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Celebrating R. Murray Schafer

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Soundstreams and R. Murray Schafer — A 30-Year Collaboration Soundstreams acknowledges R. Murray Schafer’s passing with profound sorrow, but at the same time, we recognize that now we have both…

TD Encounters – Women’s Voices as Cultural Keepers

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…– Scott (Soprano) The Water Song* Performed by Kristine Dandavino (mezzo) Panelists discussions will feature Natalya Gennadi, Kristine Dandavino, and Xin Wang. *This song was written by Irene Wawatie Jerome…

Land Acknowledgment

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We work and produce shows in Toronto, also known as T’karonto which in Kanien’kéha (Mohawk Language) means, ‘the place in the water where the trees are standing.’ Today we are…

Salon 21: SoundWeavers Recap

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…the colourful imagery in the texts – including sounds mimicking the rushing of wind and waves in water. Art featuring the texts of the piece were displayed on a table…

James Parker on Music for Multiple Pianos, The Beatles and Career Stamina

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…it’s all good – what I’ve learned over the years has happened pretty much on a natural schedule. But I’m a water rabbit Gemini – we’re pretty relaxed about most…

Announcing Soundstreams’ Emerging Composer Workshop Participants

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…Festival, Halifax Jazz Festival Spring Series, the International Society for Improvised Music and the 2016 Open Waters Experimental Music Festival. Her recent album Scavenger was nominated for Music Nova Scotia’s…

What’s With Walt Whitman?

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…and most loving parts of ourselves. He remained absolutely fearless about transgressing contemporary morals in his frankly sexual passages, no matter how often they landed him in hot water. Whitman…

Q&A with Emerging Composer Colin Labadie

Blog Post Community Engagement and Outreach

…Three way tie — Bhima’s and Hog Tails in Waterloo, and Mitzi’s Cafe in Toronto. Don’t miss Colin’s work at the Emerging Composer Workshop Showcase on April 13. You can…

Surface Tension

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…inspired both by the historic collection of percussion instruments at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and by the techniques used to play the bodhran, the traditional Irish frame drum….

Inviting all choral and vocal music lovers

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…and Song for Athene do make wonderfully poignant use of silence. But The Whisper Opera goes one step further to the very edge of perceived sound, tantalizing us by deliberately…

TD Composer of the Month for July: Fuhong SHI

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…in Beijing, China. She has studied with a number of world renowned composers and composition professors, including Gary Kulesha, Chen Yi, Chou Wen-Chung, Tang Jianping, Guo Wenjing, Chen Qigang, James…

Piano Ecstacy

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…by acclaimed Canadian composer Glenn Buhr. Glenn Buhr, piano Simon Docking, piano Chris Donnelly, piano Tania Gill, piano Russell Hartenberger, piano Serouj Kradjian, piano Gregory Oh, piano James Parker, piano…

The Globe and Mail: Soundstreams bringing new music the old way

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…The Squeezebox show used theatrical elements to keep its audience entertained as the musical focus moved from Murray Schafer’s circus to Argentinian tango to the music of Korea. “We’re trying…

The Globe and Mail: Composer Steve Reich on turning 80, writing live music, and finding faith

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…– and I know nothing about it. So I started studying at Lincoln Square Synagogue in midtown Manhattan, an Orthodox temple, that had an incredible adult-education program for the likes…

Sounds of Summer Playlist

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…of the Star-Child) Myth Music of the Starry Night It includes unconventional (and often exotic) sounds such as amplified pianos, slide whistles, plucked/strummed/hit piano strings, thunder sheets, Tibetan prayer stones,…

Soundstreams 2022/23: 40 years of Excellence in Canadian Music

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…of percussion instruments at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the techniques used to play the bodhrán, a traditional Irish frame drum. The first half of the program features…

Artist Spotlight: Conductor Tõnu Kaljuste

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…Mozart, Sergei Taneyev, Vivaldi, and others. In 2014, Kaljuste was listed by the Estonian World as the second most outstanding Estonian in that year, right behind Arvo Pärt.[2] Tõnu Kaljuste…

All About the Instruments

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…but it is more commonly known as Tibetan cymbals. The video below demonstrates the sound of the finger cymbals, which are usually struck together to produce a sound. During the…

The Globe and Mail: Odditorium offers the perfect reminder of Canadian R. Murray Schafer’s achievements

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…very much a project very much of the avant-garde 1980s, with its overt theatricality, enormous scale and wide-ranging non-Western spirituality. The youngest piece on Thursday’s program, Tantrika, is over 30…

Taboo Encounters

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…Orchestras, to collaborations with artists including Carly Rae Jepsen, and, Tanya Tagaq. Maria Cheung Maria Cheung is the Founder and Creative Director of Taboo Health, a non-profit collective of health…

SoundStories: Spotlight on Christopher Mayo

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…Rae Jepsen, R&B duo DVSN, throat-singer Tanya Tagaq, DJ King Britt, folk-rock band Whitehorse, electronic artist Matthew Herbert and drum and bass star Goldie among others. Dive Deeper WATCH –…

Modern music featuring the accordion

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…member Régine Chassagne.   Honourable mentions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAYzSHOzRHQ C’est La Vie by Emerson, Lake and Palmer   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Qs8-BkiLw Boat on the River by Styx   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvKlvr72yUc Objection (Tango) by Shakira  …

Inside: 5 Facts About Jesse Zubot’s Violin

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Jesse Zubot Jesse Zubot – multi-instrumentalist, producer, record company owner and sideman-in-demand. He produced Tanya Tagaq’s Polaris Prize-winning album, Animism, and has collaborated with a variety of artists, including Steve…

The Lost Karaoke Tapes

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…component; each song has accompanying video, also manipulated, corrupted and damaged in precise tandem with the audio. Volume 1 of Karappo Okesutura was premiered in 2006, Volume 2 in 2015…