The Canadian Music Centre and earsay music

are proud to celebrate the unprecedented release of two new recordings by composer John Oliver:
the long-awaited Centrediscs CD of orchestral music, "Forging Utopia,"
as well as "Time is Dust," Oliver's immersive electroacoustic music on DVD-audio.


Please join us for a reception where you can enjoy the company of the composer – who will be in attendance to describe the relationship between these two apparently disparate releases – and get a special price on both releases. We'll also play some excerpts of each disc. You'll get to hear "Time is Dust" through our glorious new surround sound system!

Come celebrate with us!
Friday May 11, 2012 5 - 7 pm
Canadian Music Centre, BC Region
837 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z-1B7 604-734-4622


ABOUT FORGING UTOPIA This is a collection of my orchestral music from eleven years, 1995 - 2006. Forging Utopia was inspired by Mark Kingwell's book, “Dreams of Millennium” and by a channel-changing, cultural mash-up paradigm. “Unseen Rain” takes the listener into the mystical world of the Persian poet Rumi by way of aphoristic miniatures. “Face in the Abstract” is inspired by the canvases of Anselm Keefer and Johannes Deutsch. And “Raven Steals the Light” tells the story of the creation of the world according to the ancient Haida legend, as retold by Bill Reid and Robert Bringhurst.

ABOUT TIME IS DUST
Time is Dust is a portrait of John Oliver's immersive music from 2002 - 2010, a bath of continuous acousmatica with origins in musique concrete & granular synthesis; a trance-trip that shares with ancient music a grounding in a single tonal centre or constant sound. The often very busy surface – some might say a storm – transforms at a paradoxically calm pace, like melting glaciers: a "glacial pace" on the outside, driven by molecular fire inside.
The Canadian Music Centre (CMC) acts as a library, score publishing house, CD label and distributor, and resource for Canadian composers and everyone interested in Canadian classical music being produced today. It promotes the work of its more than 800 Associate Composers through its five lending libraries of 20,000 scores and 11,000 recorded archival works, plus some 1300 commercially recorded CD titles.  Connect with the Canadian Music Centre at musiccentre.ca , on Facebook (Canadian Music Centre ) and on Twitter (@CMCNational ), or visit one of its five regional centres across Canada.

Centrediscs was created in 1981 as Canada’s foremost label of Canadian contemporary concert music, recording the works of composers associated with the CMC.  Visit www.centrediscs.ca for more information.

earsay music is a boutique music label located in Vancouver that specializes in gutsy well-crafted music that is engaged with contemporary technology and thought. Visit www.earsay.com for more information.