The retro radio man
For artist Marc Adornato, being a 30-year-old antique collector is proving worthwhile.
Adornato, a media artist based in Ottawa, has found a new artistic venture in old vacuum tube radios from the 1930s. Using as much as he can salvage, Adornato transforms these vintage wonders into speakers for iPods or MP3 players.
As he is one of very few people recreating these radios, he said his work is a rare combination of the past and present.
CD Review: One Life Stand
One Life Stand
Hot Chip
EMI Records
3.5/5 Stars
When an album opens with the gradually building synthesizer and a lone drum beat of One Life Stand, there can be no doubt that something musically intriguing is afoot.
Magic at the NAC
After generating much hype with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Ottawa NAC Orchestra will be performing Mysterioso: A Pops Concert Of Music, Magic, Mayhem & Mirth.
Theevent will feature performances from the NAC Orchestra set to a magic themed selection.
Debuting in Baltimore in 2008, the show has gone on to receive much praise.
“The audience response in itself has been nothing but positive,” co-founder David Sandy said. “So many elements of the production are so phenomenal.”
Voicing your ’hood
Children, seniors and people with disabilities across Ottawa are showing their opinions through the medium of photography.
Photovoice, an initiative started in China to give rural peasant women the chance to be recognized, is now being implemented in Ottawa.
Participants are asked to take a photo of either what they would like to see changed in their neighbourhood or what they enjoy about the area.
Ottawa spins with record show
Nowadays when one thinks of music, the latest number one song that trumps the Billboard Top 100 comes to mind for many. But for some people, LPs and CDs still matter.
Although singles are claiming the charts, Dave Aardvark from CHUO 89.1 has a different opinion on living in just a single’s world.
He and John Westhaver at Birdman Sound have been doing record shows for well over 10 years.
The reason they finally started a record show in Ottawa last fall was because of the heavy decline seen at other record shows, Aardvark said.
