This collaboration between students and faculty from the Desautels Faculty of Music and School of Art paired the UM Percussion Ensemble with visual and performance artist Frankie May, who took inspirtation from the musical score of A Fragment of a Fragment (Jon Crabiel) performed by the students as he created the first visual work of the program. This work was then re-imagined as a graphic score and represented in sound by the UM eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE) in the second section. Finally, all of the musicians and a group of visual artists came together to perform the final section as a live improvisation, taking inspiration one from the other to create the final portion of the program.
Recorded live at the University of Manitoba ARTlab on Feb 2, 2024
0:00 Opening remarks: Gordon Fitzell
2:05 Part 1: Painter Frankie May with the University of Manitoba Percussion Ensemble
12:35 Part 2: The eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE)
21:25 Part 3: ALL PLAY (see closing credits for full personnel list)
CREDITS:
School of Art Student Participants:
Laila Fazal
Frankie May
Isabella Santiago
Netsanet Shawl
Savana Sirtonski
School of Art Faculty Members:
Derek Brueckner
Mark Neufeld
Desautels Faculty of Music Student Ensembles:
University of Manitoba Percussion Ensemble:
Jackson Bartel
Cassandra Campbell
Andy Chiu
Nathan Gibbens
Maggie Koreen
Melody Pearson-Monroe
Sage Helgason-Stoyanowski
Abby Wotowich
Emma Wynne
Victoria Sparks, director
eXperimental Improv Ensemble (XIE):
Kelsen Hadder
Chanson Lussier
Tamir Moore-Freedman
Phenix Rock
Christopher Woytyshyn
Gordon Fitzell, director