2025
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A sonic encounter featuring hydrophone + contact mic recordings made in the surrounding area "re-performed" using locked groove records
Since mid-2024, I’ve been recording in-and-around the Lee Navigation (a canal in East London) using hydrophones, contact mics, and other specialized audio devices to document a range of less-than-obvious sonic moments, such as; water currents criss-crossing at the Middlesex Filter Beds Weir, plants photosynthesizing in ponds across the Hackney Marshes or insects producing rhythmic calls, as well as my own improvised percussive performances on iron fences and wooden benches. I’ve cut around fifty-or-so of these recordings as locked grooves on 33 1/3 rpm records, and on July 19, 2025, I’ll be dub mixing these records/dubplates on a portable sound system as part of a free outdoor event at the Middlesex Filter Beds.
Google Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ot6yznqXpUZf6sKJ7
Precise location (GPS coordinates): 51.5608023, -0.0405656
When you arrive: The site is accessible from two gated entries via the pedestrian Capital Ring trail alongside Millfields Park or through Hackney Marshes. Follow the SOUND to the central circular area.
2023–24
(1) Back to the UK (in early 2024)
I’ll be returning to London next year and will be around for quite a while! I hope to say hello if you’re in that part of the world :-)
(2) Phi Foundation Show (Tiohtià:ke/Montréal)
I have a show I’m really excited about with “The Very Low Frequency Dub Collective” at the Phi Foundation on Saturday, February 23, 2024, for Rirkrit Tiravanija’s “PLAY” exhibition.
https://phi.ca/en/events/unheard-freqs/
(3) As the Gull Flies (Tiohtià:ke/Montréal)
Last (for now) but not least, my sound design work for Liz Miller’s documentary film “As the Gull Flies” can be heard at the Biosphere until mid-2024.
https://wastescapes.com/as-the-gull-flies/
September 2022
(1) Back to school/work . . . Yahoo!
Thrilled to be teaching my first course this semester at Concordia. I’m also working on composing new music, and collaborating with friends on a number of projects that will see the light of day in the coming year.(2) Upcoming Conferences
September 25, 2022 (Talk): “Acoustic Graffiti and the Uncertain Potential of Re-Sounding Spaces.” Convergence Conference, De Montfort University Institute for Sonic Creativity, Leicester, UK.
October 7–8, 2022 (Online Workshop): “Walking and Listening (Together and Apart): Collective Soundwalking from a Distance.” Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies Conference, Regina, SK
October 28, 2022 (Talk): “Sound, Sound(s), Sound(ings): Listening to the Lachine Canal.” Neil Postman Conference, NYU, New York, NY
December 9, 2022 (Talk): “Sonic Encounters and Settler Colonial Perception in Urban Spaces.” 4S, Universidad Iberoamericana-Puebla, Cholula, MX
May 2022
(1) Exhibition in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
Listening, Sound, Agency: Soundworks and Transcriptions (2021-22), May 14–July 15. Webster Library, Audio Stairwell and display cases on LB-2My recent work as a workshop facilitator, curator, composer, and record cutting engineer is featured in an exhibition that will be happening for the next two months:
https://library.concordia.ca/about/exhibitions/audio-stairwell/
“Unique sound-oriented and creative works that emerged from the international SpokenWeb symposium Listening, Sound, Agency”
Learn more about the project, and listen HERE.
Curated by Jason Camlot, Klara du Plessis, Deanna Fong, Leila Gillespie, Angus Tarnawsky, and Emma Telaro.
(2) Soundwalking in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal
Sound, Sound(s), Sound(ings): Walking and Listening on the Lachine Canal
For this soundwalk, organized as part of the 2022 SpokenWeb Institute, I will lead participants on a route to witness both individually and together “who” and “what” can be heard on the Lachine Canal. Participants will be able to work though these points while walking and listening, and at the conclusion of the outing, there will be a group discussion on perspective and positionality.
For those who can make it, we will meet outside the Musée des Ondes Emile Berliner at 3:30pm (1001 Rue Lenoir, Montréal, QC H4C 2Z6). Hope to see you there!
January 2022
(1) CA
Happy 2022. Hope it has been OK for you so far, wherever you might be. I’m back in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal for the next several months. In the first two weeks of being here, I went cross country skiing (for the first time), played ice hockey (for the first time), and have eaten a lot of bagels (not for the first time).
(2) Listening Together While Apart (Zoom), Jan 26, 4:00pm ET
As part of SpokenWeb’s Symposium, held online in May 2021, a multitude of participants from across the world signed up to walk and listen together for one hour per day. Owing to the virtual nature of the event, all involved remained geographically separated. Acknowledging this as a unique opportunity to discuss all manner of approaches to everyday sonic environments, I organized a workshop called Noticing, Noting, and Notating Sounds to investigate different perspectives towards the task at hand.
This followup Zoom session will provide an opportunity for those who took part in the symposium activities to reconnect and discuss the experience as part of an open roundtable discussion. Please note, however, that the event is also open to all who are interested in joining.
https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/86592174159
October 2021
(1) UK/EU
I’ll be based in Cambridge (UK) until January 2022. While I’m here, I’m also visiting London frequently. If you’re located nearby, please drop me a line, and let’s connect for a coffee :-)
angus.tarnawsky@concordia.ca
(2) Twitter
I’ve recently set up my Twitter account. Well, I signed up last year and then forgot about it, but better late than never, right? So, after a relatively long break from social media, I’ll be back posting every so often at . . .
https://twitter.com/angustarnawsky
(3) Upcoming Journal Publication
I have a new article, “Nothing to Hear, So to Speak: Spaces of Sounding and Listening at 100 McCaul Street,” that is being published next month in The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory’s Special Issue on “Sound, Colonialism and Power.”
(4) Sonic Notations
More of this concept coming soon. For now, there’s an archive of what I’ve been up to here.
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