At the core of Nicolás Arnáez’s sound installation series, Composiciones Colectivas, is a driving impulse to create interactivity with music and sound. Nicolás Arnáez The sound artist, technician and graduate student studying composition at the U of A, has created five installations in the series to date. All the pieces demand the interaction of people … Read moreNicolás Arnáez: Kitchen bells – curious arts
How do you write a bicycle-themed piece of music? Start by sounding a bike bell. Edmonton musician bikes to the symphony. Photo supplied from C’Mon Festival. Taran Plamondon, a third-year French horn performance student at the U of A, was asked by the C’mon Music Festival to compose a new work that combined Edmonton’s love … Read moreTaran Plamondon’s Tandem Bike Rondo – curious arts
Public art collaboration merges history, art, and community to inaugurate a new fire station in south west Edmonton Public art walks a fine line between artistic vision and community interest. When the Edmonton Arts Council awarded Jeff Kulak (’07 BDes) and Mark Clintberg the commission to design a public art installation for the Heritage Valley … Read moreJeff Kulak and Mark Clintberg: Water Vessels – curious arts
Here’s a post that simultaneously throws back to May 30, 2015 when Alberta Ballet invited audiences to The Creation Experience and looks ahead to October 18, 2015 when the University of Alberta Music Department presents Contemporary Canadian. What ties these events together? Buzz — a musical piece by U of A composer Howard Bashaw. An … Read moreHoward Bashaw’s Buzz – curious arts
UAlberta artist investigates industrial uses of landscape as it relates to oil production in Alberta Throughout Aaron Veldstra’s MFA show Our Anaerobic Future, up in the FAB Gallery until July 11, he is drawing and erasing map data pertaining to the human impact on the boreal forest of Northern Alberta. I was struck by Aaron’s easy-going … Read moreAaron Veldstra: Our Anaerobic Future