Composer Martin Arnold’s music takes audiences to a place that is both familiar, yet unexpected. His compositional style includes a celebration of “unreliable” elements within musical sound and includes strange allusions to mediaeval polyphony and post-bop jazz.
=0D=0A=of-the-now: Martin Arnold, at Open Space from Sept. 22 to 24, brings together long time collaborators Quatuor Bozzini (Montréal) with Apartment House (UK) in a weekend of four concerts featuring Arnold’s music. “The Bozzinis have played more of my music in more parts of the world than anyone,” says Arnold.
=0D=0A=Recording label Another Timbre has just released its “Canadian Composer Series” which includes, The Spit Veleta, a CD featuring Arnold’s music recorded by Philip Thomas and Mira Benjamin of Apartment House. Selections from this recording will be a highlight of the weekend concert series. “I’m still first and foremost a listener. Listening is where the real action is, where consciousness and identity can change…,” said Arnold, in an interview published as part of Another Timbre’s CD release. “All the music I make is in some way melodic. I also think of all of it as being slack, meandering, psychedelic and, even at its most ponderously enervated, dance music. Moby once said of The Flamingos’ version of I Only Have Eyes For You that, along with being a beautiful performance of a beautiful song, it sounded like it was recorded underwater in a Methadone clinic. Even at its clearest, my music somehow aspires to this ideal.”
=0D=0A=To celebrate the music of Martin Arnold, of-the-now and Open Space have each commissioned a new work to be premiered during the festival.
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