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Progression series River Entering
November 14, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Artists: Helen Hall (composer), Helen Pridmore (soprano), and Sasha French (dancer and choreographer)
River Entering is a solo violin piece with six pre-recorded violin parts. It was composed by Helen Hall of Montreal, who explores an intuitive understanding of music as energy in her varied works for voices, instruments electroacoustics, dance, theatre and film Her music is inspired by natural, acoustic phenomena such as the rhythm of breathing, and the natural frequencies of the earth’s magnetic field. The title refers to the movement of the music, which begins in “structured time” and slowly moves out of it and into a series of shifting harmonic fields. It is informed by a statement by Ibn Sina, a medieval Islamic philosopher who believed music derives its principles from both the science of numbers and the science of nature, or mathematics and physics, and is an intermediary between the two. All the pre-recorded violin parts are performed by Nadia Francavilla. Joining her for this journey are Helen Pridmore and Sasha French who will perform other compositions by Helen Hall.
