Layerings
Details Duration (min): 14 Instrumentation: Vibraphone and Tape Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Sound Samples Program Notes In Layerings prerecorded sounds of vibraphone and other percussion instruments are processed and mixed to create a tapestry of sonic material from which and into which the vibraphone emerges and merges during the course of the performance. I have attempted […]
Music for Ancient Spaces
Details Duration (min): 8 Instrumentation: Tape Sound Samples Program Notes Music for Ancient Spaces was written in 1992 for a festival at the St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre on the outskirts of Winnipeg. The festival took place in the ruins of the monastery’s cathedral, and I used original blueprints for the cathedral to measure some […]
Dog and Crow (Incidental Music)
Details Instrumentation: Tape
Birds
Details Instrumentation: Soprano, Keyboard, Interactive Computer System, Visuals Program Notes Birds is a work by Canadian composer Michael Matthews. ________________________________________________________________________ Interested in programming the music of Michael Matthews? Learn more about how to commission a new work, browse the full list of compositions, or get in touch to discuss a performance.
Love in a Dry Country
Details Instrumentation: Ensemble, Tape, Interactive Computer System, Visuals Program Notes Love in a Dry Country is a 1992 work for ensemble, electronics and visuals by Canadian composer Michael Matthews. _______________________________________________________ Interested in programming the music of Michael Matthews? Learn more about how to commission a new work, browse the full list of compositions, or get […]
The Raft (Incidental Music)
Details Instrumentation: Tape Program Notes The Raft (Incidental Music) by Canadian Michael Matthews was written for Patrick Friesen”s play The Raft. ________________________________________________________ Interested in programming the music of Michael Matthews? Learn more about how to commission a new work, browse the full list of compositions, or get in touch to discuss a performance.
Songs of the Masked Dancers
Details Instrumentation: Soprano, Actor, Flute, Bass Clarinet, Cello, Piano, Tape Recordings Passage Through Time Program Notes Songs of the Masked Dancers by Canadian composer Michael Matthews. Recorded by Thira on their 1990 CD Passage Through Time. Interested in programming the music of Michael Matthews? Learn more about how to commission a new work, browse the […]
The First Sea
Details Duration (min): 9 Instrumentation: Bass Clarinet and Tape Recordings The Composer in the Computer Age–II Score Excerpts Score Excerpt 1 Program Notes The First Sea was inspired by a Pablo Neruda poem, one that speaks of the feelings associated with discoveries, with the expansion of consciousness: “mine alone were those solitary places, mine alone […]
Woman (Film Score)
Details Instrumentation: Tape
Time Frames
Details Instrumentation: Dancers, Lights, Tape, Two Chamber Orchestras