Sarah Peebles
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Sarah Peebles is an American-Canadian composer, improviser, and installation artist. She is one of the few non-Japanese performers of the shō, a traditional mouth organ used in gagaku
, Japan's imperial court music. Originally from Minnesota
in the United States
, she lives in Toronto
, Ontario
, Canada
.
Peebles integrates sound she gathers from natural habitats and cityscapes from various regions of the world into her works, often exploring non-traditional performance and installation settings. Her practice focuses on sound manipulated via laptop, projected via loudspeakers and via physical objects, often in conjunction with sampled or live shō. Her ongoing collaborations include "Smash and Teeny" with guitarist Nilan Perera and new media work with Robert Cruickshank, among others. Her music has been performed and broadcast widely and is available on CD.
Gagaku
Gagaku is a type of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial Court in Kyoto for several centuries. It consists of three primary repertoires:#Native Shinto religious music and folk songs and dance, called kuniburi no utamai...
, Japan's imperial court music. Originally from Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, she lives in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
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Peebles integrates sound she gathers from natural habitats and cityscapes from various regions of the world into her works, often exploring non-traditional performance and installation settings. Her practice focuses on sound manipulated via laptop, projected via loudspeakers and via physical objects, often in conjunction with sampled or live shō. Her ongoing collaborations include "Smash and Teeny" with guitarist Nilan Perera and new media work with Robert Cruickshank, among others. Her music has been performed and broadcast widely and is available on CD.