Infections
March 24th, 2009
Pacific Cinematheque
1131 Howe Street, Vancouver
Redshift presented the music of Vancouver composer André Cormier. Cormier’s fifty-minute work, Infections, is a sparse and haunting score for an age propelled by fear, neuroses, distrust and danger. This powerful, eerie work was accompanied by projected video images created in collaboration with video artist Vincent Parker.
André Cormier’s work has been presented in Canada, the US, Europe and New Zealand in a variety of venues, from punk clubs in downtown Los Angeles to churches in Montréal; in galleries across Canada to the Beethoven Haus in Bonn, Germany. Aesthetically, Cormier’s music embraces many aspects of spectralism — music that is concerned with the extreme nuances of colour, texture, and pitch. Cormier’s soundscapes may seem initially static, but careful listening reveals miniature worlds teeming with motion and life. His intimate understanding of extended microtunings, alternative formal and temporal structures, and gestalt theory have all contributed to what is unquestionably one of the most unique voices in the younger generation of Canadian music. March 24th will mark the premiere performance of the Infections cycle in its entirety.
For more information on André Cormier, and to hear his music, check out his myspace page by clicking here: myspace.com/andrecormier
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