FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY A sonic spectre is haunting Milan’s music scene. That ghostly presence is Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), Italy’s best- [...]
Sound notes
Improvisation is my life
For Joëlle Léandre it all begins and ends with the double bass. After playing the often unwieldy bull fiddle from the age of nine and carefully studying its intricacies, she [...]
Features
Try not to get busted
It’s quarter past midnight in late May 2008. Storm clouds loom but hold, on this surprisingly humid night. I open the garage, grab my bike and check my backpack: flashlight, five cans of beer,[...]
Nicole Lizée invites us to hear things her way
Surrealist collagist
Nicole Lizée is a huge fan of Alfred Hitchcock, science-fiction films, and Lars von Trier, the maverick Danish director whose Dogme (dogma), about film, inspires her own[...]
Fusing polarities
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY The romantic Brazil—the one that ensnares tourists—does not include the Brazilian Northeast. Miles from Rio de[...]
PILLAGING THE CANON
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY. I first met James Rolfe nearly twenty years ago, when we were finalists in the 1990 edition of the CBC National Radio[...]
Visions of sound
Eve Egoyan and David Rokeby's Surface Tension
collaborative interarts
Surface Tension is a thirty-five-minute collaborative interarts work that the two of us (pianist Eve Egoyan and installation artist David Rokeby) created for Disklavier piano and [...]
Reviews
Paul Steenhuisen. Sonic Mosaics. Conversations with Composers.
Edmonton, Alberta. University of Alberta Press.
Toshimaru Nakamura and Mark Trayle. Stationary. Miguel A. Garcia. Armiarmak.
Creative Sources Recordings CS 141. RMO Productions.
Gen Ken Montgomery. Drilling Holes in The Wall. Gen Ken Montgomery. Balls (3" CD-R)
Monochrome Vision mv17. Banned Production.
Another Timbre Byways at-b02 (CD-R).