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THE NATURE PROJECTFor years I have spent much of my recreational time in the outdoors hiking, cross-country skiing, biking and, occasionally, camping. As I pursued these out-door activities, I gravitated toward environmental activism, volunteering with environmental organizations to work on a variety of issues. Over the past decade,as the ecological problems that surround us have become more pressing, I began to wonder if I could find a way to combine my concern for the environ-ment with my long-time work in the performance and promotion of new music.

This led to The Nature Project, begun in 2005 and consisting of more than twenty pieces, many written for m e specifically for this project. In addition tobeing performed in traditional concert halls, the pieces have been heard invenues ranging from the Miami Beach Botanical Gardens and the Shortridge -Mt. Morse Nature Conservancy (Phippsburg, ME), to the Ear to the Earth Festival(NYC) and The Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), where it accompanied theexhibition Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art.

The works continue my career-long interest in electronics and multi-media, and inthe case of Avalon Shorelines, my deep interest in improvisation and loosely notat-ed scores. They also resonate in a more personal way: the memory of spotting abald eagle fishing in a river, and recalling a day-long ski trip in Yellowstone NationalPark in blowing, swirling snowwith nothing stirring and nothing to be heard exceptfor my breath, the swoosh of the skis, and the wind whistling through the trees.2

MADELEINE SHAPIRO, cellistCalled a cello innovator by Time Out New York, Madeleine Shapiro has longbeen a recognized figure in the field of contemporary music. Madeleine performs extensively as a solo recitalist throughout the U.S., Europe and LatinAmerica. With a focus on recent works by living composers, her concerts haveincluded numerous premiere performances of works for cello, and cello with electronics, many written for her. Madeleines first solo CD, Electricity:Works for Cello and Electronics was greeted as ...focused and cohesive...a polystylisticcollection of pieces that individually push the instrument and technology in unique ways.(Time Out New York ). As a chamber musician she was the found-ing director of the internationally known ensemble The New Music Consort, andpresently directs ModernWorks.

Madeleines awards and grants include two Encore Awards from the AmericanComposers Forum, and a Barlow Award, all to assist in the presentation of new works. She has also been awarded First Prize in Adventurous Programmingby ASCAP Chamber Music America, and has received numerous grants for performing, commissioning and recording from The New York State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and Meet the Composer. She has been a three - time Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.

Along with her two solo recordings on Albany Records, she has recorded for Naxos,New World Records, Stradivarius, CRI, Mode and HarvestWorks. 3

In addition to performing, Madeleine is the director of NewMusicMannes at New Yorks prestigious Mannes College of Music, where she also teaches aseminar in new music performance techniques. A dedicated and involved teacher, she presents new music workshops and masterclasses at universities both nationally and internationally, and has had numerous residencies at a wide range of institutions.

MORTON SUBOTNICKAXOLO TL (for cello and electronic ghost score) is the first of two works in Part I of a series entitled The Double Life of Amphibians. The axolotl is aMexican salamander; it is transparent and delicate with two filigree wing-likeappendages extending from either side and floating above the creature.These are lungs for its future ascent to the surface of the water, but theaxolotl never goes through the final stage of its potential development...it never reaches air...it remains forever in water.

Morton Subotnick is a pioneering composer in the development of electronicmusic and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media,including interactive computer music systems. Most of his music calls for acomputer part or live electronic processing, and his oeuvre utilizes many of the important technological breakthroughs in the history of the genre. His groundbreaking electronic works, Silver Apples of the Moon and The Wild Bull, commissioned by Nonesuch Records, were the first works to be 4

composed specifically for disc medium.Both works have received worldwideacclaim and are often choreographed by leading dance companies aroundthe world. Subotnick played an important role in developing the electronicghost box, which is an electronic device consisting of a pitch and envelopefollower for a live signal with an amplifier, frequency shifter and ring modula-tor. His pioneering works for electronic ghost and live performers includeLiquid Strata for piano,The Wild Beasts for trombone and piano, Trembling for violin and piano and A Fluttering of Wings for string quartet.

JUDITH SHATINFOR THE BIRDS is an hommage to the birds of the Yellowstone region as wellas a play on Cages book of that name. I include the sounds of the natural world,sometimes clearly, sometimes digitally transformed beyond recognition. Thejoining of the voice of the cello with that of the birds, reminds us of the joiningof the human worlds with those of the birds that surround us and the impor-tance of maintaining their habitats. The transformation of their voices speaks tothe transformative power of music.I am grateful to naturalist Kevin Colver forsharing his bird recordings. Bird enthusiasts may also know that he is the nar-rator of the Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region. Judith Shatin is a composer, sound artist and community arts partner

whose music was called something magical by Fanfare, and highly inven-tive on every level, by The Washington Post. Her practice engages our

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social, cultural and physical environments. Known for her path-breaking electroacoustic music, she has also created a major body of acoustic music.A four-time recipient of fellowships from the NEA, Shatins work has beenhonored with a two-year retrospective sponsored by the Lil a WallaceReaders Digest Arts Partners Program, multiple grants from Meet theComposer /Creative Connections, and many others. Her music has been commissioned by ensembles such as Berlin Ensemble PianoPercussion, Da Capo Chamber Players, the Dutch Hexagon Ensemble, Kronos Quartet,and the National and Richmond Symphonies as well as organizations including the Library of Congress, Barlow and Fromm Foundations. Hermusic is widely recorded on labels including Innova, Naxos, Neuma,New World and Sonora. She is currently a William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor ofMusic at the University of Virginia where she founded the Virginia Center forComputer Music. judithshatin.comMATTHEW BURTNERLike a skier moving across the snow, I imagined the cellist sliding the bowacross the surface of the cello. The performers breath and the sounds of the snow reveal contours of two parallel terrains. Fragments from cold: the snow from outside, the breath within.The tracks of both crossing are left in noise. Fragments from Cold uses snow and wind sounds from Matthewsnative Alaska.6

Matthew Burtner is a composer and sound artist specializing in concert music, ecoacoustics and interactive media. Born and raised in Alaska, he isFirst Prize Winner of the Musica Nova International Electroacoustic MusicCompetition, a 2011 IDEA Award Winner, and a 2013 NEA Art Works Grant winner. His recently published climate change opera, Auksalaq, received a 2014 Special Judges Citation from The American Prize for Extraordinary Use of Technology to Expand the Boundaries of Performance. He has been an Invited Researcher at IRCAM, Provost Fellow at UWMs Center for 21stCentury Studies, and a Howard Brown Foundation Fellow of Brown University. He is currently a Professor in the University of Virginias McIntire Departmentof Music. In 2009 he founded the environmental arts non-profit organiza-tion, EcoSono.Burtners music has been performed in major festivals and venues through-

out the world and commissioned by ensembles such as Integrales (Germany),NOISE (USA), Trio Ascolto (Germany), MiN (Norway), Musikene (Spain), Spiza (Greece), CrossSound (Alaska), and others. He has also worked closelywith virtuosic soloists such as Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Dimitris Marinos, Morris Palter, Haleh Abghari, Madeleine Shapiro and Wu Wei.

matthewburtner.com TOM WILLIAMSDart was written for Madeleine Shapiro who gave the world premiere in 2012. The work was shortlisted for the British Composer Awards 2013

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awarded by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors,Sonic Arts Category.

The works narrative and musical imagery find their inspiration in the riverDart. This is a landscape that has very personal resonances for me. The cellois in dialogue with both digital delay created by live processing and an electroacoustic tape part that is composed from recordings made of theriver Dart and of the wood body of the cello itself. In the first lines of his 1902 novel, The River, Eden Philpotts evocatively describes the Dart in all its moods ... ever rolling, ever changing, the river strays; and the nature of mankind is reflected in her many moods, in her peaceful and sunlit sum-mer-time, in her autumn torrents and winter darkness banked with snow.Tom Williams is an award-winning composer who specializes in composi-

tions for electroacoustic music. His song cycle, Like Oranges, receivednumerous international performances and broadcasts, and was recorded on the Kitchenware label. Ironwork for piano and tape was an ALEA III prize-winning work in 1993. His acousmatic work, Can, won the Italian musicmedal Citt di Udine in 2010, and Shelter received a honorable mention at IMEB, Bourges, in 2006, and Break was a finalist in the 2004 Musica Viva competition. Recent collaborations have included the video works Voice (aRetracing), and Home (aReplacing), with the dancer Vida Midgelow,and the 2015 song cycle Meditations on a Landscape, with sopranoJuliana Janes Yaff. He is currently Director of Music Composition and8

Leader of INTIME experimental music group at Coventry University.tw-hear.com

GAYLE YOUNG In Avalon Shorelines the cello plays with two simultaneous tracks of NorthAtlantic Ocean sounds of waves recorded at several locations along thestony shores of Newfoundlands Avalon Peninsula. The number of repetitionsof waves from each location is determined by simple number sequences.Madeleine improvises with the sounds of water splashing and waves interacting with varying sizes of stones, as patterns emerge from the juxtapositions of the waves. She develops these by integrating timbre, noiseand string overtones, sometimes going with the current, sometimes on top ofthe waves, sometimes submerged. The composition of Avalon Shore lineswas funded through a project grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.Gayle Young composes music for electroacoustics, for orchestral instru-

ments, and for instruments she designed and built in order to work withmicrotonal tunings. She studied contemporary music at Torontos YorkUniversity with David Rosenboom, Richard Teitelbaum, and James Tenney,among others. In the fall of 2014 she was in residence in Italy as a fellow ofthe Civitella Ranieri Foundation where she wrote a piece for solo piano with optional electronics. As publisher and former editor of Musicworksmagazine, Young facilitates public discussion of music and sound explo-ration. The Sackbut Blues, her biography of electronic music pioneer

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Hugh Le Caine, outlines a fertile period of interaction among science, tech-nology and music in the mid-twentieth century as the first compositionsemerged from electronic music studios.

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This recording was made possible in part with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Thanks to the following special individuals: Barry Soicher, Christine Chagnon (for her wonderful artwork),

Susan Dadian, Beatriz Roman, Michael Calvert and Joel Chadabe.

General Production: Madeleine Shapiro and Louis BrownRecording and Editing: Louis Brown (lbrownrecording.com)

Mastering: Andreas K. Meyer (meyer-media.com)Art Direction /Design: Christine Chagnon

Photos: Steven Speliotis (Speliotis Photography)

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Morton Subotnick1. Axolotl for solo cello and electronic ghost score (1981) 18:43

Judith ShatinFor the Birds for amplified cello and electronics (2005)*2. Song Birds 3:393. Sapsuckers 3:584. Birds of Prey 2:525. Water Birds 3:40Matthew Burtner6. Fragments from Cold for cello and electroacoustics (2005)* 8:44

Tom Williams7. Dart for cello, digital delays and fixed media (2012)* 15:40

Gayle Young with Madeleine Shapiro8. Avalon Shorelines* (2011) 8:41Total Time: 66:22

*written for Madeleine Shapiro / The Nature Project

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Morton Subotnick1. Axolotl for solo cello and electronic

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Judith ShatinFor the Birds for amplified cello and electronics (2005)*2. Song Birds 3:393. Sapsuckers 3:584. Birds of Prey 2:525. Water Birds 3:40

Matthew Burtner6. Fragments from Cold for cello and

electroacoustics (2005)* 8:44

Tom Williams7. Dart for cello, digital delays and

fixed media (2012)* 15:40

Gayle Young with Madeleine Shapiro8. Avalon Shorelines* (2011) 8:41Total Time: 66:22

*written for Madeleine Shapiro / The Nature Project

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MADELEINE SHAPIRO, cellistCalled a cello innovator by Time Out New York, Madeleine Shapiro has long been a recognized figure in the field of contemporary music. Madeleine performs extensively as a solo recitalist throughout the U.S., Europe and LatinAmerica. With a focus on recent works by living composers, her concerts haveincluded numerous premiere performances of works for cello, and cello with electronics, many written for her. Madeleines first solo CD, Electricity: Works for Cello and Electronics was greeted as ...focused and cohesive...a polystylistic collection of pieces that individually push the instrument and technology in unique ways. (Time Out New York ). As a chamber musician she was the founding director of the internationally known ensemble The New Music Consort,and presently directs ModernWorks.Madeleines awards and grants include two Encore Awards from the AmericanComposers Forum, and a Barlow Award, all to assist in the presentation of new works. She has also been awarded First Prize in Adventurous Programmingby ASCAP Chamber Music America, and has received numerous grants for performing, commissioning and recording from The New York State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and Meet the Composer. She has been a three -time VisitingArtist at the American Academy in Rome.Along with her two solo recordings on Albany Records, she has recorded forNaxos, New World Records, Stradivarius, CRI, Mode and HarvestWorks.In addition to performing, Madeleine is the director of NewMusicMannes at New Yorks prestigious Mannes College of Music, where she also teaches a seminar in new music performance techniques. A dedicated and involved teacher, she presents new music workshops and masterclasses at universitiesboth nationally and internationally, and has had numerous residencies at a wide range of institutions.

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Morton Subotnick

1.Axolotlfor solo cello and electronic

ghost score (1981)18:43

Judith Shatin

For the Birdsfor amplified cello

and electronics (2005)*

2. Song Birds3:39

3.Sapsuckers 3:58

4.Birds of Prey 2:52

5.Water Birds 3:40

Matthew Burtner

6.Fragments from Cold for cello and

electroacoustics (2005)*8:44

Tom Williams

7.Dartfor cello, digital delays and

fixed media (2012)*15:40

Gayle YoungwithMadeleine Shapiro

8.Avalon Shorelines*(2011)8:41

Total Time: 66:22

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written for Madeleine Shapiro/The Nature Project

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MADELEINE SHAPIRO, cellist

Called a cello innovator by Time Out New York, Madeleine Shapiro has

long been a recognized figure in the field of contemporary music. Madeleine

performs extensively as a solo recitalist throughout the U.S., Europe and Latin

America. With a focus on recent works by living composers, her concerts have

included numerous premiere performances of works for cello, and cello with

electronics, many written for her. Madeleines first solo CD, Electricity: Works

for Cello and Electronicswas greeted as ...focused and cohesive...a polystylistic

collection of pieces that individually push the instrument and technology in

unique ways.(Time Out New York). As a chamber musician she was the

founding director of the internationally known ensemble The New Music Consort,

and presently directs ModernWorks.

Madeleines awards and grants include two Encore Awards from the American

Composers Forum, and a Barlow Award, all to assist in the presentation of

new works. She has also been awarded First Prize in Adventurous Programming

by ASCAP Chamber Music America, and has received numerous grants for

performing, commissioning and recording from The New York State Council

on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts,The Mary Flagler Cary

Charitable Trust and Meet the Composer. She has been a three-time Visiting

Artist at the American Academy in Rome.

Along with her two solo recordings on Albany Records, she has recorded for

Naxos, New World Records, Stradivarius, CRI, Mode and HarvestWorks.

In addition to performing, Madeleine is the director of NewMusicMannes at

New Yorks prestigious Mannes College of Music, where she also teaches a

seminar in new music performance techniques.Adedicated and involved

teacher, she presents new music workshops and masterclasses at universities

both nationally and internationally, and has had numerous residencies at a

wide range of institutions.

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followed safety, trim and bleed lines to the best of my ability given I have not

seen this template before, and had no specic instructions as to how to

prepare it other than the indicated lines, which should suffice.

If there are errors on my part in preparing this document, please contact me

at 845 765 1381, or e-mail me at chrischagnon@optonline.netwith

specific instructions and I will correct the file and re-upload it to the Albany

FTP site.

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MADELEINESHAPIRO cello

SOUNDSNATURE

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CELLOand

ELECTRONICS

Morton Subotnick1. Axolotl for solo cello and electronic

ghost score (1981) 18:43

Judith ShatinFor the Birds for amplified cello and electronics (2005)*2. Song Birds 3:393. Sapsuckers 3:584. Birds of Prey 2:525. Water Birds 3:40

Matthew Burtner6. Fragments from Cold for cello and

electroacoustics (2005)* 8:44

Tom Williams7. Dart for cello, digital delays and

fixed media (2012)* 15:40

Gayle Young with Madeleine Shapiro8. Avalon Shorelines* (2011) 8:41Total Time: 66:22

*written for Madeleine Shapiro / The Nature Project

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MADELEINE SHAPIRO, cello

WORKS for CELLOand

ELECTRONICS

MADELEINE SHAPIRO, cellistCalled a cello innovator by Time Out New York, Madeleine Shapiro has long been a recognized figure in the field of contemporary music. Madeleine performs extensively as a solo recitalist throughout the U.S., Europe and LatinAmerica. With a focus on recent works by living composers, her concerts haveincluded numerous premiere performances of works for cello, and cello with electronics, many written for her. Madeleines first solo CD, Electricity: Works for Cello and Electronics was greeted as ...focused and cohesive...a polystylistic collection of pieces that individually push the instrument and technology in unique ways. (Time Out New York ). As a chamber musician she was the founding director of the internationally known ensemble The New Music Consort,and presently directs ModernWorks.Madeleines awards and grants include two Encore Awards from the AmericanComposers Forum, and a Barlow Award, all to assist in the presentation of new works. She has also been awarded First Prize in Adventurous Programmingby ASCAP Chamber Music America, and has received numerous grants for performing, commissioning and recording from The New York State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and Meet the Composer. She has been a three -time VisitingArtist at the American Academy in Rome.Along with her two solo recordings on Albany Records, she has recorded forNaxos, New World Records, Stradivarius, CRI, Mode and HarvestWorks.In addition to performing, Madeleine is the director of NewMusicMannes at New Yorks prestigious Mannes College of Music, where she also teaches a seminar in new music performance techniques. A dedicated and involved teacher, she presents new music workshops and masterclasses at universitiesboth nationally and internationally, and has had numerous residencies at a wide range of institutions.

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