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HEADLESS MUSICAL SEEDS AND GESTURES WITH ADJECTIVES: AN INTERVIEW WITH KEIKO DEVAUX

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2021

Anna Höstman
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Abstract

Keiko Devaux (b. 1982) is a Canadian composer, originally from British Columbia, who now lives in Montréal. She began her musical career in piano-performance studies as well as composing, touring and recording several albums in independent rock bands. Her concert music is widely performed throughout Canada and Europe. From 2016–18, Keiko was the composer in residence of Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne. She joined Salvatore Sciarrino's masterclasses at L'Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, between the years 2017 and 2019. Keiko was commissioned by music@villaromana festival, Florence, to create Echoic Memories. She is the inaugural winner of the Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music (2020) and is also engaged in a two-year residency as a Carrefour composer with the National Arts Centre Orchestra (2020–22). This interview was conducted over Zoom in late spring 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Tempo , Volume 76 , Issue 299 , January 2022 , pp. 5 - 17
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

An updated version of this article was published in January 2022, all of the corrections were minor typographical changes.

References

1 Keiko Devaux, Conversation I: reconciliation (2014), for piano and violin

2 Keiko Devaux, Falling's just like Flying (2016), for flute, tenor saxophone, cello and double bass

3 The series of works that explored these gestures is Murmuration (2015), for piano and tape, Les Étourneaux (2016), for orchestra, and Ere (2016), for five violins.

4 Tenebrae (2018) string quartet; Dust (2019) string quartet; Echoic Memories (2019), a pocket opera for nine musicians.

5 Keiko Devaux, Ebb (2018), for 15 instruments: flute/bass flute, oboe, two bass clarinets, contrabassoon, horn, trumpet, bass trombone, percussion, piano, two violins, viola, cello and double bass.

6 Keiko Devaux, Arras (2020), for 14 instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, percussion, piano, two violins, viola, cello and double bass.

7 Mitch Miyagawa, A Sorry State (2012). Mitch's family has received apologies for the internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, the residential school system and the racist head tax imposed on Chinese immigrants.

8 Dany Laferrière (b. 1953) is a Haitian-Canadian novelist and journalist.