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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/CONTENT
AGF is a powerful poemproducer. She first described herself in these terms on a track of that title from Westernization Completed, her Ars Electronica winning breakthrough album. Poemproducer became her “internet name,” and has come to stand in for her idiosyncratic approach to vocal-based electronic music. Last November, AGF quietly released Poemproducer, almost exactly 20 years after Westernization Completed.…
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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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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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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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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…
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Paint a Vulgar Picture: New Patrons for the Arts?
And when it fails to recoup? Well, maybe: You just haven’t earned it yet, baby. -Morrissey The Smiths – “Paint a Vulgar Picture” When it comes to discussing the current state of the music industry, our core concepts are so poorly articulated and limited that most discussions are led astray before any progress is…
Sound Propositions 