Summer 2013

issue # 116

Sound notes

Jennifer Walshe Spins a Fine Tale

The centenary of Dadaism is only three short years away, but there’s still time for curators and arts organizations across the world to program fitting tributes to the full [...]

Read more » Louise Gray »

Lisbon, Portugal

Disquiet

FULL TEXT AVAILABLE ONLY IN PRINT EDITION   A wolfman wanders Lisbon’s Praça do Comercio, the broad public square facing the Tagus River estuary leading to the sea. [...]

Read more » Richard Simas »

Gordan Monahan

Open your eyes, see the sound

Gordon Monahan’s voice floats to me across the Internet from his farm, the Funny Farm, his home base in Meaford, Ontario.   Monahan was recently awarded a 2013 Governor General [...]

Read more » David McCallum »

Features

Colin Stetson's Sound Story

Beyond the instrument

Stories in which the protagonist blossoms, finds themselves, or rediscovers their roots appear everywhere. Their ubiquity makes it awfully tempting to replicate this narrative when telling the[...]

Read more » Nick Storring »

John Wynne

Recalibrates our perception of physical space

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A chill-blue image of ocean waves projects across the join of two white walls. At first the image appears[...]

Read more » Julian Cowley »

Buffalo New Music

A tradition of adventure

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Buffalo has long held an aura of adventure for me. The first time I visited the city, I was intrigued by[...]

Read more » Gayle Young »

Visions of sound

SlowPitch's "Emoralis"

the secret sonic life of snails

On a rainy April evening in Toronto, in the darkened hush of historic St. Anne’s Anglican Church, the first frame of the 2013 Images Festival appear—a live black-and-white [...]

Read more » Jennie Punter »

Diy

Octopurse

A wearable, soft-circuit sound sculpture

Read more » Micheline Roi and Rob Cruickshank »