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The Drop & The Turning 15 - Ohama - That Sky That You Have Here

‘Tona Walt Ohama has lived many lives. Born on a potato farm in Southern Alberta, he has spent the past forty years making passionate, deeply personal music while forging friendly connections with anyone who enters his orbit. Since his debut album, the 1982 cassette release Midnite News, Ohama has become a prolific producer and sound-art composer, as well as a community advocate for Calgary’s most marginalized people.’ – Jesse Locke

Ohama on Bandcamp: https://ohama.bandcamp.com/music

Ohama on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TonaOhama/

Credits – musical selection in order of their placement in the episode:

1. The Drum – originally released on the SNX Box Set France 1985 - Composed by Tona W. Ohama Published Midnite News Music (SOCAN)

2. 3 Dancers The Final Release - The Dorothy Bishop Cello Soundscapes - Composed by Dorothy Bishop and Tona W. Ohama Published Midnite News Music (SOCAN)

3. Multiambient Tower-Trees - 2014 High Performance Rodeo - Composed by Tona W. Ohama Published Midnite News Music (SOCAN)

4. Swirling Leaves of Autumn II - The Dorothy Bishop Cello Soundscapes - Composed by Dorothy Bishop and Tona W. Ohama Published Midnite News Music (SOCAN)

5. Kepler Was My Hero – My Electronic Country Album - Words & Music by Tona W. Ohama Published Midnite News Music (SOCAN)

6. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - My Electronic Country Album - Words & Music by Hank Williams Published Hiriam Music / Acuff-Rose Music Publishing Inc.

7. Thick as a Brick - Thick As A Brick The Synth Edition - Words & Music by Ian Anderson Published Chrysalis Music

8. A Tangerine Dream mixed with The Swirling Leaves Of Autumn as per the artist’s suggestion - Composed by Dorothy Bishop and Tona W. Ohama Published Midnite News Music (SOCAN)

All tracks MAPL except 7 AP

The Drop & The Turning 14: Lou Sheppard - Crepuscular Times of Day



An interview with Nova Scotia-based interdisciplinary artist Lou Sheppard (he/him).



Lou Sheppard is a Canadian artist working in interdisciplinary audio, performance and installation based practice. Of settler ancestry, Sheppard was raised on unceded Mi'Kmaq territory in rural Nova Scotia. Sheppard first studied theatre at Concordia University in Montreal, and then graduated with a BFA in Interdisciplinary studies from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He has also studied English Literature and Education. Sheppard now lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia/ Mi’kma’ki.



Sheppard’s practice is research driven and site specific, developing as particular projects or iterations of projects in response to a particular location. Sheppard’s artistic research reflects his background in critical theory and social activism. He is interested in languages, both as systems of notation and communication, as well as systems that structure and enact power.



Audio within this episode is excerpted from Lou's exhibition 'Rights of Passage' at the Art Gallery of York University in 2022.



Rights of Passage is comprised of five scores based on the interactions between rivers and the city in Toronto, This served as the chorus for a three act play that followed ai/drag performer/plant species through Toronto's riparian zones. The scores were interpreted and directed by Pamela Hart and sung by 8 voices: Kira Daube, Wren Tian, Seamus Gallagher, Arjun Lal, Helah Cooper, Lou Campbell, me and Pamela Hart.

Drop & Turn 14 / Traceries 1 - Mélanie, The Desert, & All The Possibilities of the Universe - an interview with multidisciplinary artist Maisie-Nour Symon Henry

An interview between rebecca bruton and multidisciplinary artist Maisie-Nour Symon Henry, about their upcoming opera 'Le Désert Mauve'.



Audio excerpts 1 &2 from 'La Réalité' (Opéra Le Désert Mauve)

Audio excerpts 3 & 4 from 'Angela' (Opéra Le Désert Mauve)

On March 23rd and 24th New Works Calgary presents, 'Le Désert Mauve,' an experimental queer opera (en Français!) by Montréal composer, writer, and visual artist Maisie-Nour Symon Henry (they/them). This interdisciplinary performance work is based on the iconic Québécois dreamscape novel 'Mauve Desert,' by Governor General award-winning francophone poet Nicole Brossard. Through original paintings, sound, choreography, and music, Henry has created a performance 'translation' of the original text, resulting in a rich re-imagination of the iridescent harmonic textures of Brossard's literary sonic environment. The opera will run for two nights only at CSpace King Edward.



March 23rd – 7:30PM (1hour, no intermission)

March 24th – 7:30PM (1 hour, no intermission), followed by an artist Q & A

For tickets and further information: https://www.newworkscalgary.com/opera-le-desert-mauve, https://www.showpass.com/opera-le-desert-mauve/ Student and PWYC ticket options available.

At New Works Calgary we are working towards fostering safe and supportive artistic creation and presentation spaces; no forms of racism, sexism, transphobia/homophobia/biphobia will be tolerated.

Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett - Sometimes All You Need to Do is Go Outside and Listen

An interview between New Works Calgary Artistic Director Rebecca Bruton, and local artists Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett.



This interview provides information and context for Wayne and Caitlind's upcoming public participatory event 'Device For Listening To Snow Falling', on St. Patrick's Island. February 26th 2023, 2-5PM.



Device for Listening to Snow Falling invites audiences to engage in a participatory group performance of deep listening in the wintertime landscape. When temperatures drop and snow begins to fall, sound travels differently, moving further and more slowly. Snow absorbs sound, lowering the noise floor and quieting city spaces. Drawing from long histories of experimental sound and happenings, artists and musician Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett invite you to experience enhanced listening devices designed to expand your acoustic awareness – reaching further and more slowly into the soundscapes of familiar places. Be prepared for surprises.



Register here: https://www.showpass.com/device-for-listening-to-snow-falling/

Jonathan Kawchuk - Everything You See Was Once Alive



A conversation between New Works Calgary Artistic Director rebecca bruton, and Albertan composer, wilderness-recordist and paleontology-enthusiast Jonathan Kawchuk. Jonathan is fascinated by how the music and sound we create can interact with, and stem from, the natural world (rather than just mirror the sounds and structures we hear). Much like a documentary might aim to illustrate facts about a subject, his work aims to document, archive, and translate the emotional atmosphere of non-human natural environments.



Audio excerpts are all from Jonathan's 2022 album Everywhen. https://jonathankawchuk.bandcamp.com/ In order of their placement in the interview:

,look at this distractor

Talus Talus Tallis

Death of a Poacher

Solar Plexus

Place So Thin

Everywhen

Xuan Ye - Mutual Agency, Machinic Bodies



A conversation between New Works Calgary Artistic Director rebecca bruton and Toronto-based artist Xuan Ye.



Xuan Ye 叶轩 (CN/CA) works across various art, music, design and technology contexts. Their work coheres around hacking-informed noisemaking, the erratum and the untranslatable. They work with more-than-human agencies to construct multisensory networked experiences synthesizing language, code, sound, body, image, data, light, and time.



The artist has been featured and exhibited internationally, including at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (CN), the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada, Venice Architecture Biennale (IT), MUTEK (CA), Centre de Design de l’UQAM à Montréal (CA), Fonderie Darling (CA), Varley Art Gallery (CA), the Art Gallery of Ontario (CA), Inside-out Art Museum (CN), the Goethe-Institut (Beijing & Montreal), ArtAsiaPacific (Issue. 111), KUNSTFORUM (Bd. 257), among others. They have received grants from the Arts Councils at three levels in Canada. They are a recipient of the SSHRC scholarship and a finalist of the 2018 EQ Bank Digital Artists Award.



As a musician, X is techne agnostic and genre eclectic and has been lauded as “one of Canada’s most exciting voices in textural soma.” They have been commissioned by Edmonton New Music (2021), and the Canadian Music Centre (2020). They have performed at numerous experimental music festivals and DIY shows, sharing programs with Phew, Pharmakon, Chris Corsano, Carl Stone, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Xylouris White, GOOOOOSE, etc. Their live performances and music releases have received critical accolades from Bandcamp, Exclaim! and Musicworks.



Music featured in this episode:

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