Sound Symposium XX schedule now available!
FRIDAY JULY 15
WELCOME & ARTIST REGISTRATION – SOUND SYMPOSIUM CENTRAL, LSPU Hall 3 Victoria St. 10:00 am
HARBOUR SYMPHONY – St. John’s Waterfront 12:30 pm
HARBOURSIDE PARK CONCERT – Harbourside Park, 12:30 pm
SALT BEEF JUNKIES
OUROBOROS
INSTALLATION & PERFORMANCE – Eastern Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Drive 2:30 pm
KATELYN DOBBIN “You can’t drink the sea”
EVENING CONCERT – D.F. Cook Recital Hall, MUN School of Music 7:30 pm
KATE READ, viola & live looping, MICHELLE LACOUR, electronics.
World premieres of Blackwood Sketches by ANDREW STANILAND and Evennight by BENTON ROARK
TORQ PERCUSSION QUARTET. World premieres by RICHARD BURROWS, DANIEL MORPHY, JAMIE DRAKE, GRACE LIZAN, MATTHEW ROOME
NIGHT MUSIC – The Ship Pub 10:30 pm
LOGY AUKS
Note: Cellist Leanne Zacharias will offer several concerts for small audiences of no more than 5 people at a time. If you would like to be a member of a small audience, please sign at Sound Symposium headquarters.
SATURDAY, July 16 – MUN School of Music.
WORKSHOP – TORQ PERCUSSION QUARTET
“Finding Our Collaborative Voice,” a collaborative approach to composition.
9:00AM. D.F. Cook Recital Hall
WORKSHOP – TRICHY SANKARAN
Master of the South India Mrdangam and Kanjira.
11:00AM. MUN School of Music.
HARBOUR SYMPHONY – St. John’s Waterfront 12:30 pm
SOUND INSTALLATION & ARTIST TALK
“Boundary” by AMY BRANDON.
The Works swimming pool, MUN 12:00-3:30 pm
WORKSHOP – MUN School of Music 4:00 pm
KILAUTIUP SONGUNINGA
Strength of the Drum: STAN NOCHASAK, SOPHIE ANGNATOK, SOLOMON SEMIGAK, ASHLEY DICKER.
EVENING CONCERT – LSPU Hall 7:30 pm
BEN DIAMOND, classical guitar & electronics; “Sound of Mind & Body” with BILL COLEMAN, dance & GORDON MONAHAN, electronics: brainwave-sensing technology producing sound, music, dance, movement.
NIGHT MUSIC – The Ship Pub 10:30 pm
ELECTRONS
SUNDAY JULY 17
WORKSHOP – LSPU Hall 10:00 am
BILL COLEMAN. Movement & Dance: reaching an awareness of the senses that induces physical control and freedom of movement & new territories of physical exploration.
HARBOUR SYMPHONY – St. John’s Waterfront 12:30 pm
SOUND INSTALLATION & ARTIST TALK
“Boundary” by AMY BRANDON. The Works swimming pool, MUN 12:00-3:30 pm
WORKSHOP – MUN School of Music 4:00 pm
RUSSELL HARTENBERGER (NEXUS). West African rhythm in the music of Steve Reich
EVENING CONCERT – LSPU Hall 7:30 pm
“Finding HER Voice” with BEVERLEY JOHNSTON, solo percussion; BAGESHREE VAZE, Kathak dance; VINEET VYAS, tabla; DWIT HATHI, Carnatic guitar; BILL BRENNAN, keyboard.
NIGHT MUSIC – The Ship Pub 10:30 pm
WINDS
MONDAY JULY 18
WORKSHOP – MUN School of Music 10:00 am
GORDON MONAHAN. Interfacing & processing of brainwave EEG signals into sound and music
HARBOUR SYMPHONY – St. John’s Waterfront 12:30 pm
WORKSHOP – MUN School of Music 2:00 pm
BOB BECKER (NEXUS) Xylophone History and Performance
COMPOSERS ROUNDTABLE – MUN School of Music 4:00 pm
EVENING CONCERT – LSPU Hall 7:30 pm
EASTERN OWL, Newfoundland’s Seminal All-Women, All-Nations Drum Group; “The Offering of Curtis Andrews” featuring TRICHY SANKARAN, mrdangam, kanjira; CURTIS ANDREWS, percussion; JARED BURROWS, guitar; PATRICK BOYLE, trumpet.
LATE NIGHT – Eastern Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Drive 10:30 pm
CUERPOS; NICHOLAS BENDZSA
TUESDAY JULY 19
WORKSHOP – LSPU Hall 10:00 am
GREG BRUCE. Fun with Tape: Analogue Will Save the World! An interactive tape loop workshop
HARBOUR SYMPHONY – St. John’s Waterfront 12:30 pm
WORKSHOP – LSPU Hall 2:00 pm
BAGESHREE VAZE hands-on workshop on North and South Indian dance aesthetics. Movements in the styles of Kathak and Bharatha Natyam, demonstrating the strong connection and interaction with music and percussion in South Asian culture. The workshop will also feature Vineet Vyas, tabla.
EVENING CONCERT – D.F. Cook Recital Hall, MUN School of Music 7:30 pm
HARBOURLIGHT QUARTET: NANCY CASE-OATES, violin; KATE READ, viola; AMY COLLYER-HOLMES cello; MADO CHRISTIE, piano; “Devil’s Blanket” by Duane Andrews, Improvisations;
WORLD PREMIERE of “Red River” by RUSSELL HARTENBERGER, performed by NEXUS Percussion Quartet, TORQ Percussion Quartet, BEVERLEY JOHNSTON & BILL BRENNAN
LATE NIGHT – Eastern Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Drive 10:30 pm
INSTALLATION & PERFORMANCE KATELYN DOBBIN “You can’t drink the sea” with DUSTIN FINER, saxophone; GABRIELA SANCHEZ, percussion; MICHELLE LACOUR accordion; Hannah Boone, trumpet; THE NOVA COLLECTIVE
WEDNESDAY JULY 20
WORKSHOP – MUN School of Music 10:00 am
BILL CAHN (NEXUS). “Creative Music Making: Four Simple Steps to Cultivating the Inner Musician” gives participants an opportunity to perform free-form musical improvisations with a focus on building confidence in creating music, listening & connecting with “the music”
HARBOUR SYMPHONY – St. John’s Waterfront 12:30 pm
TRAIL REPORTS – Poetry & Percussion In the Garden. MUN Botanical Garden 2:00 pm
ERIN DONOVAN, ROB POWER, BILL BRENNAN, GINA RYAN, percussion; ALICE BURDICK, poetry; ANDREA TUCKER, movement; REID ROBINS, guitar and voice.
EVENING CONCERT – First Light, 81 Cochrane St. 7:30 pm
GREG BRUCE, saxophone; ARKORA “Transfigured Light,” featuring newly-commissioned works, medieval and Renaissance motets, including 16th century microtonal work by Nicola Vicentino and a work by Pérotin.
LATE NIGHT JAZZ – The Salt House, 171 Water St. 10:30 pm
FLORIAN HOEFNER & FRIENDS
THURSDAY JULY 21
OPEN MORNING – Artists’ free time
WHALES, SEABIRDS, BEACHES, TRAIL WALKS. Information available at SOUND SYMPOSIUM CENTRAL,
LSPU Hall (check for hours open)
HARBOUR SYMPHONY – St. John’s Waterfront 12:30 pm
WORKSHOP – MUN School of Music 2:00 pm
GARRY KVISTAD (NEXUS) – “Sound Science”: Kvistad will provide an inside look on tuning instruments from his Woodstock Chimes business based on the ancient Just Intonation system. The session will include demonstrations of special musical equipment, and exercises on rhythmic patterns as building blocks of pure musical tones.
RAIN DATE for TRAIL REPORT – Poetry & Percussion. MUN Botanical Garden TBD
EVENING CONCERT – IMPROV NIGHT. LSPU Hall 7:30 pm
TRAIL REPORT: ERIN DONOVAN, ALICE BURDICK, ROB POWER, BILL BRENNAN;
Presentation of the GERRY PORTER AWARD;
SURPRISE IMPROVISATIONS by Sound Symposium artists
NIGHT MUSIC – The Ship Pub 10:30 pm
UMS VS OHMS PLUS
FRIDAY JULY 22
WORKSHOP – First Light, 81 Cochrane St. 10:00 am
Experimental and Microtonal Instruments with BENTON ROARK, GAYLE YOUNG & ANDREW STANILAND, featuring the glass/microtonal marimba & the JADE
HARBOUR SYMPHONY – St John’s Waterfront 12:30 pm
AFTERNOON CONCERT – The Rooms, 9 Bonaventure Ave. 2:00 pm
KILAUTIUP SONGUNINGA
“Strength of the Drum”: STAN NOCHASAK,
SOPHIE ANGNATOK, SOLOMON
SEMIGAK, ASHLEY DICKER
EVENING CONCERT – D.F. Cook Recital Hall, MUN School of Music 7:30 pm
GINA RYAN & ERIN DONOVAN, percussion solos and duos;
NEXUS Percussion Quartet; BOB BECKER, BILL CAHN, RUSSELL HARTENBERGER, GARRY KVISTAND
NIGHT MUSIC – The Ship Pub 10:30 pm
BANJOS & DIRT
SATURDAY JULY 23
OPEN MORNING – Artists’ free time for further exploration of Newfoundland’s connections to nature and culture
HARBOUR SYMPHONY
St. John’s Waterfront 12:30 pm
AFTERNOON CONCERT – Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist 3:00 pm
TRIO LYRICAL
(EMILY FINCH, KATHERINE MOFFATT, MICHAEL O’KEEFE trumpets); GAYLE YOUNG, deep listening; SARAH ALBU, experimental vocals; NOAM BIERSTONE, percussion, DAVID BULEY, hurdy gurdy
CLOSING PARTY – The Ship Pub 9:00 pm
Note: Keep your eyes peeled for “Hasty Vacationing” with los beatniko, time and location TBD