FSOE episode 3: Katerina Gimon

Episode 3 (April 2, 2021): Katerina Gimon and I talk about composing collaboratively with choirs, aleatoric notation, the kind of music that 5-year-olds write, how myths and archetypes can be an entry point for creating with students, the musicality of cats, and Regina Spektor, among other things...

**Note! You will hear me speculate that Katerina is in her early 30s... but she is actually not yet even 30. CBC even named her a "top 30 under 30" in the Canadian musical landscape.

Fresh Sounds / Open Ears is an interview podcast about composition and music education, hosted by composer Alex Eddington. Every episode, I have a conversation with a different Canadian composer - with a focus on their writing for/with young and amateur musicians.

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LINKS!

www.katerinagimon.com

Music by Katerina Gimon mentioned in the podcast:

• Elements (Earth, Air, Fire and Water)


• All Together We Are Love

Click to watch Mount Royal Kantorei's gorgeous video of All Together We Are Love, made in tribute to the women in healthcare leading Canada through the COVID crisis (an excerpt of their recording plays under the end of this episode).

Find out more about the Sonic Timelapse project - a commissioning consortium organized by Katerina along with Laura Hawley (whom I interviewed in the first episode of this podcast!)

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Other things we talk about quickly that you might want to click on:

• Aleatoric notation - here's an example from Katerina's piece "Fire"


• R. Murray Schafer's graphic scores
  
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CREDITS:

Hosted, edited and produced by Alex Eddington: www.AlexEddington.com

Logo 1.0 design and administrative support by Stephanie Chua.

Theme music by Saman Shahi. Hear more of his work at samanshahimusic.com

Fresh Sounds is presented by the Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects (ACNMP): acnmp.ca