Sound Symposium

The Umbrella Ensemble with dancer Camille Renarhd perform Emily Doolittle's REEDS at the MUN Botanical Garden on the final day of Sound Symposium XV. Photo by Susan Locke © 2010

The last day of Sound Symposium and as sad as we are to see it go we could not have composed a better day as a send off for this years event. There were great outdoor performances by the Umbrella Ensemble performing Emily Doolittle's REEDS at Oxen Pond in the MUN Botanical Garden and Moritz Eggert's BREAKING THE WAVES for the Cape Spear Project last night.

The Umbrella Ensemble led their audience through the trees and trails of the gardens and Eggert led his audience along the sea coast and WWII era bunkers at Cape Spear National Park, the most eastern point of land in North America, delivering them to performers nestled in the alcoves and rocks as the North Atlantic crashed on the shore and whales put on their own show in the surrounding ocean.

Saturday's Harbour Symphony was BLOWING IN THE FOG by Gordon King.
LISTEN:  HS-GordonKing_Jul10_0033.mp3  (4.72MBytes)

Moritz Eggert's radio play, THE CALL, part one of the Cape Spear, along with his map of the performance area are still available.

Rick says check out the Sound Symposium XV photo gallery for more photos from this years event.

Thanks to all the performers and volunteers to made this years event a memorable one and a special thanks to you who came out to experience the worlds best in new music and sound art.

Stay tuned to SoundSymposium.com as we continue to bring you Sound Symposium Presents ...., our on going new music series, NIGHT MUSIC, monthly improv at The Ship Pub and WORLD SOUND in the fall of 2011 bringing the best world music performers to St. John's.

Well, sound folk, it's Saturday morning and the last day of Sound Symposium. It's a beautiful day in St. John's so Sound Symposium is taking the show to the great outdoors for today's performance and tonight's Grand Finale, The Cape Spear Project.

So, grab a coffee and start your day at 12:00 Noon by taking in Annie Dunning's installation, AIR TIME, at the Eastern Edge Gallery on Harbour Drive and Frank Pahl's AUTOMATICS at the a1c Gallery around the corner. Then at 12:30 you can catch the last Harbour Symphony standing next to the ships.

At 2:00PM at the MUN BOTANICAL GARDEN on Mount Scio Road its a pondside concert. REEDS,  by the Umbrella Ensemble & Camille Renarhd. Featuring new work by Emily Doolittle for wind instruments and dancer.

THEN ...at 9:30PM THE CAPE SPEAR PROJECT at Cape Spear National Park by German composer, Moritz Eggert will be a spectacular finale under the stars for Sound Symposium XV. Rain venue is Cochrane Street United Church ...but that's not happening, right?

Dowload the MP3 audio file to hear Part 1, a radio play, and a map of the performance area at Cape Spear.

...about last night.

Mark Fewer at the D.F. Cook Hall Friday night at Sound Sumposium XV.
Photo by Greg Locke © 2010

The Harbour Symphony was Blow Your Horn by Tara Bryan.
LISTEN:  HS-TaraBryan_Jul9_0028.mp3  (4.87MBytes)

...and the PHOTO GALLERY has been updated!