Church Music
“He became interested in recontextualizing synth sounds by putting them in conjunction with other sounds from different eras. Tellier-Craig combines dense atonal and discordant sounds with new age music, with all it’s excessive historical baggage. He contrasts references to the Berlin school of electronic/pop music with density and noise inspired by Iannis Xenakis’ pioneering use of mathematical models in music. This mix-up and confusion is something that interests Tellier-Craig; he sees it as a challenge to move beyond comfort zones and familiar styles. While he takes inspiration from older music and technologies, his aspiration is for his music to move beyond updating and seek out challenging and uncomfortable surprises. The reverb inside St Brigid’s will present a different kind of challenge, and will require some adaptation to work with the ten speaker surround sound system and the acoustics of the space.”

Jaenine Parkinson, 2011 Critical Writer-in-Residence, Excerpt from “Electric Fields: Church Music”