upcoming concert / Cd launch

Jennifer Butler who performed at the soundwalk on Sunday is performing at this upcoming event.


INVOCATIONS OF AEOLIUS
CD LAUNCH CONCERT
May 2nd, 2pm
Christ Church Cathedral

Redshift Music presents its final event of the 08/09 season, featuring
the Tempest Flute Ensemble in the acoustic splendour of Christ Church
Cathedral. The musicians, hidden throughout the cathedral's alcoves
and balconies, will envelope the audience with the delicate sound
tapestries of composers Jennifer Butler, Benton Roark, James Maxwell,
Rose Bolton, Christopher Kovarik, Marci Rabe and Jordan Nobles. This
concert officially announces the release of Redshift's second CD,
Different Stones: Canadian Music for Multiple Flutes, featuring
flutist Mark Takeshi McGregor.

Invocations of Aeolius
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
2pm
Christ Church Cathedral
690 Burrard Street, Downtown Vancouver
Tickets $10 (includes CD)

For more information: redshiftsociety@gmail.com
Or visit http://www.redshiftmusic.org/

meanwhile over at the end of the continent

Andrea led a beautiful soundwalk over at the UBC campus on Sunday April 19th.


We met at Green collage started with a bit of rain and came upon the walla-walla of a private function taking place inside the coach house. As we stopped under the glass awning a poet read some lines - and followed the group for a second reading a few moments later as we overlooked the north shore. The two locations strikingly different acoustic qualities were highlighted by the spoken words.

From there the group left the grassy and walked mostly on pavement until we climbed a grassy knoll - at one time a strategic location for the Canadian military, but never put to use. The silence was loaded with what a noisy place it might have been (I would be curious to hear the recollection a soldier who would have been stationed there might share). Especially since it is next to a construction site that wasn't active that day.

I realized it wasn't a very windy day, usually the wind blows in from the Burrard Inlet, but the trees were all quiet. We left the grassy surface to walk on small gravel/pebbles in a open area, as we were guided towards the back of the anthropology museum, a large glass facade with reflective qualities that we played with/ investigated by clanging rocks together.

Andrea led the group away by hitting a low sounding hand drum. We followed an intimate sounding gravel path along the large wooden structure of a long house, a jogger caught up with us and without losing tempo, just barreled through. Meanwhile to our left, amongst the trees, some mountain bikers were rolling down a make shift trail and encouraging each other.

We crossed a street and made our way to the Natobi garden, a landscaped garden that is immersed in the meditative sounds of cars regularly passing by at low speed and sump pumps gurgling and their engines. the group came to a halt and one of the soundwalkers had distanced herself from the group to play sparsly from a flute.
(to be cont.)