New Music America: The Secret History of Music of the Eighties

le 1er novembre 1990: new music america montréal musiques actuelles day/jour 2 // nma birthday anna homler

Robin Minard ● MacLaughlin & MacIntyre ● Marta Marta Dance ● Acousmonium ● Orch Mét de Montréal ● Linda Bouchard ● Brian Cherney ● Denis Gougeon ● John Adams ● Bourassa et Deschênes ● Loren Mazzacane

Nov 01, 2023

photo by Nixson Barah taken from https://liquidarchitecture.org.au/artists/anna-homler for her NZ-Australia appearances in 2018

Anna Homler only has one New Music America appearance and that was as part of David Moss’s quintet of vocalists, Direct Sound. It was there where I got to meet her and thanks to that chance encounter, she turned out to be one of the only people I knew when traveling to France to take part in the Musique/Action festival of 1995, where she was performing.

So I got to see the full performance (more on that on the November 7 post) sort of like Romeo looking down upon Juliet but in a less tragic way, and we’re both lucky that we can hear her solo The Physician from a CBC broadcast radio capture:

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We’re also lucky that there exists a recording of Direct Sound with a different quintet formation, but which includes a different version of The Physician as well as two other of Anna’s tracks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Homler

And here in a duet with David Moss:

happy birthday, anna! for more, go here: annahomler.com

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le premier novembre - mma1990nma

Robin Minard launching of Le Système d’écoute installation

Lola MacLaughlin and David MacIntyre with Forbes MacKay and Lori Freedman "Theme for Nino", "Smurge" for music and dance

Marta Marta Danse with Pierre Tanguay "Rythmes du dedans" for music and dance

At the Acousmonium, Les Loges live audience, tape works (3 sessions)

Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal

Linda Bouchard: "Élan"

Brian Cherney: "Transfiguration"

Denis Gougeon: "A l'aventure!"

John Adams: "Fearful Symmetries"

Renée Bourassa avec Marcelle Deschenes "Ludi: Opéra Médiatique"

Loren Mazzacane with Suzanne Langille and Brian Johnson "Rooms"

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Robin Minard Le Système d’écoute installation launch

~♪ Robin Minard, Jean Lesage with clips - SRC Radio Montréal (en français)

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Lola MacLaughlin and David MacIntyre with Forbes MacKay and Lori Freedman "Theme for Nino""Smurge" for music and dance

Marta Marta Danse with Pierre Tanguay "Rythmes du dedans" for music and dance

...collaboration sur scène entre la danseuse et la clarinettist basse. Les déplacements de la musicienne nous ont parfois semblé inutiles parce que gratuits.

- Chantale Soucy, "Les spectacles de danse", Circuit, vol. 1 no. 2, 1991

- Jeff Buttle, Discorder (Vancouver)

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At the Acousmonium, Les Loges live audience, tape works - they’re all detailed in a separate substack posted today

Roxanne Turcotte "Amore"; Maggi Payne "Phase Transitions"; Sergio Barroso "Canzona"; Serge Arcuri "Murmures"; Paul Koonce "Eroica"; Francis Dhomont "Chroniques de la Lumiere"; Kevin Jones "Imaginary Portrait No. 1"; Claude Lassonde "Sentes aux abimes des sens"; Charles Amirkhanian "Im Fruhling"; Stephane Roy "Incursions nocturne"; Paul Dolden "Dancing on the Walls of Jericho"

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Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal, Walter Boudreau

Linda Bouchard: "Élan"

Brian Cherney: "Transfiguration"

Denis Gougeon: "A l'aventure!"

John Adams: "Fearful Symmetries"

Linda Bouchard: Élan

Studio version with Walter Boudreau and l’Orchestre Métropolitain:

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Brian Cherney Transfiguration

Same recording as above, Cherney track:

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Denis Gougeon À l’aventure!

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John Adams Fearful Symmetries

Orchestra of St. Lukes’ version (there are several out there…)

- Sophie Galaise, "Les concerts de musique 'sérieuse' et quelques autres" Circuit vol. 1 no. 2 1991

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Renée Bourassa avec Marcelle Deschênes "Ludi: Opéra Médiatique"

There is no recording of a finished Ludi (this was described as a opera in progress) but the work Lux which was featured in the press clippings has appeared on a 2006 recording and it was the work by Deschênes which preceded this one.

program notes: