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Episode 56: Ecstasy & The Devil

Ecstasy & The Devil* (2024) Ricardo Ferro (CA), composer *world premiere Bekah Simms (CA), composer mentor Recorded at Hugh's Room Live (Toronto), April 7th, 2024 As part of PIVOT 2024 Presented with the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Music Centre With support from The Azrieli Foundation Tristan Durie, flute Anthony Thompson, clarinet Carol Fujino, violin Paul Widner, cello Geoffrey Conquer, piano Ryan Scott, percussion Gregory Oh, conductor Programme note: I am fascinated by the sometimes indistinguishable line between euphoria and agony. My writing explores extreme limits in music that set up unsustainable systems that collapse under their internal logic. Ecstasy & The Devil is timbrally oversaturated, and the music, devoid of autonomy, submits to jarring cuts to and from material of entirely disparate styles. This loss of control is largely perpetuated by the use of the human voice eroded to grotesque proportions, played through a record player through which laughter becomes screaming, and where human sounds take on synthetic qualities at odds with their organic source. The ensemble's role is as much a part of the disorienting world as a removed entity, sometimes forced by the music in its controlling nature, and sometimes seeking to break out. - Ricardo Ferro This piece was presented as part of the PIVOT program in partnership with the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Music Centre. www.continuummusic.ca ©2024 Continuum Contemporary Music (Toronto)