 Looking beneath the surface with Wade Davis, celebrating photographer Tamio Wakayama with filmmaker Cindy Mochizuki, and live scoring classic film with Magazinist's FaustNXNW April 27/28, 2024 | Welcome to the latest edition of the NXNW newsletter! We've got a very creative and fun show lined up for you this weekend. We'll visit Stephen Hamm a.k.a. Theremin Man in his "celestial grotto" for a music lesson, close out our April Poetry Series with another edition of our In Translation column, and connect with local authors for Canadian Independent Bookstore Day this Saturday!
Looking for something from a previous show? Be sure to stop by our CBC Listen page. | | | Coming up on the show this weekend: | | | Saturday |  | Canadian Independent Booksellers Association board president and indie bookstore owner Chris Hall gives us an overview of all the reading fun you can find on Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (April 27). | | | | | CBC's Philip Owira joins us for the launch of our new monthly feature, Phil's Corner, where he shares music from the African continent and diaspora, and more. | | | | | We wrap up NXNW's April Poetry Series with our In Translation columnist Anna Ling Kaye, who shares three books of Chinese poetry available now in English. | | | | | We visit the home studio of Vancouver music legend Stephen Hamm, otherwise known as Theremin Man, as he prepares for the release of his new album Songs of the Future on May 6. | | | | | Sunday | | | Canadian hip-hop godfather Maestro Fresh Wes gives us a sneak peek of Season 4 of CBC TV's Race Against The Tide where international sand-sculpting artists compete for top honours, starting Sunday, April 28th on CBC TV. | | | | | Experimental music duo Magazinist (Matthew Tomkinson and Andy Zuliani) preview their original live score for the 1926 silent film Faust, which they'll be performing at the Vancity Theatre on April 30. | | | | | Internationally acclaimed author and anthropologist Wade Davis shares reflections on anthropology, America, and more with his latest book Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays. | | | | | Artist Cindy Mochizuki celebrates the life and work of the late Japanese Canadian photographer Tamio Wakayama in her new documentary Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama. | | | | | | | | | Poetry - In Translation with Anna Ling Kaye | | | To wrap up our April Poetry Series, Anna Ling Kaye joins us in studio for another edition of In Translation, where she shares great literature originally written in languages other than English. This month, she's focusing on Chinese poetry.
We've listed Anna's reading picks below for your reading consideration: The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry by various authors, translated by Arthur Sze, published by Copper Canyon Press (2024).
The Lantern and the Night Moths by various authors, selected and translated by Yilin Wang, published by Invisible Publishing (2024).
19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Wang Wei, assorted translators, curated by Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz, Asphodel Press (1987). | | |  | Anna Ling Kaye with the latest books for In Translation | | | | | | | Giving an old film new life with Magazinist's Faust | | | Andy Zuliani and Matthew Tomkinson are best known as Magazinist, an experimental music duo that pushes the bar in sound with vocal sampling and hand-built instrumentation. As part of the VIFF Live series, they'll be performing an original live score for the 1926 German silent film, Faust. NXNW's Jeremy Ratt swung by their studio space to get a sneak peek of the live score, as well as the handmade instruments used to create it.
Magazinist's Faust opens at the Vancity Theatre on Tuesday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. PT. | | |  | Matthew Tomkinson and Andy Zuliani in their studio space | | | | | | | Meet Stephen Hamm, Theremin Man | | | NXNW's Margaret Gallagher visited the "celestial grotto" of Vancouver punk legend Stephen Hamm, otherwise known as Theremin Man.
His latest album, Songs of the Future, will be released on May 6, and we'll get a sneak peek of his theremin mastery (Margaret also gives the instrument a try!) | | |  | Stephen Hamm in the Celestial Grotto | | | | | | | Phil's Corner taps into the African music diaspora | | | This week on NXNW, CBC's Philip Owira joins us for the launch of a brand new feature, Phil's Corner. Once a month, Owira will stop by with a great new track from the African music diaspora, and more.
This week, Owira chats with us about Oliver Tambo by the Lalela Cape Town Choir. | | |  | Philip Owira... in Phil's Corner! | | | | | | | Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama comes to DOXA | | | In Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama, filmmaker Cindy Mochizuki uses archival footage, animation, and current interviews to chronicle the life and legacy of the late Japanese Canadian photographer Tamio Wakayama.
Beginning his photography journey in the deep south during the 1960s U.S. civil rights movement, Wakayama spent many years documenting Vancouver's Japanese Canadian community with striking images that were displayed at events such as the Powell Street Festival. Mochizuki is also celebrating the opening of Ancestral Dreams and Other Premonitions, her exhibit at the Kamloops Art Gallery, running until July 6.
Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayama opens at 2024 DOXA Documentary Film Festival this Sunday at The Cinematheque at 4:15 p.m. PT. | | |  | Cindy Mochizuki in the NXNW studio | | | | | | | In case you missed it ... | | | Last week on NXNW, Métis musician Sandy Scofield joined us for some Record Keeping, and also shared the music from her latest album, Red Earth.
Stream this interview via CBC Listen.
Adam de Souza also joined us to talk about his new YA graphic novel The Gulf.
The book follows a group of friends who run away from home to join a remote island commune as the final days of high school draw closer.
Read more about Adam de Souza here. | | | | | Thanks for listening! | Have comments or suggestions you'd like to share? Email us!
Jeremy Ratt, editor | | | | | |
