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SUMMARY:Olivia Block
LOCATION:Pacific Spirit United Church
DESCRIPTION:Olivia Block (USA)\nA Collection of Crossings\nWorld Premiere\n
 2026\, 45 minutes\nSound artist Olivia Block presents a rare pipe organ pe
 rformance\, exploring the instrument’s vast acoustic and spatial possibi
 lities through subtle textures and sustained tones.\nA Collection of Cross
 ings emerges from Block’s interest in knot formations and braiding patte
 rns. Thinking about these universal concepts\, she attempts to translate t
 hem into a nonlinear\, overlapping musical structure. The multiple organ m
 anuals and timbral groups unique to pipe organ architecture naturally expr
 ess this compositional language. A series of intervallic and melodic stran
 ds can cross over and under one another on the different manuals\, changin
 g slightly through subtle sound-color differences. This eternal knot-like 
 formation ties itself together over time through crossing clusters and mot
 ifs.\n \nAngelique Po (Vancouver)\nGmeeoorh by Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001)
 \n1974\, 20 minutes\nOrganist\, pianist\, and continuo player Angelique Po
  performs Gmeeoorh\, the legendary Greek-French composer/architect Iannis 
 Xenakis' only work for organ\, which was commissioned by the 1974 Internat
 ional Contemporary Organ Music Festival at the Hartt College of Music in t
 he University of Hartford\, Connecticut. \nXenakis describes Gmeeoorh as 
 "a free anagram of ORGANON"\, and a piece that "pursues the research of a 
 generalisation of the melodic principle\, by using linear arborescenses (c
 lonings) undergoing various transformations such as homothetic\, rotations
 \, distortions\, expansions\, etc..." The resulting music stretches the so
 nic capabilities of whatever organ it is played on\, and is not entirely p
 layable by a single person without assistance. The composer suggests tools
  such as planks of wood for playing the wide spans of notes required in ce
 rtain parts of the piece\, assistants for "passages that are too difficult
 "\, and "ignor(ing) the notes which are off the keyboard." Sonically\, Po 
 describes the piece as the deep primal growl of a long-forgotten creature 
 rising from the depths.\n \n \nBanner credits:Olivia Block\n\nBoletos: h
 ttps://www.showpass.com/vnm-olivia-block/
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