Modern music meets historical setting for a unique concert experience taking place in the Roedde House Museum's (1415 Barclay St) authentically furnished Victorian parlour, kicking off the year's concert series collaboration with the Vancouver International-Cultural Orchestra!
Tea and Cookies will be served at the end of the concert.
Ticket holders should arrive no later than 10 minutes before showtime to secure seats.
Seating is limited.
Program Details:
Pulse-Tide is a 50-minute set for basset horn and four-channel playback, curated to unfold as a single, evening-length concert experience. The four pieces expand in scale from a solo basset horn to a septet, gradually enveloping the audience in a shimmering world of acoustic and electronic sound. The program takes its name from Hockley’s album Pulse Tide, released on Aural Terrains and selected by The Wire as one of the Top 10 Modern Composition albums of 2024. This concert version reimagines works from the album for live performance.
The program begins in the jagged landscape of Ana-Maria Avram’s Penumbra, the solo basset horn tracing the spectral language that carries through the program. Through interference beating caused by close dissonances, Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas draws attention to the physical manifestation of sound physically. Thanos Chrysakis’ Egress—written for Liam Hockley in 2017 and receiving its world premiere performance tonight—is a dense, polyphonic piece for five basset horns that exploits the instrument’s extended range and rich multiphonics capabilities.
The cornerstone of the program is Horațiu Rădulescu’s Capricorn’s Nostalgic Crickets, an open-score work for seven identical woodwinds, heard here in a new realization for basset horns and electronics. The piece unfolds as a stream of 96 sound “events” spanning over five octaves of overlapping multiphonics, overtones, voices, and electronics. As each of these sonic events emerges from and returns to silence, the effect of a living, breathing body of sound is created: a hypnotic and trance-like “implacable DEEP CONTINUITY … a PULSE-TIDE of MUSIC and SILENCE.”
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