Sound Symposium

Dream Walker Dance at the LSPU Hall on Sunday night. Photo by Greg Locke © 2010

Sound Symposium's first weekend wrapped up Sunday with great weekend of performances, sound art and workshops that really reflected the diverse and eclectic talent of the artists from around the world who come to Sound Symposium.

The morning workshop with Andrea Nann and Brendan Wyatt from Dream Walker Dance was a great prelude to their evening performance at the LSPU Hall.  David Rokeby and Eve Egoyan talked about the crossover of music and the visual in their work, Surface Tension, for the Disk Klavier and Diane Landry's installation, Le chavalier de la resignation infinie, continue to be a hit with visitor to the Band Room at MUN Music.

Darryl Cremasco on Piano and premiered the work of Newfoundland composers, Rob Power, Greg Hawco and Jennifer O'Neill.

The Harbour Symphony was by XXXXX. Click the link to hear it again!
 HS-EmilyDoolittle-Jul4_0015.mp3  (5.69mb)

Sean Panting, right, and the Complaints Choir at the LSPU Hall Sunday Night.

The audio file for Moritz Eggert's Cape Spear Project is now online and is the first part of his work for Saturday night spectacular at Cape Spear. Tickets for this event are $10 cash at the gate and begins at 9:30pm.

Tonight at Sound Symposium one of the "must-see" performances at this years event. Bagashree  Vaze and Vineet Vyas with Adam Duncan on sitar and Bill Brennan on piano and xylophone, bring their classical Indian music and dance to the LSPU Hall. 7:30PM. Tickets at the LSPU Box Office

"Creating imaginary lands that lie somewhere between the old world and the new. Bageshree's voice soars above deep grooves and ancient melodic streams for a birds eye view of the future of world music." - Jowi Taylor, Global Village, CBC Radio One.

Also on the bill at The Hall, The Black Auks. Newfoundland's foremost improv group and house band of Sound Symposium.

10:30: NIGHT MUSIC at The Ship Pub with Curtis Andrews, Patrick Boyle and Ernie Tollar.
Tickets at the door.

Come and join me at the Cape Spear Project Saturday, July 10th at 9:30pm on Cape Spear. But it starts right here and you can be a part of it.

This is the first part of this year’s Cape Spear project, Breaking the Waves, the radioplay,  “Call” which serves as an introduction to the project.

Please listen to this 10 minute audio file (mp3) to understand what this year’s Cape Spear event will, could, or might be about. Enjoy! 

..Moritz Eggert

 CapeSpear-CALL-radioplayMP3.mp3    (MP3 9.63mb)
...click to open and listen in a player or download .mp3

 Cape Spear Project: THE MAP by Moritz Eggert  (8x10 JPEG 312 kb)
...click to open in a new window and print from browser or download and print.

It's Sunday morning at Sound Symposium and it was a late light with great performances at MUN Music with Eve Egoyan and the astonishing Surface Tension setting a new standard for the cross-over of the musical and the visual.

Moritz Eggert, who is very visual also, on solo piano played a composition that combined every national anthem in the world and the show closed with music from Zimbabwe by Kurai Mubaiwa and Curtis Andrews in very visual outfits.

It was also a day of walking the cities galleries to see the sound installions and meeting the artists.

Check out the photo gallery for photos.

Yesterday's harbour symphony was composed by Frank Pahl.  HS-FrankPahl_Jul3_0010.mp3

But there is no time to linger over coffee, today is another full day of workshops, sound installations and performances, so get out there and experience something special!

10:30 ARTS AND CULTURE CENTRE MAIN STAGE: Dance Workshop

* Andrea Nann & Brendan Wyatt, dance—Part One

12:30 ST. JOHN'S WATERFRONT

* HARBOUR SYMPHONY

BAND ROOM, MUN School of Music: Installation

* Diane Landry, Le chevalier de la résignation infini, open until 3:30

14:00 COOK RECITAL HALL, MUN School of Music: Workshop

* David Rokeby & Eve Egoyan, discussing Surface Tension

15:30 PETRO CANADA HALL, MUN School of Music: Afternoon Concert

* River Connected (percussion)

19:30 LSPU HALL: Concert

* Complaints Choir, Director Kellie Walsh performing, music by Sean Panting, with videographer  Angela Antle
* Ben Grossman with Debashis Sinha (hurdy gurdy and more)
* Dreamwalker Dance Company: Beside Each Other

22:00 THE SHIP PUB: Night Music

* McKudo; plus jam session

23:00 QUIET MUSIC

* Maryem Tollar, Debashis Sinha & Roula Said

Tickets from the Sound Symposium desk at the LSPU Hall.