Hildegard Remix – arr. Brent Lee & Chris McNamara

Brent Lee is a composer, performer and educator based in Windsor, Ontario. He is currently the co-director of Noiseborder Multimedia Performance Lab at the University of Windsor, and is a member of the Noiseborder Ensemble. Chris McNamara is a Windsor/Detroit/ Ann Arbor-based video artist, writer, DJ, new media instructor, and founding member of Thinkbox (thinkbox.ca).

Hildegard Remix – Brent and Chris collaborated on this remixing of Hildegard’s music, which reflects the monophonic chant style pervasive in the 12th century. Its subtle simplicity is ideally suited to harmonic and timbral elaboration. What you will hear includes fragments of Hildegard’s miracle play Ordo virtutum arranged (remixed?) for a polyphonic chorus and in turn amplified and processed (remixed again) using computer technology.

Text:
O Felix Anima
Virtutes O felix Anima,
et o dulcis creatura dei,
que edi cata es in profunda
altitudine sapientie dei, multum amas.

Translation:
Virtues Oh happy Soul,
oh sweet creature of God,
fashioned in the great height
of the wisdom of God, you show much love.

For More Information Contact: musiccentre.ca/node/79777

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Undivided – Benjamin Martinson (b1987)

Benjamin Martinson (b1987) a native of Alaska, is a graduate student of composition at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Butler University, where he studied composition and voice. He has written for a variety of ensembles and media, spanning from SATB choir to interactive electronics, from baroque ensemble to the iPhone. All of his output is influenced deeply by his experience as a vocalist, his work as a programmer/ designer, and his passion for early and contemporary music. His works have been performed across the United States; in England, Ireland, and China; and at the national MENC and SEAMUS conferences. His groove-making iPhone app, Minimalicious, is available for free download on the App Store.

Undivided was written in 2011 for Vox Musica. As a composer who specializes in choral and electronic music, Benjamin jumped at the opportunity to combine these media, and to work once again with Vox Musica. The goal of the electronic sounds in this piece is to emphasize and enhance what makes the choir essentially choral, rather than contrast or subvert it. The computer brings no new sounds to the piece, but rather processes the sound of the choir in real time. The poetry speaks for itself.

Text:

All is undivided.

We are each a stroke of color,
A single note,
A sun- fleck on the ocean;
A burst of light,
A hanging torrent,
A final breath of wind
Within a single drop of rain.

Imagined by our dreams;
We are sung by our music,

Shaped by our clay,
We exist with our hands;
We give life for life.

We are turned to polished glass
Within the mind still wet with paint.

The real moon is in the lake,
The deepest well behind the eye,
And all is blurred to beauty.

For More Information Contact: www.benjaminmartinson.com

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Stasis – Jordan Nobles (b1969)

Jordan Nobles (b1969), is known for creating music filled with an “unearthly beauty” (Mondomagazine) that makes listeners want to “close (their) eyes and transcend into a cloud of music” (Discorder Magazine). Jordan Nobles has emerged as one of Canada’s finest composers. He is a member of the Canadian League of Composers and an Associate of the Canadian Music Centre. He lives in North Vancouver, BC, with his wife and muse, Kelly, and their son Julian.

Stasis is an open-form work where long tones enter and exit without a fixed plan. Its an exploration of a acoustics and sonic worlds.

For More Information Contact: www.jordannobles.com

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