Celebration Hall will fill with the sounds of this ambient masterpiece, and we’re opening the doors so the audience can enjoy the sounds from the beautiful courtyard of the Hall as well as inside.
On the 40th anniversary of the release of Brian Eno’s electronic ambient masterpiece Discreet Music, Toronto’s classical Contact ensemble, led by artistic director and percussionist Jerry Pergolesi, weighs in with a modern arrangement that harks back to the adventurous experimentalism of the ori...
Celebration Hall will fill with the sounds of this ambient masterpiece, and we’re opening the doors so the audience can enjoy the sounds from the beautiful courtyard of the Hall as well as inside.
On the 40th anniversary of the release of Brian Eno’s electronic ambient masterpiece Discreet Music, Toronto’s classical Contact ensemble, led by artistic director and percussionist Jerry Pergolesi, weighs in with a modern arrangement that harks back to the adventurous experimentalism of the original.
In Contact’s version, acoustic and electric instruments (cello, violin, soprano saxophone, guitar, double bass, vibraphone, piano, flute and gongs) take the place of Eno’s EMS synthesizer, channeling the underlying melodies of the piece until the ensemble itself becomes a kind of “looping apparatus”.