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
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.