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Derek Charke, bass flute & Eugene Cormier, guitar (Charke/Cormier Duo) http://www.charkecormierduo.com

Recorded Feb. 11, 2017 Festival Theatre, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

Derek Charke (flutes) and Eugene Cormier (guitar) formed the Charke/Cormier Duo several years ago culminating in a debut recital at the KC Irving Centre in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. This sonorous union of flute and guitar continues to charm audiences across the Maritimes. Their repertoire includes many of the most important works for this pairing of instruments, and creates a sonic journey for audiences from the street corners of Argentina to the halls of Europe, as well as introducing fresh new works created today. Both performers are highly accomplished musicians who are on the teaching faculty at Acadia University’s School of Music.

The Equation of Time (2016)
by Derek Charke
guitar part edited by Eugene Cormier

1. Slow-Slow Music
2. Fast-Slow Music
3. Slow-Fast Music
4. Fast-Fast Music

The concept of time is fascinating. All music exists in a linear dimension. "The Equation of Time" takes this fundamental aspect of music and explores four perspectives on how time flows: Movement 1, Slow-Slow Music, explores a slow tempo and slow material. Movement 2, Fast-Slow Music, explores a quick tempo with slow changing and static material. Movement 3, Slow-Fast Music, explores very fast ornamentation, but moving slowly through a cycle of pitches at a steady rate. And Movement 4, Fast-Fast Music, explores both fast tempi and fast material. Improvisation is important to this work. As such there are many ad libitum gestures. Movement 3 is left mostly to the imagination—reading through a sequence of pitches, performers are instructed to weave intricate ornamentations. Other improvisatory material is interwoven throughout the score.

This work was made possible through a grant from Arts Nova Scotia.

http://charke.com/works/equationoftime.html