The Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society and the
Czechoslovak Society of
Arts and Sciences of Alberta presents, in concert…
Terri Hron -
Bohemian Elegy
Program:
Sonata No. 4
by Lubos Fiser
Forensic
Music
AhojAhoj
undressing a
past
by Terri Hron
In the Mists
by Leos Janacek
Zuzana Simurdova: piano
Terri Hron: electronics
Date: Monday,
February 26, 2018
Time: 7 pm
Place: Moravian
Church, 9540 – 83
Avenue
Price: by
donation
In 2008, my maternal grandfather, the Czech poet Jan
Vladislav, passed
away, leaving me his collection of family heirlooms. There
were letters dating
back one hundred years, cassette-tapes sent and received
from my parents (who
emigrated to Canada during the Cold War), including an
extensive collection of
photographs and a couple of films. This archive prompted me
to gather as much
of our family material – also from my father’s side – as
possible. I began to
envision a project that would use the collection in a
musical performance.
Sharp Splinter is this project: a program of new works for
instruments and
electronics using my family’s letters, cassettes and films.
Terri Hron studied musicology and art history at the
University of
Alberta, recorder performance and contemporary music at the
Conservatorium van
Amsterdam, and electroacoustic composition at the Université
de Montréal. She
just completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Wesleyan
University. She
investigates collaborative practices in the creation of
electroacoustic music
and the changes in temporal and spatial perception that
accompany performing
alongside digital media.
