Public Recordings' what we are saying
THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF LISTENING
“Is being together possible?” The first words spoken in what we are saying, a sound–dance piece by the Toronto-based experimental performance company Public Recordings, [...]
Sound notes
Ayo Leilani Interrogates the Beats
WITCH PROPHET
“Eh Yo! Eh Yo, Leilani!,” she heard as she walked down a bustling New York City street. Turning around to see a friend calling out to greet her in the way that only the hip-hop [...]
THIRD-PLACE WINNER, 2015 SONIC GEOGRAPHY WRITING CONTEST
BORN CONFUSED. FLY AT LIGHT. Tonight you June bugs pelt my office window in a relentless barrage—desperate wings fanning air that will not hold and tap-tap-tap-tap-tap on the glass. I [...]
The Shapeshifting Sounds of Gabriel Dharmoo
CARNATIC MUSE
After experiencing Anthropologies Imaginaires, it’s hard to imagine that just a few years ago Gabriel Dharmoo, its creator and performer, was reluctant to use his spectacularly flexible [...]
Features
crys cole amplifies personal space
INTROSPECTIVE LISTENING
I first saw crys cole perform in a tiny gallery in Winnipeg’s Chinatown. Seated with a contact mike, a pane of glass, and little else, cole reflected the minimalism of her setup[...]
The Idiosyncratic Musicality of Marc Sabat
O FRABJOUS DAY!
The emergence of Arnold Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique in the early 1920s not only presented an altogether new conception of pitch in music, it also prompted a dramatic and[...]
Burden Unpacks the Piano's Inner Life
At the 2016 Winnipeg New Music Festival, the members of Burden and their synecdochical piano are set up in the midst of a noisy, beer-swilling crowd at Union Sound Hall. Without[...]
THE EVOLUTION OF WEIRD
Intense purple LED light washes over the Thin Edge New Music Collective (ABOVE PHOTO) as they scramble to soundcheck, seeming to heighten the chaotic mood at Long[...]
Visions of sound
Dasha Rush: Dark Hearts of Space
EVENT HORIZON
The prospects are grim for a person who has fallen into a black hole. The gravitational forces exerted by these mysterious regions of space are so strong that nothing—not even light [...]
Reviews
Quartetski. Quartetski Does Bartók: Béla Bartók / Mikrokosmos.
Ambiances Magnétiques, AM 224 CD.
Tristan Perich. Parallels; Telescope; Active Field; Dual Synthesis.
Physical Editions.
Tim Brady. Instruments of Happiness; Of Sound, Mind and Body. Concert #3 Le Gesù.
Starkland, ST-224; Redshift Records, TK446.
Bill Dietz. 8 Tutorial Diversions, 2009-2014.
Edition Solitude. ISBN: 9783937158846.
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, 32nd Edition.
Victoriaville, Quebec. May 19–22, 2016.