• Composers
• CORMIER, André
• HARROP, Todd
• MARMOR, Jonathan
• MAXWELL, Devin
• YOUNG, Andrea

Publishing House

Welcome to Éditions musique SISYPHE

We make available musical scores by composers who are mainly of our time with a particular emphasis on experimental composition. Most scores are either available for free as pdf downloads, or as printed copies for purchase. Feel free to browse our composers’ catalogues in the collection.

Please contact info@emsis.ca for any questions regarding scores or composers and to request a pdf or to order a physical copy of any score in the collection.

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January 27, 2012 — Klang im Turm

Suna No Onna will perform a programme of works by André Cormier, including a new work Gegengewich, at Klang im Turm in Munich Germany. Claude-Lorraine Straße, 26. Munich.

January 25, 2012 – Düsseldorf Kunstraum

Suna No Onna will perform a programme of new works by Antoine Beuger, ô monde sur deux tiges, and André Cormier, Gegengewicht, at Düsseldorf Kunstraum in Düsseldorf Germany.

September 30, 2011 — VOICE/wire 01

À la séries Innovations (Montréal) Andrea Young interprete VOICE/wire, une collection de nouvelles œuvres pour voix et électroniques s’inscrivant entre la rigueur et l’absurde. Ce soir, elle interprétera VOICE/wire 01, une collection de compositions ultramodernes. Cette œuvre, qui s’intéresse autant à la physicalité de l’interprétation de la musique qu’à l’imaginaire auditif, combine ses propres inventions et des pièces écrites pour elle par des compositeurs du Canada, des Pays-Bas, d’Italie et du Mexique. Sala Rosa, Montreal.

June 30, 2011 — Pour Takako Minekawa

A new piece by André Cormier, Pour Takako Minekawa, will be featured at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre as part of the Powell Street Festival. This piece is a respectful homage to japanese singer Takako Minekawa. Ensemble SISYPHE will be joined for this piece with projections by artist Allison Hrabluik.

April 21, 2011 — Salon des compositeurs II: À chacun sa miniature

Second part of concert: À chacun sa miniature — Pieces from the participants of the Composer’s Kitchen 2005-10 (composed in support of the Quatuor Bozzini Commissioning Venture 2010)

April 9 @ 3pm, 2011 — CLANG CLAGAN (Ensemble SISYPHE) opening reception

Where: Surrey Art Gallery (13750 – 88 Avenue, Surrey, BC, 1 block east of King George Blvd)

Clang Clagan is a computer-assisted sound installation with voice (Andrea Young) and viola (Robin Streb) that is enacted each hour on the hour in the Surrey Arts Centre courtyard. This installation is a work by Ensemble Sisyphe, a collaboration between sound artists Andrea Young and André Cormier. This installation is part of Open Sound 2011: Nests Built by Birds, a series of sound art installations related to voice, presented at intervals throughout 2011.

The Gallery opening reception is on Saturday April 9, to publicly acknowledge the installation of Clang Clagan and Open Sound 2011 more generally. The opening reception is from 3 to 5:30pm. Remarks will be at 3:30.

March 10, 2011 - new work

Kathryn Ladano and Richard Burrows will premiere music for bass clarinet and percussion by Todd Harrop.  Wilfrid Laurier University, Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Waterloo Ontario, 12 p.m., free admission.

February 10, 2011 - Monco

Digital Prowess will premiere a quintet by Todd Harrop. University of Guelph, MacKinnon Rm. 107 (Goldschmidt Room), Guelph Ontario, 12:10 p.m., free admission.

January 22, 2011 - Contact

Todd Harrop, Nora-Louise Müller and Arturo Grolimund will premiere a new work by Harrop in Bohlen-Pierce tuning at the Kampnagel, Hamburg Germany, as part of klub katarakt festival.  8 p.m., 15€.

January 19, 2011 — Neuvaine No. 1

Organist Michael Murray plays a noon-hour organ concert at the University of British Columbia Recital Hall. The programme includes Bach, Brahms, Schoenberg as well as an early piece of André Cormier, ‘Neuvaine No. 1′ from 1998.

June 2, 2010 — Marabout de ficelle (duo version)

Jessica Catron and Laura Cetilia will perform a duo version of Marabout de ficelle, a solo cello piece that was premiered by Catron in 2003. The performance will be  part of the Dog Star experimental music series at The California Institute for the Arts. The performance will take place at Calarts in the Wild Beast.

May 29, 2010 — Zwei Bücher

Suna No Onna play Jürg Frey and André Cormier at the wulf. in Los Angeles.

May 8, 2010 — VOICE/wire : 02

Andrea Young performs a collection of works for voice and electronics. Works by : Andrea Young; Luigi Nono; Hector Bernard; Agostino di Scipio and André Cormier with visual artist Allison Hrabluki and directed by Emelia Symington Fedy.

May 8, 2010 — Vancity Culture Lab, 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC

April 10, 2010 – Orchestra Armonia at Sonic Boom

John van Deursen will conduct a programme of new music at Vancouver Pro Musica’s 2010 edition of Sonic Boom on April 10, 2010. Included on this programme will be André Cormier’s Pour au moins : huit.

March 27, 2010 — Suna no onna — Bardo

Suna no onna will be performing at Blim in Vancouver. In addition to André Cormier’s new piece Bardo, they will also be giving the world premiere of Jürg Frey’s Buch der Räume und Zeiten; viola and cello version.

Blim Gallery, 197 E. 17th Ave, Vancouver, BC. 8 PM. $8-$10 sliding scale.

March 14, 2010 — A concert of excerpts from the opera ‘Les Comptoirs’

Sunday March 14th at 3PM, at Théâtre Hector-Charland de L’Assomption, 225, boul. de L’Ange-Gardien, L’Assomption, Québec. This is about 20 minutes east of Montreal. The presentation of non-staged excerpts of André Cormier (composer) and Louise Brissette’s (librettist) opera ‘Les Comptoirs.’

March 2, 2010 — Ensemble SISYPHE : 01

Ensemble SISYPHE will be giving its inaugural concert on March 2, 2010 in Vancouver at The Vancity Culture Lab, 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC — as a moral boosting exercises during the rebuilding after the Olympic sized shit storm that will have been pulverizing the city for about two weeks. Premieres of works by emsis composers Andrea Young and André Cormier. Featuring Robin Streb on viola and Andrea Young on voice.

November 7, 2009. Andrea Young, Mem1 at Blim.

We’ve been looking forward to this one! Robin Streb will join Andrea to perform the premiere of ‘Infinitesimals.’ Here’s the full lineup for the night:

Jeffrey Allport + Chandan Narayan | percussion + autoharp
Andrea Young | voice + electronics
Jamie Drouin | electronics, video
Mem1 | cello + electronics

$5-10 sliding scale
Blim — 197 17th Ave., E, Vancouver BC.

Düsseldorf July 2-25.

Will be spending most of July in Germany doing work with composer Antoine Beuger, which I am very exited about. Also, thanks to Mr. Beuger, there will be a concert of my string works on July 8th, 8 PM at the Kunstraum Düsseldorf as part of the Klangraum 2009 featuring Clemens Merkel (violin), Robin Streb (viola), Isabelle Bozzini (violoncello).

In Los Angeles May 14-18, 2009.

On Saturday, May 16th sisters Robin and Cassia Streb are launching a new viola duo with a performance and a homemade pizza reception to follow (with Dr. Hildestad as chef!). They have been playing together since they were kids but have been working on a program of contemporary and experimental music since this past summer. They have four compositions for viola duo that they’ll be presenting on Saturday evening.

Compositions by:
André Cormier
Catherine Lamb
Michael Winter
Christian Wolf

Cassia and Robin Streb
The Wulf
Saturday, May 16th 2009
8pm
FREE

The Wulf
1026 south santa fe avenue #203,
los angeles, california
90021
www.thewulf.org

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April 4-12, 2009

WE’RE HEADING OUT TO BROOKLYN, NYC for a show at the wonderful Listen/Space. I’m happy to be on this programme with these fantastic composers — these guys rule. And, the performers are top-notch. Also, Suna no onna will be reunited to participate in this performance.

April 11 2009, SATURDAY 8 pm (free): André Cormier/ Quentin Tolimieri/
Devin Maxwell/ Christian Wolff/ Jonathan Marmor

At the golden mean it will turn into “I will always love you” by Whitney Houston, as it
appeared in Titanic. That sure was popular. If I could pull that off, I surely would.
–JM

André Cormier- Bactéries
Quentin Tolimieri- Excerpt: The Castle of Dromore
Devin Maxwell- two violas and bass clarinet
Christian Wolff- Malvina
Jonathan Marmor- New piece

Robin Streb, viola
Cassia Streb, viola
Orin Hildestadt, violin
Laura Cetilia, cello
Devin Maxwell, percussion
Katie Porter, bass clarinet