Rêve d'Ontario by Mike Woods published on 2023-08-04T08:14:25Z Audio updated December 2024. REVE D'ONTARIO (Ontario Dream) is a composition for flute, trombone, percussion, double bass and electronically processed field recordings. This work evolved from recordings made in summer 2022 around the farmhouse where I grew up in Canada. By mixing the electronically processed recordings with the amplified acoustic instruments, the composition explores the influence that environments and music exert upon one another, how music emerges from our environments just as it affects and informs how we apprehend our environments. This dialectic is approached through the idea of a dream, with a series of musical and sonic images weaving in an out of one another in a nocturnal soundscape. Contemporary music ensemble 2e2m performed REVE D'ONTARIO at the conservatory in Aubervilliers, France, on 28 June 2023. Léo Margue conducted the performance with Jean-Philippe Grometto on the flute, Lucas Perruchon on the trombone, Charlotte Testu on the double bass and Alain Huteau on the vibraphone, glockenspiel and tam-tam. Video of the concert performance: https://youtu.be/R4XcNsZ68AQ Genre Mixed instrumental and electronic
