora Skipitares, Jim Findlay, Mallory Catlett and others, and has played keyboards with various NY bands. She has sung works by composers Kitty Brazelton and Nick Brooke, and regularly performs the operas of composer/sound artist Joe Diebes.

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