From The Archives!
Sound Symposium is digging in the vault for old video and photos. We’ll be presenting selections from the Sound Symposium archives, stretching all the way back to 1983. Is there a particular performance that stands out in your memory? Let us know in the comments and we’ll try to dig it up! Here is our […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 – 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, […]
Interior Landscapes videos
Happy New Year from all of us at Sound Arts! 2024 was an incredible year – immense thanks to all of the Night Music artists, Sound Symposium XXI participants, Drone Day droners, our community partners, and everyone who came out to take it in. Last month saw the in-person release of Interior Landscapes, a project […]