Repertoire

These works represent a continuation of themes explored by Meduse since its debut:  movement, change, water and migration. These themes have been expanded to include elements of wind, birds,  and change (both naturally occurring and as a result of human intervention).

INUNDATION
music by Abigail Richardson, video by Yesim Tosuner

Written for Meduse, premiered at Sound Symposium 2004. Scored for: clarinet, viola and percussion.
Richardson says, “Inundation explores water in its various forms like rain, waves and drips, but also as an abstract entity in the live trio, with its capability of being both static and full of motion.” 

38 VARIATIONS
music by Hywel Davies, video by Yesim Tosuner

Written for Meduse, premiered at Sound Symposium 2004. Scored for: clarinet, viola and percussion.
British composer Davies rhapsodizes on the writings of Heraclitus: “Everything flows. You cannot step twice into the same river, for the waters go ever flowing on. It is in changing that things find repose…” An investigation into small changes in our everyday lives, by a keen observer.

WHY THE PARROT REPEATS HUMAN WORDS
music by Emily Doolittle

Funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, premiered in Parry Sound, July 2005. Scored for: clarinet and bass clarinet, viola, percussion and narrator. 
Text is based on a traditional Thai Folk tale. This is an evocative tale, enjoyed by children and adults alike. Our artist, Yesim is highlighted here as the narrator, fulfilling one of Meduse’s mandates, which is to allow ourselves as artists to step out of our traditional roles.

SMALL CHANGES
music by Helle Solberg

Funded by Denmark’s Staten Kuntsfond, premiered at the Music Gallery, Toronto, September, 2005. Scored for: clarinet and bass clarinet, viola, percussion.
Helle takes inspiration for this piece for clarinet, bass clarinet, viola and percussion from changing wind patterns. 

OPENING THE CAGE
music by Hywel Davies, text by Edwin Morgan

Written for Meduse, premiered at the Music Gallery, Toronto, September, 2005. Scored for: clarinet, viola and percussion, plus narration. 
It is a set of variations on John Cage’s sentence “I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry”, re-ordered 14 ways by Morgan.