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Recordings

Counterstasis – Refracted Voices

Record Details

Artist
Bill Gilliam, Glen Hall, Joe Sorbara
Release
2019
Genre
Improvised New Music / Jazz
Counterstasis FRONTCOVER

Listen to Counterstasis – Refracted Voices on Bandcamp

The music you hear here is a spontaneously composed
exploration of gestures and sonorities connected to new
chamber music, free jazz, sound art, experimental, and
other creative music traditions. Gilliam, Hall, and Sorbara
draw on a wide variety of traditional and extended
techniques and employ both conventional and bent
approaches to melodicism, groove, and chromatic
harmony. Their music is expanded by Hall’s real-time
triggering and processing of his wind instruments using a
sound design workstation by Kyma as well as OMax
artificial intelligence improvising software and a CataRT
Audio Mosaic Concatenative Synthesis program; both
from the Paris-based research institute, IRCAM.

Bill Gilliam – acoustic piano, preparations
Glen Hall – woodwinds, electro-acoustics
Joe Sorbara – drums, percussion

released September 26, 2019 at:
Array Space, 155 Walnut Ave, Toronto;
and October 26, 2019, Resonance Cafe, Montreal.

CD produced with the support of the City of
Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council

About Bill

Bill is a Toronto based composer / pianist who creates and improvises new music compositions blending contemporary harmony and jazz idioms with his unique style of piano and prepared piano playing. Bill is from London, England and moved to Toronto after studying jazz and film composition at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Bill has composed for film, dance and theatre and produced jazz CDs with assistance from the Canada Council and FACTOR. His compositions have been performed by Canadian new music ensembles with assistance from the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. As a pianist / improviser he has performed with many Canadian artists and his ongoing projects include collaborations and performances with the Toronto Improvisers Orchestra, Glen Hall, David Story, Michael Lynn, Ambrose Pottie, Kayla Milmine, Cheryl O, Penn Kemp and other artists.

Upcoming Concerts

No gigs are currently scheduled.

Recent PostsFeed

  • Light Through Dark album released Nov 1st 2021
    December 3, 2021
  • Counterstasis – Refracted Voices CD Release
    September 18, 2019
  • “Entangled Pathways” CD Release
    October 4, 2017
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