Sounds
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Music For Insurrection
Dedicated to George Floyd I. every precinct an autozone 01:51 II. a new world from the ashes of the old 10:41 III. fuck12 05:59 IV. minnesota nice 09:50 V. this aint a riot 22:39 VI. 8’46” 08:46 I lived in South Minneapolis for 4 years, most of that time in an apartment building on Chicago…
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Montreal Underground
“Montreal Underground” – field-recording contribution to the Montreal Sound Map (2010) While I had made field-recordings on tape for years, I had only vague plans for them, and more often than not I used the micro-cassette recorder I carried around to record stray thoughts in the era before smart phones. Thus “Montreal Underground” (2010) is…
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I Always Worked
“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next.” – Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast “Work is always an antidote to depression.” – Eleanor Roosevelt Joseph Sannicandro ~ I Always Worked Dinzu Artefacts “Alea Iacta Est” (16:50) “A digito cognoscitur leo” (16:16) Dedicated…
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Recorded Security
Useless Sounds is a series I began in January 2019 to share unprocessed field-recordings. Stefan Christoff encouraged me to make my recordings public more often, rather than just accumulating in my archive or waiting for potential inclusion in a hypothetical future project. Recorded Security is the latest installment. Ever wondered what the inside the…
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Live at Moon Villain
Stefan Christoff and I released Temps de Travail, Syncopé, our second tape together, around this time last year. The.release show was held at the Moon Villain loft in Boston, on 7 December 2018. I had been in Napoli for the prior few months. and came up to Boston from NY, before heading to Montreal for…
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as the sun sets in the west
improvised live in minneapolis, mn on 24 april 2017 all piano samples recorded live in harrison, ny 12 june 2016 there is more to say about this, but for now this was something i needed to make today and so i am sharing it. loss, natality, death, life, sickness, murder, hope, creation [Updated, April 2019]…
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Inverted Microphones: Giovanni Lami’s Tapeocracy
In the film Il Postino (1994), the titular Postman becomes inspired to express himself after encountering the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, living in exile on a small island in the south of Italy. Neruda helps the Postman, Mario, to pursue his own Beatrice, standing in for Dante’s ideal woman. The Postman successfully courts his love,…
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Mixes
I recently compiled a list of all records, files, mixes, radiophonic works and other sound-related projects I’ve produced since 2012 (see the “Discography” page on the main menu). I thought I’d add a post highlighting the mixes I’ve done, with a bit more information about some of…
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“ma(d)re nostrx ii” [mix]
Live sound mix by sound artist Joseph Sannicandro for Free City Radio with Stefan Christoff, mixed live on radio CKUT in Montreal, 26 December 2018. This mix was presented live on CKUT for Free City Radio the day after Christmas. I also presented a similar mix in an art gallery in Boston on 8…
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Temps de Travail, Syncopé
In December 2018, Stefan Christoff and I released a tape called Temps de Travail, Syncopé, the culmination of several live performances and radio presentations exploring the idea of our age of work and the rhythms of daily life structured around bartering our labor. If our first collaboration, les rumeurs de la montagne rouge en chœur,…
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Les Rumeurs
This post collects live and radio performances by Joseph & Stefan not included in earlier posts. Stefan Christoff & Joseph Sannicandro – les rumeurs de la montagne rouge en chœur, convergent (Howl Arts!) I first met Stefan Christoff, a well known local organizer / activist / writer / musician in Montreal, during Occupy. It was…
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“e ingenuo sforzo di rifare la vita” (a mix for S K Y A P N E A on NTS)
“e ingenuo sforzo di rifare la vita” a mix for s k y a p n e a on NTS – by joseph sannicandro (a closer listen / lost children) LISTEN (guest mix begins at 00:56:00) In addition to a show on NTS radio, S K Y A P N E A is a record…
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