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Fri. January 15th 2016 Royal British Columbia Museum Victoria BC $22.50-$25

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Music for Natural History: Tina Pearson, George Tzanetakis, Paul Walde, Joanna Hood, Ajtony Csaba, Nathan Friedman, John G Boehme, Julio Lopezhiler, Rachael Wadham, Chris Tooley, Tancha Dirickson, AJ Carson, Geraldine Bulosan, Claire le Nobel, Janet Sit, Alisa Gordaneer

Part tragic love song for the wilderness, part experimental sound art, Music for...
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Fri. January 15th 2016 + Add to Calendar Royal British Columbia Museum (All Ages)
7:00pm - 8:30pm  Doors at: 6:30pm $22.50 / $25

Artists

Tina Pearson
'new music'/ improvisation/world from Victoria BC
Available for Shows/Gigs
George Tzanetakis
Paul Walde
from Sault Ste Marie, ON
Joanna Hood
Classical from Victoria BC
Available for Shows/Gigs
Ajtony Csaba
Nathan Friedman
John G Boehme
Julio Lopezhiler
Rachael Wadham
Chris Tooley
Tancha Dirickson
Arlene Carson
jazz--all styles; fusion from Victoria BC
Unknown
Geraldine Bulosan
Claire le Nobel
Unknown
Janet Sit
Alisa Gordaneer

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Royal British Columbia Museum
Stories, nature, history, and culture.
Open / Operational
LaSaM Music
LaSaM Music has been creating and producing adventurous musi...
1734 Ashdale Place Victoria BC
Open / Operational

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Physical tickets at: Royal British Columbia Museum

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Part tragic love song for the wilderness, part experimental sound art, Music for Natural History is a live performance that gives voice to the taxidermied birds and mammals, human-made trees and painted landscapes that form the exhibitions in the Natural History Gallery of the Royal BC Museum in Victoria.

Through careful cataloging, research and transcription, sound artists Tina Pearson and Paul Walde have created scores from sounds of the flora and fauna represented in the Gallery’s dioramas. Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, and produced by LaSaM Music, the result will be performed at the Museum January 15 and 16, 2016. The event features 16 local musicians and community members who have participated in listening and sound making workshops designed to connect with the biosphere from the inside out. They also have worked with the composers to use instruments, objects and voices in unusual ways to produce a living soundscape representing the dioramas.

With the Museum’s pre-recorded audio silenced for the evening, audiences will take an alternate sound-focused journey through the exhibition spaces.

Beginning with an audio prelude in the pre-history of the darkened Woolly Mammoth’s ice cave, their path will take them to a sonically animated dawn within the Forest Exhibition. It might seem, at first, that they are hearing a field recording. However, they will actually be in the midst of a live acoustic interpretation of the sounds of the flora and fauna represented in the Forest exhibition. Sixteen vocalists, sound artists and music instrumentalists, who have spent weeks learning to replicate the sounds of wind, birds, mammals and rain, will present the sonic story of an imagined day through a dry coastal forest and continuing to a rainforest stream as they reveal, in performed sound, detailed interactions of the displayed life forms.

Once the audience arrives in the Seashore exhibition, the performers will bring to life the dynamic sounds of ocean surf and the alternately cacophonic, dramatic and serene voices of Pacific coast sea lions, cormorants and other mammals and shoreline creatures. Finally, the audience will be led through the Delta estuary display accompanied by an audio collage of bird song blended with increasing layers of human soundscape.

Music for Natural History blurs boundaries between sonic mimicry, soundscape composition, classical music, and dada-ist sound poetry within the already paradoxical setting of the Museum’s exhibitions. In its aural animation of these surrogates for the natural world, it is at times corporeal, tragic, poignant, alluring, and even humorous. At its heart, however, this sonic artwork reminds us that nearby environments that were once teeming with the complex array of sounds made by millions of creatures sensing and interacting with each other, with plants and trees and with the shifting sonic patterns of wind, rain, snow and heat, are rapidly being silenced by loss of habitat and species as they become overwhelmed by human-made sound.

Recognizing that human ancestral responses are deeply woven into a sophisticated sonic engagement with such dynamic soundscapes, Music for Natural History might also be interpreted as a longing for remembering what we no longer hear, and what we no longer sing.

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Royal British Columbia Museum
675 Belleville Street
Multi-Purpose / Hall
Accessible
Open / Operational

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Music for Natural History: Tina Pearson, George Tzanetakis, Paul Walde, Joanna Hood, Ajtony Csaba, Nathan Friedman, John G Boehme, Julio Lopezhiler, Rachael Wadham, Chris Tooley, Tancha Dirickson, AJ Carson, Geraldine Bulosan, Claire le Nobel, Janet Sit, Alisa Gordaneer @ Royal British Columbia Museum Jan 15 2016 - Dec 20th @ Royal British Columbia Museum

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