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Interview: Dame Cook on Her New Album “nature, interrupted”
By Andrew Adridge(opera singer, writer & Co-Founder of Opera InReach) Ambient, experimental, amorphous, electroacoustic, improvisation, portable ops, Toronto. These are all tags to Dame Cook’s Bandcamp and very real adjectives describing her work and my experience...
Restructuring the Idea of Convention
It is an interesting time that we find ourselves in. The perception we once had of how a society functions has been turned on its head. As the pandemic has completely destroyed the realities once known to us, the need to reassess...
The Listener’s Perspective (Convergence Theory ft Maxime Corbeil-Perron)
(credit: Maxime Corbeil-Perron) by Andrew Adridge What Maxime Corbeil-Perron’s works did for me was everything an experience of music is hoped to do. Creation of a state of being is something that I didn’t think that I would find in music and I have never journeyed...
Thoughts from the inside
by Michael Zarathus-Cook Over the past month there’s been a lot coverage on the process by which Pandora came fruition--and deservedly so, as Thursday May 23rd will mark the premiere of a project that began over two years ago. We’ve heard from the artistic...
Libretto of Pandora – by David James Brock
PROLOGUE (D.Storen/D.Brock) A Place Where Hope is Missing. HEPH Curious. Curious. Fruits and legends in plain sight. Myth hangs in the air. Radiant energy. I want to get close. Closer still. Taste. Devour. Ingest a vital promise. What could be the harm in one....
The Myth of Pandora: A Brief Intro
by Michael Zarathus-Cook It’s one of the most disturbing artifacts of Greek mythology and, two thousand years later, the inspiration for one of the more sadistic episodes of Netflix’s Black Mirror: as punishment for stealing fire from the gods,...
FAWN’s Devised Opera Method
(from left to right: Adam Scime - double bass, Darren Creech - piano, Joseph Glaser - Composer, Jonathan MacArthur - Voice) Written by Michael Zarathus-Cook Be it “Verdi’s Otello” or “Wainwright’s Hadrian”, a top-down creative process has been the almost unanimous...