Builds a radio-fed choir of candy-coloured electric guitars
It’s supposed to be beautiful, but I can’t shake the feeling of there being something ominous about this. Imagine you’re approaching an installation by Matt Rogalsky, and [...]
Sound notes
Takes performance to the future on her hyper-flute
“My work as a composer is eminently solitary. I feel like an island, but each island is a world, and in turn I am composed of these many worlds.” This is how Montreal composer, [...]
Winning electroacoustics
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY Émilie Payeur is young and inspired. “Electroacoustic music is a different kind of music,” she says. “To me, [...]
Camino De Santiago De Compostela
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY In the spring of 2010 we undertook a walk to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, a pilgrimage site since the Middle Ages. It [...]
Features
Paul Walde Subverts Nature as Culture
The column of light is beamed directly into the sky. As if intended to summon some celestial visitor, the beam of photons is emitted from a circle of glowing discs, placed in the most unassuming[...]
Convolves sound in concert music
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY Composer Dániel Péter Biró talks about his work in long, lucid sentences. He takes his time, he doesn’t double back or[...]
Develops electronic tools for musicians
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY Maybe someone would have been able to guess what I was getting myself into when I left for STEIM in The Netherlands. After[...]
Visions of sound
Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony
Fuses form and content
Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony (2009–10) is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip housed in a CD jewel case. 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the [...]
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Reviews
Tara Rodgers, Editor. Pink Noises: Women On Electronic Music And Sound.
Duke University Press.
Kyle Gann. No Such Thing As Silence: John Cage’s 4'33".
Yale University Press.
Vancouver New Music Festival. Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, B.C. October 21–23
Theatre for the ears
Flow Festival. Helsinki, Finland. August 13–15, 2010.
Top-notch programme is decidedly varied.
Various Artists. Sixty Interpretations of Sixty Seconds.
Apprise Records AP-04.