This show discusses music-making with Dame Evelyn Glennie. We discuss the nature of musicianship and how it feels to be music-making from the inside. Evelyn reflects on how journeys through sound and music are build around emotional bonds and narratives. She explains the importance of these and how they are communicated to commissioned composers and ensembles. She digs deep into how she perceives the flow of music-making, and how the visual and visceral aspects of percussion (e.g. the vibrating cymbal) becomes material for narrative building.

Dame Evelyn Glennie is the world’s premier solo percussionist. Her solo recordings exceed 40 CDs. A double GRAMMY award winner and BAFTA nominee, Evelyn composes for film, theatre and television. The Evelyn Glennie Podcast was launched in 2020. Evelyn was awarded an OBE in 1993 and has over 100 international awards to date, including the Polar Music Prize, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and the Companion of Honour. Evelyn is Curator for The Evelyn Glennie Collection. Her iconic film Touch the Sound, TED Talk and charity The Evelyn Glennie Foundation embody her life-long mission to Teach the World to Listen.

In the image above Evelyn can be seen to be holding a poster for a play entitled "Playing from the Heart". This was a played created by Polka Theatre for Children in 1998 about Evelyn's early childhood and her journey into music and deafness. For this play Craig Vear was commissioned to write the music and perform on stage as Evelyn's musical persona. Through this run they met, and have continued to remain in touch.

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In this episode, Craig talks with the musician Sandeep Bhagwati. They discuss the philosophical involvement of being inside music-making and the importance of trust. Through a conversation that journey's through Sandeep's early enjoyment of improvisation and exploration through to his recent works, they uncover important elements about what really matters to them when they make music as composers and performers.

Sandeep Bhagwati is a multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist [Studies: Mozarteum Salzburg, Musikhochschule München and IRCAM Paris]. His compositions and comprovisations (including 6 operas) are regularly performed worldwide. He has curated several festivals and long-term inter-traditional projects with Asian musicians. A Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Art at Concordia University since 2006, he also was Professor at Karlsruhe Music University, Composer-in-Residence/Fellow/Guest Professor at IRCAM Paris, ZKM Karlsruhe, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, IEM Graz, CalArts Los Angeles, Heidelberg University, University of Arts Berlin and Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow. At Concordia, he currently directs matralab, a research/creation center for performance arts. His current work centers on comprovisation, inter-traditional aesthetics, gestural&sonic theatre and interactive scores. From 2008 to 2011, he also was the director of Hexagram Concordia. https://matralab.hexagram.ca/people/sandeep-bhagwati/

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This show discusses music-making with Carla Scaletti. We focus on a recent performance and discuss how she forms meaning as a composer, performer and software engineer. For Carla, these are three different dimensions of her creativity, yet at the heart of each is a desire and vision to find the truth of the experience through phenomenon and affect. If it doesn't feel right, or take her on a journey then it is not meaningful.

Carla Scaletti is an experimental composer, designer of the Kyma sound design language and co-founder of Symbolic Sound Corporation. Her compositions always begin with a “what-if” hypothesis and involve live electronics interacting with acoustic sources and environments.

Educated at the University of Illinois (DMA, MCS), she studied composition with Salvatore Martirano, John Melby, Herbert Brün and Scott Wyatt and computer science with Ralph Johnson, one of the Design Patterns “Gang of Four.” She received the Distinguished Alumnae Award for invaluable contributions to the field of music from Texas Tech University where she earned her master’s degree in music and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of New Mexico.

Winner of the 2017 SEAMUS Award “for important contributions to the field of electroacoustic music,” she has been invited to present keynote addresses at the International Conference on Auditory Displays (ICAD2017) and the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2015), and was an invited participant in GVA Sessions 2015 — a workshop involving choreographers, filmmakers, and particle physicists from CERN — and was a regular lecturer at Centre de Crèation Musical Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) when it was still in Paris. Each year, she co-organizes the Kyma International Sound Symposium (KISS).

https://carlascaletti.com/

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