Sound Perimeter: Two Canadian Composers

Sound Perimeter: Two Canadian Composers

Today's Sound Perimeter features two works by Canadian composers: "The Bessborough Hotel" by Nicole Lizée and "Pièce pour violon et clarinette" by Claude Vivier. While these pieces sound very different from one another, both composers invite us into imaginative and unexpected musical worlds. Lizée draws on ghost stories, popular culture, and technology, while Vivier explores color, mystery and the expressive possibilities of sound itself. Together, they offer two distinct perspectives on Canadian contemporary music and remind us that music can tell stories, spark curiosity, and transport us somewhere new. Performances by Nicole Lizée [https://www.nicolelizee.com/] and Ensemble Made in Canada [https://www.ensemblemadeincanada.com/].  Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe (@Lia Uribe) and dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. We hope it’ll expand your knowledge and connection to sound and let music infiltrate your lives and transform your realities.

Sound Perimeter: Heroines

Sound Perimeter from Lia Uribe is dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. Today, we listen to the music of two contemporary composers: Clarice Assad and Gabriela Lena Frank, brought together under the idea of Heroines, women whose music moves fearlessly across cultures and traditions with imagination, honesty, and vitality.

Sound Perimeter: Hidden Currents

Today's Sound Perimeter features "The Currents" by Sarah Kirkland Snider [https://www.sarahkirklandsnider.com] (performed by Irene Kim [https://www.irenekimpianist.com]) and "Árbakkinn" by Ólafur Arnalds [https://olafurarnalds.com], two pieces connected by a sense of flow and quiet introspection. Both explore what moves beneath the surface, but in different ways: Snider through the intimacy of solo piano, Arnalds through a blend of acoustic sound and technology that feels more atmospheric and open. Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe (@Lia Uribe) and dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. We hope it’ll expand your knowledge and connection to sound and let music infiltrate your lives and transform your realities.

Sound Perimeter: Sounding Justice

Today's Sound Perimeter listens across distance: two composers, both born in 1946, two different worlds. Vladimir Martynov and Mary Lou Williams arrive at the sacred from very different paths. Martynov through stillness, through a sound that unfolds like breath, rooted in chant and contemplation. Williams through voice and rhythm, through jazz, blues, and gospel carried into a liturgical space.  Different languages, different histories, and yet, both works hold a quiet insistence on justice. On compassion, on the dignity of human life.They are not the same sound, but they shared gesture: music as reflection, as prayer, as a way of imagining something better. Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe (@Lia Uribe) and dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. We hope it’ll expand your knowledge and connection to sound and let music infiltrate your lives and transform your realities.

Sound Perimeter: Listening for Rain

A note from host Lia Uribe:  "Today on Sound Perimeter, Listening for Rain, I found myself drawn to   something simple and familiar: rain. We hear it arrive in different ways: as shifting patterns and playful color in Australian composer Elena Kats - Chernin’s piano duet 'The Rain Puzzle', and as something inward and heavy - hearted in Randy Newman’s 'I Think It ’ s Gonna Rain Today'. One piece lets rain move and sparkle; the other turns it into an emotional landscape, full of longing and quiet isolation. Different voices, different worlds, connected by that shared sense of something falling gently and persistently, lingering long after the sound itself fades. Next time it rains, I invite you to listen to it as music." Featured artists include Tamara-Anna Cislowska [https://www.tamara-annacislowska.com/], MayKay [https://www.may-kay.com/], Duke Special [https://www.dukespecial.com/] and the The RTE Concert Orchestra. [https://orchestra.rte.ie/performinggroup/rte-concert-orchestra/] Sound Perimeter is a segment hosted by Lia Uribe (@Lia Uribe) and dedicated to unexpected voices in and around music. We hope it’ll expand your knowledge and connection to sound and let music infiltrate your lives and transform your realities.