My professor and friend Barry Truax was honoured with the degree of Doctor of Fine Arts Honoris Causa by Simon Fraser University (SFU). The ...

Carl Jung developed the concept of synchronicity . In the notes of the historic The Vancouver Soundscape , Jung's concept of synchronici...

  Tony Schwarz in his studio, 1982 (borrowed from McLuhan Galaxy ) I became aware of Tony Schwartz's work during my days as a graduate s...

  Jim Metzner recording on Great Gull Island Jim Metzner / Library of Congress Jim Metzner is a key figure in the world of sou...

In 1974 I was going through a complicated and serious process of evaluating my role as a composer. Portugal was under a revolutionary proces...

photo by Greenpeace The New York Times is a commendable newspaper, despite having its moments. We all do, but this does not mean that...

# 1 You open, say, a restaurant. You want to make a living.  # 2 You don’t care about noise, to your architects and interior designers...

A film by Raquel Castro

I cannot pinpoint what exactly drives me so strongly to write about Joana Gama's concerts. It may be the beauty of her sound, the r...

I first came across Satie's Vexations in the early 70s, through an article  John Cage  wrote about a concert he'd organized, wher...

No, it is not a typo. TMIE stands for Transmembrane Inner Ear. It is a gene, active in the formation of the cochlea and then present in...

"TMIE, on the threshold of the outside world" is a new opera written and produced by Carlos Alberto Augusto. It features admir...

The Leg-irons (from the Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh) With hungry mouth open like a wicked monster, Each night the irons devour the legs...