Christine Fellows (stop-motion) is one of the most original voices on the Canadian music scene. An avid interdisciplinary collaborator, Fellows often works with visual artists, choreographers, filmmakers, and musicians from all disciplines, including visual artist Shary Boyle and classical-contemporary ensemble Correction Line Ensemble.
Leanne Zacharias (cello) is a dynamic cellist and interdisciplinary artist known for innovative collaborations with artists across genres and geographies. Her work has been featured in numerous national and international festivals; in the award-winning Sonus Loci: a sound installation on ice (2013); and in recordings with John K. Samson, The Mountain Goats, Eric Platz, and long-time ally Christine Fellows. Post-pandemic, Leanne will premiere Nicole Lizee’s new cello concerto, appear at Newfoundland’s Sound Symposium, and guest curate Winnipeg’s Groundswell. She is Associate Professor at the Brandon University School of Music and co-director of two workshops: A Wild Studio (held in Canadian National Parks) and Hybrid Intensive (San Francisco).
“The piece is utterly thrilling, and Leanne’s performance is exquisite and joyous and exhilarating. Stop-motion offers a way for me to listen deeply to a piece of music, and to respond through colour and light and rhythm; through labour and love. It’s really just me sitting at a table with an Xacto knife surrounded by a hundred old books and images, listening to music I love played by a person I love. What could be better?”
“Studio,” the debut single from Leanne Zacharias, presents two repeated notes whose relationship evolves and shifts over time through ornaments, phasing and embellishment. Recorded in an historic fieldstone church near Kaleida, Manitoba, built in 1892 of granite from the surrounding land, the piece was written by Quebec composer Michael Oesterle.
