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Yes, I have been known to drop projects and if you look at this past November’s posts, it does seem like I just dropped the article on the Canadian Music Centre’s LoK8Tr project. In fact, I was dropped. My contact with LoK8Tr sent me a message saying he was “shutting down communication [with me] effective [...]

Right now, two blindfolded people are singing “love, love, love” a fragment from U2’s “Until the End of the World.” The woman, Annie Abrahams, is in Montpellier, France. The man, Curt Cloninger, is in Asheville, NC, USA and also playing a suitcase-model Rhodes piano. They’ve been at it for four hours, and will probably be [...]

My article on the LoK8Tr project took me to Guelph, Ont., last Saturday and live on the radio.
I met Porter Hall, the host of the Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hour, at the University of Guleph campus radio station. He arrived just after 3 p.m., a few minutes after the scheduled start time for his weekly show [...]

Here’s what Jason van Eyk, Ontario regional director at the Canadian Music Centre, told me about LoK8Tr:
What I can tell you about LoK8Tr is that it’s a one-off project; it’s not an existing collective other than the fact that it is being formed as part of the Canadian Music Centre’s New Music in New Places [...]

Really, I’m not totally comfortable about blogging a print article as I work on it. Magazine articles are always released as seemingly fully formed beings, the stitches removed, the gaps tightened and any false starts tucked away.  Only the writer and editor really see the pieces and connections; for the rest, the article is a [...]

I’m after a composer or maybe a bunch of composers who don’t want to be found. They don’t want to be LoK8-ed, if you will.
The Canadian Music Centre (CMC) runs a program called New Music in New Spaces, which promotes the work of CMC’s associate composers by staging musical events in novel places, such as [...]