Night Music #257: bc power
August 21, 2025 9:30 pm The Ship Pub Duckworth St St John’s, NL. bc power organizes amplified found sounds, processed radio signals, and eclectic percussive elements into an improvised mix of noises and silences. bc will perform a series of duets featuring Michelle LaCour, Liam Ryan, Ben Diamond, and Greg Bruce. Night Music is an […]
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 […]
Night Music – Sum of it All
Sum Of It All are a new musical experiment of accretion from the minds of St. John’s musicians Liam Clancy and David Kerr. Sum Of It All seeks to create unique and interesting soundscapes through a combination of trumpet, percussion, vocals, ukulele, and various other instruments as well as found sounds both acoustic and electric. […]
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, […]
Sound Symposium 2024 Schedule
Sound Symposium XXI July 15 – 26, 2024 Event Schedule as of Tuesday July 9th update (Subject to change) Download as a PDF GET TICKETS Tuesday, July 16, 2024 12:30 Harbour Symphony 1:30 pm LSPU Hall. Victoria St Welcome and introductions 6pm Fred’s Records, Duckworth St Brandon Auger live installation 7:00 pm at LSPU Hall, […]
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 […]
All Improvisers Welcome
Night Music happens almost every night of Sound Symposium XIX. You never know what you’ll hear:
Big Space
Since forming in 2013, Big Space has performed many sets at prominent music clubs in St. John’s, as well as the Wreckhouse Jazz & Blues Festival, the Music at Harbourside series, and the Lawnya Vawnya festival. They have also been featured at the Sound Symposium and often host the Sound Symposium’s Night Music.
Atomic Clock
Atomic Clock is an improvisation-based experimental jam band combining elements of rock, electronica and jazz with atmospheric, ambient soundscapes. Comprised of Tiber Reardon, Josh Ward, Chris Donnelly, and Michelle LaCour, Atomic Clock creates music on the fly, with sounds, riffs, hooks and beats generated naturally. Each performance is unique, and each piece is a musical […]