Volume 27 Issue 8 | July 1 - September 20, 2022
Final print issue of Volume 27 (259th, count 'em!). You'll see us in print again mid-September. Inside: A seat at one table at April's "Mayors Lunch" TAF Awards; RCM's 6th edition "Celebration Series" of piano music -- more than ODWGs; Classical and beyond at two festivals; two lakeshore venues reborn; our summer "Green Pages" festival directory; record reviews, listening room and more. On stands Tuesday July 5 2022.
Final print issue of Volume 27 (259th, count 'em!). You'll see us in print again mid-September. Inside: A seat at one table at April's "Mayors Lunch" TAF Awards; RCM's 6th edition "Celebration Series" of piano music -- more than ODWGs; Classical and beyond at two festivals; two lakeshore venues reborn; our summer "Green Pages" festival directory; record reviews, listening room and more. On stands Tuesday July 5 2022.
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Heather Spence<br />
World Listening Day<br />
<strong>July</strong> 18 is World Listening Day (WLD), a date chosen to honour the<br />
birthday of R. Murray Schafer and his pioneering efforts in sound<br />
ecology. The event is coordinated annually by the World Listening<br />
Project; in <strong>20</strong>22, the selected theme is Listening Across Boundaries,<br />
a focus that resonates with the Encircling the World event two days<br />
previously.<br />
WLD is an invitation: for people from many countries and differing<br />
soundscapes both to listen to the sounds of nature and to explore the<br />
practice of field recording. That such a day exists highlights how the<br />
practice of listening is an important component in understanding<br />
each other and the world around us.<br />
This year’s theme was suggested<br />
by marine biologist and sound<br />
artist Dr. Heather Spence from<br />
Washington D.C., who is challenging<br />
participants to offer works<br />
that ask us to be more inclusive in<br />
the way we listen. Sound artists,<br />
composers, performers and other<br />
interested individuals are invited<br />
to submit their events: these will<br />
be compiled and made available on<br />
<strong>July</strong> 18 for 24 hours of livestreamed<br />
listening adventures on the World<br />
Listening Project website.<br />
Ellen Waterman<br />
NAISA: Locally, New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is presenting<br />
their own online WLD event on <strong>July</strong> 17 with audio and audio-visual<br />
creations made by hearing and deaf musicians interpreting Ellen<br />
Waterman’s text score, Bodily Listening in Place. This concert was<br />
preceded on June 19 and 26 by two preparatory workshops using<br />
improvisation and inter-sensory exercises that invited participants<br />
to explore listening with the whole body, using all their senses while<br />
improvising in response to the environment around them. The overall<br />
experience offers hearing and deaf musicians the opportunity to learn<br />
from each other while reminding all of us that musical experiences<br />
need to include ways of listening for all kinds of bodies.<br />
And speaking of resonances<br />
Once I discovered the particular resonance between the<br />
Northwinds, WLD and NAISA events described in this story, I started<br />
to notice echoes of one or another aspect of it all around me. Here are<br />
four that caught my eye – or should that be ear?<br />
<strong>July</strong> 10 at Westben, a 13-piece chamber pop ensemble The Queer<br />
Songbook Orchestra;<br />
(continues)<br />
MICHAEL WATERMAN<br />
JULY 3 7pm<br />
Bridgeworks<br />
<strong>20</strong>0 Caroline St. N. $<strong>20</strong>/<strong>20</strong>/25<br />
Nomad Trio<br />
François Houle 4:<br />
Recoder<br />
JULY<br />
16 7pm<br />
COTTON FACTORY<br />
<strong>27</strong>0 Sherman Ave. N. $<strong>20</strong>/<strong>20</strong>/25<br />
Lina Allemano’s<br />
Ohrenschmaus<br />
Numinosity Trio<br />
INSERT MUSIC HERE<br />
S O M E T H I N G E L S E F E S T I V A L . C O M<br />
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