Transmissions in Silver

Stefan Christoff & Joseph Sannicandro (2024)

Please excuse this bit of shameless self-promotion, but I’m very pleased to share my latest collaboration with Stefan Christoff, released today, 15 November, by Polish label OKLA as part of their 3rd batch of cassettes, alongside a wonderful new work from the great Manja Ristić.

"I see this as spiritual music, it is translating the spirit of my life in those moments that I shared with Joseph in ways that are impossible to put into words, which is why I love it." – Stefan

The next chapter in the ongoing artistic conversation between two friends, shaped and built upon live improvisations weaving instruments, radio captures, and punctuated by binaural field recordings of cityscape walks.

Joseph’s synth work enhances circular, frantic guitar lines laid by Stefan as footsteps ground the work in a natural rhythm of bodies resonating with stimuli of time and space.

Two lives intersecting in a room - mourning the dead, raging against injustices, channelling homeland lullabies to synthesize healing waves to pass forward.

“Take a walk at night, and walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.” – Pauline Oliveros

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Stefan Spirodon Christoff is a media maker, community activist and artist living in Montréal. Stefan hosts the program Free City Radio, broadcasting weekly on seven community radio stations in Canada and shared globally as a podcast.

Joseph Sannicandro is a writer and artist based in Montreal, studying creative labor and (un)popular culture, with particular attention to sound. His work as a writer has appeared in publications including The Journal for Sonic Studies, Cultural Critique, and in edited book collections. 

Stefan Christoff - acoustic and electric guitar, bells
Joseph Sannicandro - synths, field recordings, production, mix
Mastered by Francesco Toninelli

Vocal samples from Aziz Choudry, David Graeber, and a Palestinian man recorded on the street.
Guitar sample recorded on the street in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Field recordings of walks and street sounds made in the Bronx, Montreal, Rome, Napoli, Palermo, and Vancouver