{"id":5,"date":"2015-02-03T21:33:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2016-04-05T16:31:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T20:31:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18684 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/soundofmontreal-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"soundofmontreal\" width=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/soundofmontreal-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/soundofmontreal-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/soundofmontreal.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sound of Montr\u00e9al<\/strong> is a multi-traditional ensemble project with Montr\u00e9al-based musicians. It was founded in close collaboration between Sandeep Bhagwati of matralab and Kiya Tabassian of Ensemble Constantinople. Continuing Constantinople&#8217;s tradition of inter-traditional collaboration with a wide variety of other music forms, this project, in parallel with Berlin-based Ensemble Extrakte, explores the musical, aethetic and sociopolitical aspects of musicking in a global city. The musicians in\u00a0<strong>Sound of Montr\u00e9al<\/strong>\u00a0come from Iranian, Rwandan, Turkish, and Indian traditions as well as from musique actuelle, contemporary art music and Jazz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sound of Montr\u00e9al<\/strong>\u00a0began with a meeting at Concordia University on Sep 30, 2014 and works through rehearsal periods of 4-5 days spaced roughly every 3 months. In between, a team of researchers at matralab and Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al analyzes the results of these workshop phases.<\/p>\n<p>Sound of Montr\u00e9al develops music both by individual and collective creation, and it only plays music developed during the workshops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound of Montr\u00e9al is a multi-traditional ensemble project with Montr\u00e9al-based musicians. It was founded in close collaboration between Sandeep Bhagwati of matralab and Kiya Tabassian of Ensemble Constantinople. Continuing Constantinople&#8217;s tradition of inter-traditional collaboration with a wide variety of other music forms, this project, in parallel with Berlin-based Ensemble Extrakte, explores the musical, aethetic and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18862,"href":"https:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/18862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matralab.hexagram.ca\/research\/ensembles\/sound-of-montreal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}