Floating
Island
a new commission for
voice
piano
electroacoustics
movement
Floating Island explores themes of gender, beauty, and feminist history through music, electroacoustic soundscape, and movement. The work will feature a team of non-binary and women artists, reflecting on the forgotten histories and hidden narratives that sit at the intersection of collective memory and imagination. Anchored by an original setting of the poetry of Dorothy Wordsworth, the piece will feature live and pre-recorded vocals, and recordings of the natural soundscape in Wordsworth’s hometown.
Composed by Kara Gibbs
Promotional art by Jessica Wynn Cole
Funded in part by the SOCAN Foundation
Floating Island
Fall 2024
We are preparing to present the premiere of this new composition. Pieces by a range of exciting BC composers will round out the concert program, in a celebration of women’s voices.
Sponsored by Canadian Music Centre BC