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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 #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 […]
Cape Spear 24 Video
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]