Sounds
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Surreal Transit
SURREAL TRANSIT * state of transition • ª intuitive connection ª ¡ overheard conversation ¡ ¶ diffuse reaction ¶ § gentle revolution § credits released December 1, 2024 All music & field recordings by Joseph Sannicandro & Jordan Christoff Source artwork by Taras Yakobchuk [dropsumart] www.instagram.com/dropsumart/ Design & layout by Tim Six ! SUPPORT…
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Transmissions in Silver
TRANSMISSIONS IN SILVER “I see this as spiritual music, it is translating the spirit of my life in those moments that I shared with Joseph in ways that are impossible to put into words, which is why I love it.” – Stefan The next chapter in the ongoing artistic conversation between two friends, shaped and…
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FASHION (or, MONEY IS FERTILIZER)
The second part of a special double feature, returning us to Krakow’s Unsound festival, where we began with Episode 1. The inaugural episode featured Resina and Lea Bertucci, from Poland and New York, respectively, and so for the sake of symmetry, this episode pairs Antonina Nowacka and Dreamcrusher, two artists who make affective, vocal-based music,…
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REVERSE POLARITY
Negativland has always been about media literacy; their sound collages and pranks are not only humorous but reveal something about how media function. But in recent years, as the world has changed around them, their relationship to this aspect of their practice has had to evolve. What was subversive in the 80s is mostly met…
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QUANTUM BLUES
France Jobin has been exploring quantum theory for many years now, an interest that has shown up in her compositions, sound installations, and work with VR. But the pandemic finally afforded the Montreal-based minimalist composer time for deeper study with a personal brain trust of physicists she’d assembled over the years. Jobin recently released Infinite…
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DIS/PLACED
Matana Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist, saxophonist, composer, and performer. With the release of In the Garden…, their ongoing, projected 12-chapter series COIN COIN is near its midpoint. Roberts has developed a composition system for the series based on mixed media scores combining graphic notation, visual art, film, and ephemera, channeling the images and (hi)stories…
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DIS/EMBODIED
Having first captured our attention with Monolithic Nuance (2018) for Longform Editions, Megan Mitchell’s Cruel Diagonals has continued to impress with each new work. With Fractured Whole, she set herself the task of producing an album using nothing but her voice as raw material. While she deserves recognition as a gifted vocalist, she deserves at least as much praise for her…
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ARCHIVE FEVER
More samples and loops sourced from thrift store tapes. The second volume in my series Friperietronics–weird ambient/concrete all-tape DJ sets in which all the music, samples and loops are sourced from thrift store tapes and mixed and effected live. Friperietronics vol. 1 was released in early 2020, following a live performance in 2019 consisting entirely…
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Across Time Patched Together
Across time patched together is an album-length medley of live and radiophonic works recorded between 2014 and 2018. This mix features selections from live sessions at CKUT 90.3FM, a 2014 live set (including violinist Norman Nawrocki), two live performances from 2018, and some unreleased recordings from the sessions that produced Temp de Travail, Syncope. Within…
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“a mic at a window…”
Presque Tout launched in 2019 as a Bandcamp page, a humble ongoing digital archive of field recordings from around the world. Anyone can participate, and the parameters for inclusion are very straightforward: Make a recording from an open window, with no editing and minimal signal processing, and then email it to them. Submissions took off during the pandemic,…
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CRITICAL POSITIVITY
Happy (very belated) birthday to us! Back in January of 2022 we celebrated the tenth anniversary of our blog. To celebrate, in this episode, we pull the curtain back a bit to talk with ten of the writers who have contributed to A CLOSER LISTEN since we began over a decade ago. Utilizing my idiosyncratic…
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Reverberations d’une crise / Sounding the housing crisis
While the social and economic impacts of the housing crisis are well documented, its many psychological, affective, relational, and existential impacts often remain in the blind spot of current research. The project Réverberations d’une crise: a sound inquiry on housing in Montreal postulates that paying attention to sound can make neglected dimensions of this issue…
Sound Propositions 