Victoria – On Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. Open Space will be presenting Rosebud: Deprivation Music No.10 at the Church of St. John the Divine (1611 Quadra).  This is the second concert in the two-part series Short Series of Long Forms.

The voices of nine local singers will be brought together to mount Eric Kenneth Malcolm Clark’s haunting and texturally rich work Rosebud: Deprivation Music No. 10.  This work, being his 10^th composition to carry the Deprivation title, challenges the singers to perform without the use of two of the most important tools for musicians: hearing and sight.  Blindfolded singers receive their performance instruction through a recording where as the performers who are able to read the score are deprived of their ability to hear the other performers.  By depriving the singers of these tools, Clark creates a situation where magnificent synchronicities and harmonies emerge unexpectedly.  As the singers perform, sections are recorded and slowly layered on top of one another enriching the harmonies and thickening the texture resulting in a totally immersive sound environment.

This performance of Rosebud will be approximately 3 hours long during which time the audience is invited to move around to explore the sounds from different locations within the space of the Church of St. John the Divine.  Audience members will also be able to come and go as they please in order to be able to fully experience the ever changing textures of this work.

Rosebud: Deprivation Music No. 10 will immerse you in musical textures and vocal harmonies like never before.  Come see and hear what the performers can’t.

Eric Kenneth Malcolm Clark

composer

Accomplished violinist, composer, and improviser Eric KM Clark has performed throughout the world, with the majority of his shows taking place in Los Angeles, Toronto, and New York City.  Originally from Victoria, BC, Mr. Clark first moved to the US in 2004 to study at the California Institute of the Arts with James Tenney.  He worked with many of the world’s most innovative artists and ensembles, including Michael Gordon, Guy Madden, Wadada Leo Smith and the Silver Orchestra, Christian Kesten, Michael Pisaro, and Butch Morris.  Mr. Clark is currently a member of the California E.A.R. Unit (LA), Object Collection (NYC), neithernor (TOR), and the Kadima String Quartet (LA).  His playing has been released on Innova, New World, Tonehole Music, and Sundialtech.

A regular contributor to the new music scenes around North America, Mr. Clark’s compositions have been performed mostly around North America, at venues and festivals such as REDCAT, the Berkshire Fringe Festival, Issue Project Room (for MATA Interval 2.3), the Extensible Electric Guitar Festival, and the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator.  He has written several works that explore Hearing Deprivation, which involves combining earplugs and over-the-head headphones playing back extremely loud white noise to mask a performer’s hearing.  This creates a type of hermetic canon, as all performers are playing the same part and each individual’s unique inner tempo takes over.  Mr. Clark co-founded with composer Michael Winter “the wulf.”, a non-profit experimental performance venue located in downtown LA, that provides free experimental concerts to the general public.

www.erickmclark.com

FMI: Christopher Reiche 
New Music Coordinator 
250.383.8833 
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