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Today was my birthday. I got a digital camera. I hope this means this website will start to have more images.
This is crazy. I just noticed the time stamp on this post is all screwed up.

Coming just two weeks after the New Music Voice festival at Open Space, and a week of voice workshops with three different artists, I’ve just immersed myself in yet another workshop. This time a four-day intensive SoundScape residency with Hildegard Westercamp.
This has been an ear-opening experience. I was able to participate […]

So it seems I’ve been sampled. Listening Pearls features Technotoys Blues - which by the way is actually called Techno Toys Blues (three words, not two). They credit Anima Sound System with the song and neglect to mention the writer and vocalist - who just happens to be me - Alison Boston - […]

Two more workshops and one evening of performance later….
Yesterday afternoon I did a Sound Poetry workshop with Paul Dutton. This ended up as a great opportuntity to experiment with my resonating apparatus as just that: a resonanting apparatus.
Paul started the workshop by talking for about 50 minutes about Sound Poetry, including a discussion about overtone […]

I’ve been doing a voice workshop all week with Wende Bartley from Toronto. It’s part of Open Space’s New Music Voice Festival. The results of the voice workshop - a collective creation* by the workshop participants - will be presented tomorrow (Saturday) evening as part of the evening’s line up. Tonight the […]

I’ve just done a three day workshop with River Chandler of Theater Works. River is a social worker cum theater artist who has picked up on the power of Augusta Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed as adapted by David Diamond.

I first got interested in using theater in this way when I was studying […]