Nelly Furtado Hosts Juno Awards And Wins Big

Nelly Furtado Hosts Juno Awards And Wins Big
Nelly Furtado has swept the boards at the Juno Awards - Canada's version of the Grammys - taking home five prizes. The 28-year-old singer doubled up as host and winner at the ceremony in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on Sunday - picking up the Best Single, Best Album and Fan's Choice awards, to add to the Best Artist and Pop Album of the Year awards presented to her at a gala dinner on Saturday.[…] Read more!

What I'm watching.
I felt it would be interesting to post up some of the crap I'm watching. Perhaps not.

First, American Drama Heroes. It's like a comic book in the form of a drama. I can't resist it. It is one of the very, very few popular TV dramas that I would actually watch from week to week. Right now it's nearing the end of a season so it's getting rather intense.

Sexy Voice and Robo, interestingly enough, another drama. This one's a Japanese drama. It's about a middle school girl who can imitate and recognize voices really well and a giant robot geek. The two of them become spies kinda by mistake. It's funny and interesting.

Well, this probably comes as no surprise…. Gundam Seed. I'm a Gundam fan at heart. I can't resist the allure of giant robots, and Seed is actually, very much to my surprise, well written, action packed and not what I expected. I recommend it to anyone…..who love giant robots or Gundams.

These are all the new shows I'm getting into at this time. As for old contenders, I watch Penn & Teller's Bullshit. Additionally I'm getting back into GARO. Granted, it's over and no longer airing, I love re watching the episodes. Unfortunately, I can't get anyone to watch it with me other than Aaron. And he's in Portland now. No one's willing to watch it because it's a Tokusatsu program. But it's not normal tokusatsu. GARO is very dark and full of lots of details, aesthetically pleasing design, and some of the best fight scenes in existence. Seriously, Kodama's fight against Kouga is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.

Any of you interested in checking out some of these shows can watch Heroes on NBC on Mondays. As for Gundam Seed, check it out on DVD, but only if you can find it unedited. The Cartoon Network version isn't so good. Sexy Voice and Robo as well as GARO are not aired or licensed for US distribution. Those interested in seeing them can download them (with subtitles) from Tv-Nihon. Or of course, anyone can see any of those programs by going through me.

Enjoy Yourself Tonight (Pt. 829)
Enjoy Yourself Tonight (Pt. 829)

So I just got a brief call from the founder of the DDR Club at University of Missouri, Kansas City. The reason he called is because he forgot the answer to the question of XotW (DWI EX of the Week). After that, he asked the whole club to say hi to me.

I just felt so great when I heard so many different voices saying "Hi, Terrence" on the background. It was loud that I needed to take my phone away from my ear for a few inches. And when I responded to them, I felt my voice was so weak compared to them.

Republic of Safety

There is a tradition among Transom bloggers that they report not just on the actual event, but on what they do after the show.

Friday night at Radio Without Boundaries led us from the Student Centre at Ryerson University, to The Beer Bistro on King Street for moules et frites, and then finally to a small Queen West bar for the closing set by the Republic of Safety. It was all in all remarkable and fun, and reminded me of the conformity of our day to day lives.

The evening's show at RWB actually echoed the themes of safety and danger.

"Remember the feeling of your Mom pushing you on the swings when you were four years old?"

We are sitting in a darkened room, really the only way to hear radio, the same way that you heard it as a child, with the radio hidden under your covers, turned down low.

A single spotlight lit a small transistor radio at centre stage.

A voice, from the radio, yet disembodied as it travels throughout the room, welcomes us, and draws us into that place where the sound overtakes the senses and wraps you in its embrace.

The message from tonight's guide, Richard Lee, was simple: take risks, push the boundaries, listen hard.

The evening opened with a new work by CBC radio's Steve Wadhams.

Trains Crossing uses one of the most archetypical of sounds to tell the story of an elderly woman who broods on "what might have been if, as a child, she had told the truth that Saturday night when a man came to the door and asked her a simple question."

The sounds of trains, the sounds of a woman's voice, all spatialized by NAISA Artistic director Darren Copeland gave the audience a reminder of the immersive experience that radio can be at its best. And yes the sense of "what might have been" was a powerful one.

Following Steve's work was Through a Door by Sarah Boothroyd. Through a Door presents Boothroyd's exploration of Ottawa's Nicholas Street jail, one of Canada's oldest public buildings, and the site of Canada's last public execution.

Boothroyd's work again draws on sounds that are familiar, the sounds of prison doors and prison walls, but uses those sounds as the raw materials for an atmospheric and evocative exploration of that environment.

Within that fantastic but familiar soundscape voices emerge that tell the story of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Canadian journalist, poet, and politician who was assassinated in 1868.

The second half of the evening drew on another archetypical radio experience, with a live radio drama performance titled It Is To Laugh: Transistorized Feedback.

Portland Maine's Dan Bernard was joined by Toronto performers Mark Ellis, Stacey Depass, and Stephen Latigan. A lively performance, and one which explored and a parodied both classic radio drama conventions, and contemporary media practices, all performed to a multi-layered sonic composed by Michael Townsend, and spatialized by Darren Copeland.

Thinking back to last night, the evening offered audience members a starting point, a group of settings and sounds that were familiar, that allowed a toehold.

And that is the power of archetypes, in radio, or literature, or art. It is the known and the comfortable, and is the place where one begins an exploration of a theme.

But it is now Saturday morning, and Robin Ravlich is speaking, so it is time to leave safety behind.

Cum invocarem : soprano, alto, tenor, bass & continuo / Giovanni Antonio Rigatti ; edited by Dennis Collins.
Author: Rigatti, Giovanni Antonio, ca. 1613-1648.
Publisher: [Dundee] : Prima la musica!, c2004.
Subjects:Sacred vocal quartets with continuo., Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with continuo., Psalms (Music) 4th Psalm.

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