Fresh Sounds / Open Ears - podcast

05/24/2021

Here's a promo video for the Watershed Festival - Reimagining Music Theatre which runs this week May 25-28 out of Kingston Ontario (but really online!). Back in episode 2, Alex spoke with Watershed Artistic Director Dean Burry about his own work in opera for/with children - as well as this new festival.

The Watershed Festival also features new work by Afarin Mansouri Tehrani, who will be in the guest in our next episodes.

Take advantage of the online nature of this festival - access passes are available and it starts tomorrow!

Watershed Festival - Reimagining Music TheatreMay 25-28, 2021The Watershed Festival is one of the first of its kind: a celebration and exploration of ALL thi...

05/19/2021

The latest episode of is out, and it's a bit different. Shorter, for starters, because this is Part 2 of a two-part episode featuring composer Juliet Palmer in conversation with host Alex Eddington: composer and theatre artist.

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In the latter part of our conversation, Juliet Palmer and I zeroed in on a specific recent project with Toronto's highly collaborative The Element Choir, their leader Christine Duncan, and Continuum Contemporary Music.

We also discuss Urbanvessel (Juliet is the founder and Artistic Director), the surprising music that she is making at home for fun, and the birds of New Zealand who star in their own daily radio spot.

https://anchor.fm/freshsounds-openears/episodes/FSOE-episode-6-Juliet-Palmer---Part-2-e1176mn

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Episode 6 (May 19, 2021): This is Part 2 of a two-part episode. In the latter part of our conversation, Juliet Palmer and I zeroed in on a specific recent project with Toronto's highly collaborative Element Choir, their leader Christine Duncan, and Continuum Contemporary Music. We also discuss Urban...

05/18/2021

200 listens and downloads!

We are 5 episodes in to Fresh Sounds / Open Ears and more to come before Summer. A giant thanks to everyone who has listened so far.

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05/05/2021

FSOE Episode 5 is out! This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation with composer Juliet Palmer about her most collaborative composition projects - with community arts organizations, children's choirs, youth orchestras, high school students and professional musicians alike.

This this episode, we name drop a dizzying number of names, so look in the notes for links about projects involving NYO Canada, VIVA Singers Toronto, Continuum Contemporary Music, Jumblies Theatre, Community Arts Guild, Sarah Albu Ian Cusson and Gregory Oh among others...

Part 1 ends with an implied question: ARE there really page turning competitions in the world, as host Alex Eddington: composer and theatre artist claims? If you've heard of one, please post a tip in the comments...

Part 2 of Juliet Palmer is coming next week, followed by episodes featuring Afarin Mansouri Tehrani and Louise Campbell. 🎙

Episode 5 (May 5, 2021): This is Part 1 of a two-part episode. Today, Juliet Palmer and I talk about her most collaborative composition projects with community arts organizations, children's choirs, youth orchestras, high school students and professional musicians alike. Many names are dropped in th...

04/17/2021

Fresh Sounds / Open Ears episode 4 just dropped!

Daniel Gardner talked with Alex Eddington: composer and theatre artist about percussion, punk music, serialism, live electronics promoting accessibility, a public sound sculpture in London Ontario, turtle-like creative habits, and Universal Design, among other things...

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Thanks as always to the Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects (ACNMP), theme music composer Saman Shahi and admin help by Stephanie Chua.

Coming up in the next three episodes: interviews with composers Juliet Palmer, Afarin Mansouri Tehrani and Louise Campbell.

Episode 4 (April 17, 2021): Daniel Gardner and I talk about percussion, punk music, serialism, live electronics promoting accessibility, a public sound sculpture in London Ontario, turtle-like creative habits, and Universal Design, among other things... Fresh Sounds / Open Ears is an interview podca...

04/12/2021

After a nearly two-hour conversation with Afarin Mansouri today, I am filled with things to think about!

- Creativity as something that transcends the body.

- Fostering very young musicians by *seeing* and acknowledging their creative process.

- The story inside of everything, and how opera can leave details out so participants can contribute to the story.

- Reclaiming one's musical heritage - in Afarin's case, Iranian - after immigrating to Canada.

- Connecting Iranian and western music-making through ICOT (with her colleague Saman Shahi-Artist Page ... who you may remember as the composer of our podcast theme music).

And so much more that I'm either going to have to edit down or split into two parts.

I'll be posting this interview in mid-May, shortly before Afarin's premiere of her first opera project in Farsi - at Watershed Festival - Reimagining Music Theatre (headed by former guest Dean Burry)

Meanwhile watch for episode 4 with guest Daniel Gardner this Friday... AND a special BONUS episode this week.

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04/03/2021

Fresh Sounds / Open Ears podcast is finally available in Apple Podcasts and on iTunes!

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‎Music Interviews · 2021

04/03/2021

101 listens and downloads

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04/02/2021

FSOE Episode 3 is out on the webwaves!

Katerina Gimon talked with host Alex Eddington: about composing collaboratively with choirs, aleatoric notation, the kind of music that 5-year-olds write, how myths and archetypes can be an entry point for creating with students, the musicality of cats, and Regina Spektor, among other things...

https://anchor.fm/freshsounds-openears/episodes/FSOE-episode-3-Katerina-Gimon-eu29ik

This episode has a special secret guest who makes a purried appearance.

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Episode 3 (April 2, 2021): Katerina Gimon and I talk about composing collaboratively with choirs, aleatoric notation, the kind of music that 5-year-olds write, how myths and archetypes can be an entry point for creating with students, the musicality of cats, and Regina Spektor, among other things......