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Nolan Hildebrand - portals II (everywhere & everything right now)

from New Music Festival 02022 Documentation: In The Gallery by Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble

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The second piece in a series of graphic scores entitled portals. The graphic score created for portals II (everywhere and everything right now) explores the aesthetic of noise and experiments with the concept of quantum superposition. The graphic score contains many discrete “sound universes” that are represented through various types of visual
noise. The “sound universes” embody the idea of quantum superposition which is a “feature of a quantum system whereby it exists in several separate quantum states at the same time”. In popular culture this concept has come to be known as The Multiverse Theory which holds that there are many worlds which exist in parallel at the same space and time as our own but are decoherent from one another.
The concept of portals, quantum superposition, and The Multiverse
Theory is evident in our current post digital, post pandemic world where many of us appear in online meetings on a computer screen while remaining in our physical bodies elsewhere. People interacting
simultaneously together on screen online and in physical spaces alone in-person has made the paradoxes and mind-bending reality of quantum superposition more real than ever before.

Nolan Hildebrand is a composer, researcher, and sound artist based in Toronto, Canada. His musical journey which began with playing drums to his favorite metal and math-rock albums and has grown to encompass composition in classical ensembles, electroacoustic music, and performance in his solo noise project, BLACK GALAXIE.

Nolan’s music explores noise, density, improvisation through graphic notation, and kinetic physicality. Nolan’s music has been performed by artists around the world including the XelmYa Ensemble (Germany), Dejana Sekluic (Belgium), the ECM+ Ensemble (Montreal), and the SANS duo (Los Angeles/New York City). As a performer, Nolan has played at the Cluster Music Festival and the Winnipeg New Music Festival Pop Up Concerts with the eXperimental Improv Ensemble, and NUMUS’ 2021-22 season (Waterloo, Ontario), and the Edmonton NoiseFest as BLACK GALAXIE.

Nolan has been the recipient of numerous academic grants and national awards including the 2019 SOCAN Awards for Young Composers, 1st prize in the 2021 New Media Press Solo Percussion Composition Competition, the Ontario Arts Council Career Catalyst Grant, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, and the Masters SSHRC award. Nolan has presented his music and graphic score research at the Anestis Logothetis Centenary Symposium (Athens, Greece) and the CeReNeM Composers’ Colloquia (Huddersfield, UK).

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from New Music Festival 02022 Documentation: In The Gallery, released January 24, 2023
Composed by Nolan Hildebrand

nolanahildebrand.wixsite.com/mysite

Performed by
Tyler Kashow, bassoon
Emma Lynn Abrams, voice
3>8-#<3, kaoss
Kiernynn Grantham-Crumm, percussion

Recorded by the administrative assistant on October 16 @ New Zone Gallery, at the third of three EDME New Music Festival shows in Eugene, Oregon, USA
Richard Fenton did a bit of mastering or something

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