New Music

After a piano recital, a gamelan concert, and a performance by The Books, you could either: a) Go to bed or b) Attend Blue Dot: an all-night art party featuring

I've heard Indonesian gamelan music on numerous recordings over the years, but never had the chance to hear one live before Saturday night in Kitchener, where Toronto's Evergreen Club Gamelan played a

At the Registry Theatre in Kitchener, a performance by pianist Eve Egoyan, one of Canada’s leading new music artists (and, coincidentally, the sister of filmmaker Atom Egoyan.) She performed the

I doubt New York – or any other North American city – could lay claim to an all-world-premiere program of string quartets last night. But, that's exactly what I heard

"Living in large cities, we've lost the ability to identify with the sounds of nature – and, by extension, the relationship of music to the natural world. All the sounds

I'm on a school bus, on my way to the Rare Forest for a "Soundwalk" hosted by Canadian composer/acoustic ecologist R. Murray Schaefer. We've been told that the performance begins

I'll be making my way to Kitchener, Ontario this weekend for the biennial Open Ears Festival of music and sound, featuring an array of performances and sound installations throughout this

"Climaxes of great sonority and high complexity appear and are dissolved into the endlessness. At times you feel you  have never done anything all your life long but listen to