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Postponed LITHOPHONICA | CD Release, Concert/Discussion

Name: *Postponed* LITHOPHONICA | CD Release, Concert/Discussion
Start: 2025-03-15T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-15T21:00:00-04:00
Location: ImprovLab

March 15 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Free

Image for Lithophonica. Rocks and stones are featured laid out on a wooden table. Lithophonica, Gayle Young and James Harley.

*** Postponed ***
We will share details on a rescheduled date as soon as they become available.

Please join us on Saturday, March 15 at 7:00 PM (ET) to celebrate the release of the marvellous, eccentric Lithophonica I & II (Bedrock Resonances) by Gayle Young and James Harley on the Farpoint Recordings label in Dublin.

This CD Release, Concert, and Discussion event will take place in person at ImprovLab, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph. Admission is FREE and open to everybody!

More About LITHOPHONICA

Stones, the instruments featured on this album, are joined by sounds of bells, sticks and Young’s stringed instruments as Harley expands their resonance, shaping sounds through granulation, layering, transposition, delays, and spatialization.

Young’s collection of resonant stones from the shores of Newfoundland, resonant sticks from abandoned beaver lodges in Ontario, played with bells and assorted hardware, are combined with stringed instruments she designed and built.

As hex-bolts are rolled over stones resting on strings, their vibrations cause the strings to sound. Bells resonate with stones, stones rock on strings, and resonant sticks bounce on strings.

Signal processing simultaneously expands the depth and frequency range, adding complexity through layering and subtle shifts over time.

Additional details to follow