Well, THAT'S IT! ...Sound Symposium, Newfoundland's own 10 day international festival of new music and performing arts drops the curtain for another two years. Yes, it takes two years to organize an international event of this size. As I've said before, As arts event experiences, Sound Symposium is ranked up there with Burning Man in Nevada, The Fringe in Edinburgh and Festival in the Desert in Mali.

Just one of the amazing nights at Sound Symposium is the Cape Spear Project where composer Adam Staple (above) conducts a concert with many of the diverse Sound Symposium artists.

Most of the photos are in the SoundSymposium2008 folder in the left side column. Email me if you have any questions or feel free to leave your Sound Sympsoium experience in our comments section.

...now its back to work, I guess.

Day 9 of the Sound Symposium new music and performing arts festival in St. John's, Newfoundland saw the show move to Cape Spear National Historic Site and the WWII era bunkers on the most easterly tip of North America overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Various visiting and local performers came together in a massed concert conducted by St. John's musician Adam Staple. Photo by Greg Locke © 2008 

...one more day to go.

John Gzowski and Julia Aplin onstage at the LSPU Hall on Thursday Night during Sound Symposium. 
Photo by Greg Locke © 2008

 Juliet Palmer performing with Urban Vessel at the LSPU Hall on Wednesday night in St. John's, Newfoundland during Sound Symposium, a 10 day international festival of new music and performing arts. Photo by Greg Locke © 2008 

...more photos in the Sound Symposium 2008 folder. Click on the slide mounts icon and get is as an interactive slide show.

Brazilian musician, Fernando Rocha with his percussion/electronics set up performing at the DF Cook Hall in St. John's, Newfoundland during Sound Symposium. Photo by Greg Locke © 2008

Behind the spectacular performances and innovative acoustic installations the heart of Sound Symposium is the meeting of the creative minds that come to St. John's, Newfoundland every two years for this unique international festival experience. The "symposium" of Sound Symposium is when artists collide and create something new and special. Sometimes it is organized collaboration or major pieces, other times its just hanging out waiting for your rehearsal space to be prepared.

Monday afternoon, if you were around the bottom of Victoria Street near the LSPU Hall, you would have heard the unique sound of Appalachian blue grass tunes mixed with the minor notes of eastern European gypsy music. For 20 minutes, Tim Postgate, banjo, and Duane Inglish and Bryann Albanese swapped notes and tunes.

Debashis Sinha walks through his sound art installation, Kolkata Garden, near the Fluvarium in St. John's, Newfoundland during Sound Symposium XIV. Sinha recorded sounds on the streets of Calcutta, India, generates sound from sine waves and places it as a non-visable "surround-sound" experience in a garden setting.

This installation will be on Victoria Street outside the LSPU Hall on Monday night for the evening performance at that Sound Symposium venue. Photo by Greg Locke © 2008

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