Do You Know....? Our Animal Vegetable Mineral composer Jascha Narveson
Quirky, fiercely intelligent and lucky for Blue Ceiling dance, the creator of a large portion of the sound involved in Animal Vegetable Mineral, premiering April 20th in the Historic Forest School, the High Park Nature Centre in High Park, Toronto. The sonic landscape is derived from field recordings of space events and species found locally. The sound of the earth rotating, screech owls, tree frogs, the crackle of the atmosphere. Jascha's beautiful and curious music has been used in two other Blue Ceiling dance creations, 2016's dead reckoning, set to a 35 minute improvisation for computer and piano by Jascha and pianist Walter Frank, and 2012's Lament for Solo Computer, named for and inspired directly by Jascha' composition of the same name. Below is a quick Q and A with this remarkable creator. Come hear is work in action this week in the High Park Nature Centre. LR: How did you become a composer? was it something you always knew you’d do? J...