Luke Blackmore’s “Living Room,” performed by Nikki Huang at Sound Symposium XXII. Memorial University School of Music Instrumental Room, July 19 and 20, 2026. Filmed and edited by Nick Bendzsa.

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 first video and please follow the link to our From the Archives playlist on YouTube!

On July 24th, 2024, Sound Symposium XXI came to a close at Cape Spear National Historic Site. This site-specific, land-based work was conceived of by artistic director Erin Donovan of Hear Here Productions, along with co-artistic director and choreographic director Susanne Chui.

Cape Spear 24 was supported by Year of the Arts and CelebrateNL. Sound Symposium is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, ArtsNL, the Government of Canada (Canadian Heritage), the City of St. John’s, and MusicNL.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

We acknowledge the support of ArtsNL, which last year invested $5.3 million to foster and promote the creation and enjoyment of the arts for the benefit of all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians.

Interior Landscapes, a project that celebrates the creation of three new works born from collaboration between visual and sonic artists throughout Eastern Canada. We are very pleased to release these short films online alongside Q&A sessions with the artists To see all the videos please follow this link for the Playlist– check it out on our YouTube channel.

Thanks to Sawtooth (Sarah Albu, Matti Pulkki), Caitlin B. Whelan, Jing Xia, Amery Sandford, XIA-3 , Heather Rumancik, Vainweather (Kate Read, Tiber Reardon Music, Benton Roark, Michelle LaCour), and everyone else involved for being a part of Interior Landscapes.