I had the honour to be invited to the home of Canadian composer John Beckwith in autumn last year. He came to see Tandem in concert at Toronto and I took the opportunity to sit down with him later on and have his thoughts on the art of musical composition. Topics varied from writing […]

ECHO CHAMBER #21 – Contemporary Canadian music with John Beckwith

ECHO CHAMBER is an interview series stemming from my sound installation ECHO ORGAN, which centers on grief and its relation to musical experiences.

I’m documenting the experiences of other musicians to develop the question of music’s power to recall memories and incite deep emotions. Discussions are held with new artists and musicians and feature extracts of music as well as aphoristic fragments from text written by my dad, for whose death my grieving became the driving force of this project.

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ECHO CHAMBER is an interview series stemming from my sound installation ECHO ORGAN, which centers on grief and its relation to musical experiences. I’m documenting the experiences of other musicians to develop the question of music’s power to recall memories and incite deep emotions. Discussions are held with new artists and musicians and feature extracts of music as well as aphoristic fragments from text written by my dad, for whose death my grieving became the driving force of this project.

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ECHO CHAMBER #21 – Contemporary Canadian music with John Beckwith

ECHO CHAMBER #21 – Contemporary Canadian music with John Beckwith