Magic Sound Box Thursday and Friday, November 21 and 22

CKUT’s MaGIK bOīte soNaiRE

…is creaking open again, bursting at the rusty hinges again with a renewed thirst for diverse sonic creations for the fifth time in Montreal. Will you be there as we crank out invisible undulations to tickle ears? The theme this time around is pan american stories and (hers/his)-stories.

Where? 371 Dowd, Studio 301
When? Thursday and Friday, November 21 and 22
Show times: 7:30 or 9:30pm SHARP

…Into the Magic Sound Box….

Live Radio Art Transmission Performance: an hour of Storytelling, Music and Sound Art

This live radio transmission art show (or tell…) takes the audience inside Radioland - inside the magic sound box - highlighting the many talents of CKUT, exploring the limits of aural imagination and indulging in the intimacy of sound.

Amateur and veteran sound-makers will transform a rectangular loft, a few blocks from CKUT. The plan: create an enclosed area with large swaths of multi-coloured fabric, turn off the lights…and make radio. The audience is inside the box, the performers are on the outside. Some of the sounds will be mixed through a quadrophonic speaker system and some will use the natural acoustics of the space, inviting our listeners to enjoy the spatial qualities of voices, instruments, field recordings and electronics.

The evening will include musical soundscapes, short stories, documentary, exploratory sonic installations, poetry and whatever other radio forms you can think of, creating a series of sound art that will rest your eyes and tickle your ears.

The performance will also broadcast over the airwaves of CKUT (and on ckut.ca/listen), reaching the ears of unsuspecting audience members in Montreal and beyond in their cars, bedrooms, living rooms and bathtubs? 

Tune in THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21st @ 8pm

Magic Sound Box - for your ears only - Thurs, Dec 15th live radio recording. Ecoutez!

Magic sound box thurs dec 15 live performance by CKUT's Magic Sound Box

Magic Sound Box - open tonight @ 7:45pm and 9:45pm

CKUT's Magic Sound Box
is open for the last time TONIGHT!
Friday, December 16th
@ 7:45pm or 9:45pm.
Address: 10 pins ouest, suite 312
Sliding scale: $8-12 (no one turned away)


MAP: http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=10+pins+ouest,+montreal&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=45.519308,-73.579044&sspn=0.02183,0.03562&vpsrc=0&hnear=10+Avenue+des+Pins+Ouest,+Montr%C3%A9al,+Qu%C3%A9bec+H2W+1R3&t=m&z=16

Biographies, inspired by noise

Alanna McNevin is a Passionate Fragmentarian who spends her time starring studiously at the stars. Today, she saw a comma turn into a mermaid, and begins the long road toward coalescence.

Alejandro Saravia won a toy in a radio contest when he was seven years old. Later he learned how to write listening to the radio, which was another gift. Then he discovered Narnia and the adventures of Kalimán and Lobo del Mar, two fantastic radio plays... Well, basically he hasn't been able to turn the radio off ever since... Now, like a dog chasing its tale, or Peter Pan after his shadow, he's trying to make friends with mysterious madame Sound.

Antonella l.c. Giordano..........Muliblasts of supersonic sound have long infiltrated her brain, giving way to an eternal love of languages, stories and other delectable auditory sensations.....

Britt Wray is a fan of making sound and video, an interdisciplinary artist, biologist and at times documentary film and radio producer. Currently a graduate student in Toronto, she misses the sweet sounds of CKUT on her kitchen radio dial.

Courtney Kirkby is pulling on threads from all the corners of life she can find, hoping one day that the quilt will be more than the sum of its parts. She writes out the secrets from her insides and hopes you recognize them as your own.

Dominique Ferraton spends much of her time wandering in empty lots, knitting mittens, winding film in old cameras and creating sonic quilts made of found sounds and field recordings.

Her comfort zone is behind the mic, but those flashing lights behind the mixing board are intriguing her more
and more. In order to cross the line between the front stage and back, she decided to study sound, and use it as her intrusment to accompany her voice. Here's a first taste of this whole new world she's discovering, the piece is called vocal drums and the artist, Elena Stoodley.

Jasmine Wilson is a third year music student at the Schulich School of Music where she is pursuing a concentration in vocal performance. While she has been singing for years, this is first time creating sound art. The piece features a mix television themes (Living Single, Mad Men, Hey Arnold, and 30 Rock) to underline the value of creativity in the education that is in Sir Ken Robinson speech "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" She Co-hosts Soul Perspectives on Tuesday evenings on CKUT and is the Political Coordinator on McGill's Black Students' Network.

Julia Drouhin, artiste et curatrice née à Strasbourg, vit et travaille à Chalon sur Saône. Docteure en esthétique, sciences et technologies des arts de l'Université Paris8, elle va faire un tour pour collecter des field recordings dont le montage cherche la corde sensible du paysage traversé. Elle aime diffuser ses capsules à la radio et imaginer des projets collectifs à propos des arts sonores.

When Karen Robins isn't reading books and not finishing them, trying to channel her emotional dysfunction into something that resembles “art”, or writing lines of makeshift poetry that never goes anywhere, she's
contemplating the meaning of life in the buttery architecture of a grilled cheese sandwhich, playing itunes for drunk people for money, and desperately trying to figure out why her dreams are so hilariously disturbing. The rest of her time is spent in the womb like warmth of the production studio at CKUT, tinkering obsessively over radio pieces like the one you are about to hear.

Marc Messier-Peet is a box builder of the best degree.

Miss Lamb is a voluntary breedy loamy vegetative optical illusion! I'm sure she likes you (WHO) very much.

Like the particularity of a beautiful leaf, Moe Clark falls from the sky in a sway of sonic decay. A spoken word artist by day, a night owl by night, she enjoys dancing with the fools in the pantomime of life.
When Neil Griffith shaves he hears force fields pulsating. He has so many broken organs in his closet that he has no room for skeletons.....those he turned into instruments so they wouldn't feel left out. Neil is a sound artist currently designing sound for theatre in Vancouver and finds that the mountains get in the way of his view. He loves CKUT Radio.

Nicolas Vigneau is a failure in the eyes of some and an idol in others’. Bike courier by day, the rest is up to the moment.

Rae Dooley is a student, activist, storyteller, and audiophile from New Jersey. You can hear them from time to time on CKUT hosting and producing news for Off the Hour. More accustomed to stage performance and journalism, this is their first attempt at expressing one of their recurrent mental experiences through sound.

CKUT's Magic Sound Box: Thurs, DEC 15 & Fri, DEC 16 @ 7:45pm and 9:45pm SHARP!

Live Radio Art Transmission Performance with Sound Art, Storytelling, Music, Sonic Installations, and more...

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Date: THURSDAY, December 15 & FRIDAY, December 16
Two performance times: 7:45pm sharp & 9:45pm sharp (once the box closes,you can't come in)
Location: 10 ave des pins ouest, suite #312
Sliding Scale: $8-12
*first performance on Thurs, Dec 15 only $5!
**drinks by donation
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Sound Boxers: Alanna McNevin, Alejandro Saravia, Antonella l.c. Giordano, Britt Wray, Courtney Kirkby, Dominique Ferraton, Elena Stoodley, Eugenie Brin, Jasmine Wilson, Jason Levine, Karen Robins, Marc Messier-Peet, Moe Clark, Miss Lamb, Neil Griffith, Nicolas Vigneau, Rae Dooley

...is creaking open again, bursting at the rusty hinges with renewed thirst for diverse sonic creations for the fourth time in Montreal. Will you be there for the rare opportunity hear the invisible undulations to tickle the ears of radio listeners?

CKUT is hosting the fourth Magic Sound Box. Modeled after a concept developed in Kingston at CFRC radio station, it proposes a full auditory exploration of the magic of radio.

This live radio transmission art show (or tell...) takes the audience inside Radioland - inside the magic sound box - highlighting the many talents of CKUT, exploring the limits of aural imagination and indulging in the intimacy of sound.

Amateur and veteran sound-makers will transform the vacant space. The plan: create an enclosed area with large swaths of fabric, turn off the lights...and make radio. The audience is inside the box, the performers are on the outside. Some of the sounds will be mixed through a quadrophonic speaker system and some will use the natural acoustics of the space, inviting our listeners to enjoy the spatial qualities of voices, instruments, field recordings and electronics.

The evening will include musical soundscapes, short stories, exploratory sonic installations and poetry, creating a series of sound art that will rest your eyes and tickle your ears.

Thursday, December 15 @ 8pm, the performance will also broadcast over the airwaves of CKUT 90.3FM (or www.ckut.ca), reaching the ears of unsuspecting audience members in their cars, bedrooms, living rooms and bathtubs.

We hope you'll be there, ears perked and mind open.

more info:
www.ckut.ca
contact:
magicsoundbox@ckut.ca

Magic Sound Box - Live Performance December 15 & 16

CKUT Magic Sound Box collective is making one of those crazy noise-making boxes again, and we'd like you to sit in it. It's going to happen at 10 ave des Pins Ouest, Suite 312. The box is open for two evenings this time around: Thurs, Dec 15th and Fri, Dec 16th!

The Magic Sound Box is a live radio performance in the dark! It lasts one hour, you sit in a "box" made of fabric and hear the sonic creations of a dozen CKUT producers: radio drama, storytelling, sound art, music, documentary, and more.

Contact us: magicsoundbox@ckut.ca

hope to see you soon,
the Magic Sound Boxers

CKUT's Magic Sound Box is opening again in DECEMBER 2011

CKUT's MaGIK bOîte soNaiRE
...is creaking open again, bursting at the rusty hinges with renewed thirst for diverse sonic creations for the fourth time in Montreal. Will you be there to listen live as we crank out invisible undulations to tickle your ears?

DATE to be determined in late November or early December!

LOCATION 10 pins ouest

Into the Magic Sound Box....

Live Radio Art Transmission Performance: an hour of Storytelling, Music and Sound Art

This live radio transmission art show (or tell...) takes the audience inside Radioland - inside the magic sound box - highlighting the many talents of CKUT, exploring the limits of aural imagination and indulging in the intimacy of sound.

Amateur and veteran sound-makers will transform a rectangular loft, a few blocks from CKUT. The plan: create an enclosed area with large swaths of multi-coloured fabric, turn off the lights...and make radio. The audience is inside the box, the performers are on the outside. Some of the sounds will be mixed through a quadrophonic speaker system and some will use the natural acoustics of the space, inviting our listeners to enjoy the spatial qualities of voices, instruments, field recordings and electronics.

The evening will include musical soundscapes, short stories, documentary, exploratory sonic installations, poetry and whatever other radio forms you can think of, creating a series of sound art that will rest your eyes and
tickle your ears.

The performance will also broadcast over the airwaves of CKUT (and on ckut.ca/listen), reaching the ears of unsuspecting audience members in Montreal and beyond in their cars, bedrooms, living rooms and bathtubs?

Wanna get involved??

email: magicsoundbox@ckut.ca