DESCRIPTION:
Live at Studio 105, London, Ontario, Atmospheres is allusion to a similarly-titled composition by composer Gyorgy Ligeti. The piece uses a combination of harp samples controlled by Martynec's MIDIax, and purely electronic sounds from Hall's Kyma system and Cassidy's EVI (electronic valve instrument).

Martynec gradually moves to pitch-shifted acoustic guitar gestures coupling with Cassidy's Theremin-like EVI interspersed with virtuosic cadenzas and Hall's shifting electronic background textures. Martynec even brings in some singing crystal glasses. The instantly composed piece's title Atmospheres captures the slowly changing sound environment created in real time by So NU.

So NU is a trio of improvising composers—Glen Hall, Bruce Cassidy and Eugene Martynec—connecting and creating free jazz, free improvisation and electroacoustic music in real time. The group uses a dazzling palette of sonic colors from an EVI (electronic valve instrument), MIDIax (software using personally recorded, selected and edited acoustic instrument and synthesized samples), a WWII wind controller and Kyma, a graphical language for live, interactive sound generation and manipulation. Their knowledge of composition shapes improvisations' structures, textures and thematic/conceptual development. The group's name comes from a Yiddish expression that roughly translated means "What's happening with you now?" Their music tells exactly those stories in Technicolor sonic detail.