The first composition released by Trajectories is “Blood & Breath: The Virus Moves.” It is the first instalment of an album featuring similarly themed pieces, and the release date, March 13th, marks the first anniversary of lockdown in Montreal, when universities closed their doors and virtually all forms of creative collaboration had to be done remotely.
“Blood & Breath: The Virus Moves” is a multi-disciplinary piece featuring a wide array of techniques and sound sources (field recordings, vocal excerpts, synthesized and processed textures, to name a few). An elaborate and continuous process of addition, modification and exchange of materials, coloured by the individual artistic preferences and abilities of the five members of the collective, produced an end result that takes the listener through layers upon layers of sound spawned from deep reflections and feelings within the group, transducing them into complex and captivating waveforms.
Trajectories is an emerging collective of electroacoustic composers from Montreal, Quebec which focuses on generating an ever-expanding catalogue of multi-disciplinary projects exploring diverse and relevant subject matter. Reflecting and commenting on contemporary issues and events, each individual creator’s perspective interactively shapes the collective’s direction, and vice-versa.
The core material the group works with initially sprung from various online discussions during the early phases of COVID-19. Wanting to continue the exchanges and compositionally pursue some of the ideas being generated, the collective naturally formed in the late spring of 2020.
We highly recommend listening to "Blood & Breath" with full-spectrum headphones or loudspeakers, but the track has been mixed and mastered for all media formats.
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released March 13, 2021
Trajectories Collective:
Michael Pinsonneault
Malte Leander
Connor Cook
Alana Devito
Charles Harding
Mixing Engineer: Rob Heaney
Artwork: Emily Blair