The future’s dead channel
William Gibson sits slouching on a couch in Nicholas Hoare Books the morning of Oct. 24.
“The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
He says those words as though he has never read them, let alone written them. The line comes from Gibson’s first novel, Neuromancer, which, like Gibson himself, has become omnipresent in the genre of science fiction.
A nostalgic piece of the Ottawa Animation Fest
Blame it on the fact that he just graduated, but filmmaker Brent Young is feeling a little nostalgic.
Restoring a piece of the past
The Church of St. Bartholomew provided an intimate setting for a fundraising concert put on by Carleton’s School for Studies in Art and Culture (SSAC) Oct. 22 to raise the money necessary to repair a two centuries old fortepiano.
The concert, aptly titled “For Heaven’s Sake! Let’s fix this fortepiano!” was put on by the SSAC to repair the instrument, a forerunner to the contemporary piano that was utilized in the early works of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
Jim Bryson’s 30 below melodies
Most musical artists can’t say they’ve recorded in -30 C temperatures, lost their electricity several times in the process or performed for an audience of deer staring back from snowbanks outside. But Ottawa-born folk rocker Jim Bryson can.
Bryson spent six days in January working in a frigid chalet overlooking Falcon Lake in Manitoba as he composed his fourth studio album, aptly titled The Falcon Lake Incident. The album, named after a UFO sighting by the lake in 1967, was backed by The Weakerthans, an indie folk rock quartet from Manitoba.
