One-Page Score Project (Vancouver New Music): Mary Burns + Soressa Gardner

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“Currents of Our Imaginary Ocean”
Graphic score by Mary Burns
Music composed and performed by Soressa Gardner

Artist Statement – Mary Burns
“Currents of Our Imaginary Ocean” (2020)
In our imaginary ocean currents carry the iciest salt water from the bottom to the sun warmed surface, but it is not as simple as cold meeting hot. Obstacles alter the ebb and the flow and storms can reverse the usual order. Within the main current a local one mimes shape and direction. Isn’t that always the way?
Surface currents are water bugs shoving the water this way and that. Wavelets converse on shores we have not yet discovered. Galoup, galoush. For every comment there is an answer, sometimes a retort. Whirlpools, gyres. We cannot know all the matter that determines motion, the trenches, the mountains. Within the dissonance there is melody.

Artist Statement – Soressa Gardner
When presented with Mary Burns’ graphic score and accompanying text, I envisioned a vocal rich journey through shifting waters, dreamlike encounters with musical conversations, occasional trips to the surface for air, and eventual (but temporary) arrival in conventional melody. Mary’s words Galoup, Galoush reminded me of an imaginary language sacred song I wrote years ago which, reworked, became the basis of this arrival point.

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released May 19, 2020

Commissioned by Vancouver New Music:
newmusic.org/ops-may-june-2020/

Premiered May 19, 2020
on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lxcJ87SQ9I
and Vimeo:
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Soressa Gardner Vancouver, British Columbia

Soressa Gardner is vocalist, laptop composer/improvisor, and sometimes songwriter. She currently resides in Victoria, BC. Her keen sense of mood, colour, humour and gravitas are expressed through extended vocals enhanced by electronic manipulations and sound-worlds carefully crafted from a variety of audio processing techniques. She performs regularly with VEE (Vancouver Electronic Ensemble). ... more

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