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2012 Open Waters Fest - Witch Gong Game w/ Up Orchestra

February 6th, 2012

Witch Gong Game by Barry Buy (UK) 
The 20 piece Upstream Orchestra at the 2012 Open Water's Festival
Sir James Dunn theatre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Conductor - Jeff ReillyTena Palmer-voice, Rick Waychesko-trumpet,
Chris Mitchel -soprano sax, John Cummings-trumpet, Paul Bendzsa-alto sax,

Open Waters Review - January 13th/2012

January 16th, 2012

Opens Waters concert ranges from self-conducting to extended vocals
Ever since American composer John Cage performed in the middle of the last century, we have had to rethink noise.        
As Canadian contemporary composer R. Murray Schafer put it, noise is any sound we don’t want to hear.
Cage went all the way down that road until he reinvented silence in a piece call 4’ 33." The performer took up an instrument but only pretended to play or sat perfectly still.

ArtsEast Review of Open Waters Festival January 13th, 2012

January 15th, 2012

Reactions:    
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Breathtaking...
Open Water Festival 2012
January 12-14, Halifax

Testimonial from Portugal

November 11th, 2011

Hi, Paul.
Hope you're fine.

Graham Collier in Memorium

November 8th, 2011

On Febrary 27th, 2011 Upstrean produced and hosted a concert featuring the Music of UK jazz conposer Graham Collier played by the 14-piece  Upstream Jazz Orchestra*, a group formed especially
for the event for what was to be a landmark performance.  Video coming soon.

Review: Lerner, New Upstream Ensemble mesmerize

January 13th, 2011

By STEPHEN PEDERSEN Arts Reporter
Sun. Jan 13 - 6:33 AM

Toronto jazz pianist Marilyn Lerner mesmerized Upstream Music Association fans and JazzEast fellow travellers in the Sir James Dunn Theatre Friday night as she and the New Upstream Ensemble sorted their way through a dozen new charts written specially for the concert.

Review: Sax Coupling Satisfies

January 1st, 2011

A goldmine of sonic effects from Quasar, Upstream quartets
By STEPHEN PEDERSEN Arts Reporter

Sax quartets have legs. While never exactly in fashion, they have never been out of it either. They are good to play romantic music, and un-matched, outside of percussion instruments, for playing contemporary music.

Review: CONVOY HFX

October 30th, 2006

Soundscape invokes tension, maelstrom of battle
By STEPHEN PEDERSEN Entertainment Reporter

It was a dark and stormy night. Huge seas rolled under your feet, lightning slashed across the clouds, the wind raged, tearing the skin off each gargantuan wave as it heaved itself up to the skies, and the air was filled with the awesome noise of it — gulls, sonar pings, scratching sounds from an electronic violin, the echolalia of a woman’s voice approaching hysteria, racing snare drums and toms, a double-bass massively stuttering the theme from Jaws . . .

ATCAM NETWORK Meeting

Saturday, January 14th, 2012 -  1 pm to 4 pm
MacAloney Room 404 - 2nd floor Dalhousie Arts Centre

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