Had a jam packed week at the International Music Festival in Victoriaville Quebec (somehow in French the acronym comes out to FIMAV). My favorites this year were a group of female Mongolian throat singers working with two German accompanists and Colin Stetson who appeared three separate times the most impressive being leading a group performing his reinterpretation of Gorecki’s 3^rd Symphony, entitled “Sorrow“. Breathtaking.

FIMAV is a small and rather unique festival devoted to avant-garde music. This was our 6th year attending. One of the most entertaining parts of FIMAV for me is always the sound installations. This year was no different. My favorite of these this year was one by a group that goes by the name, “Theater of Rude Engineering”. It consisted of a concrete disk that was randomly chiseled and “played” over the course of the festival. Rather than my trying to explain it I’ll just show you:

We checked in on it a few times through the festival and the “melody” did change a bit. A few pieces of the mechanism also fell off but it was quite well engineered, the brush managed to sweep up the odd bits and it soldiered on.

I finished up the postcards and mailed them off. Here’s how the finished product(s) ended up:

I think I’m getting the hang of the free form quilting but still more practice to go. Starting work on some pieces for the Hotel Fair for some additional practice!