No Bottom (Boundless the Source)
CREDITS
© 2023 Andrew Forster
No Bottom (Boundless the Source) / video 49min
production: La fondation andré forestier / l'Institut pour l'inconnu, Montréal
in association with Musique rayonnante, Montréal
Quatuor d'occasion:
Nicola Caloia (double bass)
Émilie Girard-Charest (cello)
Malcolm Goldstein (violin)
Jean René (viola)
Download and CD
because a circle is not enough - music for bowed string instruments (2022)
New world Records, Brooklyn, New York
download and CD info - www.newworldrecords.org
all compositions by Malcolm Goldstein, BMI 2019
except J. S. Bach: Partita #1 in B minor (corrente)
sound recording: (Hotel2Tango, Montréal): Shae Brossard with Nicolas Caloia
live recording (opening sequence): Mathieu Bélanger
mixed at OBORO sound studio by Bruno Pucella
No Bottom premiered at FIFA (Festival International du film sur l'art) Montréal, 2023.
BIOS
The Quatuor d'occasion was formed in 2011 on the initiative of Malcolm Goldstein. Since then they have performed in most of Montreal's experimental and improvised music venues. Meeting regularly for several years, the quartet's musicians have developed a common discourse and created their own group sound.
Malcolm Goldstein is a preeminent member of Montreal's creative music community, actively involved in the city as a composer, performer, educator and presenter since 1992. Malcolm first rose to prominence in the 1960's
in New York City where he was a co-founder of the Tone Roads Ensemble and a participant in the Judson Dance Theater, the New York Festival of the Avant-Garde and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Since then he has constantly composed and performed throughout North America and Europe.
Émilie Girard-Charest is a cellist, composer and improviser. She graduated from the Montreal Conservatory of Music in cello and composition. She also holds a Master degree is Contemporary Performance and Composition from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and is currently studying at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon.
After studying viola at the Montreal Conservatory, Jean René worked for five years in various orchestras in Italy. Upon his return, he studied composition and conducting before returning to the viola. He is dedicated to the practice of improvisation and its exploration in various musical contexts but he also works as a freelancer in many different ensembles, principally with the Orchestre Métropolitain.
Nicolas Caloia is a Montreal based double bassist, composer, bandleader and founder of Musique rayonnante, a non-profit new music presenter. For the past thirty years he has worked at creating a living music by using rigorously composed material to channel collective improvisation.
www.musiquerayonnante.org
Andrew Forster is a visual artist and writer whose work includes installation, performance-video, and curatorial experiments. Mer Parguayenne, was a building wrapped in language - a collaboration with poet Erín Moure based on the writing of Wilson Bueno - in 2017. The video and installation The Machine Stops, recorded in Chandigarh in 2019 is a parable about the end of the world. Waternature, a series of objects and writings investigating ideas of nature, began in 2022. As a video-maker his interest is a non-promotional curiousity about art practices and experimental processes investigating the unknown.
Andrew Forster web: www.andreforestier.ca --- contact: info(a)andreforestier.ca