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Night Music #268: Judy Zhu

Join us for Night Music #268, where Judy Zhu will take the audience on a sonic journey through free improvisation, mixing her voice with pedals and electronics to create a world of unexpected textures, colours, and sounds.

Aug. 20th | The Ship | 9:30pm | $10

More info on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1586725463465192

The Impulse Series

Spontaneous, real-time improvisations in dance and sound – presented at The Rooms

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Night Music

Calling all improvisers! Join us at The Ship Pub on the third Thursday of each month for peformances by St. John's weirdest and most wonderful, and stick around for the jam

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Day Music

Workshops in sound, music, and improvisation on the last Saturday of each month – ages 13 and up

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Sound Symposium XXII – Thank You!

by Michelle Lacour / Uncategorized
August 5, 2026

Our sincere thanks to all who performed, participated, or attended events during Sound Symposium XXII – it was a spectacular week of sonic exploration in beautiful St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. If you’re looking for the program booklet, you can find that here: Click here for a digital version of the Sound Symposium XXII program […]

Sound Symposium XXII Daytime Events

by Michelle Lacour / Uncategorized
July 3, 2026

HADIS FARD: MODES OF LISTENING: A FEMINIST EAR — A guided, practice-based group session that moves through modes of listening: embodied attention, listening as change, collective shaping of the sonic environment, and text-based score making with sound interpretation. We bring focused awareness to the sounds we live among and produce in the space, how they […]

Sound Symposium XXII: Late Night

by Michelle Lacour / Uncategorized

LATE NIGHT AT SOUND SYMPOSIUM XXII HARSH NOISE NIGHT The Nausea | Primitive Isolation Tactics | Sleeping Police | Cathar Perfect Wednesday, July 15th, 10pm Eastern Edge Artist-Run Centre $10 at the door | wet/dry The Nausea is an experimental violin project by Anju Singh – a media artist, composer, musician and sound artist […]