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For a number of reasons, I have decided to put most of my recorded music online as reasonable quality MP3s at no charge. Donations are most welcome, needed and can be made via PayPal. If you would like to make a donation but would prefer not using paypal, please get in touch with me at catherine.fiain@gmail.com.
All funds will go towards continuing to put The Sun and the Wind Project in motion. The minimum is set at $2 as anything lower gets pretty much eaten up by paypal fees. Of course, I encourage you to give as generously as you see fit! All contributions will be deeply appreciated and carefully made use of.
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You may make audio CDs of the music, put it on an ipod, share it with friends, come back to the page as often as you wish. Whatever suits you. The music is all under copyright and registered. Anything other than private use will need a discussion and a go ahead from me, Catherine Thompson but please ask, I'm pretty open to this sort of thing and not particularly possessive. Hey! It's the folk tradition. Likewise, if you intend to use the music for any sort of sampling, please let me know.
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The Sun and the Wind Project Music
Music in this section is directly related to The Sun and the Wind Project. The project is a wide ranging and adventurous endeavour. The instruments are mostly made by myself with simple hand tools and reflects skuld's journey to find a transition from the domestic to the wild, the constrained to the free. I am in the process of putting a number of my audio track up on Soundcloud. I will post a number there and the rest will be linked to my google drive thingy.
My Soundcloud page can be reached here
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| Compeung 5th Aniversary Exhibition - Chiang Mai, Thailand - an 80 minute audio instalation based on my long ride that same year. The piece is comprised of audio collected during the ride, musical elements and sounds from my time in northern Thailand. |
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| Banff Centre Music –- Recorded Autumn 2012 |
| Footsteps | recorded live November 2011 at The Banff Centre. Here are the words: My horse has the finest feet in the herd, in the land he can run on grass and stone and snow, blood pumping with each step, blood flowing through his body. Each mark he makes upon the ground, is an entire world, that says, here I am, just try to stop me, there is no stopping him, He says I need no machine to propel me, on my way, and everything, to me, is enough. he says that everything that the earth gives to me is enough.
It's about my horse's feet. |
| Banff Centre Music –- Recorded Autumn 2011 |
If my heart was a hunter, it would hunt in the dark
If my heart was a hunter, it would hunt in the dark-Elizaveta Federova mix - 2013 | recorded November 2011 at The Banff Centre. Using mysemi-improv cora piece ona Bulerias compas (recorded live below) and a poem by Jana Irmert (who did the fabulous recording and mixing) as a starting point. Layered Cora, Igil, Bodhran and Voice. Stacie Dunlop on vocals as well. Stacie and I improvised on what I had recorded all in one take.
Here is Jana's poem that was very much where the piece took off from:
Now this crow is an eagle
and this trout is a shark
if my heart was a hunter
it would hunt in the dark
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| Bulerias | recorded November 16 2011 at Rolston Hall, Banff Centre. Cora |
| Fences | recorded November 16 at Rolston Hall, Banff Centre. Bones (deer rib), voice |
| Salmon tree feeding/Decisions | recorded October 5 2011 at Rolston Hall, Banff Centre. Cora, voice |
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| Banff Centre Music – - Recorded Autumn 2009 |
| Na Calíní Salach/Light on the Ground | recorded live, October 30 2009 at Rolston Hall, Banff Centre. Catherine Thompson - Cora, Voice |
| Lament for Staker Wallace | recorded live, October 9 2009 at Rolston Hall, Banff Centre. Lucie Laricq & Shelley ___ recording engineers. Catherine Thompson - Irish Flute |
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| Banff Centre Music – - Recorded Winter 2009 |
| we walked forever to find some water (studio recording) | recorded February at Rolston Hall, Banff Centre. Maria Kaniorowicz & Emma Lain - recording engineers. Terri Hron - voice, recorders. Catherine Thompson - voice, cora, bone flute. |
| Pidgoyomon - we walked forever to find some water/imagine a world | performed January 14 2009 in Rolston Hall at The Banff Centre. Terri Hron - voice, recorder, prepared piano. Catherine Thompson - voice, cora, gourd udu, percussion |
| Pidgoyomon ~ Salmon songs - song of the salmon/tree feeding/salmon of knowledge | performed February 6 2009 in Rolston Hall at The Banff Centre. Terri Hron - voice, recorder, cora, prepared piano. Catherine Thompson - voice, cora, gourd banjo, percussion |
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| Banff Centre Music –- Recorded Autumn 2008 |
| Songs of economic despair. subtitle: off to war | performed October 22 2008 in Rolston Hall at The Banff Centre. Terri Hron - Recorder, Catherine Thompson - Bodhran |
| we walked forever to find some water | performed October 22 2008 in Rolston Hall at The Banff Centre. Terri Hron - Recorder, Catherine Thompson - vocals, cKora |
| improvisation | performed October 22 2008 in Rolston Hall at The Banff Centre. Terri Hron - Recorder, Catherine Thompson - cKora, Phaedon Sinis - Kanun |
| kCora d dorian in 3s lead/tag | Recorded on small digital device. Catherine Thompson - cora |
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| Banff Centre Music – Recorded Winter 2008 |
| Improv - Benoit, Cheryl & CT | performed Feb 1 2008 in Rolston Hall at The Banff Centre. Benoit Delbeq - Prepared Piano, Cheryl Law - Viola, Catherine Thompson - Cora, Bone Flute & Voice |
| A Ghost of Annabelle, Bulerias andSnow | performed Feb 22 2008 in Rolston Hall at The Banff Centre. Mark Nelson - Gourdudu, CT - Guitar, Cora, Voice |
| The Wind | Laila Sovmand - Voice, CT - Voice, Gourd da Gamba. Monica Giraldo - recording engineer. Recorded at The Banff Centre, Luscar Studio, March 2008. |
| Anáil | Laila Sovmand - Voice, CT - Voice, Gourd da Gamba. Monica Giraldo - recording engineer. Recorded at The Banff Centre, Luscar Studio, March 2008. Remix. October 2008 |
| I was Born in the Mists | CT - Voice, Cora. Monica Giraldo - recording engineer. Recorded at The Banff Centre, Luscar Studio, March 2008. |
| Snow | Jen Reimer - French Horn, CT - Cora, Voice, Bodhran. Pietro Sammarco - recording engineer. Recorded at The Banff Centre, Telus Studio, March 2008. |
| Bodhran | CT- Voice, Bodhran, Pietro Sammarco - recording engineer. Recorded at The Banff Centre, Telus Studio, March 2008. |
| Improv - Jen & CT | Jen Reimer - French Horn, CT - Cora, Voice, Pietro Sammarco - recording engineer. Recorded at The Banff Centre, Telus Studio, March 2008. |
| Basse | CT- Magic basse, Pietro Sammarco - recording engineer. Recorded at The Banff Centre, Telus Studio, March 2008. |
| The Briar & the Rose | CT- Magic basse, Voice. Pietro Sammarco - recording engineer. Recorded at The Banff Centre, Telus Studio, March 2008. Song written by Tom Waits. |
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| New Brunswick Music – Recorded Summer 2007 |
| Cora Rhythyms | Cora, Gourd Banjo, Deer Toe Rattle, Basse, Vocal Sounds. Recorded in New Brunswick. August 2007 |
| Snow | Cora, Vocals, Deer Toe Rattle – from the 2005 CD recording below but using new Skuld Project intruments. Recorded in New Brunswick. August 2007 |
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2005 CD recording project
This recording project of my own songs is the culmination of two years of songwriting and music creation rooted in climate, landscape, flora, fauna and personal experience in the Canadian wilderness, and fuses my work in the musical, visual and material arts. Please click here to view the CD booklet.
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dance music I have been composing for contemporary dance theatre for many years and below you will find a number of examples of recorded tracks as well as info about who choreographed the dances. I am deeply endebted to all of the dance artists involved, many of whom you won't see names below because of space limitations. For me, creating with dance is very much a collaborative art. The music wouldn't exist without all those involved – choreographers, interpreters/dancers, designers etc – if you wish more information on any of the music here please contact me by email, catherine.fiain@gmail.com
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The Future Memory Heartbreak Junction
Choreography – Sasha Ivanochko
Recorded score w/ live audio elements
Part 1 premiered December 2008
Part 2 premiered November 2010
Dancemakers Theatre & Enwave Theatre, Toronto |
| Part 1
Part 2 |
Unspeakable
Choreography – Julia Sasso
Premiered May 2008
Pia Bowman Studio Theatre, Toronto |
| Unspeakable 26.3MB 19'09 |
Sunshine
Choreography – Sasha Ivanochko, created for The Toronto Dance Theatre's Autumn 2007 season
Premiered December 2007
The Premiere Dance Theatre, Toronto |
| Sunshine – 39MB 28'25 |
The Betrayal Project
Choreography – Julia Sasso
Premiered February 2006
The Premiere Dance Theatre, Toronto
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| il giardino ice ice – 27.4MB 19'56
viola ice ice – 10.5MB 7'38 |
Is this love?
Suite of Black Miniatures
Choreography – Sasha Ivanochko
Premiered June 2005
Winchester St. Theatre, Toronto |
| Is this love? – 23.7MB 20'08
Kate's – 14.2MB 12'13
Tears of the Boathouse Mistress – 7MB 5'11
Man on Man – 12.7MB 10'10
Ditch – 16.6MB 14.24 |
Skin Quest, S3 & Nucleus as part of Dig presented by Princess Productions
Choreography – Susan Lee
Premiered November 2001
Dancemakers Studio Theatre, Toronto
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The King and Queen of Ruins
Choreography – Sasha Ivanochko
Premiered August 2001
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto |
| The King and Queen of Ruins – 30.6MB 22'18 |
Heliotrope
Choreography – Eryn Dace Trudell
Premiered June 2001
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto |
| Heliotrope – 11.9MB 16'38 (note: recorded section from original 70 minute piece, most of which was performed live) |
le coeur de l’ombre
Choreography – Darryl Tracy
December 1998
Harbourfront Theatre, Toronto |
| Le Coeur de l’Ombre – 29.1MB 21'13
Le Coeur – extended piano – 6.4MB 4'39 |
of transient overtures
Choreographed & danced by Heidi Strauss
December 1998
Harbourfront Theatre, Toronto |
| Of Transient Overtures – 14.1MB 10'16 |
Créature
Choreography – Louise Bédard. Produced by Kate Alton
Premiered May 1998
Dancemakers Studio Theatre, Toronto |
| Créature/1 – 11.8MB 8'34
Créature/2 – 1.2MB 2'39 low res 64mono
Créature/3 – 11MB 7'58 |
Elimination of Lateral Violence
Choreographed & danced – Susan Lee and Eryn Dace Trudell
Premiered August 1997
Budies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto | | Elimination of Lateral Violence/1 – 7.5MB 5'26
Elimination of Lateral Violence/2 – 5.9MB 4'17
Elimination of Lateral Violence/3 – 12MB 8'46 |
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