Sound Propositions

Arts/Music CV

the new objective

Joseph Sannicandro

w/ Stefan Christoff

w/ Jordan Christoff

w/ Anarchist Mountains Trio

Mixes

Curated

  • The Suspects – curated CD, Stolen Chair Records (2001)
  • Con fuoco d’occhi un nostalgico lupo – curated double compilation of contemporary Italian instrumental music, THE SILENT BALLET (2010)
  • Todtnauberg – Curated drone compilation, A CLOSER LISTEN (2013)
  • Screening of Jayne Amara Ross’ films The Freemartin Calf and As True As Troilus (2011), and listening party for Jayne Amara Ross and Frédéric D. Oberland’s “For Valuska,” at La Plante, Montreal (12 January 2014)
  • Lost Children Net Label (LCNL) mix series   – 100 mixes created by invited artists, labels, journalists, and listeners (2011-2018)
  • transmutations i – soundscapes and dancing at Ateliers Belleville, Montreal (4 May 2024)
  • transmutations ii – soundscapes and dancing at Wavefield, Brooklyn (26 April 2025)

(Selected) Performances, Installations, etc

  • Scene Points – handed out “-1”, “+1”, and “scene points” pins to strangers at shows (2003)
  • Rhys Chatham’s Crimson Grail (Outdoor Version) – for 200 guitar and 16 bass orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park (2008)
  • On-Air – participatory installation during an open house party intended to use an artificial mode of social relation (the interview) to loosen up party-goers to move beyond small talk, Montreal (2012)
  • Expérimentation Télématique – performed as part of a telematic ensemble performance arranged by Esther B (Montreal) and Christopher Haworth (Calgary), at Eastern Bloc gallery, Montreal (2013)
  • “1984” in Centennial Artistamps: G.A. Cavellini 1914-2014, E.O.N. Post (2014)
  • “I dreamt I was dreaming and I came home too late” included in the Helicotrema festival (Italy), curated by Nicola Di Croce (2016)
  • Breaking the Wall (Parete 2017)  – sound performance/installation, Montreal (2014-2017)
  • “Immaculate,” performance at Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA (8 December 2018)
  •  “il rumore della spiaggia,” included in  Disquiet playlist for «Rauschlabor Schützenmatte », Musikfestival Bern (September 2019)
  • Alea Iacta Est – two-channel listening station, The Engine Room:International Sound Art Exhibition 2019 at Iklectik Art Lab, London (5 – 24 October 2019)
  • [group exhibitions in Italy and Greece cancelled due to Covid (2020)]
  • Contribution to Eliza Lauren’s The Sound of Home: sounds and stories from lockdown (video) (individual sounds) (2021)
  • “Music for Insurrection” – live performance and talk, Echoes of a Distance, Music, Protest and Community in Confined Times, with Dont Rhine/Ultra-red, The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI), McGill University (19-20 November 2021)
  • “Conspiracy Means Breathing Together,” MediSouP Concert 2: Healing. Listening to a Brave New World, Videoworks Screenings | Istanbul Cinema Museum (Atlas), Istanbul (TR) & TRT Centro Negra / AADK SP, Blanca / Murcia (ES) (20-21 April 2022)
  • Stefan Christoff & Joseph Sannicandro: Videoworks. with Mats Gustafsson’s Fire! Orchestra, Suoni per il Popolo festival, Montreal (27 June 2022)
  • Sonic Topographies, Liminaria workshop and public presentation, Colle Sannita (BN) (24-26 June 2022)
  • Dopo il diluvio [soundwalk], SUBSTANTIAE MOTUS: Liminaria / Interferenze, San Martino Valle Caudina (AV) (25-30 July 2022)
  • But Who, We? – film screening, La Lumière Collective, Montreal (24 March 2023)
  • Interzona 2003 > 2023, Museo del Sannio (Benevento), San Martino Valle Caudina (AV) (15 April 2023)
  • Halcyon – film screening, Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY (13 May 2023)
  • Soundworks with Stefan Christoff included in Radio Insomnia, part of The Sociability of Sleep’s InSomnolence, Montreal (7-8 July 2023)
  • Labour in the Shadows – soundwalk and performance, with Stefan Christoff and Raah Lab Concordia, Ateliers Belleville, Montreal (17 March 2024)
  • “lunar quad flute,” for Charline Dally’s lunar score for 18 musicians, in This Womb of Things To Be, Diagonale, Montreal, 2 May – 15 June (2024)
  • Dopo il diluvio [soundwalk], in Cultural Geographies: Liminaria / Interferenze, San Martino Valle Caudina (AV) (9-14 July 2024)
  • “Labour in the Shadows,” 15′ composition for The Montreal Sessions, CKUT (3 June 2025)
  • Réverbérations d’une crise, Marche funèbre pour les lieux disparus [funeral march for the lost cultural places], Suoni per il Popolo festival, Montreal (22 June 2025)
  • The Raah Podcast: Labour in the Shadows, Raah Lab, Concordia (8 July 2025)
  • al-umm al-ḥazīna / the sorrowful mother / mater dolorosa, multispeaker sound installation as part of <Un>rest, Lux La Lumière, Montreal (25 October 2025)
  • al-rambla, 20′ multichannel diffusion, AKOUSMA 21 (30 October 2025)

Panels

  • “Exploring field recording practice” – Listening session and roundtable with Steven Feld, curated by Nicola Di Croce. CIRMMT, McGill University (13 September 2022)
  • Voices for Housing Justice – community panel addressing the role that artists can play in building the struggle for housing justice, organized by Stefan Christoff. OBORO, Montreal (25 April 2024)
  • Respondent, English language book launch for Eric Fillion‘s  Soundtrack to the Revolution: Free Jazz and Leftist Nationalism in Quebec 1967-1975. Casa del Popolo, Montreal (26 June 2025)

Residencies

  • Liminaria, Colle Sannita (BN), Italy (24-26 June 2022)
  • Liminaria / Interferenze, San Martino Valle Caudina (AV), Italy (26 June – 3 July 2022)
  • AADK, Centro Negra, Blanca (Murcia), Spain (2-31 January 2025)

Misc. Other Projects