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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 […]
Drone Synth Workshop.
10 am Workshop. First Light Event Space. Bannerman St. – Build Your Own Drone Synth with Gabriel Pilla There are only 15 spaces available for the Drone Synth Workshop, Please sign up with Google Form.
The Cape Spear Project is back!
Don’t miss CAPE SPEAR 24. On July 24th, at 8pm at Cape Spear National Historic Site an outdoor site specific event is being created for Sound Symposium, by Hear Here Productions (hearhereproductions.ca). Directed by Erin Donovan and choreographer Susanne Chui, this program involves 30 performers including dancers and musicians and features special guest Eastern Owl. […]
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, […]