Avantgarde News

This is possibly one of the most unexpected albums I have listened to in a long time.

In its ongoing mission to explore the crossroads of music and technology, contemporary ensemble Sonic Generator presented a concert on Wednesday at the Rich Auditorium.

The parade will start along Wall Street at 3:05 p.m. Feb. 19 and will take a new route through downtown.

A view of "Looking Back/The 6th White Columns Annual." The show is on view at White Columns through Feb.

Looking through a window at the bleak, frozen wasteland that I call my backyard, I sighed a mighty sigh almost worthy of the sort that follows a lecture from Cupcake.

In sports, when a starting player goes down with an injury, it sometimes gives a bench player an opportunity to contribute in special ways.

Mark Hosler, founding member of the band Negativland, will present a multimedia lecture titled "Adventures in Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistance and Negativland" on Feb.

When guitarist Pete Anderson straps on his ax, it's a loaded, calm-before-the-storm moment.

Paul Schmelzer has an unusual way of collecting autographs from the famous -- he asks them to sign his name instead of theirs.

At the beginning of his recording career, saxophonist Evan Parker oscillated between brutally energetic albums by continental Europeans and reserved, almost minimalist, discs from his native England .

Major economic downturns, in fact, unfailingly produce declines in oil imports. And so do higher gas prices - which went from an average of less than $2 a gallon at the time Obama took office to nearly $4 in the middle of last year and remain well above $3 today.

As jazz has developed since its inception, it has always centered on individuals working with each other.

Driving along on Tuesday, I heard CBC-Radio's Jian Ghomeshi interview U.S. performance artist Laurie Anderson .

Performance artist Laurie Anderson, seen in Australia in 2010, is in Calgary debuting new work and serving as artist-in-residence at the High Performance Rodeo.

The 22nd annual Tibet House US benefit concert returns to Carnegie Hall on February 13.