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Village crawl in Ukraine
Now that I’ve exhausted myself jumping around my condo, I am calm enough announce that I was awarded my very first Canada Council grant! I’ll be traveling to the motherland (Ukraine) this fall to research Ukrainian folksong and experience it first hand. I’ll be living in Kyiv and going on short trips to villages to…
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Trained to look for a job
“Culture changes to match the economy, not the other way around. The economy needed an institution that would churn out compliant workers, so we built it. Factories didn’t happen because there were schools; schools happened because there were factories. The reason so many people grow up to look for a job is that the economy…
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Economies of Paper Sizes
Recently, I had to produce a set of parts for my new ensemble piece, The Unanswered. The whole experience got me thinking about paper size and its effect on cost. I had to format said parts according to the MOLA Guidelines for Music Preparation, which suggests parts with a staff size of no less than…
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Composing through the tears
On Friday I finally shipped off the score and parts of the newly completed The Unanswered. I birthed this baby for the National Arts Centre’s Composers Program, which will take place in late June. The piece ended up being quite a struggle with a lot of hair pulling and cursing and moaning involved. It was…
