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Stella in black and white |
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A performance piece by John Mills-Cockell & Blake Parker
"The
tale is a moral allegory. In Stella's world, animal eyes polished like
mirrors stare out of silver windows dissolve in the wash of static
gives back a picture of sleek foreign desperadoes with hair-raising
underworld connections. In Stella's world, the photo twins drift down
sunset streets neon lights winking hello-goodbye and their smooth
bodies give off a faint whiff of negrito dreams and mental crack-up. In
Stella's world, we walk down noisy streets of memory paradise same time
same place whispers telephone voice frozen in storage vats of the brain
a slender hand reaches up for new moisturizing tint sparkles on the
magnetic water leaves us speechless with cold feet and a cancelled
ticket. The political world of children's illustrations rubs shoulders
with that of the radio DJ, advertising lingo, pop music, classical
tangle of nostalgic strings dissolves into a stark image of Stella in
black and white."
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Do you hear the rushing river? |
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Composer John Mills-Cockell unveils his most intimate work with Kestrel Music's release of the new compact disc Do You Hear The Rushing River? Creating a luminous body of instrumental music that is seductive, magical and full of emotion, this influential, style-setting, contemporary composer proves that poetry can be written without words. This collection of music, haunting and ethereal, expresses the composer's passionate search for inner peace in the hum of everyday life. |
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The creation of the sound design for Skylight play at the
Vancouver Playhouse. If you are interested in reading about additional
feature articles, then click on the links for Music for Heaven, Do you hear the Rushing River ?, or Stella! in Black and White.
This
play by British playwright David Hare was directed by Bill Dow for
Vancouver Playhouse. It is essentially a two hander, a successful
middle aged entrepreneur, Tom, and his ex mistress, Kyra, a school
teacher living in a lower class district of London. The man's 17 year
old son appears at the beginning and end of the play. It all takes
place in Kyra's cluttered flat. |
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Music For Heaven came about when sculptor Michael Hayden was commissioned to create a permanent piece for The Gallery Of Modern Art in Glasgow, UK. It is installed in a space between a newly constructed wing of the gallery and the old building. The space is four storeys high and contains stairways and an elevator which leads to the four floors of the galleries. At the top of this space is the actual sculpture which Hayden has called Heaven. It is constructed using specially developed opalescent holographic paints. The entire space is filled with music provided by 4 CD players. The soundtrack became Music For Heaven.
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Concerto of Deliverance
The title is taken from a passage in Atlas Shrugged by American
novelist Ayn Rand. It was chosen at the suggestion of a long time
follower of my work, Monart Pon. We got to know each other through
numerous telephone conversations and emails. He hoped that I might be
the composer to fulfill his long time dream of realizing musically
Rand's utopian vision of deliverance,
and uplifting, joyful brilliance. According to Monart, the Concerto is
what he would have created if he were a composer. His commission
provided the inspiration and support needed to compose and produce the
score. His patience and unstinting attention to detail brought it to
completion as this compact disc.
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