Bandcamp – Experimental Music Unit
AUDIO
LAND SEA SKY composed during the winter of 2020 – 2021 when the Experimental Music Unit was playing together remotely through networked platforms, but longing to mingle our sounds together outdoors. The score was imagined for playing at so-named Finnerty Cove, a rocky outcropping on the East shore of lək̓ʷəŋən [Lekwungen] territory on the Salish Sea, and reflects our shifting practices in consideration of isolation and connection; our relations with the place where we live and play; and a reframing of how our sounds are brought into an audio production.
Dawn In Glass (2018) Four large glass vessels approximating multiples of the most prominent pitches of a dawn bird chorus heard in Western Europe. Recorded with contact microphones, stretched and mixed, otherwise not processed. For an audio installation at Dart Hill Gardens in Surrey BC April 27-29, 2018. Commissioned by artist Don Li-Leger.
Botanical Lament, from Root, Blood, Fractal, Breath (2017) Recorded on a single roving video camera microphone by Alison Gray, at Allan Gardens during a workshop performance of “Root, Blood, Fractal, Breath”, a full length work created for and with the Contact ensemble for performance at the Allen Gardens Conservatory in Toronto. Performed by Wallace Halladay, saxophone; Bryan Holt, cello; Alex Kotyk, bass; Rob MacDonald, guitar; Jerry Pergolesi, percussion & trumpet; Allison Benstead Wiebe, autoharp; and Tina Pearson, flute/voice.
Glacial Shift from Duos – Tina Pearson (flute) and Randy Raine-Reusch (bowed zheng) Raine-Reusch and Pearson meet in a deep time-space listening room, separated geographically, connected by networked technologies, listening to what might be present in a telematic connection. Recorded separately, mixed and edited by Raine-Reusch.
Music For Natural History Music For Natural History (by Tina Pearson and Paul Walde, 2012-2016) is a multi-media installation and live sound performance work that literally gives voice to the taxidermied birds and mammals, artificial trees and painted landscapes that form the dioramas of the Natural History Gallery at the Royal BC Museum (RBCM) in Victoria BC. This clip is a condensed 4’15” trailer of a 40 – 60 minute work. All sounds are made by human performers on acoustic instruments and voices.
High Prime Sines Fluttering (2015) Excerpt from audio tests for the installation “This Is For You ohrenhoch Berlin”, designed for stereo or multiple speakers playing a set of sine tones blended to create shifting beating frequencies – the shimmering effect that occurs when two or more tones of close frequency are sounded together. The tones in this sample are tuned to frequencies near or above the typical upper threshold of human perception . Not typically perceived singularly, these frequencies will produce lower beating frequencies that fall within human audio perception range when combined.
Hunt (3) Chanterelles (2013) For mixed ensemble of 3 or more sustain instruments + field recordings. From disc “Music for Mycologists” by Experimental Music Unit, performed by Tina Pearson (flute, voice), George Tzanetakis (bass clarinet), Paul Walde (bass guitar).
Measure for a Mayfly Using listening exercises, a soundwalk and relational games referencing animal and bird behaviour the composition gives participants a glimpse into a world where humans embody a perpetually acute, alive and nuanced awareness of listening and sounding. This recording is from the last 3 minutes of a performance in a forested area during the 2013 Electric Eclectics Festival in Meaford, Ontario. Performer-participants include Gayle Young, Andrew Timar, Julia White, Miguel Frasconi, Bob Gill and others. Recording by Ido Govrin.
Voicing the Widow Jane Mine Composer: Tina Pearson. Vocalists: Viv Corringham, Lisa B Kelly, Tina Pearson. Audio Engineer and recording: Matthew Cullen. Videographer and Assistance: Casey Frensz. Recorded inside the Widow Jane Mine in Rosendale, New York, July 23, 2013 during Tina Pearson’s residency at the Deep Listening Institute with Pauline Oliveros and Ione, Kingston, New York.
VIDEO
A Cloud of Ahs (for Randy Raine-Reusch)
A Cloud of Ahs was created May 2022 for Randy Raine-Reusch for his 70th birthday, and is inspired from his simple text score “Ah”, which was made for Tina Pearson. The visuals are cross faded photos by Lyssa Pearson from her series of constructed tableaux using mirrors, glass, water filled glass vessels with flowers, leaves and other fauna, and moose jaw bones. The audio is a duet between silver flute and a large glass vessel played with wet finger bowing, scratching and scraping, and steel comb rubbing. Music: Tina Pearson (flute and glass vessel)
Visuals: Lyssa Pearson
Mixing and Editing: Tina Pearson
Land Sea Sky (for Raj Sen)
A realization of a site specific Biospheric Art Practice text score created for the Experimental Music Unit (EMU), and recorded at Finnerty Cove in Victoria BC on the traditional territories of the Lekwungen peoples, March 3, 2021. There are no edits, overdubs, or effects used in this recording.
Performed by EMU: Tina Pearson (flute), George Tzanetakis (clarinets), Paul Walde (percussion)
Photography: Lyssa Pearson
Post Production: Paul Walde
<p><a href=”https://vimeo.com/527014710″>LAND SEA SKY (for Raj Sen) by Experimental Music Unit</a> from <a href=”https://vimeo.com/user13648296″>Paul Walde</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Machinima
Breathing PwRHm
Rotating Brains / Beating Heart A virtual performance collaboration created by
Stelarc, Pauline Oliveros, Tina Pearson, and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse with scripting by Norman Lowrey, Andreas Müller, Daniel Mounsey and Tim Risher in the networked platform Second Life. Filmed by Steve Millar from a live performance in Second Life and screened at OCAD University Toronto, Canada, November 2010.
Dreaming the Ethernet Infinitely Spacious Duo of Humming Pera and North Zipper (Tina Pearson and Norman Lowrey) within the networked virtual world Second Life during their residency for Ione’s Annual Dream Festival, January, 2015. All sounds created within the virtual world, from instruments conceived and built by Lowrey, Pearson and Andreas Mueller.
VIDEO – TRAILERS
Saguenay Residency: Video trailer of Creative Production Residency at C’entre d’Experimentation Musicale, Saguenay, Quebec, September 2019
Saguenay Residency: Video Teaser for Wood Bone Wind Stone performance, les Jardins de Sophie, Saguenay, Quebec, September, 2019
Tina Pearson 