Sound Bites

Sound Bites are live-streamed events with accomplished musical artists to discuss their sources of inspiration and motivation. The events are streamed, recorded, and totally free to watch live or re-watch later. Sign up on each individual event page to send your questions or comments for the artist(s) ahead of time, and to get access to the event recordings.

Sound Bites: Rebecca Foon

Lessonface studio | January 24, 2019 | 8-9pm
Rebecca Foon, also credited as Beckie Foon, is a Canadian cellist, vocalist, and composer from Montreal, Quebec. Foon currently records under the alias Saltland and is a member and co-founder of the Juno Award-winning modern chamber ensemble Esmerine. She has also been a member of several groups associated with the post rock, experimental and chamber music scene of Montreal and New York City, including Set Fire to Flames, A Silver Mt. Zion, Colin Stetson’s Gorecki Symphony of Sorrow ensemble and the instrumental string/piano/accordion-based trio Fifths of Seven. Esmerine's Turkish folk influenced album Dalmak, released in 2013, was awarded the Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year in 2014. In 2013 she released her first Saltland album, which Exclaim.ca called "a captivating combination of genres from dream pop to chamber music to ambient and shoegaze."[1]

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Sound Bites: Wolf Eyes

Lessonface studio | January 31, 2019 | 8-9pm
Wolf Eyes is an American experimental music group from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1996 by Nate Young. Currently a duo, Wolf Eyes are a prominent act within contemporary noise music. They have collaborated with a variety of artists from different countries and art forms.

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Sound Bites: Michael Attias

Lessonface studio | February 21, 2019 | 8-9pm
Michaël Attias is a quietly fierce force on the international improvising scene. With a brisk and calming tone, Attias is a thinker, traveler, questioner. Born in Israel, he spent his childhood in Paris, his adolescence in Minneapolis, and has lived in NYC since 1994.

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