Category: audio art

sketches and finished works

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nuit blanche

wow. (i’m saying that a lot these days. guess that’s a good sign). i just found that my submission to the open call to toronto’s nuit blanche (which i have to change the title of), has made the cut! i have been chosen as one of the 5 commissions per zone. what a great thing, mostly because nuit blanche is one of the most amazing things that toronto does. last year’s event was totally magical. i am so pleased to be chosen. wow. (i’m saying that a lot these days).

more details to follow once i get some sleep.

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back

i’m back.  even though i landed about a week ago.  keeping up and getting back into the groove is taking up a certain amount of time.

lots of great news on the work front, including a new myspace page to highlight composition and sound design work, shows with arabic singer maryem tollar, getting accepted to the 2nd round of the fresh ground commissioning selection process, and beginning the process of scoring a TV doc (more news later).

i have also been working on making some short films based on my experiences in india and created from lo res footage i shot there.  the preliminary work is proving to be very inspiring and i am really looking forward to the process of creating video works and scoring.

waiting on a few grants to see what i will be concentrating on next.

happy new year.

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tumbani

met sound artist bhudaditya chattopadhyay last night.  very interesting fellow, doing great work here in kolkata.  we talked a lot about audio restoration, soundscape work, and, of course, gear.  particularly interesting was hearing the stories of strange collectors and collections.  there is a lot of wonderful music here that is being lost, archived haphazardly and outright thrown away.  the same issues are at play in egypt, where my friend alfred gamil is trying to revive the song repertoire of the early 20th century.  a large collection of cylinders and shellacs were given to the french government a number of years ago, and my naive questions about appropriation and such issues were dismissed by a wave of his hand.  he says that archive was the best thing that happened to egyptian music—everything is being stored in climate controlled conditions under high security, but open for all.  i wonder what is happening in canada. 

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other minds

in searching around the internet archive, i found the other minds archive, chock full of lectures, performances and other audio from the amazing other minds festival. right now i’m listening to steve reich’s group perform 4 organs, my name is, piano phase, and phase patterns. fantastic.

check it out, as well as the other recordings (cage and feldman in conversation, evelyn glennie in concert, an interview with brian eno….).

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online

just found out the interview project for the soundLAB project is online here.  the sound pieces will be launched oct 20 here.  and of course i forgot to mention that the piece i created for deepwireless 2006 is available for listening here.