Event

Homecoming : Playing The Room

Sunday, October 3, 2010 14:00to16:00
555 Sherbrooke St. West, 555 Sherbrooke St. West, New Music Building, CA

This documentary film showcases one of the most exciting adventures in sound recording, carried out right here at . Applying “virtual acoustics” for the first time in the history of recording, this film recreates the pitches and perils of all 14 hours of Haydn’s works for solo keyboard on seven historical keyboards, in nine “virtual rooms.”

Playing the Room follows the making of the instruments, the acoustical mapping of the rooms and the actual recording of the works in the Immersive Presence Laboratory at ’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology. Three specialists are key: Tom Beghin, Tonmeister-producer Martha de Francisco and sound engineer Wieslaw Woszczyk. Enter a fascinating world of sound and architecture, where the newest technologies combine with the greatest expertise and love of music. The film will be introduced by keyboard artist and musicologist Tom Beghin.

Running time: 104 minutes. Spoken in English (and occasional French, German, and Dutch), with subtitles in French.

No charge, no RSVP necessary.


Please note that this film is being shown in the Tanna Schulich Concert Hall in the New Music Building, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. (metro ).

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