Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon Tower overlooking Eda U.Gerstacker Grove

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from Grace Chan, Sydney, Australia: “I performed this version of Crowning Perpendicular (Vines, 2023) the night of a super moon in Sydney, Australia (29/9/23).

I am hoping you can enjoy these Sydney sounds within your two carillon precincts in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (Lurie and Baird).

Composer Robert Curgenven’s edit/ mix of Nicholas Vines’ music captures the slowness of gravity, the persistence of time, the drag of tides….and the beauty of sonic decay between bronze bell strikes.

Curgenven’s recent series of geolocated audioworks for an ambulant listener, inspired me to “premiere” this new work in the carillon precincts of the University of Michigan. I am interested in harnessing digital tools to re-tether humans to locations, communities, precincts and fixed places. I hope you enjoy meandering to Nick’s composition, Robert’s mix/master and my attempt at sharing the beauty between strikes through a super moon induced bradycardia."

Dr Grace Chan - Ann Arbor Carillon audioworks

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“Inventing Future Sounds for Ceremonies: Reimagining Ceremonial Music for the Organ & Carillon” Grace Chan and Nicholas Vines Monday, October 2, 2023 3:50 pm Britton Recital Hall Many keystones of the Western classical canon were commissioned for significant royal or aristocratic events such as births, deaths, marriages and coronations. This ceremonial music has historically diffused from “top down”, influencing ceremonial music for sacred and secular events such as graduations and civic celebrations in wider society. For the upcoming British Royal Coronation on the 6th May 2023: “a new commission for solo organ embracing musical themes from countries across the Commonwealth”. We would like to explore how organ and carillon works are commissioned and composed for ceremonies in contemporary Australian society especially in a time when the idea of “Commonwealth” is evolving. This will involve reimagining and inverting the commissioning and creative process to explore how music for these ceremonial instruments can be inclusive, diverse and reflect the community in which the music is performed. The proposed work would be for carillon and offer an alternative to the coronation commission’s approach. Rather than ‘Commonwealth musical themes’ - which evoke old notions of nationhood and colonialism, as well as bring up issues of appropriation – the basis of the composition would be original melodies reflecting the multifaceted nature of individuals in a culturally diverse and egalitarian society such as Australia.

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Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon Tower overlooking Eda U.Gerstacker Grove

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