Detailed descriptions available on request.
The list below includes three newly developed programmes:
Piano NEXT: compositions by Eve for acoustic and augmented piano
GHOSTS BENEATH MY FINGERTIPS: compositions by Armenian composers
CALL AND RESPONSE: collaboration with animator Christopher Hinton
1. SINGLE COMPOSER PROGRAMMES
see below
2. MIXED PROGRAMMES
see below
3. PIANO AND VIDEO
see below
4. TOUCH: multimedia works controlled in real-time through pianist’s touch
see below
1. SINGLE COMPOSER PROGRAMMES
~Piano NEXT: compositions by Eve Egoyan
Coupling the piano with software that models the behaviour of a physical piano, Eve is able to shadow the acoustic piano with a virtual piano that allows her to augment and extend the sonic range of the piano in ways she has long dreamt of, but have never before been able to achieve. Includes A Doubling (with poetry and voice of Anne Michaels and the URGE collective) as well as Ghosts beneath my Fingertips based on Armenian folklore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1OOR0ZpBH8
Piano NEXT can also include Surface Tension. In Surface Tension, Eve’s performance is transformed and interpreted by a computer into live visual images projected onto a screen rising from the body of the piano. All visual activity on the screen is directly responsive to Eve. The result is an extraordinary integration of sound and image in which neither of these elements dominate the other.
~Erik Satie: two programmes
1. Hidden Corners: a selection of works by Satie from all of his compositional periods
OR
2. Crooked Dances: featuring the rare solo piano version of La belle eccentrique combined with a dazzling array of dances by Erik Satie.
~Linda Catlin Smith: including works written for Eve
~Ann Southam: including works written for Eve
~Maria de Alvear: including works written for Eve
2. MIXED PROGRAMMES
~Ghosts beneath my fingertips: Music by Armenian composers
~HORIZONS longer compositions: one or all three one hour long works written for Eve: Maria de Alvear Asking; Rudolf Komorous WU; Ann Southam Simple Lines of Enquiry
~VIVA from a lineage of strong women : two works written for Eve’s daughter, Viva. Maria de Alvear’s Asking (written before Viva was born) and Ann Southam’s Simple Lines of Enquiry (originally named A Little Quiet Music for Viva Anoush Egoyan-Rokeby). Two spellbinding hour long works written by amazing women composers in support of their long time collaborator, Eve, and her daughter, Viva.
~The Art of Touching the Keyboard: Toronto (music by Toronto based composers written for Eve)
~The Art of Touching the Keyboard: Canada (music by Canadian composers written for Eve)
~The Art of Touching the Keyboard: International (music by International composers written for Eve which can also include electronics)
3. PIANO AND VIDEO
~Simple Lines of Enquiry / Machine for Taking Time
Composer: Ann Southam; Video Artist, David Rokeby
This presentation is the meeting of two independent works of art; the music and video are not explicitly synchronized, but move through time in compatible ways that enliven each other. Both works involve a process of unfolding – a camera pans across a city and across time; the music explores of the emotional possibilities of a twelve-interval row. Each embraces extreme detail and timeless expansiveness. The held sonorities of the piano link seamlessly to the subtle pan/shift of images through time. They are both gently emotional contemplations of transience; places of remembering and letting go.
4. TOUCH Multimedia Works controlled in real-time through touch
~Call and Response: collaboration with animator Christopher Hinton
~Surface Tension: collaboration with media artist David Rokeby
In Surface Tension, Eve’s performance is transformed and interpreted by a computer into live visual images projected onto a screen rising from the body of the piano. All visual activity on the screen is directly responsive to Eve. The result is an extraordinary integration of sound and image in which neither of these elements dominate the other.