Following up on his book Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers (UA Press, 2009), composer Paul STEENHUISEN began producing the SOUNDLAB New Music Podcast to further explore the work of international contemporary music artists. Each episode includes
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Episode 56: Interview with Mâkhi XENAKIS and James HARLEY on the 100th anniversary of Iannis XENAKIS’ birth. Produced with support from the Research Fund, College of Arts, University of Guelph.
Episode 51: TRUE STORIES 3: with Mari KIMURA, Kathinka PASVEER, John KORSRUD, and Marilyn NONKEN.
Episode 50: TRUE STORIES: with Kate MOORE, Michael SPENCER, Kurt GOTTSCHALK, Anna PIDGORNA, Bob PRITCHARD, Lynn KUO, Allison BALCETIS, Scott SMALLWOOD, Jen MESCH.
Episode 49: TRUE STORIES: with John KORSRUD, Sally JAEGER, David JAEGER, Anne MIDGETTE, Rolf HIND, Alex MINCEK, Erin GEE, and Beverley JOHNSTON.
Episode 47: Interview with Gabriel DHARMOO Discussion of DHARMOO’'s piece Anthropologies Imaginaires.
Episode 46: Interview with Samuel ANDREYEV Discussion of ANDREYEV’s piece Iridescent Notation, poet Tom RAWORTH, comics, and more.
Episode 45: Interview with Linda BOUCHARD Discussion of Linda BOUCHARD’s pieces Murderous Little World, Identity Theft, Flocking, and her research project Live Structures.
Episode 44: Interview with Roger REYNOLDS In the context of a discussion of his pieces Not Forgotten, and CALLING…still, Roger REYNOLDS talks about poet John Ashbery, composers Iannis Xenakis, Toru Takemitsu, Elliott Carter, Beethoven, quotation, and the o’o bird.
Episode 43: Interview with Juliet PALMER In this episode, we begin with discussion of Juliet PALMER’s new piece MORSE, written for mezzo-soprano and electric guitar quartet. The text is by Iranian poet Simin Behbahani. This leads into conversation about how the text was set in the music, and connection with the 13th Century poem Bani...
Episode 41: Interview with Ken UENO On the line from Berkeley, California, Ken talks on many different subjects, including the tattoo on his arm, his early childhood vocalizations, Jimi Hendrix, the megaphone, mechanical reproduction, and person-specific music. With musical examples from his pieces Future Lilacs, On a Sufficient Condition for the Existence of Most Specific Hypothesis,...
Episode 37: Interview with composer Ana SOKOLOVIC In this easy-going conversation, Ana SOKOLOVIC and I discussed her early years in Montréal, the influence of Serbian music on her own work, and the opera she is writing for the Canadian Opera Company, based on the story of Christina (1626-1689), the unconventional Queen of Sweden. Included in...
Episode 29: Interview with Linda Catlin SMITH In this wide-ranging conversation, Linda Catlin SMITH talks about expanded time, still life paintings, how she reads, Arthur Rimbaud, and more. This interview was made possible through a successful crowd-sourcing campaign. Thank you to: The Canadian League of Composers,Karen Houle, The Association of Canadian Women Composers, Elizabeth Skillings, Karen...
Episode 27: Interview with pianist Barbara PRITCHARD, with Anthony GENGE, and cameos by Ian CRUTCHLEY, David LITKE, Clark ROSS, and Bob BAUER.
Episode 22: This podcast focuses on Paul STEENHUISEN's piece “Like a Pathway in Autumn.” Sponsored by Edmonton Arts Council