His next big thing
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY Definitions of personal style don’t get any clearer with life experience. This becomes obvious during my interview [...]
Sound notes
As hard to define as they are to ignore
In 1961, a virtually unknown African-American band was stranded in Montreal before going on to more promising territory. During their months in Montreal they would build up a local following, [...]
Winner of the 2012 Musicworks electronic music contest
In addition to having recently won the Musicworks Electronic Music Contest with his first ever acousmatic piece, Buried Gesture, Bennett Jenisch also writes and performs with his live [...]
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY It’s not often in a lifetime that you get to circumnavigate an entire country. And it’s not often that you come across an [...]
Features
Nicolas Bernier and Martin Messier
Object-based electronic music
“La chambre des machines is a project where two electronic musicians are driven by the desire to be involved, as physically as they can be, in a performance context,” explains Nicolas Bernier[...]
Turkish lyricism meets guitar electronica
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY When you’re caught up in the thick of it, all those cute, clichéd little epithets about turning life’s lemons into lemonade,[...]
STOP AND LISTEN TO THE WORLD
This article was originally published in Spring 2013.
The applause following the introduction of Akio Suzuki at his first Toronto performance since 1984[...]
Visions of sound
An interactive sonic experience
At first glance, Resonate appears to be a static, glowing, string structure in a dark, drone-filled room. But enter the space and pluck any of the glowing strings and dynamic pools of light [...]
Reviews
The Venice Biennale 56th International Festival of Contemporary Music.
Venice, Italy. October 6–13, 2012.
Icelandic label features electronic minimalism and small-ensemble classicism
Various Artists. REWORK_ (Philip Glass Remixed).
Orange Mountain Music, OMM0082.
Maciunas Ensemble. The Archives Part 1, 1968–1980.
Apollo Records acd 091220-091230.
Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin. Instrumental Tourist.
Software Studio Series.
Le Grand Grouped Régional d’Improvisation Libérée & Evan Parker. Vivaces.
Tour de Bras TDB9006cd.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
Constellation Records CST-81.