Ensembles, performers, and festivals interested in promoting a concert or recording through an interview with one or more featured artists. For $700, a full episode can be sponsored.
Foundations, organizations, or individuals wishing to support the production of premium independent podcasts can also invest in SOUNDLAB. Any amount will contribute to the creation one or more new episodes.
For every $700 gathered (through one or multiple donations), a new episode of the SOUNDLAB New Music Podcast will be produced. For each new episode, $1400 of in-kind costs are donated by the host.
Have a look at our ongoing campaign through Patreon. For more information, send a question through the Contact page.
Do you listen to SOUNDLAB but aren’t able to contribute financially? All good – enjoy the series, and share the podcasts with others who may also find them interesting.
“The (SOUNDLAB) interviews are vintage Steenhuisen (interested, agile, informed); they are edited and embedded in a considered voiced-over narrative; and, the icing on the cake, they include numerous sound samples of the music referenced in the course of the interview, not only works by the composer being interviewed, but seminal works by other composers arising in the conversation. It’s an absolutely brilliant way of getting not only words about the music… but a priceless taste of the sounds themselves.” David Perlman (editor, The Wholenote Magazine)
GOALS AND COMMITMENTS
- NUMBER OF PROJECTED PODCASTS: This project is ongoing, and we hope to fund as many episodes as possible.
- NUMBER OF PODCASTS PER YEAR: With an active composition schedule, and considering the time needed to produce each podcast, the intention is to do between eight and twelve podcasts a year.
- HOST DONATION (in-kind costs): $1400
- EPISODE DURATION: Each podcast is approximately 50 minutes long.
- PERKS: Donations of $100 or more will be acknowledged at the end of the associated episode.
In the absence of meaningful formal funding alternatives, SOUNDLAB is seeking sponsors for new podcast episodes. Due to the specialized nature of the music and the podcast, each episode requires significant time investment to complete – approximately seven days (fifty-six hours) per episode (see the itemized production workflow below). Based on market value to hire production staff, etc., the in-kind donation/investment provided by Paul STEENHUISEN is at least double that amount. With the funding generated by this campaign, SOUNDLAB will endeavour to broaden the range of featured artists. Your contributions will help keep this unique interview series in production. Any donation amount is appreciated.
“If you want to hear an extended interview with Elliott Carter, here (on SOUNDLAB) is one that composer Paul Steenhuisen did… This podcast gives a real sense of his music, and also his personality. I can’t recommend it enough. Paul Steenhuisen does a terrific job of giving a sense of Carter’s music, and the context of his life.” Raymond Bisha (The Naxos Blog on Sequenza 21)
WORKFLOW PER EPISODE
- RESEARCH: 3 days. Reading articles, program notes, etc, listening, score study, formulation of interview questions.
- INTERVIEW: 2 days. Recording interview by phone or in person. Editing the recorded interview.
- PRODUCTION: 2 days. Collection and editing of musical excerpts, writing, recording/editing narration, montage.
- TOTAL WORK TIME PER PODCAST: 7 days (~56 hours).
PREVIOUS FUNDING: Most of the interviews have been generously sponsored by Toronto’s New Music Concerts (Robert Aitken, Artistic Director), and reflect the composers featured on their concerts. Eight more interviews in the set were partially funded by a publication grant from the SOCAN Foundation, and dedicated to the composers associated with Art Music Promotion. One other podcast was funded by a grant from the Edmonton Arts Council, and focuses on Paul STEENHUISEN’s piece Like a Pathway in Autumn. A successful crowdfunding campaign facilitated interviews with Allison CAMERON, Nicole LIZÉE, Jocelyn MORLOCK, Linda Catlin SMITH, and Ana SOKOLOVIC.
PREVIOUS INTERVIEWS
As an extension of my work as a composer, since 2001 I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing many creative people, and the opportunity to hone my interview skills in the podcast format, as well as for print. The podcast interviews are available through SOUNDLAB, while the print interviews have appeared in The Wholenote Magazine, Musicworks Magazine, and The Contemporary Music Review. Thirty-two of those interviews are collected in my book Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers.
FOR SOUNDLAB
Juliet Palmer, Robin de Raaff, Ken Ueno, Aaron Gervais, Salvatore Sciarrino, Brian Current, Ana Sokolovic, Robert Aitken, Phillippe Leroux, Dorothy Chang, Jocelyn Morlock, Nicole Lizée, Allison Cameron, Michel Gonneville, Linda Catlin Smith, Anna Pidgorna, Barbara Pritchard, Marco Stroppa, Alexina Louie, Jörg Widmann, Jean-Pierre Drouet, David Eagle, Walter Boudreau, Brian Harman, Dániel Péter Birö, Paul Steenhuisen, Gordon Fitzell, Howard Bashaw, James Rolfe, James Harley, Bob Pritchard, André Ristic, Brian Cherney, Peter Öetvös, Keith Hamel, Vinko Globokar, Kee Yong Chong, Charles Wuorinen, Jonathan Harvey, Elliott Carter, Rick Sacks.
FOR SONIC MOSAICS: CONVERSATIONS WITH COMPOSERS
R. Murray Schafer, Robert Normandeau, Chris Paul Harman, Linda Catlin Smith, Alexina Louie, Omar Daniel, Michael Finnissy, John Weinzweig, Udo Kasemets, Pierre Boulez, Barbara Croall, James Rolfe, John Beckwith, Yannick Plamondon, Marc Couroux, George Crumb, Peter Hatch, John Oswald, Francis Dhomont, Martin Arnold, Helmut Lachenmann, Juliet Palmer, Christian Wolff, Mauricio Kagel, John Rea, Gary Kulesha, Howard Bashaw, Christopher Butterfield, Keith Hamel, Jean Piché, James Harley, Hildegard Westerkamp.
FOR OTHER PUBLICATIONS
François Houle, Christopher Butterfield, Martin Arnold (Musicworks). Denys Bouliane (The Wholenote). Christian Wolff (Arraymusic).
ON STAGE
Robert Spano, Pascal Dusapin, Giorgio Magnanensi, Paul Dolden