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Disc Golf Archive }{ Sounding the Chain Basket
I’ve been playing disc golf since the mid-1990s. I never got particularly good at it (at least by tournament scorecard standards) but it has remained my favourite outdoor activity through to the present. I learned the game in Vancouver, where it had been a fixture since the 1980s. But when I moved to Montreal in […]
Mapping the WSP Archive }{ Guide to Free Streaming for the Soundscapes of Canada Series
[Updated with corrected links Jan. 6th, 2021] As I was editing a series on the World Soundscape Project for the Sounding Out! blog I discovered that the WSP’s 10-hour CBC Radio series Soundscapes of Canada is accessible in streaming format on the website of the Canadian Music Centre. While their site is searchable, there is no […]
City Song : A Forgotten Gem from the CBC Vancouver Archives
The UN has declared October 27th World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, intended to function “as a mechanism to raise general awareness of the need for urgent measures to be taken and to acknowledge the importance of audiovisual documents as an integral part of national identity.” In that spirit I’m posting a short essay (see below) that […]
In: Archives, Film Reviews, Film Sound, Music, Uncategorized, Vancouver on Film, Vancouver Soundscape
The Vault }{ Tape One }{ We Are Privy
We were Privy. Soon you will be too. In 1994, we of the Privy gang spent the month of March producing our one and only studio recording in the Toilet Bowl room, birthplace of Soppy Bag Records. For two decades our only copies of the recording were the cassettes we mixed in real-time off of […]
Sound Writing Practices }{ AcWriMo 2013 }{ My Goals
This is my log for #AcWriMo 2013. You can read my guiding philosophy for the exercise here. Now let’s set the bar. Goals for November 2013 This year, with a much better sense of how my productivity functions, I’m setting realistic goals – not to push myself, but to get done what needs to be […]
Wolfpen Principle: An Evening with Jack Darcus
The Film Studies Association of Canada presents a rare screening of Jack Darcus’ Wolfpen Principle (1973), a forgotten gem from the early days of Vancouver’s indie film scene, followed by conversation and Q&A with the director. Tuesday, June 4th, 9 pm at The Vic Theatre (808 Douglas St., Victoria, B.C.). Open to the public; entrance […]