SONUS - v2
Into-Nation.1 (2006), 00:09:47Eldad Tsabary http://www.yaeldad.com
Nationality: Canada
Residence: Canada
Biography: The compositional style of Montreal-based Eldad Tsabary is decidedly inspired by the concepts of constant motion and fluidity. These concepts are, in his mind, defining qualities of life itself, and he is ever in search for new techniques to produce smooth transformations, aural metamorphoses, and a sense of motion in his work. Eldad portrays these qualities by continuously transforming his sound-material, textures, harmonic content and spatial positioning, by varying the types of transformations, and by avoiding mechanical repetitions or long, unchanging sound/musical objects. Recently, Eldad has been experimenting with what he likes to describe as “Acoustic Tall-Tales” in which a realistic environmental recording is manipulated into the realm of the fantastic and absurd.
Performances of Tsabary's works include the Bulgarian Philharmonic, The Cygnus Ensemble, Haim Avitsur and a collaboration with Australian-American composer Robert Cuckson. His sound-art and music compositions were presented worldwide in concerts, installations, and conferences at venues such as Carnegie Hall, CCRMA, the Burning Man Festival, Primavera en la Habana, Festival Synthese, Western Illinois University New Music Festival, Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival, Spark Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota and others. His works are released on ERMMedia, Capstone Records, New Adventures in Sound Art, JAZZIS, The Infinite Sector, comfortstand.com and SoundLab Channel and published by Editions-BIM (Switzerland).
Mr. Tsabary is a professor at the Concordia University Music Department (Montreal, Quebec), an Artist Mentor for the MFA in New Media Program of the Transart Institute (Krems, Austria), and Head of Music at CBB Montreal. He received his education at CUNY's Graduate School and University Center doctoral program, the Mannes College of Music, Musitechnic (Montreal) and the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music in Israel. He studied composition under David Loeb, David Del Tredici, David Olan, and Tim Brady.
Program Notes: In INTO-NATION.1 I represent the musical beauty of international language by putting together excerpts of radio news and talk programs from countries all around the world including Australia, Bosnia, Brazil, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, China, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Israel, Spain, Taiwan, and the US. Although the material is all textual, the excerpts are organized aesthetically without regards to verbal or political meanings. In the first section of the piece, the excerpts are edited and organized rhythmically, unprocessed. The same recorded material is developed in the second section by use of convolution, reverse-reverb and other techniques, obscuring the national definition of the excerpts. In the third section, the definition is obscured even further by use of canonic techniques. The increasingly denser mass of syllables and intonations become harder to segregate, while occasional coherent patterns tend to stick out (depending on the listener's spoken language), and so creating a unique condition in which listeners of different nationalities share the same aural experience, while perceiving different sound components.
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