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Temps Libre EP
“Temps Libre” is the first release from the St. Laurent Piano Project, a recording series initiated by musician Stefan Christoff. Featuring Brahja Waldman on sax, Peter Burton on contrabass and Stefan Christoff on piano, “Temps Libre” is a musical exploration recorded at La Sala Rossa in late summer 2012 as Quebec’s student uprising echoed across…
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Cult Mtl
Over the last few months I’ve published a number of pieces for Cult Mtl, a website and print paper that replace Montreal’s beloved free alt weekly the Mirror after it was rather unceremoniously shut down by parent company Quebecor (Quebec’s very own disgusting media giant). You can read Quebec’s Other Other Monumental Music Fest and…
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eContact! 14.3 — Turntablism
The Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s journal eContact! published my review of Martin Tétreault’s Turntable Quartet performance at Akousma 9 last fall. It’s a reworked and much improved section of my AKOUSMA review that ran at ACL, but this one was peer-reviewed and edited after I reworked it. Read it here, and check out the entire issue as…
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Interview: Aspec(t)
Originally posted as part of my mix/interview series at http://www.acloserlisten.com Sec_ part 1 Sec_ part 2 Mario Gabola LCNL 010: SEC_ Mix Last year while in Napoli I met Mario Gabola (A spirale, Aspec(t)) at Perditempo, an incredible music venue in Piazza Dante with a sister-store nearby, both of which act as bars that sell…
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Interview: Francisco Lopez
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…
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Chris Dooks and Machinefabriek ~ The Eskdalemuir Harmonium
Between the tremendous volume of recordings released and the ease of obtaining them, perhaps it’s only natural to expect that we tend to have such short attention spans these days. The Eskdalemuir Harmonium came out late in 2012, a beautiful LP published by Komino records, yet to some this review may already seem much too…
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Quebec’s Other Other Monumental Music Fest
Thurston Moore and his new band, Chelsea Light Moving. Photo by Carlos van Hijfte Founded in 1983, the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville (or “Victo” to those in the know) has long been regarded as one of the greatest experimental music festivals in the world. Eclectic programming has always been one of its…
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Sound Propositions 04: Steve Roden
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…
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The Legacy of Situationist Psychogeography:Its Relational Quality and Influence on Contemporary Art
The Legacy of Situationist Psychogeography: Its Relational Quality and Influence on Contemporary Art May 2008 Download the PDF pyschoart Introduction In the time before the Industrial Revolution, cities were defined by their rivers; the spirit of a city was revealed by the ways in which its citizens interacted with this most important of resources. Imagine how…
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Sound Propositions 03: Leonardo Rosado
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…
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the new objective – Le Maître ignorant
lo-fi tracks made in montreal mostly between fall 2011 and summer 2012 utilizing field-recordings made on iphone 3gs, mc 303, unity mixer, cheap effects pedals, samples, and various instruments including piano, electric guitar and ukulele The tracks all vary in style and intention, but are more or less in the same register. Soundcloud: the new…
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A Closer Look: Montreal’s AKOUSMA Festival
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…
Sound Propositions 