One Foot in the Past: Compositions based on the dialects ofNewfoundland

Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, is home of “perhaps the greatest regional diversity [of spoken English] to be found anywhere in North America” (The Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador. N.D.). A project eight years in the works, this album also draws on scholarly research in music perception, dialectology, timbre phonetics, and several types of sound analysis and synthesis. This module details the backgrounds and influences, methods, and results of our tribute to the dialects of our home province.