Music / Archive
Bach — Sonata in G minor, Presto
Bach asks for the whole of your attention. In the discipline of each phrase, thought and feeling find a shared pulse.
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Music
The violin has been the one constant in my life.
I started playing the violin as a child and never stopped. I have played for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and shared stages with Sting, Justin Bieber, Mary J. Blige and Pitbull. In February 2018 I took Glenn Gould’s The Idea of North and rebuilt it as Ideas of North, with my band The Ghost Tapes, for a sold-out Koerner Hall. I have served on the board of Tafelmusik.
Ideas of North
Glenn Gould, heard from another direction.
In February 2018, Ideas of North brought The Ghost Tapes to a sold-out Koerner Hall in Toronto. The project reimagined Glenn Gould’s The Idea of North through contemporary music.
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Treatments & shorts
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Andrew Forde
Be Free
Freedom is an intimate kind of work. Violin and voice give shape to the part of us still learning to live beyond what has been decided for us.
- Directed by Hubert Davis
- Produced by Calum de Hartog
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Andrew Forde
Ideas of North
A place becomes part of us through the ways we learn to hear it. In conversation with Glenn Gould, this treatment listens for the country we inherit and the one we make with our own voices.
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D’bi Young & Andrew Forde
In Whose Name?
A name carries a life, a family, an unfinished future. Voice and violin remember Michael Brown, asking what remembrance requires of those who are still here.
- Directed by Wade Hudson
- Tribeca premiere · 2015
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Andrew Forde
Studio treatment
To play together is to trust someone else with what you begin. Here, listening becomes a form of generosity, and a roomful of individual voices finds a way to move as one.
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Music / Film
The Ghost Tapes
Music leaves traces we cannot always name. A brief treatment on what remains after a moment has passed, and how a sound can make the absent feel near.
Skratch Bastid & Andrew Forde
Redbone
A familiar song holds more than one future. Rhythm and bow meet inside a shared memory, finding room for surprise in something we thought we knew by heart.
- A live treatment of Childish Gambino’s Redbone
Selected recordings
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Music
Spirit Well
We carry reservoirs of feeling beneath the noise of our days. Spirit Well offers a moment to draw from them, and to return to the world with something of ourselves restored.
Music / Archive
Dissonant Righteousness
A conscience has its own pitch. This piece stays with the tension between what the world permits and what the heart can consent to.
Music / Archive
Stay With You
What lasts between people is made of small returns. A phrase, a breath, the quiet decision to stay long enough to hear one another.
Music
I Was Made to Love You
To love is to make room for another life within your own. A reflection on the courage of offering yourself, and allowing love to change you.
Performance & collaboration
- Performances for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
- Shared stages with Sting, Justin Bieber, Mary J. Blige and Pitbull
- Ideas of North, after Glenn Gould, with The Ghost Tapes: Koerner Hall, Toronto, February 2018, 1,000 seats sold out
- Branches, a 2017 single with Shad, released for Gould’s 85th birthday
- Past board service, Tafelmusik
The Ghost Tapes
Design / Archive
The Ghost Tapes — Visual identity study
An archived visual identity study exploring a ghost motif through its logotype, icon and typography.
Music & community