Last fall I shared the first episode of Sounding the Housing Crisis, a bilingual (French/English) podcast by a collective of Montreal sound artists and tenants. I co-produced the eight episode series with Hubert Gendron-Blais, organizing and editing the contributions from each member of the collective. The project was partially inspired by the “militant sound inquiry” of Ultra-Red. In 2021, Ultra-Red co-founder Dont Rhine visited Montreal for a seminar at McGill, followed by a workshop/performance as part of Echoes of a Distance, Music, Protest and Community in Confined Times, organized by Hubert and The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI). I'm now sharing the eighth episode in this feed as well, since it is one where I think my fingerprints are most visible.
More on that entire project: https://www.reverberationscriselogement.org/
Find the series wherever you find this podcast, or stream/download at bandcamp:
https://lostchildren.bandcamp.com/album/r-verb-rations-d-une-crise-une-enqu-te-sonore-sur-le-logement-montr-al-sounding-the-housing-crisis
This eighth and last episode of the podcast 'Réverbérations d'une crise: Sounding the Housing Crisis' looks back to the elaboration of the investigation question that guided the project's the composition process, addressing in passing issues of mental health, precarity, the role of artists and gentrification.
1. Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Inquiry question (avec des extraits issus de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce / with excerpts from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”, par/by Christine White, Hubert Gendron-Blais & Philippe Battikha
2. Sound collage and intro theme, par/by Joseph Sannicandro
3. Excerpt from the piece "Housing and care for all (Down with real estate capital vultures)", par/by Aidan Girt + Stefan Christoff, feat. Mostafa Henaway
4. Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Inquiry question and Where do you live? (avec des extraits issus de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce / with excerpts from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”)
5. Excerpt from the piece "Housing and care for all (Down with real estate capital vultures)"
6. Excerpt from “Q-Block (podcast)”, par/by Philippe Battikha
7. Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Relations between art and social struggles (avec des extraits de la pièce / with excerpts of the piece "The Price of Precarity", par/by Christine White)
8. Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Artists and gentrification (part 2), (avec des extraits issus de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce / with excerpts from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”)
9. Predicaments of Power", par/by speranza spir
10. Excerpt from the inquiry sessions - Inquiry question (avec des extraits issus de la séance d’enregistrement pour la pièce / With excerpts from the recording session for the piece “Homage to Martin Peach”)
11. End Theme, par/by Joseph Sannicandro
The excerpts of some music pieces come from the album 'Réverbérations d’une crise. Une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal', Cuchabata Records, CUCH-205, 2022. reverberationscriselogement.bandcamp.com/albu…r-al
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Sounding the housing crisis - Investigation Questions [bonus]