60

 

October 5, 2008
Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery

Halifax, NS

programme begins at 7:30 pm
admission free
(donations welcome)

 

A special double concert celebrating
two milestones in electroacoustic music

 

• the first Canadian Mix of the world-wide 60x60 project:
60 compositions from 60 different Canadian composers
— each composition 60 seconds or less in duration.

• the 60th Anniversary of Pierre Schaeffer’s historic
Concert de Bruits, Paris, October 5, 1948
— the world’s first broadcast of electroacoustic music.

 

60 is a production of the Oscillations Music Society
with financial support from
Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture & Heritage.