James O'Callaghan - Alone and unalone - Ensemble Paramirabo (SPLIT VERSION)

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Ensemble Paramirabo premieres "Alone and unalone" - 2 March 2019, Studio multimédia, Conservatoire de musique de Montréal

Alto flute: Jeffrey Stonehouse
Clarinet: Victor Alibert
Violin: Geneviève Liboiron
Cello: Viviana Gosselin
Piano: Daniel Áñez
Percussion: David Therrien-Brongo

Videography: Fili Gibbons
Sound and video editing: James O'Callaghan
Lighting: Dominic Jasmin

Programme note:
Alone and unalone is an examination of the relationship between individual and collective experience. When we listen to music together, as in a concert, we share a common reality, but we simultaneously have individual, unsharable experiences in our own heads. The piece magnifies this condition by diffusing sound through headphones for the audience: each listener hears sound directed especially toward their own ears at the same time as they hear acoustic and electroacoustic sound in the space common to the other listeners. A confrontation of the philosophical problem of other minds, the affect of the piece endeavours to teeter between solipsism and the kind of empathy-building that occurs through art.
The piece traverses different performance practices, drawing inspiration from ASMRtists (online video performers of ASMR, a subculture devoted to generating tingling sensations), experimental theatre, Baroque music (especially drawing material from Handel’s Keyboard suite in D minor), and immersive environmental sounds.

Alone and unalone was commissioned by Ensemble Paramirabo with support from the Canada Council for the Arts.