Rachael Wadham: Installing A Quiet Sound-World
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY The work of Vancouver-based sound artist, improviser, and composer Rachael Wadham often hinges upon a certain pack-rat sensibility, [...]
Sound notes
Casa Da Música Builds A Home For Experimental Music
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY 1497. Lisbon, Portugal. Navigator Vasco da Gama commands the first ship to sail from Europe to India. During the fifteenth century [...]
THE COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY OF "BIRD ON A WIRE"
The slight, bright-eyed woman comfortably seated in her sunny Montreal studio is known as a musical beast. Hard to imagine. But the epithet is just one of several that contemporary recorder [...]
Reflections on sound notes made in Beijing, June 2-4, 2010
I sit staring at the laptop screen in my Beijing hotel room. Writers’ block. Silently trying to formulate words. No sounds enter my consciousness. Only the insistent hum of the laptop. [...]
Features
Canada's new pop adventurists
In 1981 in a small town called Dunedin in New Zealand, a trio of young musicians called The Clean, recorded a handful of fuzzy, sloppy pop songs on a four-track Portastudio. For connoisseurs of[...]
A punk rocker of the classical world
On the first Sunday in March 2011, at the Betty Oliphant Theatre in Toronto, Gregory Oh performed in a concert featuring the works of British composer Jonathan Harvey. Oh wore a grey-collared[...]
Composing within new systems
In 2005, Christopher Mayo had a summer that unexpectedly changed his approach to composing. The Toronto-born composer spent three weeks at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute in North Adams,[...]
Visions of sound
Jörg Piringer's Sound Poetry App
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY The iPod touch is hissing loudly as two s’s move about the screen leaving a trail of fading s shapes in their wake. I drag the [...]
Reviews
Daniel Kernohan, Editor. Music is Rapid Transportation... From The Beatles to Xenakis.
Charivari Press.
Franya J. Berkman. Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane.
Wesleyan University Press.
Montreal New Music International Festival: 5th Edition. Montreal, Canada. February 18–26, 2011.
A composer’s dream.
Colin Stetson. New History of Warfare Vol. 2: Judges.
Constellation Records CST075.
Dafeldecker / Kurzmann / Tilbury / Wishart. Violet 2009.
Mikroton Recordings CD 4.
Jason Kahn / Asher. Planes, and Jason Kahn / Günter Müller / Christian Wolfarth. Limmat.
Mikroton Recordings CD 3 and 7.