ONSOUND IV – What is Jazz. July 16-19, 2025
Sound Arts Initiatives Presents ONSOUND IV – What is Jazz? July 16-19, 2025 St John’s, Newfoundland. Artists include Lina Allemano Four * NPNP Trio * Brodie West * Bill Brennan, Rob Power and Pat Boyle * Zaynab Wilson * Florian Hoefner Trio * Natasha Blackwood * NYON Humberto Piccoli * Ana Luisa Ramos & […]
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Drone Day 2025
Drone Day is Saturday May 24th, 2025. Join us for to Drone and Draw in the Baird Building garage (on the corner of Clifts-Bairds Cove and Harbour Drive). There will be tables and drawing supplies provided or bring your own – and bring an instrument for the jam! Doors open at 12:00pm, drone starts at […]
Night Music #252 – A5TRAL80G
A5tral8og is Chris Harnett, Chris Driedzic, Graham Ellsworth and Tiber Reardon and they are an improvisation quartet that performs using ImprovDirector, an interactive tool that shapes and directs musical ideas in real time. The audience can interact with the improvisation using their phones/mobile devices for a truly interactive experience. NIGHT MUSIC #252: A5TRAL80G April 17, […]
Night Music # 252 – The Ames Window
Night Music is an improvisational music series held the third Thursday of very month at The Ship Pub. Local musicians play a set of their own music, which serves as the basis for the improvisation that follows. Musicians collaborate with organizer Craig Squires to present the evening of music, both planned and impromptu. This is […]
Call for Proposals – Sound Symposium XXII 2026
Sound Arts Initiatives invites proposals from all creative disciplines for Sound Symposium XXII, taking place July 15-21, 2026 in the natural audiovisual laboratory of St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. Come be part of a vibrant, welcoming artistic community that thrives on creative inspiration and sonic exploration! Link to form: https://forms.gle/3wJDa4BhxKm3NfGQ8
Night Music – Loopstitch
January 16, The Ship. 9:30pm – Sound Symposium’s Night Music series presents Loopstitch. An experimental musical duo with Kate Read (@katereadviola) and Michelle LaCour (@motherofrunes_). Frequent collaborators since their first artistic encounter at Sound Symposium XIX in 2018, the two perform improvised music for amplified viola, accordion, and synthesizers, expanded upon with found sounds, pedals, […]
THANK YOU! …and fill out our survey
As summer 2024 slows to a close, we would like to thank all of you – artists, volunteers, staff, audience members, and workshop participants – for your incredible enthusiasm, engagement, and encouragement throughout this season. Sound Symposium XXI was truly a symposium of ideas, filled with 9 days and nights of workshops, improvisation, sound, music, […]
SS-XXI Photo Gallery
Check 0ut our photo gallery from this year’s Sound Symposium XXI.
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 […]