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Robert C. Jordan Archive }{ Five Quiet Songs
This is a series of posts about the music of Robert Christopher Jordan, my dad. He began his musical career as a violinist with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra not long after arriving in Canada from England in 1957, but he made his name as a classical guitarist in Vancouver where he remains one of the […]
In: Archives, Concerts, Music, Radio, Robert C. Jordan Archive
Vancouver Soundscape Chronicles }{ Bell Tower of False Creek }{ Phase 3: Super 8
This is the film component of the Bell Tower of False Creek project. The full 10-minute version will premiere at Resonance and Remembrance: An Interdisciplinary Bell Studies Symposium at the University of Michigan in March 2017. Preview Edit: Synopsis: A thick fog gathers under Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge in the winter of 2013, blotting out the […]
In: Acoustic Cartography, Acoustic Ecology, Architecture, Archives, Soundwalking, Vancouver on Film, Vancouver Soundscape
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