Fresh Sounds / Open Ears
FRESH SOUNDS / OPEN EARS is a podcast series hosted by composer Alex Eddington: casual interviews with today's sound makers working in Canada. This season we are focusing on composers whose practice includes writing for/with young and amateur musicians.
Presented by the Alliance for Canadian New Music Projects (ACNMP)
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2021
FSOE episode 6: Juliet Palmer - Part 2
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…
FSOE episode 5: Juliet Palmer - Part 1
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, …
FSOE episode 4: Daniel Gardner
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 creati…
FSOE episode 3: Katerina Gimon
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 entr…
FSOE episode 2: Dean Burry
Episode 2 (March 19, 2021): Dean Burry and I talk about writing opera for kids (and with kids), composers as storytellers, program music, R. Murray Schafer, John Cage, Spider-Man comics and the puppe…
FSOE episode 1: Laura Hawley
Episode 1 (March 5, 2021): Laura Hawley and I talk about collaboration with choirs, music-making in a time of COVID, the value(s) of music education, deep listening, how to survive Edmonton winters, …