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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 […]
Sound Arts Initiatives presents Interior Landscapes
Sound Arts Initiatives presents Interior Landscapes, the world premiere of three new works born from collaboration among visual and musical artists across eastern Canada. Join us for the screening of three new short films, as well as two live performances by XIA-3 and Vainweather. “Save The Fish” features music by Montreal/Toronto-based duo Sawtooth (Sarah Albu, […]
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 […]
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 […]
SSXXI Venues, Accessibility, Parking Information
LSPU Hall + Second Space 3 Victoria St, St. John’s, NL A1C 3V2 Parking Parking is available downtown after 6PM on weekdays and on weekends. Please note there is no parking available on Victoria Street. A parking spot outside the front of the LSPU Hall is kept available for accessible parking. If you get downtown […]