Sketching out Kailash
“La montaña. El cuervo. Cada mota de polvo elevada por mis pasos alberga incontables palabras,” intones the deeply resonant voice, as the rhythmic sound of footsteps fades [...]
Sound notes
Rides the waves
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY. Every musician in the world produces invisible waves when making music—such is the nature of sound. Relatively few musicians, [...]
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY “My artistic evolution,” Thierry Gauthier writes, “has been characterized by the intensity of impulse, immediacy, and [...]
It’s July 2001 in St. John’s, Newfoundland—the one-hundredth anniversary of Marconi’s successful reception of transatlantic wireless transmissions on Signal Hill. In [...]
Features
Sending and receiving
Right off Yonge Street, in the midst of Toronto’s all-night Nuit Blanche art festival, I and some others found respite from the revels in the atrium of a relatively nondescript office building.[...]
Four encounters in sensory space and musical language
“Why don’t you come by my place and I can sell you the CDs you’re seeking,” said the voice on the phone. It was the spring of 2005, I was in Amsterdam and looking for recordings from the Dutch[...]
Sounding empty spaces
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY Some time ago, a friend and I were talking outside a gallery, when suddenly we saw a bright green object sear through the[...]
Negotiating the world of online collaboration
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY They weren’t going to speak with me. Maybe it was just a he or a she, rather than a they. I didn’t know. An e-mail exchange[...]
Visions of sound
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY Avatar Orchestra Metaverse is a global collective making new music within the virtual-reality platform Second Life, an online three- [...]
Reviews
Iannis Xenakis. Translated by Sharon Kanach. Music and Architecture.
Pendragon Press.
Seth Kim-Cohen. In the Blink of An Ear: Toward a Non-Cochlear Sonic Art.
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Louise Gray. The No-Nonsense Guide To World Music.
New Internationalist Publications.
Diane C. Fujino, Editor. Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader.
University of Minnesota Press.
Robert Adlington, editor. Sound Commitments: Avant-Garde Music and the Sixties.
Oxford University Press.
Rainer Wiens. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
Ambiances Magnétiques AM 193.
Saint Dirt Elementary School. Ice Cream Man Dreams.
Barnyard Records BR0309.
Ganesh Anandan and Hans Reichel. Self Made.
Ambiances Magnétiques AM 192.