Staniland/ Scott/ Macdonald/ Watts/ Halladay - Talking Down the Tiger - Dreaded Sea Voyage

Andrew Staniland (b. 1977), recently recognized by election to the Inaugural Cohort of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists Royal Society of Canada, has become one of Canada's most important and innovative musical voices. His powerful body of music for solo instruments with electronics that reveals the exciting and evocative use he makes of sound files and 'looping' have been performed and broadcast internationally. On Talking Down the Tiger, the eponymously-titled opening piece explores the ferociousness, beauty and mystery of percussion instruments whilst Flute vs. Tape is virtuosic, vivacious, and not afraid to embrace capricious fun. These qualities permeate his music and help explain why leading American writer Alex Ross calls it 'alternately beautiful and terrifying'.