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Originally published at www.acloserlisten.com This short interview took place just before the start of the 2012 edition of the AKOUSMA festival of electroacoustic music in Montreal. I hoped it would give added context to the performance, and indeed it did. My review of that festival, which included performances by Martin Tétreault‘s turntable quartet and…
Originally published by A Closer Listen a big circle drawn with little hands was created from a box of things sent to me by sylvain, who runs the ini itu label. the box contained everything from newspapers, coins, wooden toys, pamphlets, plastic objects, plastic bags, broken airline headphones, notes, a bottle opener, a noise maker…
Originally published at ACL http://acloserlisten.com/2013/02/04/sound-propositions-03-leonardo-rosado/ photo: Davide Lonardi Listen to an exclusive excerpt of Leonardo Rosado’s The conscious illusion: homage to Bergman The avant-garde of the 20th century radically expanded the potential of sonic arts in at least two important ways. With the advent of sound recording technologies, figures such as Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre…
First published at A CLOSER LISTEN All photos by Caroline Campeau, courtesy of Réseaux des arts médiatiques Québec has long nurtured creative and experimental arts & music. The Québécois are something of an historical anomaly, an island of Francophones adrift in a sea Anglophones. This fact, combined with its relative geographic isolation and the paradox of…
First published at A Closer Listen Joseph Sannicandro interviews Italian soundshaper Matteo Uggeri (Hue, Sparkle in Grey) in the second installment of an ongoing series searching for a relationship towards technology that doesn’t fetishize equipment, but rather valorizes the creative process itself. There is a long tradition of fetishizing musical equipment, be it as artists, fans…
First published at A Closer Listen Joseph Sannicandro interviews Rutger Zuydervelt, akaMachinefabriek, in the first installment of an ongoing series exploring the creative process and a non-fetishization of equipment. “A rather poor instrument,… but how wonderfully they use it.” In this quote, James Joyce is referring to the French language, but at its heart…
The following essay accompanies a 2-volume compilation of experimental Italian music I curated for The Silent Ballet, a webzine I co-founded in 2006, and Lost Children, a net-label I’ve been co-running since 2010. A link to a free download is included below. The compilation was release one year ago, and received some very nice press.…
Sound Propositions 