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Victorias Aventa Ensemble once played The Sinking of the Titanic in a lighthouse.

They were all up in the spiral staircase, said Jordan Nobles, artistic director of Redshift Music Society. Thats when I actually first heard about Aventa.

Now Redshift is bringing the group to 麻豆传媒映画for the first time, Dec. 4. Aventa Ensemble will perform British composer Gavin Bryars haunting 1969 masterpiece at the 麻豆传媒映画Aquatic Centre.

We keep doing concerts in outlandish places like the atrium of the library or the rotunda of the 麻豆传媒映画Art Gallery, Nobles said. I was drawn to the aquatic centre and went wow, I wonder what music would sound like in here with musicians up on the dive towers Thats the plan, anyway.

Now Nobles is encouraging listeners to arrive with swimsuits and towels to experience The Sinking of the Titanic while floating in the pool.

I want to keep putting my audience in different places, different rooms, different venues and play music for them and have them experience the venue in a different way, he said. Whens the last time youve heard an orchestra or, in this case, a chamber orchestra, while you were floating in water?

With a 90-minute program, water-lovers might not want to slip into their swimsuits until after intermission to avoid getting too pruney.

The concert will commemorate the 100 years since the supposedly unsinkable British passenger liner collided with an iceberg on its first voyage, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,500 of its 2,223 passengers.

Bryars drew inspiration for the Sinking of the Titanic from reports that the ships musicians remained on the deck, playing their instruments as the liner dropped into the depths of the sea. The piece merges recordings of survivors describing the Titanics final moments with a hymn-based composition.

In keeping with the 11-year-old Redshift Music Societys focus on bringing the music of contemporary Canadian composers to the public through unique musical events, The Sinking of the Titanic starts with new instrumental works by local composers Nobles, Giorgio Magnanensi and Jennifer Butler, who toured the watery facility to help get their creative juices flowing.

Nobles describes his musical work as a floating, ambient piece. Each musician will be given individual melodic material that they will perform in their own time, responding to their colleagues and the venue.

Magnanensi will mix video projections with electronic music and the reverberations of the ensemble.

Unfortunately, the lights will need to be bright enough for the lifeguards to scan the pools waters.

I have lifeguards at a concert. That never happens, Nobles said.

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Event details:

The Sinking of the Titanic

Dec. 4, 9 p.m.

麻豆传媒映画Aquatic Centre

1050 Beach Ave.

www.reshiftmusicsociety.org