Do you know about CREAMUS? This pedagogical initiative enables kids to manipulate electroacoustic material, and also to make aesthetic judgments about electroacoustic music, developing their taste and curiosity. Wondering what […]
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Budding composers
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Tagged audience development, classic, mediation of the music
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GamePad Orchestra
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA CREAMUS laboratory has created an orchestra using gamepads as the sole instruments, conceived to help kids develop collective musical practices at school. Students produce sounds by manipulating […]
Classical festivals: artists from Quebec are welcome
Photo : Christina Alonso Quebecois artists will be front and centre this summer at the Lanaudière and Orford festivals. Journalist Caroline Rodgers reports on must-see events. Who knows, you may […]
Open door to contemporary music
Photo : Jérôme Delgado The Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) has increased access to contemporary music, especially for its 31st edition. Indeed, its 11,000-person audience have been […]
Cactus solo
Photo : Stefan Cohen Journalist Chloe Veltman seems to have appreciated Tom Hemphill’s cactus performance of John Cage’s Renga, held on May 17th at the Bay Area Arts Scene in […]
Can contemporary music win over hipsterdom?
The ultra-hip Brooklyn neighbourhood of Williamsburg will soon be home to a new venue for classical and contemporary music, The National Sawdust. Among other performances, three concerts of the New […]
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Opera, more accessible than ever
Photo : Dieter Nagl/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Fifteen of Europe’s most renowned opera houses now offer free online streaming of performances, widely increasing access to opera. Not only that: […]
The rise of the EP
In this contemporary, high-stimulus world, our attention span is diminishing, and this has affected the way people listen to music, according to journalist Émilie Côté. Many Montreal music labels have […]
From visual experience to sonic appreciation
L’artiste visuel Alan Warburton a mis au point une animation 3D où nous voyons des néons s’allumer au gré des notes du célèbre Prélude no 1 en do majeur de […]
Popular tunes at a fraction of the speed
Changing the tempo of a piece affects the experience so significantly that it might as well be a different work. Author Daniel Ross slows down classical musical extracts and then […]
