Canis Lupi (2018) is a programmatic composition, which portrays the plight of two grey wolves separated by a severe arctic blizzard. Throughout the piece they blindly communicate back and forth, coming ever-steadily closer together until eventually finding each other. In addition to alto saxophone this piece incorporates a James E Cunningham hand-carved maple didgeridoo in Eb. The freezing and blustery arctic environment is produced through the combination of the Fort Worden cistern and Hal Saflieni mosque impulse-response technology.
from
Sonic Eclipse,
released December 28, 2019
All songs (except #8) composed by Duo Gillis Cunningham (DGC) aka James E Cunningham b.1954, and Glen H Gillis b. 1956.
*Whales in a Mechanical Ocean, composed by Matthew M. Baltrucki b. 1986, feat. The DGC and recorded samples from the David L. Kaplan Musical Instrument Collection at the University of Saskatchewan Department of Music.
Glen Gillis: alto saxophone
James E Cunningham: didgeridoos, conch trumpet, wailphone, and select idiophones
Guest percussionists: Satnam Ramgotra and Matt Nichols
Produced by Matt Baltrucki and James E Cunningham
Engineering, mixing, mastering, and post-production by Matt Baltrucki
Assistant engineering by Zach Binder
Album artwork by Kelley Cunningham
Recorded at Studio A, Department of Music, Florida Atlantic University
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