Q & A with Michelle Myrick-Olsen
BY Joan Sullivan
Michelle Myrick-Olsen was born and raised at Cape Pine Lighthouse in St Shott’s. A self-taught musician and visual artist, Michelle has visited over 40 countries, living and working in Saudi…
A Grand Time: NL Music at the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin
BY Marie Stamp
“O’Hara would eventually make hundreds of recordings of the stories and songs of the people he met in Newfoundland. He did not have to insist too much to coax them to take the mic. “Sing a song or hum a tune, do a dance or leave the room! That’s what they used to say,” he remembers of his time in Branch.”
Teresa Connors’ Immersive Audio-Visual Installation Currents at Sound Symposium XIX
BY Eva Crocker
Suddenly ripples started appearing on the large screen, like you see on the surface on of a pond at the beginning of a downpour. On two of the smaller screens the tide tugged unfurled waves back out into the bay; another showed mint-coloured lichen on a grey rock; a third played water gurgling in and out of a tide pool. I could feel the bunny-rabbit thump of blood coursing through my heart and it was correlating with the steady tick in the soundscape.
Joey the Carver
BY Renee Fancey
Joey sits in soft focus. Behind him, blue skies and bright murals paint a backdrop easily mistaken as exotic. Festival flags rally. Paving stones undulate drunkenly up the lane. Streetlamps, tagged out to the sun, sleep off their graveyard shifts. A canopy of shadows waves like a palm tree.
Slowly Through the Fog Forest
BY Laura Temple
There are times in all our lives when perspective takes a jarring shift, sudden moments when a new truth is lit up under fluorescent, operating room-quality light, like a flashing neon sign, or a moose illuminated in headlights.
The Museum at the End of the world
BY Elizabeth Whitten
On the northeast coast island of Fogo lies a place of incredible geographical importance: one of the corners of the flat Earth. Long suspected by locals, the significance of the…