The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

As quote on the vimeo page:

Fullscreen it, please.

A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.

Credits: CG |Modelling – Texturing – Illumination – Rendering| Alex Roman
POST |Postproduction & Editing| Alex Roman
MUSIC | Sequenced, Orchestrated & Mixed by Alex Roman (Sonar & EWQLSO Gold Pro XP)
Sound Design by Alex Roman
Based on original scores by: Michael Laurence Edward Nyman. (The Departure)
.Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns. (Le Carnaval des animaux)

Directed by Alex Roman

Done with 3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.

thirdseventh.com/

The Summer Guitar Academy is the perfect place to submerse yourself in the world of classical guitar with other like-minded students in a week of music exploration and study that you won’t forget! For all ages, from novice to advanced players.

Victoria has cultivated a very active classical guitar community – come learn from inspiring faculty with extensive experience in all facets of classical guitar.

Faculty

• Bradford Werner (Artistic Director, A.V.C.M.)
• Alexander Dunn (B.Mus., M.Mus., Ph.D.)
• Douglas Hensley (B.Mus., M.Mus.)
• Adrian Verdejo (B.Mus., M.Mus.)
• Michael Dias (B.Mus., M.Mus.)
• Stephen Lochbaum (B.Mus., M.Mus.)
• Janet Grohovac (B.Mus., M.Mus.)

Summer Guitar Academy – $395
3 hours of group lessons; 6 hours of guitar orchestra; 4 hours of masterclass; 4 hours of performance workshops/lectures; performance in Student Concerts and Competition; admission to all Guitar Academy Concerts.

Private Lesson Package – $106
Students enrolled in the Summer Guitar Academy can add 2 one-hour private lessons with a faculty member. Take advantage of this opportunity to get one-on-one instruction with our inspiring SGA faculty!

Schedule

Audition Required
A short casual interview is required with the Artistic Director to ascertain musical level. Out-of-town participants are permitted to be interviewed by phone or email. All levels and ages are encouraged to audition.

Academy Competition
Academy participants are encouraged to compete and experience the Academy Competition, but participation is not mandatory. Prizes: $700, $400, $200, and more! Required piece: any Classical/Romantic Era etude (such as Sor, Guiliani, Mertz, etc.).

Application Deadline: June 4, 2010
Classes fill up quickly, so apply early. Registrants after this date may be accepted on a space-available basis, but will not be guaranteed full services.

To apply for the Summer GuitarAcademy, please complete and send in the Application Form or apply in person at the VCM.

Financial Assistance
Bursary Deadline: May 15, 2010
Some bursary assistance will be available. Applicants must comply with all deadlines and requirements. Late applicants will not be considered for financial assistance.

To apply for a bursary, please fill in the Bursary Application Form* and return it to:

Katie Pinilla
Student Accounts/Financial Aid Coordinator
Victoria Conservatory of Music
900 Johnson Street
Victoria, BC V8V 3N4

Or by fax to 250-386-6602

Refund Policy

Accommodation
Out-of-town students are responsible for their own accommodation arrangements. Reasonable rates are offered at the University of Victoria residences. Phone: 250-721-8395 or email: housing@uvic.bc.ca.

Program Information
Bradford Werner, Artistic Director
250-592-9278

General Information
Emily Nagelbach
Manager, VCM Summer Academies
250-386-5311 ext.231

* Due to the fact that the summer bursaries are funded by a corporate sponsor, we require financial information to award a bursary.

Classical Guitar Canada is an online site for classical guitar with a focus on Canadian artists and activities. The goal is to create a blog of free sheet music, lessons, video, interviews, and more!

www.classicalguitarcanada.ca

Bio from http://www.florentghys.com/

Florent Ghys is a French composer of acoustic music and upright bass player.
He employs hair dryers, blinkers, weather reports, vacuum cleaners, numbers, and enjoys controlling random elements.

He obtained degrees in ethno-musicology at Bordeaux University (Masters 03) and Bordeaux Conservatoire (Gold Medals 04), before going on to study the classical double bass with Thierry Barbé in Paris (Gold Medal 05). He participated in several composition master classes in the United States (Bang On A Can 06) and in Italy (Sentieri Selvaggi 06)…

As a composer he works in a style situated between contemporary and pop music, creating tonal masses with or without pulsation. It has often been said to resemble American minimalist music.

Music for Multiple Basses, and the President of the United States from Bang on a Can on Vimeo.

DATE/TIME: February 11th, 2010, 8:00pm
VENUE: Alix Goolden Hall – Victoria Conservatory of Music 907 Pandora Ave.

Tickets at the door: $10 General / 5 Students & Seniors
www.guitarvictoria.com
Info: contact Bradford at admin@guitarvictoria.com

A showcase of Victoria’s Professional Talent. Proceeds go toward Guitar Victoria and to guitar programs in need such as the Victoria Conservatory Summer Guitar Academy.

We need your support so spread the word and come see a great concert!

**Note: We are giving away 250 free tickets to students age 15 and under, e-mail Bradford at admin@guitarvictoria.com for details.

Performers include:

• Victoria Guitar Trio performing latin influenced trio music by Patrick Roux
• Continuum Consort, soprano Elizabeth MacIsaac, flutist Emily Nagelbach, guitarist Douglas Hensley, and violist Molly Janz perform Songs of Mystery and Night by David Loeb
• Carli & Julie Kennedy , performing original songs from their recent recording!
  
• VCM Guitar Orchestra, directed by Michael Dias
  
• Quelus Duo, performing the first movement of Hetu’s Double Guitar Concerto
  
• Duo Verdejo, performing works for Viola and Guitar (Megan Verdejo, viola)
  
• Alexander Dunn, performing Beatles arrangements and in music by John Oliver in guitar quartet
  
• Douglas Hensley, performing with the spectacular Continuum Consort
• Michael Dias, performing in nearly everything! What a guy! Victoria Trio, Quelus
  
• Bradford Werner, your host for the night, Quelus Duo, Victoria Trio
  
• Adrian Verdejo, joins Megan Verdejo to showcase guitar-viola works, Victoria Trio
  

Intermission will feature draw prizes for: Free guitar lessons from the performers, CDs, books, and more!

Animation comes from Alek Vacura. It was his MFA thesis film for the Pratt Institute and has toured all over the world at film festivals. Alek Vacura: http://www.alekvacura.com

“Without Arms” MFA Thesis Animation by Alek Vacura from Alek Vacura on Vimeo.

From Mr. C.P.E. Bach’s The True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments

• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. Any passage can be so radically changed by modifying its performance that it will be scarcely recognizable.

Could this better describe modern performance practise? The importance of the gesture and “true content and affect of a composition” is both a responsibility of the performer AND the listener.

• In order to arrive at an understanding of the true content and affect of a piece, and, in the absence of indications, to decide on the correct manner of performance, be it slurred, detached or what not, and further, to learn the precautions that must be heeded in introducing ornaments, it is advisable that every opportunity be seized to listen to soloists and ensembles; the more so because the details of beauty often depend on extraneous factors. The volume and time value of ornaments must be determined by the affect. In order to avoid vagueness, rests as well as notes must be given their exact value except at fermate and cadences. Yet certain purposeful violations of the beat are often exceptionally beautiful.

I love the inclusion of the term “purposeful,” I often tell my students the difference of purposefulness and negligence. Guitarist’s often miss the importance of reading the music exactly as written and only changing the material with educated and tasteful “purpose”. My advise is to always be able to explain yourself in words when you’ve made a change to the notes or articulation. Listen to soloists and ensembles…thanks CPE!

The following video is a recording of Música da Lagoa, in which the musicians burble water and play flutes while immersed in a lagoon.

Hermeto Pascoal during the studio process of capturing and recording the Aura Sound of French actor Yves Montand:

Hermeto Pascoal e Grupo – Música da Lagoa
Hermeto and O Grupo playing the music of the heavens with flutes and bottles in a lake. Part of the Hermeto/PETAR special – Sinfonia Alto da Ribeira (Itiberê Zwarg, Márcio Bahia, Carlinhos Malta, Jovino Santos Neto, Pernambuco):

“How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children”

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