New Musings on New Music

More information can be found on Carmen at her website . You can watch Carmen's videos, including the frozen piano video at her YouTube channel . We keep referring to Acadia University School of Music and the great faculty there.  Norm can't stop talking about Carolyn Shaw , so you should head to her website to listen to her music too!

More information on Dale Sorensen can be found at his website. You can see Dale's multi-trombone videos on YouTube.   During the episode, Dale spoke about Island composers: Jane Naylor - https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?lang=en-CA Rick Covey - https://collections.cmccanada.org/final/Portal/Composer-Showcase.aspx?lang=en-CA Monica Pearce - http://www.monicapearc...

The suddenlyLISTEN website is home to more information on the artists, the complete pieces created during the project, as well as some new combinations and solos we discovered as we complied these recordings! The Seeds Project Live concert will be presented in Halifax, Canada, at 7:30pm, on December 10, 2021 at The Bus Stop Theatre. This concert will feature all twelve Seeds Project artists playin...

The suddenlyLISTEN website is home to more information on the artists, the complete pieces created during the project, as well as some new combinations and solos we discovered as we complied these recordings! The Seeds Project Live concert will be presented in Halifax, at 7:30pm, on December 10, 2021 at The Bus Stop Theatre. This concert will feature all twelve Seeds Project artists playing in thr...

The suddenlyLISTEN website is home to more information on the artists, the complete pieces created during the project, as well as some new combinations and solos we discovered as we complied these recordings! The Seeds Project Live concert will be presented in Halifax, at 7:30pm, on December 10, 2021 at The Bus Stop Theatre. This concert will feature all twelve Seeds Project artists playing in thr...

There is more information on Juliet on her website here There are lots of videos of Juliet speaking, and her compositions on YouTube here There is information on Urbanvessel here Information on the Canadian New Music Network here The CNMN FORUM 2021 can be found here

Norm and Barbara talk about suddenlyLISTEN the producer of NMNM. Their website is found here   They also talk about sL's Facebook page which is here .  Watch for Juliet Palmer in 2 weeks or so!

Find out more about John Beckwith here . Learn about John's teacher Nadia Boulanger here There are two nice articles about John from SOCAN Magazine here And William Littler from The Toronto Star here Search out and listen to some of John's music on Youtube Finally, head to the website of The Canadian Music Centre for information on all the Canadian composers!

Learn more about Jacqueline at her Dalhousie webpage here . Read a couple of Jacqueline's very interesting articles at The Conversation  During the episode Jacqueline references Olivia Rodrigo's " Drivers License " and Tomson Highways's " Kiss of the Fur Queen " Also Jacqueline references Dalhousie alumnus and singer/composer/activist/musicologist Jeremy Dutcher. Learn more about him here   

Learn more about Emily Kennedy at her website here . Learn more about Louis-Charles Dionne at his website here . Learn more about suddenlyLISTEN's Artist in Residence program here .  

Some links you might want to follow, to learn more about Amy, her work and influences: Amy Brandon's website The 21st Century Guitar Conference website The website for Jeffery Zeigler for whom Amy is composing. cello concerto. Amy's composition prof at U of Ottawa: https://johngordonarmstrong.ca/about/ Two guitarists Amy is composing for: https://emma-rush.com/    http://kmwarren.org/ The Acadia U...

Wow we touched on a lot of musical connections during this episode! Check out these links Alex Eddington's website. www. AlexEddington.com Alex's debut album, which came out Feb 19 A Present From a Small Distant World Alex's SoundCloud page The Podcast Alex hosts is Fresh Sounds, Open Ears . Odin String Quartet playing Alex's "gibbons vs Gibbons"   (scroll down a bit)  Toronto Consort - Early Musi...

For more information on Hildegard Westerkamp, visit her website here . See some examples of Hildegard's work on YouTube . In this episode Hildegard speaks about the work of legendary Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer . You can learn more about him here. Hildegard speaks about Vancouver New Music 's sound walk program. There's more information on that here . We also mention Pauline Oliveros. Watc...

For more information on Hildegard Westerkamp visit her website here . See some examples of Hildegards work on YouTube . In this episode Hildegard speaks about the work of legendary Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer . You can learn more about him here. Schafer's World Soundscape Project is also referenced. Find information on that project here . Hildegard spoke about composer Barry Truax . Inform...

For more information on Dinuk Wijeratne visit his website For info on Dinuk's Creativity Consulting work and to download his brochure "Define Your Artistic Voice" visit here . During the episode Dinuk mentioned his teacher John Corigliano. You can learn more about him here Dinuk also mentioned Edward De Bono and his work in creative thinking. Learn more here We spoke about a couple of pieces: Walt...

For more information on D. Andrew Stewart, visit his website and Vimeo Page During the episode Andrew referred to the following: A performance of Working Song and the Last Dead Leftover for Karlax and string quartet. The website of Karlax manufacturer Da Fact . See images and other examples of Karlax work. Articulation by Gyorgy Ligeti, with visual score! Music for Solo Performer by Alvin Lucier....

In this Episode Barbara and Norm bring 2020 to a close with a conversation on what they're up to, their favourite episodes, and what they have learned so far! Stay tuned for new NMNM episodes in 2021. During the episode the work of Francois Houle was referenced. Check out Francois' work at www.francoishoule.ca AND if you'd like to write us and make comments or suggestions for future guests, lease...

Learn more about Helen Pridmore at: www.helenpridmore.ca You can hear some of Helen's performances on Youtube: A Pandemic Opera and excerpts from Helen's Centrediscs release Janet . There's more great listening at Helen's Soundcloud page as well! You can learn more about Helen's work with Regina's Voice Lab here During the podcast Helen referenced the multiPLAY projects, including the regular onli...

Learn more about Gabriel Dharmoo at: gabrieldharmoo.org You can hear some of Gabriel's music at his Soundcloud stream During the episode Gabriel spoke about Anthropologies Imaginaire. There's a trailer video here . He also referenced his new work Portraits, which you can (and should!) watch here You can watch some more of Gabriel's videos here on YouTube  Follow Bijuriya on Instagram      

Learn more about Monica Pearce at www.monicapearce.com You can hear some of Monica's music at Soundcloud Other organizations Monica spoke about during the episode included Toy Piano Composers and Essential Opera Monica has written several articles for Musicwork Magazine . There's lots of good reading there. And check out where McAllen Texas is. It's sunny and 26 C there, right now! https://goo.gl/...

James Rolfe's website: www.jamesrolfe.ca James' music on Soundcloud James' piece "Raw" - performed by Continuum on Youtube During Episode 7 James referenced the Stravinsky Piano Sonata - on Youtube James' teacher John Beckwith - http://individual.utoronto.ca/John_Beckwith/ The Canadian Music Centre, which is a great resource for people curious about Canadian composers and their music - https://cmc...

For more information on Linda Catlin Smith please visit her website. During the talk, Linda reference Faure's Piano Quintet it can be heard on Youtube   Linda mentioned Morton Feldman 's works For Philip Guston and String Quartet #2. They can be heard on Apple Music here and here Norm and Barbara made a concert recording of Linda's piece Ballad which you can listen to on Soundcloud

Learn more about Linda Catlin Smith Listen to Linda's music at Apple Music and go out and buy her CDs! During this episode Linda referenced:  American composer Elliot Carter Canadian composer Rudolph Komorous   American composer Morton Feldman   and Italian painter Giorgio Morandi  We encourage you to dig deeper into the work of these artists! Please note: Our production techniques are still a wor...

Learn more about Daniel at www.danielbartholomewpoyser.com Watch the CBC documentary about Daniel: Disruptor Conductor, here. Daniel also mentioned an article he wrote for Orchestras Canada entitled Perfect Fifth of Diversity. it is here   And he mentioned a book by Brene Brown entitled Rising Strong which can be purchased here  

Listen to some of Simon's collaborative work on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/lady-of-the-lake/1241379807 and  https://music.apple.com/ca/album/oiseaux-exotiques/301190306?i=301190338