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 Oil & Water – Thursday, January 26, 2023 @ 8pm, Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, University of Victoria

In this concert I will present four new electroacoustic percussion pieces I composed as the 2022 Ocean Networks Canada artist-in-residence. These pieces explore four different contemporary issues surrounding our oceans. They use various methods to transform data about the oceans into musical features.

Featured in the concert is a newly expanded version of Oil & Water, first composed for the American Geophysical Union 2022 fall meeting. This piece uses the steelpan (which is traditionally made from 55-gallon oil drums) as a lens to examine the relationship between oil and the oceans. You can view the original version below as a preview, but the new version is bigger, longer, more exciting, and features new methods of sonifying oil data.

Another piece I composed for Ocean Networks Canada and the Radio Amnion project is titled Reflection in waves. This hour-long piece features extensively processed steelpan sounds to create a droning soundscape. It was composed for the ocean and originally broadcast over 2 km deep in the Pacific Ocean using a neutrino telescope. When you have some time to dedicate to listening to this, please have a listen below.

This will not be performed as part of ONC AIR concert, but please do come to hear Oil & Water and the other three new pieces. You can find more information about the concert as well as a link to stream it if you cannot attend in person here.