KIM FARRIS-MANNING
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All we're made of is borrowed: still holding the time we have left as medicine

Composed and performed by Paramorph Collective (Kim Farris-Manning and An Laurence), this album was released September 8 2023.
A peaceful, caring musical journey for regeneration and healing, "All we’re made of is borrowed" is the Paramorph Collective’s debut album. Their original compositions and arrangements bridge existing works by established Canadian composers Rodney Sharman and Linda Catlin Smith, as well as a new commission by early-career composer Margot George. Arranged as a palindrome, the slowly-building album leads the listener on an intimate auditory journey.
The centre-piece of the album, Fruiting bodies, features a custom-built organ synthesizer paired with electric guitar. Different musical temperaments, extreme sound pressure and distortion all play into this exploration of the spectrum of impermanence. George’s piece - and the album as a whole - express multiple dichotomies, both musical and personal.
The Paramorph Collective invites you to find a cozy spot, listen and reflect: all we’re made of is borrowed. Let’s hold the time we have left as medicine.

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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • AUDIO
    • ONGOING >
      • Tone Cluster Commission
      • Queer Youth Choir
      • Collaborative Pianist
      • Duo Yellow
      • Paramorph Collective
    • COMPLETED >
      • Why Am I
      • Star Birds
      • Formes subtiles de la fuite
      • Diving into the Wreck
      • Riverbed Reading Series - Voice + Synth
      • Od-ieu
      • I Don't Mind
      • To Build a Home
      • shadow (of a shadow)
      • almost touching
      • Engrenages
      • Missa Brevis
      • with(out)
      • Unless
      • I Am More
      • Pivot
      • Bee Verse
      • it feels like oceans (what do we even know about that)
  • INTERDISCIPLINARY
    • ONGOING >
      • FOREST EXHIBIT
      • LITTLE BLUE BIRD - SATB+PIANO
    • COMPLETED >
      • 3 To See
      • Treemendous Nature Nocturne
      • Sapphic Passion
      • Stone Skin
      • Rot. Morph. Emerge.
      • Projection Mapping Residency
      • Imago
      • Insect Worlds
      • Canopy Music
      • Bois de fer
      • All we're made of is borrowed
      • King of Chlorophyll
      • MAP; gest
      • Do you have a minute?
      • Ostrava Days Residency
      • Jess Opera
      • suddenly I was alone / d'un tratto ero sola
      • Westben Performer-composer Residency
      • Je vis, je meurs
      • ACIER/ECKE
      • bury me at sea
      • sitting : room
      • De Profundis
      • W̱SÁNEĆ SPW̱ELLO
      • Africville: 1964-1970
      • Servicemaster (2017)
      • Houseforest
      • Servicemaster (2016)
  • WORKSHOPS
    • STORYTELLING WITH NATURE, MUSIC AND TECH
    • INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT CREATION
    • VISUALS AND STORYTELLING WITH THE ORGAN
  • GALLERY
  • CONTACT