A duo featuring the hollowed-out sounds of Elizabeth Millar and Craig Pedersen on amplified clarinet and trumpet, Sound of the Mountain comes from a strong history of improvisation and extended performance techniques, offering their audience long-form deep listening experiences through the sculpting of vitalized breath.
Drawing influence from the works of Pauline Oliveros, Keiji Haino, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Isabelle Duthoit and Franz Hautzinger, Sound of the Mountain’s debut album Amplified Clarinet & Trumpet evokes a vast range of textures, from silence and spaciousness to rumbling bass and saturation. The duo works with closely-mic’d instruments and minimal equalization, avoiding the use of effects pedals and loops, such that their constant physical attention drives the music. The whistles and creaking of metal and reed anticipate the more dense moments of distortion and feedback in pieces that can be appreciated as discreet moments, or longer forms.
Recorded by Thierry Amar at Montréal’s iconic Hotel2Tango, mixed by Sound of the Mountain, and mastered by Harris Newman, the LP and CD jacket were designed and handprinted by Popolo Press, and the LP pressed at Canada’s own Precision Pressing in an edition of 300.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.
Track listing:
LP:
Side A (18:10)
Side B (15:56)
CD / Digital:
1. A-Part 1 (4:15)
2. A-Part 2 (4:49)
3. A-Part 3 (9:06)
4. B-Part 1 (9:09)
5. B-Part 2 (6:47)
Sound of the Mountain is:
Elizabeth Millar, amplified clarinet
Craig Pedersen, amplified trumpet
Packaging designed and letterpressed by Kiva Stimac at Popolo press.
recorded by Thierry Amar at Hotel2Tango
mixed by Sound of the Mountain
mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket Mastering
All music by Sound of the Mountain
Sound of the Mountain 2017 from Sound of the Mountain on Vimeo.
