Fringe Arts
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Fringe Arts
Instrumental Emotions
Of all the ways an artist can express emotion, cold and calculating robots might not seem like an obvious first choice—but robots playing music, stimulated by pure human biofeedback, is a different story.
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Fringe Arts
Folk Master Flex
The carefree acoustic melodies and whimsical chords of Seattle indie-folk band The Head and the Heart are an ideal soundtrack to the warm spring breezes now kissing the Montreal city streets, teasing the glowing summer nights to come.
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Fringe Arts
Bad Business
The world of David Mamet’s classic Glengarry Glen Ross is one built on the power of words as weapons and glasses of hard whiskey. It’s a world where the single golden rule is ABC—Always Be Closing.
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Fringe Arts
A Film Noir Disco Fantasy
Fame and fortune sounds just fine to Jef Barbara, he’s just not in a rush to get there.
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Fringe Arts
Anatomy of a Strike
For American illustrator Sophie Yanow, being in Montreal during the Quebec student strike was pure happenstance.
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Fringe Arts
Primal Urges
For West Coast indie band Bend Sinister, walking through a park or down the street is like turning on National Geographic—the band is fascinated with the idea that humans are no different from the beasts in the wild, choosing to base their latest album on humanity’s primal nature.
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Fringe Arts
Analog & Ironic
In the Internet age of whiny memes and re-posts galore, it can be hard to find fresh and original content. Enter the Found Footage Festival—a celebration of the weird, forgotten VHS tapes of a past era and home to some of the strangest footage on Earth.
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Fringe Arts
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, Say It Anyway
Literary critics who have crafted their reviews constructively and passionately have arguably made critique an art form in itself. The panel discussion What We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry this week at the Word bookstore aims to debate just that.
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Fringe Arts
Be Very Afraid
In a world filled up to the bloody brim with psychotic slasher films, increasingly graphic crime television, and the Internet’s leaked treasure trove of all things awful, the true definition of horror has been massacred. In light of these over-the-top depictions, what’s really scary is how far they can put us out of touch with reality.
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Fringe Arts
A Symphony for Your Senses
Orchestral symphonies can sweep listeners away into faraway worlds with their atmospheric ballads, breathing inspiration and wonder with every note—and Montreal’s Société des Arts Technologiques wants to take that feeling to a literal level.