Sound Travels Performances Composers in Residence Trevor Wishart and Barry Truax will present concerts of their work while mentoring the work of four emerging Canadian sound artists also featured at Sound Travels 2007 (Charlotte Scott, Monica Clorey, Hector Centeno and Tony Leung). Also featured will be performances of new works by Rose Bolton, Randy Raine-Reusch and Mei Han. July 22
SOUNDwalk @ 1pm
THEREMINS with AIM @ 2pm
St. Andrew by-the-Lake church
$15 (includes ferry pass if bought in advance)/$10 Meet us at the clock tower on Centre Island near the ferry dock at 1pm for a SOUNDwalk followed by an AIM collaboration with performers Christine Duncan, James Bailey and Rob Piilonen using theremins, voice and electronics. Aug 10th
SOUNDwalk @ 7pm
BARRY TRUAX in CONCERT @ 8pm
$15 (includes ferry pass if bought in advance)/$10
St. Andrew by-the-Lake church Meet at the clock tower on Centre Island near the ferry dock at 7pm for SOUNDwalk and a site-visit to Synthecycletron.
Note: this evening includes artist commentary and a CD launch  Barry Truax performs a set of solo and collaborative works with multi-instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch combining Asian instruments and electroacoustics (includes world premiere of WAY OF THE SPIRIT by Truax & Raine-Reusch). Also included are world premières of works by Hector Centeno and Tony Leung created under the mentorship of Barry and Trevor Wishart through the Sound Travels emerging artists residency. This concert will also include a CD launch of Barry Truax's latest CD - release just in time for the concert.
August 10th Programme Notes "What is It?"
by Hector Centeno This piece is based on semi-binaural soundscape recordings done at different locations in Toronto which were later selected and processed using spectral processing instruments programmed with Csound. What is it? What is it that makes you and sound one and the same? There is a Zen question (koan) that says: If everything returns to the one, what does the one return to? What is it?... What is it?... "A single goose utters it's call
at the river shore
under the thundering highway." "Eight Phases of the Moon"
by Tony Leung The revolution of the Moon around the Earth makes the Moon appear as if it is changing shape in the sky. This is caused by the different angles from which we see the bright part of the Moon's surface. These are called "phases" of the Moon. The Moon does not generate any light itself; it just reflects the light of the Sun. In Eight phases of the Moon, the listener is surrounded by eight speakers where 4 adjacent speakers are used at any one time. As the piece progresses, the active set of speakers is shifted over one by one, creating a revolution of the sound around the listener. The climax of the piece occurs during the fifth phase – Full Moon. 1. New Moon
2. Waxing Crescent
3. First Quarter
4. Waxing Gibbous
5. Full Moon
6. Waning Gibbous
7. Last Quarter
8. Waning Crescent "Bamboo, Silk and Stone" (1994)
by Barry Truax & Randy Raine-Reusch Bamboo, Silk and Stone is a collaborative work between Barry Truax, who realized the tape part, and Randy Raine-Reusch who performed the source material for the tape (on the Balinese suling gambuh, the Chinese guzheng, the Korean hun or ocarina, gongs and tam-tam) and who composed the live accompaniment which he plays on the first three of those instruments. The tape part is designed to preserve and amplify typical improvisational gestures used by the performer, sometimes stretching them in time to discover their inner complexity. In Chinese philosophy, bamboo, silk and stone are regarded as three natural elements of the world. Bamboo, Silk and Stone is available on the Cambridge Street Records CD Inside. "Temple" (2002)
by Barry Truax Temple is a 16-track soundscape composition composed of choral voices that takes place in the reverberant cathedral of San Bartolomeo, in Busetto, Italy. However, lacking any specific Christian reference, the work can be heard as a spiritual voyage in an imaginary temple whose acoustic properties not only reverberate the choral voices but reflect them back as ghostly after-images that suggest an inner space of vast dimensions.
Original voice recordings by counter-tenor David Garfinkle, alto Sue McGowan, and bass Derrick Christian. The work was mainly realized using Tom Erbe's SoundHack convolution program, with additional material provided by the composer's PODX system which incorporates the DMX-1000 Digital Signal Processor controlled by a PDP Micro-11 computer with software for real-time granular synthesis and signal processing (such as digital resonators) developed by the composer in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. The sounds were recorded on 8-track digital tape and the AudioBox, and mixed in the Sonic Research Studio at SFU. Original impulse response file (of San Bartolomeo Cathedral, in Busetto, Italy) provided by Worldwide Soundspace library, some of which is now available in Peak's "Impulseverb" for OSX. "The Way of the Spirit" (2005-2006)
by Barry Truax & Randy Raine-Reusch For ichigenkin, shakuhachi and eight digital soundtracks, The Way of the Spirit is the result of a collaboration between BarryTruax and Randy Raine-Reusch that explores the interrelationship between the inner and outer worlds of consciousness. All sounds are derived from the two live instruments: the deeply philosophical Japanese one string ichigenkin and shakuhachi end blown flute, both associated with Zen for their expressions of the duality of life and spirit, simplicity and complexity, material and immaterial. The circle of loudspeakers places the listener within the live and digitally enhanced instruments as the dialogue between the two develops in intensity. The Way of the Spirit was premiered at the Sonic Boom Festival in Vancouver in March 2006. The work was realized using material provided by the composer's PODX system which incorporates the DMX-1000 Digital Signal Processor controlled by a PDP Micro-11 computer with software for real-time granular synthesis and signal processing developed by the composer in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, with additional material processed with Tom Erbe's SoundHack convolution program. The sounds were recorded on 8-track digital tape and the AudioBox, and mixed in the Sonic Research Studio at SFU. Original impulse response file provided by Worldwide Soundspace library, some of which is now available in Peak's "Impulseverb" for OSX. "The Shaman Ascending" (2004-2005)
by Barry Truax The Shaman Ascending evokes the imagery of a traditional shaman figure chanting in the quest for spiritual ecstasy. However, in this case, the listener is placed inside of a circle of loudspeakers with the vocal utterances swirling around at high rates of speed and timbral development. The work proceeds in increasing stages of complexity as the shaman ascends towards a higher spiritual state. The work and its title are inspired by a pair of Canadian Inuit sculptures by John Terriak with collectively the same name, as well as Inuit throat singing. All of the vocal material heard in the piece is derived from recording of the Vancouver bass singer Derrick Christian. The Shaman Ascending was commissioned by the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany and premiered there in February 2005. The 8-channel version of this work was created with Richmond Sound Design's AudioBox computer-controlled diffusion system. Aug 11th
SOUNDwalk @ 7pm
TREVOR WISHART in CONCERT @ 8pm
$15 (includes ferry pass if bought in advance)/$10
St. Andrew by-the-Lake church Meet at the clock tower on Centre Island near the ferry dock at 7pm for SOUNDwalk and a site-visit to Synthecycletron. Toronto première of "Angel" by Trevor Wishart commissioned by NAISA will be presented as part of a trilogy of works including "Division of Labour" and "Fabulous Paris" (Note this will be the world premiere of the FABULOUS PARIS trilogy). Also included are world premières of works by Monica Clorey, Charlotte Scott and Rose Bolton created under the mentorship of Trevor and Barry Truax through the Sound Travels emerging artists residency. August 11th Programme Notes "The Path of Least Resistance"
by Charlotte Scott  This piece is an experimental mix between two creative methods that I have hitherto kept seperate in my life as a sound artist: the impressionistic use of raw soundscape recordings and abstract creation using amplified instruments, loops and delay. Charged with the task of reinterpreting the environmental sounds I had used in a radio documentary about acoustic community on Toronto Island, I turned to the tools I had picked up since completing the original piece. I tried to use the island sounds I knew so well as abstract sound sources to loop, delay and layer, while encouraging the original organic soundscape to emerge unscathed from the electronically-induced fray of noises; a slow denouement.
"Firmament of Time"
by Rose Bolton My mother Pamela is a fantasist, visionary and an amateur astronomer. When I was a kid, she would take me to a rocky point in Killbear park (near Parry Sound), and we would gaze deep into the night, observing and identifying shooting stars, planets and constellations. Over a period of 6 years until 1996, she constructed an intricate quilt, applying tiny phosphorescent beads to represent the milky way. A few years later she painted a number of acrylics on canvas about the night sky. One in particular is a visual depiction of a mysterious dream. In response to her art, "Firmament"… is about stars, the unending scope of the universe and the unfathomable dark caverns of our own minds. Mother, this is for you. This project was realized though funding from the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council. I would like to thank the TAC, as well as New Adventures in Sound Art, who commissioned the work. "Obesity"
by Monica Clorey Obesity is an exploration of the sound world of fast food and its larger consequences…it is an experiment in combining the aesthetics of soundscape composition with a popular music twist. The convenience of fast food – quick, cheap, and immediately gratifying – is paired with the easy attractiveness of dance music.  "Fabulous Paris: A Virtual Oratorio"
by Trevor Wishart
includes "Division of Labour," "Angel" and "Fabulous Paris"
This 3-movement, secular oratorio explores our collective and individual experience of the mass industrial society in which we live, through the medium of the human voice. The source material for the first movement, 'The Division of Labor', is based on a text from Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations', describing the division of labour in a Scottish pin factory spoken in a Glaswegian accent. The division of labour is then applied to the voice in a series of variations in the digital domain (e.g. resynthesis of the melodic-contour of the speech, canon-hocketing the time-shrunk syllables, texturing fragments cut from the tails of the syllables, generating 'choral' textures from 'iteration' of groups of material, etc.). In the second movement, 'Angel' a woman remembers some of those inconsequential yet special experiences which define an individual life. The oratoio ends with the voices of Neil Armstrong, President Kennedy, Adolph Hitler and many others in 'Fabulous Paris'. Approaching that exciting yet frightening labyrinth of information and experience which is the modern mega-city, 'Fabulous Paris' is first encountered as the prize destination on an American TV game show, but soon becomes the mysterious city of our dreams, hopes and fears.
THE DIVISION OF LABOUR
15 variations on a theme of Adam Smith with the voice of Alex Gordon “A workman not educated to the business could scarce make one pin a day.
But one man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it,
a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top. The head requires three distinct operations.
To put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins another.
In this manner, making a pin is divided into eighteen distinct operations,
and those persons can make forty-eight thousand pins a day.” Adam Smith : The Wealth of Nations Statement
Imitation
Song without words
Inflation
Hocket
Chorus
Flecks
Word dance I
Compression
Word dance II
Perturbations
Misstatement
Liquidation/Toll
Hubbub
Trace Angel A woman remembers some of those inconsequential yet special experiences which define an individual life. ‘Angel’ forms the 2nd movement of the larger work ‘Fabulous Pars – a virtual oratorio’ which explores our collective and individual experience of the mass industrial society in which we live, through the medium of the human voice. This movement originates in recordings of my aunt, Mary Smith, made by my wife some years earlier as part of a family history project, using a mono cassette recorder. Special processes were used to clean these recordings and isolate my aunt’s voice. The melodic contours of the speech, and the resulting harmonic fields, were extracted and then used to synthesize accompanying materials, to define time-changing filters applied either to the voice or to the synthesis of choir-like textures, to specify the pitch-sequence of accompanying sounds, and so on, using software written for the purpose. A number of other detailed voice transformations are also used. Angel was commissioned by New Adventures in Sound Art, in Toronto 2006. Fabulous Paris It is estimated that, by the year 2010, more than 50% of the world’s population will live in major cities. The piece Fabulous Paris tries to capture that exciting yet frightening flood of information and experience, which is the modern mega-city. In the piece, “Fabulous Paris” is first encountered as the prize destination on an American TV game show, but soon becomes the mysterious city of our dreams, hopes and fears. The piece uses recordings made in many cities - the traffic tunnels of Stockholm, the Paris metro, an amusement park in Kobe…. - traffic announcements on the California freeways (recorded for me by the sound-poet Larry Wendt), voices from American TV adverts and game-shows (recorded whilst working at Allen Strange’s San Jose studio in the early 80s), the voices of astronauts, J. F. Kennedy and Hitler. Fabulous Paris was commissioned by Swedish Radio, Malmö, and by the Birmingham Rumours Festival. Apart from the final post-production mix (Birmingham University Studio), the piece was made entirely at home on an IBM PC using the Composers Desktop Project software, some of which (in particular, filters tuneable to changing harmonies) I developed specially for this piece. TREVOR WISHART, York, April 1997  Aug 12th
SOUNDwalk @ 1pm
New Music for Asian Instruments
Randy Raine-Reush and Mei Han in Concert @ 2pm
$15 (includes ferry pass if bought in advance)/$10
St. Andrew by-the-Lake church
Chinese zheng virtuoso Mei Han and Canadian multi-instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch present a mixed program of New Works for the Chinese zheng and other Asian instruments. The programme includes: "Bamboo, Silk and Stone"
(Truax, Raine-Reusch 1995)
for zheng, hun, suling gambu, and Granular Synthesis. Mei Han: zheng.
One of the first electro-acoustic works for Chinese zheng. "Bamboo Forest…a Stone…Wind Bells"
(Raine-Reusch, 1992)
electroacoustic soundscape with nigenkin: Randy Raine-Reusch
Written for the opening of the Canadian Consulate on Kyushi Japan. Performed by Randy Raine-Reusch. "Tokyo Crows"
(Han, Raine-Reusch, 1999)
Mei Han: zheng, Randy Raine-Reusch: ichigenkin and guanzi. A deeply philosophical work for the extremely rare Japanese one string zither, ichigenkin. "Dragon Dogs"
(Han, Raine-Reusch, 1999) double zheng.
A powerful upbeat work for two zheng that has become almost an international anthem. "Black Zheng"
(Han, Raine-Reusch, 1999) for two bowed zheng.
A dark textural work that explores the wealth of overtones available on the zheng. | 
