Swirl
from Sources by Louise Campbell
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(2023)
Dedicated to my father, Stewart Campbell
Swirl is a work that was inspired by a time in my life when I unexpectedly spent a lot of time living beside a major waterway, and feeling, oddly for me, somewhat without direction. This work explores the smallest gatherings of water at the edges of a river, and the discovery that, even without a rudder, the eddies and backwaters of a river eventually give direction to the smallest of objects that it carries.
This work was in my thoughts for a very long time, and is informed by multiple short trips to the bird sanctuaries of the St. Lawrence Parks Commission, the frozen lake shore off the West Island of Montreal during a residency at St. Thomas High School funded by Culture in Schools, and the unexpected time I spent on the Bow River over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic during the last years of my father’s life.
Étienne Legast, sound engineer
Recorded by Audiotopie
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Redshift was founded in Vancouver, Canada with a focus on championing the music of contemporary composers.
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