Anna Höstman Tunes In To Her Roots
Bella Coola calling
There’s no place like home. For Anna Höstman, winner of the 2013 Toronto Emerging Composer Award, home is the Bella Coola Valley, a remote wilderness wonderland on British Columbia [...]
Sound notes
Sarah Neufeld: Solo Violin, Guerrilla-Style
Take a deep breath
“I COULDN'T EVEN PLAY A NOTE. If you even breathe, your breath becomes this crazy, feathery freight train of echo.” Sarah Neufeld recalls her first visit to [...]
Fuhong Shi Closes the Distance
From East to West and back again
If Canada has any meaning to most Chinese, it is likely through a widely read essay written by the late Chairman Mao in praise of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Montreal doctor who ministered to Mao [...]
Buenos Aires, also known as Capital Federal, is the largest city in Argentina, with a population of three million—thirteen million including the greater urban area. The city is located [...]
Features
Charlemagne Palestine Pulls Out the Stops
Not your average shtick
Interpretation takes the sensory experience of the work of art for granted, and proceeds from there. What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear[...]
Giorgio Magnanensi in the Sonic Playground
"Let's have some fun!"
Admirers of Giorgio Magnanensi—composer, conductor, teacher, and the artistic director of Vancouver New Music Society—tend to be lavish in their praise of him. “Giorgio is singularly the best[...]
The Ondes Martenot is Making New Waves
WIRED FOR THE HUMAN TOUCH
No one knows exactly how many functioning ondes Martenot are in use around the world today, but an informed, conservative estimate puts their number at sixty. In the course of[...]
Starry nights and textural swing
The experimental music scene in Beirut, Lebanon, may exist in relative geographic isolation from other global movements of a similar ilk, but over the past fifteen years it has become a dynamic[...]
Visions of sound
Enveloping audiovisual space
Stepping into this black cube is like entering an intergalactic observation deck. Enveloped by mechanical whirs, buzzes and clicks, a parade of heavenly bodies is presented for inspection. This [...]
Reviews
Bart Plantenga. Yodel in Hi-Fi, From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica.
University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978 0 299 29054 2.
Festival International de Musique Actuelle, 29th Edition.
Victoriaville, Québec, May 16–19, 2013.
Rare and Treacherous Records, RAT 017 and RAT 020.
Bruno Heinen Sextet. Karlheinz Stockhausen: Tierkreis.
Babel, BDV13119.
Anthony Braxton. Echo Echo Mirror House.
Les Disques Victo, VICTO cd0125.