Sonic Topographies – Sound, music and sustainability

October 16 – 19, 2014
Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour Street, 2nd floor, Vancouver) and Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), University of British Columbia (2260 West Mall, Vancouver)
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Composers and sound artists all over the world are turning their ears to the music of the earth and its people to reconsider what artistic creation really means in a context that fosters sustainable ideas about creativity, culture, and tradition. The festival will showcase musicians and sound artists who are fostering new, sound-based exploration of ideas that emerge from natural, interlocking cycles and alternative systems of thought.

Thursday, October 16, 2014; 8PM
Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour Street, 2nd floor, Vancouver)
Single tickets $35 regular, $15 students (includes taxes and venue surcharges); available at brownpapertickets.com and 1.800.838.3006
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Akio Suzuki (Japan), solo performance
Annea Lockwood (New Zealand), Jitterbug
Hildegard Westerkamp (Vancouver), Liebes-Lied/Love Song
John Luther Adams (Alaska), Ilimaq; featuring Scott Deal (US), percussion.

Friday, October 17, 2014; 8PM
Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour Street, 2nd floor, Vancouver)
Single tickets $35 regular, $15 students (includes taxes and venue surcharges); available at brownpapertickets.com and 1.800.838.3006
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Raven Chacon (New Mexico), solo performance
John Luther Adams (Alaska), The Light Within; featuring ETHOS Collective (Vancouver)
Georg Friedrich Haas (Austria), Sextet; featuring ETHOS Collective (Vancouver)
Hildegard Westerkamp (Vancouver), Like a Memory
Tristan Murail (France), Territoires de l’oubli

Saturday, October 18, 2014; 8PM
Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour Street, 2nd floor, Vancouver)
Single tickets $35 regular, $15 students (includes taxes and venue surcharges); available at brownpapertickets.com and 1.800.838.3006
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Leslie García (Mexico), solo performance
John Luther Adams (Alaska), Four Thousand Holes; featuring Scott Deal (US), percussion and William Fried (US), piano.
Hildegard Westerkamp (Vancouver), Fantasie for Horns II
Annea Lockwood (New Zealand), Dusk and Buoyant

Sunday, October 19, 2014; 3PM – note early concert!
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), University of British Columbia (2260 West Mall, Vancouver)
Single tickets $35 regular, $15 students (includes taxes and venue surcharges); available at brownpapertickets.com and 1.800.838.3006
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Michael O’Neill (Vancouver), new work*
John Luther Adams (Alaska), Songbirdsongs
Annea Lockwood (New Zealand), Floating World
Hildegard Westerkamp (Vancouver), École Polytechnique
* World premiere, commissioned by Vancouver New Music with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts.