Vox Organi: Blake Hargreaves

Vox Organi: Blake Hargreaves

Vancouver New Music Festival 2023
October 19, 2023
Pacific Spirit United Church, Vancouver, Canada

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Since the early 1990s Blake Hargreaves has explored the sonic and expressive possibilities of the pipe organ through experimentation and improvisation. Recently this practice has expanded to deliberate encounters with unfamiliar instruments, excavating new creations at each novel interaction. Hargreaves has documented such actions with nearly 100 pipe organs across the Americas and Europe. Bringing this practice to the context of a live happening with the massive Casavant at Pacific Spirit is an honour and privilege for Hargreaves, to explore the realities of the present through the complex lens of the organ’s construction, community and land.

Videography: Mingtao Kong
Audio documentation: Dan Kibke

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