Canon for Marjorie Stoneman-Douglas High School (2019) is a musical offering to all of those who were impacted by the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida in 2018. It is a polyphonic adaptation of a Shaker-style song composed by Drs. Gillis and Cunningham in 2016. Instrumentally it utilizes alto saxophone accompanied by the “big didge” an eight-foot-long conical PVC didgeridoo in Bb, which overblows at the octave. For this final composition, we return once again to the Dan Harpole Cistern with its lengthy and distinctive reverberation signature.
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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