Combining the practices of intention-based improvisation, oral learning and performer insight to develop a set of interrelated pieces of music, Tina M Pearson’s project Saguenay: Wind, Blood, Wood, Bone weaves stories (real, dreamed and imagined) from individual and collective relationships with ancestry and the biosphere. Reflecting on the context of concert-based music making, it considers other strategies and roles for musicians to relate to one another, and their communities. This unique project desires an intimacy of connection through the artful exploration of ancestral pathways of memory and recollection - that which is stored in our bones, skin, flesh, and breath, and in the metal, wood, skin, plastic and other materials that we rely on to create music. Tina Pearson is a resident at the Centre d’Expérimentation Musicale to premiere a work for a group with only women from Saguenay, which has been premiered on September 21st, 2019 at 1:30 PM at Les Jardins de Sophie, St-Fulgence.
- Tina Pearson
- Flute
- Composition
- Camille Brisson
- Flute
- Sara Létourneau
- Sound objects
- Voice
- Caroline Tremblay
- Voice
- Laurie Dubois-Bouchard
- Percussion
- Anik Paquet
- Violin
- Marisol Josée Beauchesne
- Accordion
- Mya Lalancette
- Dance
Composer and improviser Tina M Pearson explores the elements of symbiosis between peoples, life forms and technologies. For nearly 40 years, she has collaborated with artists from the dance, visual arts, music and new media circles, as part of projects playing on the notions of identity, perception, presence and place, as well as the relationships between creator, environment, performer and audience. Her work often makes reference to the principle of biomimicry as well as to certain elements of spectral music, in addition to giving an important place to breathing and to extended playing and listening techniques.
She has studied and worked with Pauline Oliveros for several years and is a certified practitioner of Deep Listening®. Her fascination with the sound phenomenon and its modes of interaction led her to play roles in the artistic and educational spheres, as well as that of community development. She composes and performs - in acoustic, electronic and telematic contexts - for voice, flute, accordion and virtual instruments. She has received commissions for performances in dance, video and "spoken word", in Europe and North America. She was invited to present her work in the context of international symposia, festivals and conferences. Tina was editor of the Canadian journal Musicworks and a teacher at OCAD University. She plays with the Experimental Music Unit (Victoria) and the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse collective.
