I love the idea of music that is tied to specific places. It’s a stimulating challenge for a composer: to try and write music that somehow evokes or captures a place. That’s one of the things I wanted to do when I was approached by Neworld Theatre to write the music for C.E. Gatchalian‘s new…
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One of the most thrilling projects with which I’ve ever been involved, this is a feature documentary about how the theory of plate tectonics found firm footing in Gros Morne National Park, in Western Newfoundland. I’ll be uploading the full documentary soon, but for the moment, please enjoy a short teaser by clicking on the…
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I love recording things. Capturing moments in time. Working in radio is like being a photographer of sound. Microphones are like best friends. They’re reliable. They don’t lie. They tell you exactly what happened. Who said what. How it all went down. Recently on CBC Radio’s DNTO, I joined Sook-Yin Lee to tell the story of the…
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This is what the autumn cattle auction looks like in Okanagan Falls, BC. I went there in October to speak to some of the ranchers who live in the South Okanagan-Similkameen area of southern British Columbia, near Oliver and Keremeos. The ranchers are very concerned about a proposal for a National Park which has been…
Read More2010 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Romantic-era composer Robert Schumann. Schumann was perhaps the archetypal moody artist, alternating between blazing bouts of creativity and periods of antisocial depression. It’s a common cliché that has, all too often, been sustained by sad life stories punctuated by tragic endings. Schumann died a broken man…
Read MoreI’m thrilled to announce that my documentary The Sound and the Sea has won a Silver Medal for Best Sound at the 2010 New York Festivals Radio Program and Promotion Awards. I produced it last year for CBC Radio’s The Current. It was based on my original audio artwork Ode to the Salish Sea. Producing it in documentary format…
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I first started suffering from tinnitus about seven years ago. I’ve learned how to live with it, mostly. It usually affects me the most when I’m in a very silent environment, like somewhere in the wilderness. Gordon Hempton is someone who knows all about very quiet places and so I thought he might have some insight…
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Just over a year ago, I composed an audio artwork commissioned by the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio Art. I’m excited to share it as the first audio I’m posting here on my new website. It’s called Ode to the Salish Sea and it premiered in Toronto on May 30, 2009 in octophonic surround sound at…
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Meet Jason Price – musical treasure hunter. He travels around North America appraising antique violins, cellos & bows. People line up for his sessions, carrying their old family heirlooms or dusty articles from their attic, hoping that he can help them strike musical gold.
Read MorePaolo Pietropaolo is a journalist, broadcaster, composer and writer based in Vancouver, Canada.
