This special hour travels through the Sound Symposium in St. John’s Newfoundland with the members of the Summer Institute of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. The theme for this episode is overcoming aversion to discomfort through group improvising. The Summer Institute brought together scholars and practitioners of all descriptions, not everyone skilled … Continue reading Episode #3: Summer Symphony, St. John’s Newfoundland →

If you didn’t get enough of Cardew and the gang in the previous episode, don’t worry, there’s more of Illa Carrillo Rodríguez, Gascia Ouzounian, Paragraph 7 (this time lead by Ouzounian and sung by a mob of innocent strangers). Hear an excerpt from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, and the always remarkable Marcel Swiboda, “Thinking and Acting … Continue reading Episode #2b: Cornelius Cardew and Beyond →

Hear Post-doctoral researcher Illa Carrillo Rodríguez discuss cosmopolitanism in experimental music of the 1960s, and Gascia Ouzounian of Queens University Belfast reflect on leading performances of Cornelius Cardew’s Paragraph 7 in all sorts of circumstances. Listen to the The Monday Night Choir perform Paragraph 7, lead by Dina Cédric, as part of the Suoni Per … Continue reading Episode #2a: Cornelius Cardew and Beyond →

This is smorgasbord where Sound It Out searches around for its form and identity by taking up everything around it, including The Guelph Dance Festival, McGill Conductor Eleanor Stubley, Montreal’s own Katherine Peacock and Blind Love/White Light, a bit of reading from Hegel’s Aesthetics, and a talk by Michael MacDonald called the Decentralized Dance Party … Continue reading Episode # 1: Pilot →