 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | (The Associated Press) | | | Starting tomorrow at 6 a.m. ET, CBC News Network will have special coverage of the total solar eclipse in Canada, an event that’s sure to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for many of us. I figure that’s enough of a reason to mention it in this newsletter, although there is, it turns out, a long history of art inspired by solar eclipses. But what about music? Last week, CBC’s As It Happens asked the question What does an eclipse sound like? This was my guess. But for the actual answer, listen to their interview with an astronomer who helped create a gadget that turns light intensity into musical sounds. (The device was designed with blind and low-vision folks in mind, and here’s a map of where you can access it in Canada.) If you just can’t wait for tomorrow, however, there are other sonification projects out there. Here’s Kronos Quartet performing a composition based on the 2017 total solar eclipse, and here’s an app that lets you feel the eclipse, not just listen to it.
Links you won’t need ISO-certified lenses to view: The arrival of Beyoncé's country album is a celestial event of a different kind. Commotion has plenty to say about her cover of “Jolene,” and CBC News spoke with Black country musicians who worry Cowboy Carter’s halo effect won’t last forever. Who won the first season of The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down? Watch the finale on CBC Gem. Is this the most prolific musician on the planet? Are you planning to watch the eclipse through a pinhole projector? If the eclipse has you nerding out over camera obscuras, check out these oldies but goodies from the CBC Arts vault: stories about a magical festival in the Yukon and an artist who transformed an entire building into a pinhole camera. | | | | | And because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | Wanda Koop | | Note for Eclipse by Wanda Koop. She has a solo exhibition (Who Owns the Moon) opening at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts April 11. | | | | |  | Rachel MacFarlane | | Canadian artist Rachel MacFarlane paints landscapes that have been ravaged by natural disasters, and this piece, The Event, is inspired by Hurricane Fiona’s impact on P.E.I. Check out that sky. Rachel’s included a fantastical interpretation of a solar eclipse that looms over the scene. | | | | |  | Shanie Tomassini | | Sun Adoration by Shanie Tomassini. Patel Brown will be showing some of Shanie’s work at the Plural art fair April 12-14 in Montreal. | | | | |  | Allan Cabral/Toronto Symphony Orchestra | | | | | The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is giving Stravinsky the Song Exploder treatment. | | | | |  | Jack McCombe | | | | | | | That’s the question artists Shirin Fahimi and Jawa El Khash are asking in their new exhibition, Spectral Futures. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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