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Hear It NOW! 2008

November 7, 2008 - 8:00PM at the Roundhouse
MUSIC
Set 1
Un Morceau de la paix du pays (Coat Cooke)
Train pour Nuremberg (Jean Derome)
teatro dell'udito IV (Giorgio Magnanensi)
Intermission
Set 2
Le Jeu des Formes (Jean Derome)
Pola (Coat Cooke)
Calypso (Jean Derome)
Spectacles (Jean Derome)
Thorsburger (Cooke)

ARTISTS
Special Guests
Jean Derome/saxophone
Giorgio Magnanensi/electronics
Steven Wright/electronics

NOW Orchestra
Tommy Babin/bass
Skye Brooks/drums
JP Carter/trumpet+electronics
Coat Cooke/saxophone
Chad MacQuarrie/guitar
Brad Muirhead/trombone

Production Team
Allyson McGrane/administrative director
Chris May/production manager
Marta Baranowska/outreach intern
Dave Chokroun/stage manager

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR FUNDERS
Canada Council for the Arts
BC Arts Council
City of Vancouver

BC Gaming Direct Access Program
The Hamber Foundation

www.noworchestra.com

GIORGIO l\tIAGNANENSl's notes for teatro dell'udito IV
for 2 saxophones (flute and objects), electric guitar, trumpet, trombone,
double bass, percussion, drums, live electronics and buddha machines
teatro dell 'udito JV has been written on request of the NOW Orchestra with the
assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and it is dedicated to Coat Cooke
and to the NOW Orchestra.
Musical communication only exists on a purely emotional level.

I use the technique of collage and assemblage of heterogeneous forms with a
programmatic character. The fragmented nature of these events underlines their
character of work in progress: a sort of tale without beginning and ending, a
permeable space declaring its non-obstruction to the diverse voices and
soundscapes. Fragments of forms where the form of material is at the same time
material of form, movement, direction, lines and points where bodies sing within
the silence, in the resounding space of its inner music and unveil the secret of a
sound alchemy re-uniting physical and mechanical beyond the will of expression.
Emotionality is immanent,

Working with sound gives me a potentially limitless space which belongs wholly
neither to the sound nor to the imagination but it is dependent on both; a space
where both may lose something - a place for things just to be and become as they
are, ... panels, mirrors, forms ...
Expression is definitely linked to the instant,

. . . bounded activities (composition of a module) in an unbounded process,
opposed to any teleological or assertive approach. A potential infinite interaction
in perceiving and sensing gives no specific condition for combining the elements .
of this work. An open modular framework lives in its own chronological
structure which has itself no condition other than being, offering itself as a gift,
here and now - immediate.
Instant is unpredictably transcendent.

Giorgio Magnanensi - Born and raised in Italy, Giorgio Magnanensi currently
lives in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast. His diverse artistic practice
includes composition, conducting, improvisation, circuit-bending and video art.
From the early 80's to date he has been working as a composer, conductor,
teacher, and performer in Europe, Japan and Canada. He is artistic director of
Vancouver New Music and lecturer at UBC and Vancouver Community College.