An article of mine, which I developed in 2015-2016, was published in the eContact journal in 2017. Read the entire article here. Abstract: By the middle of the 20th century, composers of electronic and electroacoustic music had begun to reenvision the concert hall. Buttressed by theories of acousmatic sound articulated by Pierre Schaeffer and his…
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…
Originally published at acloserlisten.com Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy that can just as easily have come from a press release…
In December of 2012, the Italian sound artist Enrico Coniglio published noWHere – ideale manifesto per sound artists, an old-fashioned manifesto articulating a set of core values about how we as artists should approach “live electronics.” Below you’ll find my translation of this manifesto into English. The Manifesto will be presented at this page free…