To hear on Sunday 9 and 16 September 2012, 2pm - 9pm:
Different Shades of Blue
(2007, German Premiere)
by Valérie Delaney
Valérie Delaney on 'Different Shades of Blue' [10 min.]:
Some spaces, movements and images,
which the colour blue inspires me.
A wavering gleam, dancing on a crystal.
Emergent stars of a twilight sky.
The thundering sea, strong and calm,
In its unfathomable vastness.
Valérie Delaney (Montreal, 1982) is an electroacoustic composer and a film composer.
She holds a bachelor's degree in electroacoustic composition from the Université de Montréal where she studied with Jean Piché, Gilles Gobeil, Robert Normandeau and Martin Bédard.
Valérie was awarded the Third Prize Luigi Russolo for her electroacoustic piece La cité de verre (The Glass City) in the 30th edition of the International Bruitist Music Contest Luigi Russolo - Rossana Maggia, Annecy(France)-Varese(Italy). This piece also obtained the fifth prize in the Jeu de temps/Times Play 2010 competition from the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC).
Finalist in the 2007 Musica Nova competition in Prague,Valérie received a special prize in the "Composition by a Young Composer" category for her electroacoustic piece Different Shades of Blue.
Valérie received a grant from the Canada Council for The Arts for her most recent acousmatic work.
Her music has been presented in numerous festivals in North America and Europe, including The Noise of Snow Festival (France), ICMC (United-Kingdom) and Soundcrawl (United-States).
Valérie focuses on the symbolic and poetic possibilities of the sound. We are cast into these dream-like, organic soundscapes where colors, movements and textures merge together.