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The Black Museum

from The Ear sees by Randall Smith

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The Black Museum is a collection of experimential artifacts or sound objects; my musical sensibility, compositional techniques, and the impressions collected; and things learned from other composers’ works which have been so fundamental to my own development. As curator of this ‘museum’ I have collected all of the ideas and experiences that mean the most to me, transforming the past into my present. This piece emphasizes a strong dynamic structure which brings together the use of such elements as the ephemeral, the fleeting, the use of rushes and sudden outbursts — a fantasy of unexpected encounters where sound illuminates the eye through the ear. The piece is composed of nine movements.
The Black Museum was realized at the composer’s studio in 1993. It was commissioned with support from the Canada Council [for the Arts] (CCA) by the Association pour la recherche et la création électroacoustiques du Québec (ACREQ) for its Clair de terre concert series. It premiered on April 27, 1993 at the Planétarium de Montréal. This piece is dedicated to the history of the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) and the composers and friends of Montréal. The Black Museum was finalist at the 21st International Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition (France, 1993); it received the First Prize at the 15th Luigi Russollo International Competition (Varese, Italy, 1993); and the Groupe de musique expérimentale de Marseille (GMEM) Prize (France, 1993).

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from The Ear sees, released June 30, 2022

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Randall Smith Toronto, Ontario

Randall Smith developed an interest in Acousmatic music when he discovered the music of the Groupe de Resherches Musicales (GRM) from Paris France. After working with other artists in Film and Dance combined with his own musical experiments have permitted the development of compositional techniques that he uses to inject into purely musical works. ... more

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