Out Loud Premiere!
À haute voix : Lizée – Hron – Horvey – Shortt – Devaux
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at 7:30
La Sala Rossa, 4848 Boulevard St-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2T 1R5
A triple concert melding sound, sight, and story!
OLIVIA SHORTT: MAKWA
A sensory-dense, stream-of-conscious storytelling piece that switches back and forth between saxophone, voice, and video art feed, ‘Makwa’ explores the unexpected rage of living inside of yourself and being alone with your thoughts.
OLIVIA SHORTT (They /Them // Anishinaabe, Nipissing First Nation // ireland + canada)
Olivia Shortt is a weirdo, noisemaker, video artist, wannabe fashion icon, curator, and troublemaker. Shortt’s work is inspired by their love of camp, drag, and gender expression and its relation to Indigeneity.
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TERRI HRON: OUT LOUD
Performed by Helen Pridmore, Jennifer Beattie and Terri Hron
Directed by Terri Hron / Visuals by Terri Hron / Videographer: Philip Fortin / Designer: Tiago Cabreira
Out Loud is a two-part opera, a contemporary feminist take on classic female characters in literature. Using live performance, electronic audio, and video, three performers present multi-layered versions of two familiar tales, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Little Mermaid, exploring and exposing new strengths and approaches to understanding these well-loved women.
Part I, “Solstice Queen”, is a re-examination of Titania, Queen of the Fairies, familiar to many from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Part II, “Mermaid”, is a re-telling of the Little Mermaid fairy tale.
NICOLE LIZÉE : SASKBIENT / MANITOBIENT
Performed by Amy Horvey, double-bell trumpet and banjo
And Nicole Lizée, live electronics
Adriana Bogaard – scenography
With additional percussion performed on video by Ben Reimer
Saskbient: the long-awaited sequel to Nicole Lizée’s ode to Saskatchewan, Sasktronica!
Saskbient evokes the sounds, images, events, and mirages that affected Lizée during her formative years in Saskatchewan, harnessing the mysticism experienced by many people who grew there, including her collaborator in this project, the internationally renowned trumpet soloist Amy Horvey. Amy will also perform a new work for double bell trumpet and electronics by Keiko Devaux: SADA [ صدى ; echo ], inspired by the historical use of the trumpet to play short melodies or ‘call’ to communicate messages over great distances. .
Amy Horvey is a Montreal-based creator/interpreter of new and experimental music, a performer of modern orchestral music, and a researcher of the baroque trumpet. She has been praised for her”.. outstandingly eminent know-how, her timbre a thing of beauty – control and restraint mixed with eloquent intensity.” (Massimo Ricci, Temporary Fault).
A champion of Canadian contemporary music, she has commissioned works by Cassandra Miller, Nina C. Young, Nicole Lizée, Anna Höstman and Christopher Butterfield, among many others. Her solo projects have been featured at festivals across Canada, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Italy, and the USA.