Showing posts with label dialectica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dialectica. Show all posts

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Recording: Dialectica

Artist: Dialectica

Song: The Provider [composer: Shannon Graham]

Recorded at Yonge-Dundas Square (Intersection – Day 3), September 2, 2017.

Dialectica - The Provider

In recent years, the Intersection Festival would normally consist of a paid concert, usually the night before the day-long extravaganza in Yonge-Dundas Square. This year, however, under the continued guidance of Burn Down The Capital's Tad Michalak the festival expanded to four events, including a pair of concerts at The Jam Factory. The day-long marathon in the concrete canyon of commerce remains at the festival's heart, though, exploring the frissons of experiencing strange and occasionally abrasive sounds competing with the city's mersh heartbeat.

This classical-meets-jazz sax quartet (consisting of Shannon Graham, Chelsea McBride, Olivia Shortt, and Samantha Etchegary) was a user-friendly way to ease the passers-by into the day's proceedings, with philosophical inquiries cloaked in tunes and mambos mixing with the scream of passing sirens.

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Recording: Dialectica

Artist: Dialectica

Song: The Puppet Master

Recorded at The Music Gallery (X Avant XI – Night 3), October 15, 2016.

Dialectica - The Puppet Master

A full house out to see Sarah Neufeld's negotiations of chamber music and pop got a different approach to a similar inquiry with Shannon Graham's new Dialectica project. A quartet combining jazz and classically trained saxophonists, this offered compositions from Graham (who has also been exploring these intersections in her work with Spectrum Music) and Chelsea McBride, along with some verve, bringing a little glitter to what could be contained as mere "formal" music. (There were also a couple of pieces from from Javier Vazquez who added some percussion to the closing mambo, which speaks to the group's urge to groove a little bit.)