Night Music #254: los beatniko
Rick Bailey (AKA – los beatniko) has been a longstanding participant in Sound Symposium events, particularly Night Music. This time, he’ll fashion a set of electronic music to coincide with the auspicious #254 (2 x 127) by highlighting the Mersenne prime number 127. Look it up, it’s weirdly interesting. Rick isn’t even that great at […]
Sound Symposium Day 3 Recap
At 10 a.m. on the third day of Sound Symposium XXI, composer Andrew Gosse invited guests to take in his installation, Order Comforts Chaos in which the participant listened to a 20-minute composition of music and spoken word while meandering throughout the building at their leisure. The purpose? To give the listener a look into […]
Sound Symposium XXI Day 2
Rick Bailey kicked off the second day of the symposium with a workshop on improvising with generative music at the Lawnya Vawnya headquarters. In the workshop notes, generative music is described as “music that is ever-different and changing, and created by a system”, and was originally coined as a term to itself by ambient pioneer […]
Sound Symposium XXI: Day One
In anticipation of eight days of programming that are lying in wait for spectators, performers, and any synthesis of the two, Sound Symposium XXI began in true form with a diverse day-one catalog of sound art. The first Harbour Symphony of the symposium beckoned its beginning to those both near and far, and after […]
SOUND SYMPOSIUM 2024 LINEUP
The lineup for SS XXI is here! Andrew Gosse, Newfoundland On a path of self discovery. New music, shared experiences Installation in MUN Tunnels: “Order Comforts Disorder acoustic installation listeners put on headphones attached to their phone or an mp3 player and walk along a designated path inside. Signs posted along the path […]
SOUND SYMPOSIUM 2024 POSTER
In 2024 we return with SOUND SYMPOSIUM XXI Schedule and ticketing to be announced! DOWNLOAD THE POSTER
ONSOUND III: SqueezeFest
Sound Symposium’s third ONSOUND festival: SqueezeFest – will celebrate and explore many faces and musical possibilities of the accordion, the instrumental main- stay of Irish/Newfoundland traditional folk music. ONSOUND III’s SqueezeFest will appeal to traditional music enthusiasts interested in hearing an old favorite offered in new contexts, as well as the sound-seekers who delight in […]
Night Music: Context and Retrospective After 20 Years
On the third Thursday of every month, a band takes the stage at The Ship Pub in an alley off Duckworth Street, runs through their set, and after a short break is joined by any number of audience participants for an hour of stream-of-consciousness improvisation. It’s a format that’s been working for twenty years this […]
Sound Symposium XX In Review
Open Ears, Open Hearts Sound Symposium July 15-23, 2022 The twentieth iteration of any symposium should be a cause for celebration, but when that event is Sound Symposium XX happening after a prolonged, pandemic hiatus you know there is going to be a loud and joyful noise unlike any other. The wake-up call for every […]