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🔊 CALLING ALL TWEENS! 🔊 Sound Arts is happy to announce WHAT'S YOUR JAM? at the AC Hunter Children's Library. Saturday, November 14th at 2pm join Kate Read and Nancy Case-Oates for an exciting performance of composed and improvised music inspired by birdsong, followed by a jam! No musical experience required; bring an instrument or play one of ours as Kate and Nancy lead us in a fun, no-pressure, prompted group improvisation. Hope to see you there! Register online for this free event at nlpl.ca/events/jam (link in bio) or by phone at 709-737-3953 🎶
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Sound Arts monthly programming is supported in part by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and by IICSI Improvising Futures. by @soundsymposium

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It's a huge day here at Sound Arts: our textual records all the way back to 1983 are being transferred to the @memorialuniversity Special Collections, where our archive will be accessible to students, researchers, and the general public in the near future. Enormous thanks to Oz and Kathy for their dedication to this important project, helping to preserve our history as we continue to forge ahead with new adventures in sound art 💫 by @soundsymposium

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Loopstitch and Tiber Reardon perform a long-form jam on two tunes by Henry Purcell at Sound Symposium XXII. Recorded and edited by Nick Bendzsa, audio recorded by Geoff Panting. See the full video on our YouTube channel (link in bio) 📹 by @soundsymposium

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Ripgloss is an electronic musician, songwriter, and multimedia artist from St. John’s, NL who creates sound collages and mixes out of field recordings, rearranged pop songs, and the sounds nature to create textures that could be described as ‘fairies playing tag in a haunted house.’

Inspired by whimsy, drum and bass, italo disco, and post punk, Ripgloss combines the elements in a way that is off-putting but puts the fun in funeral. They also write poems that will probably be sung or spoken over music.

October 15th | The Ship | 9:30pm | $10

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Night Music is an improvisational music series held on the third Thursday of every month at The Ship Pub. It begins with an hour-long performance that serves as the anchor for the evening, after which the stage is opened up to anyone with an interest in improvising. Host Craig Squires puts together inspired groups of musicians who jam until their sonic exploration reaches a natural conclusion. Bring your instrument and join in on the fun!

Night Music is supported by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, and Recreation. by @soundsymposium

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From the Archives: Diane Labrosse and Martin Tétreault (1998). "The scratches on the vinyl, the dust on the needle, the friction of the needle on the turntable, the amplified arm, the needle jumping, the feedback of unearthed turntables...PARASITES."

Find the full video and other selections from the archives on our YouTube channel (link in bio). Sound Arts Initiatives archival efforts are supported in part by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. Merci à l'agence de promotion économique du Canada atlantique. by @soundsymposium

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It's MYSTERY MONDAY again! 🕵️ These portraits from 1990 sadly were not labeled. Do you recognize anyone in these photos? Help us out as we continue our work on the Sound Arts archive! by @soundsymposium

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From the Archives: Don Wherry's installation "Earth Sounds" at Eastern Edge Artist-Run Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Presented as part of Sound Symposium 6, with the full video available on our YouTube channel, youtube.com/@soundsymposiumNL 📼 From the 1992 booklet:

We like the description about Don which was included in an original article in the Quebec City performance art magazine Inter: "At the centre of a diagram representing the Sound Symposium we find Don Wherry, and we can draw a circle around him in which both his interests and the different aspects of the festival are identical in their content: host, organizer, educator, professor of music at Memorial University, composer, percussionist, environmentalist, inventor of musical instruments, transplanted Ontarian (since 1974), musicologist, improviser, contemporary music fan researcher of things innovative, worldly and original. Don can be distinguished by his participation at unique performances at the Sound Symposium (he was the guy in the boat with the bowl during the filming of the Flume performance last year) as well as his sound constructions and exhibits." by @soundsymposium

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From the Archives: David Van Tieghem (1992). As always, catch the full performance on our YouTube channel, youtube.com/@soundsymposiumNL 📼 by @soundsymposium

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The Black Auks have been making sweet noise since 1992.

Born from the ashes of Fusion (Don Wherry's "uptown" avant garde) and Wet Cheese Delerium (Wallace and Craig's "downtown" avant garde), both with roots in the mid 70s and 80s, we've been doing this for 50 years.

Current personnel: Wallace Hammond, Rick Bailey, Neil Rosenberg, Craig Squires, and Mack Furlong.

September 17th | The Ship | 9:30pm | $10

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Night Music is an improvisational music series held on the third Thursday of every month at The Ship Pub. It begins with an hour-long performance that serves as the anchor for the evening, after which the stage is opened up to anyone with an interest in improvising. Host Craig Squires puts together inspired groups of musicians who jam until their sonic exploration reaches a natural conclusion. Bring your instrument and join in on the fun!

Night Music is supported by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, and Recreation. by @soundsymposium

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From the Archives: Trimpin ⚙️🎹 We couldn't put it better than the 1992 booklet: He calls works like this "extending the boundaries of timing structure and sound perception phenomena." In the process of doing this, he may have finally found a virtuosity which belongs to the machine alone.

As always, you can find the full video on our YouTube channel, youtube.com/@soundsymposiumNL by @soundsymposium

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It's MYSTERY MONDAY! 🕵️ For the last couple of years, we’ve been working on organizing our vast archive for donation to the Memorial University Special Collections. We’re getting there, but we need your help! If you can identify anyone in these photos, please comment and let us know.

1.    Unknown performer, 1994.
2.    Pauline Oliveros and unknown performer, 1994.
3.    Trudy Morse [right], Lori Clark [middle], and an unknown performer join Crooked Stove Pipe on stage, 1994.
4.    Don Wherry [left] and Patrick Zentz [far left] with his FLOW/A Transcontinental Sound Work on Signal Hill, 1992. Two unknown attendees [right].
5.    Paul Bendzsa [left], Maggie Nicols [right], and unknown violinist, 1992.
6.    Unknown performer, 1992.
7.    Members of the band Cymbali, 1990. Featuring unknown soprano saxophonist [right] and unknown masked performer [seated].
8.    Violinist David Perentis and unknown performer, 1990.
9.    Benoit Lechambre [centre] workshop with Uakti, 1990. Featuring two unknown dancers.

We’ll be posting more mysterious photos on our channels, so if you’ve been part of the Sound Symposium family for a good long while, please keep your eyes open for those! In the meantime, you can take a trip down memory lane with us on our YouTube channel, and check out some archival photos newly added to our website: soundsymposium.com/media by @soundsymposium

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Luke Blackmore's "Living Room," performed by Nikki Huang at Sound Symposium XXII, July 19 and 20, 2026. Shot and edited by Nick Bendzsa. See the full video on our YouTube channel 📽️ youtube.com/@soundsymposiumNL by @soundsymposium

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