FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY They weren’t going to speak with me. Maybe it was just a he or a she, rather than a they. I didn’t know. An e-mail exchange was possible, but I wanted to meet face to face. I tried cajoling the members of the online musical project with theContinue reading “loK8Tr”
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Linda Bouchard’s Murderous Little World
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY Couple Linda Bouchard’s vision and sound with poet Anne Carson’s texts, engage the talents of a host of collaborators, including extraordinary musicians Guy Few, Joseph Petric, and Eric Vaillancourt, give it all several years to cook, move, splinter, and coalesce, and you have Bouchard’s multimedia performance piece Murderous LittleContinue reading “Linda Bouchard’s Murderous Little World”
Jocelyn Morlock
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY Jocelyn Morlock had purple hair for years. “It was indigo, in fact.” She narrows it down further: “Like an eggplant.” Specificity of colour matters to Morlock, not the least in music. “Colour: That’s what I think about when I hear somebody’s work I like,” she says. Morlock can beContinue reading “Jocelyn Morlock”
Analia Llugdar
FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY In her music, Montreal composer Analia Llugdar delves deeply into the primal interior of sound, as evidenced by a sampling of her work from 2003 to 2009. There are compositions for solo cello, small (trio) and large ensembles, often incorporating singing and speaking voices, as well as a music theatreContinue reading “Analia Llugdar”
Spring 2013
Zosha Di Castri is looking for action
An eighty-four-foot, mixed-media triptych spans a wall at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. With three huge scrolls, each three feet high, arranged on the wall in three rows, it’s an elaborate montage on a stark, white backdrop. Photographs, texts, drawings, and lithographs make up the whole. The piece, (Untitled) 2008–2011 (the mapContinue reading “Zosha Di Castri is looking for action”
Winter 2012
Merce Cunningham Dance Company: the final Event. NYC, USA. December 31, 2011.
It is with wistfulness and admiration that I’m writing a review of the last-ever Merce Cunningham Dance Company Event, the second of two shows at the Park Avenue Armory last New Year’s Eve. Wistfulness, for obvious reasons: this performance marked the end of a cultural institution that since 1953 has fostered a unique intermedia practice,Continue reading “Merce Cunningham Dance Company: the final Event. NYC, USA. December 31, 2011.”
Summer 2012
Internationales Minimal Music Festival, Third Edition. Kassel, Germany. October 6–9, 2011.
Every five years since 1955, the small German city of Kassel hosts documenta, Europe’s preeminent contemporary visual-arts exhibition. documenta attracts over one million curious viewers to Kassel, including world-renowned artists, cultural critics, academics, and international media. The citizens of Kassel are, as a result, one of the most open and culturally sophisticated audiences on theContinue reading “Internationales Minimal Music Festival, Third Edition. Kassel, Germany. October 6–9, 2011.”