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<p><span style="font-size:23.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1E9B00">MEDIA ADVISORY</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">January 5, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Victoria artists lend their talents to create Music
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">for Natural History at the Royal BC Museum<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">VICTORIA, BC –</span>
</strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Sixteen vocalists, sound artists and music instrumentalists have spent months developing their listening skills and learning to acoustically replicate the sounds of wind, water,
trees and many of our beloved BC birds and mammals. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Over the course of two nights these talented performers will debut
<i>Music for Natural History,</i> composed by Victoria composers and sound artists Tina Pearson and Paul Walde, in a live performance, giving new voice to the Natural History Gallery at the Royal BC Museum and reinterpreting these beloved spaces through an
exclusive auditory experience.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">“It’s part tragic love song for the wilderness and part experimental sound art,” says Pearson. “Paul and I have researched and transcribed sounds of the flora and fauna
represented in the Gallery into a naturalistic sound composition created specifically to be performed there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">“The event is part of a growing global movement by artists working to foster connections to the biosphere. The work is a reminder of how fast
the nearby environments have become overwhelmed by human-made sound, and how our personal and cultural interactions with the soundscape have been affected.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Music for Natural History</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> begins in the dark ice cave of the Woolly Mammoth and
proceeds </span><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";background:white">to a dawn chorus within the Coastal Forest. </span><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Here, the</span><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Elk Concerto</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> reveals the quiet, the dramatic, and the surprisingly interconnected web of sonic activity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">By the Seashore, the audience will experience the dynamic
<i>Shoreline Operetta</i> with </span><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";background:white">ocean surf and the alternately peaceful, cacophonic and dramatic voices of Pacific coast sea lions, cormorants, surfbirds and other shoreline creatures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif";background:white">To end the evening, the audience will be led through the Fraser River Delta accompanied by an audio collage of bird song blended with increasing layers of human
soundscape.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">“The performance really makes us stop and appreciate the variety and amount of sound outdoors,” says Kim Gough, Royal BC Museum Learning Program
Developer. “It’s incredible to hear the alternately dramatic and serene voices of the mammals and shoreline creatures to the birds, trees, wind performed by humans. It’s at times tragic, poignant, alluring and humorous.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Music for Natural History
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">takes place January 15 and 16</span><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">, 201</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">6,
at 7</span><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> p</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">m. Tickets are
</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">$25 per person</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""> and can be purchased online at
</span><a href="http://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">royalbcmuseum.bc.ca</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Music for Natural History is presented by the Royal BC Museum and LaSaM Music and supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. LaSaM Music has been producing creative and adventurous
music events in Victoria since 2008.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">About the Royal BC Museum
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The Royal BC Museum explores the province's human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding of BC, and provides
a dynamic forum for discussion and a place for reflection. </span><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Looking
to the future, the Royal BC Museum will be a refreshed, modern museum, extending its reach far beyond Victoria as a world-class cultural venue and repository of digital treasures.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Media contact:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">Royal BC Museum Media Inquiries
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55","sans-serif"">250-387-3207<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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