Opening Reception-Portraits of Sound

Monday, October 19th, 2009, 7:00 pm

This Fall, the Canadian Music Centre Atlantic Region and the Owens Art Gallery, 61 York Street, are teaming up to give their answer to this question with Portraits of Sound, an exhibition and full program of events that runs from 19 October through to 4 December.

Portraits of Sound takes place in honour of the twentieth anniversary of the Canadian Music Centre’s Atlantic Regional office, located in Sackville, New Brunswick. Situated on the Mount Allison University campus, the office operates a lending library of Canadian musical scores, serves the needs of its 33 Associate Composers, and works with other arts organizations in the Atlantic Region to promote Canadian composers and their music.

In celebration of the work of these Canadian composers, the exhibition at the Owens Art Gallery will showcase scores, journals, and other ephemera documenting the creative process of composing music. Included in the program is a schedule of performances of music written by composers in Atlantic Canada and performed by various groups from the region, as well as installations such as W.L. Altman’s interactive piece, Body Dislocate, and Gordon Monahan’s Radio Theremin Piece, a work that uses as its material a live radio feed streamed through a theremin antenna.

Portraits of Sound promises to be a unique and dynamic meeting of musical and visual creative activity. The public is invited to experience its exhibitions and events free of charge. The opening reception for the exhibition will be on Monday, 16 October at 7PM. For a full program, contact the Owens Art Gallery at 364-2574.