The Unsung Songbooks of Dave Burrell
MUSIC FROM HISTORY
TO SAY THAT PIANIST, COMPOSER, AND—AT THIS POINT—JAZZ ELDER DAVE BURRELL WAS NOT made for these times is a bit of a shortsighted claim. Burrell is a jazz classicist preceded [...]
Sound notes
Andrew Staniland accelerates toward the next idea
composer as supercollider
IN 2013, NASA CONFIRMED THAT the Voyager 1 probe had become the first manmade object to cross the heliopause, leaving the bounds of our solar system and entering interstellar space [...]
Sarah Davachi flies into psychoacoustic space
DRONE PILOT
One could say that Sarah Davachi’s drone-based music is all about meditative states, or texture, or duration. But more than anything else, it’s about balance—between the [...]
Songbirds have a secret language. This is something I did not fully appreciate until recently, when I became immersed in their world. What may be music to our ears is bird-speak—a mating [...]
Features
Allison Cameron’s Rarefied Soundworld
CURIOUS THINGS
"I NEVER THOUGHT I WAS DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENT THAN ANYBODY ELSE—I just thought, I’m doing what anybody else would write,” states Allison Cameron, matter-of-factly. Anyone[...]
Jay Crocker Navigates the Music of Obstacles
Planetary Music System
"THEY WERE EXPECTING TO HAVE A swinging kind of jazz party, but we were doing nothing of the sort that night.” Percussionist Chris Dadge is recalling a[...]
The Radical Transcriptions of sfSound
NEW MODERN CLASSICS
PERHAPS NO OTHER AMERICAN METROPOLIS is more associated with important countercultural movements than the San Francisco Bay Area. From the Beats of the 1950s and the hippies of[...]
Reviews
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld. Never Were the Way She Was.
Constellation Records, CST-113.
Festival of New Trumpet Music: 2nd Edition.
Montreal, Quebec. March 12–15, 2015.