Études for Augmented Piano takes viewers inside Eve Egoyan’s world as she creates new work for augmented piano. The story is told through snapshot like moments, journal entries and visual explorations that playfully reveal the secrets of how the elusive sounds in her compositions are produced. This, combined with fragments from an enigmatic solo performance, affirms how the listener and the audience are necessary to the artists creative process, even in a time when isolation prevails.
Key credits:
Performer and Composer: Eve Egoyan
Director: Su Rynard
Cinematographer: John Price
Editor: Caroline Christie
Sound Engineer: Dennis Patterson
Sound Edit and Mix: Phil Strong
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
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This year’s Spring Opera production is a classical story with contemporary resonance, both in terms of its subject matter and the entire team’s response to quickly changing performance guidelines.
Zakir Hussain, John Patitucci and Zane Dalal at the 21C Music Festival 2020
To adhere to government indoor capacity limits, the usually packed Koerner Hall was virtually empty, and the performance was recorded.
