Another Timbre’s Canadian Composers Series
“I earn my living as a sound recordist on TV programs,” Simon Reynell relates. “I don’t put creative energies into that, but it’s well paid, so I don’t have [...]
Sound notes
PIANO BARS OF THE FUTURE
Against a deep blue, backlit stage, Vicky Chow sat at the baby grand in the Scheuer Auditorium at the Jewish Museum on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in April 2017, flanked by forty [...]
Bekah Simms’ Music of Discomfort
Bekah Simms likes music that challenges. “I don't want to ever get too comfortable,” she tells me, as we sit down to talk about her work. “I don’t want it ever to [...]
Senyawa plays the music of the universe
THE ROAR AND THE ECHO
On a chilly, rainy Thursday May night, a crowd of sixty or so people, spread unevenly around the pews of Halifax’s Fort Massey United Church, is waiting. OBEY Convention creative [...]
Features
Pantayo, HanHan, and Luyos MC are introducing traditional Filipino kulintang to twenty-first-century Canada in very different ways.
Gentle and intense, soothing and exhilarating, traditional Filipino kulintang music provides the kind of richly immersive experience that makes an hour go by in what seems like a[...]
Dálava explores the landscape of song
MUTUAL INCANDESCENCE
On a summer evening, outside this art gallery-cum-coffeehouse somewhere on the Gulf Islands, silver-green alders, not yet dry and summer-drab, sway, as deer graze in a meadow[...]
Inside The National Music Centre
OUT OF THE CABINET, INTO THE SPOTLIGHT: TONTO RIDES AGAIN
The Original New Timbral Orchestra, known simply as TONTO, has been called “a synthesizer the size of Nebraska.” The appearance of this electronic monolith makes an immediate[...]
Malcolm Cecil and the History of TONTO
THE FOLLOWING STORY WAS PUBLISHED AS PART OF THE SUMMER / FALL 2017 FEATURE "INSIDE THE NATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE."
Malcolm Cecil’s interest in electronics began at age nine,[...]
The Aural Perspectives of Brodie West
MUSIC IS THE ANSWER
People love a good Jekyll-and-Hyde story, and when it comes to artists, the extreme disparities between their personal and creative lives offer endless fascination. These supposed[...]
Visions of sound
Artificiel’s "Three Pieces With Titles"
EXPLODING SINGULAR THINGS INTO MYRIAD POSSIBILITIES
“I had never seen such new things before. I didn’t even know what a new object could be,” the poet and art critic André Salmon wrote, after visiting the studio of [...]
Reviews
Harris Eisenstadt Canada Day. On Parade in Parede; Harris Eisenstadt. Recent Developments.
Clean Feed, CF 413 CD; Songlines, SGL 1620-2.
Festival de International Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, 33rd Edition.
Victoriaville, Quebec. May 18-21, 2017.