Feist: The Stranger (Gord Downie Tribute)

Hauntingly beautiful, Feist’s cover of “The Stranger was her tribute to fellow Canadian and Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie, who died this week from brain cancer. The track was drawn from Downie’s 2016 solo album Secret Path. Feist explains that “I send out this song with love, respect and gratitude in honor of Gord’s generosity of spirit. I admired so much his honest way of …

Over 100,000 Rose Petals Comprise Sarah Meyohas’ “Cloud of Petals” Exhibition

A multi-sensory tactile installation, film and virtual reality experiences

To simply address the scope of Sarah Meyohas‘ first large-scale exhibition misses the point. There is, of course, the multi-sensory and multimedia components: a signature scent in the air, sculptures, a photograph, a film and virtual reality experiences. There’s also the fact that, to make this a reality, 16 workers picked over 100,000 petals from 10,000 roses, hand-selecting the one’s they thought were most beautiful …

Ela Minus: a.r.p.

In one improvisational take, Colombian singer and electronic musician Ela Minus (aka Gabriela Jimeno) filmed the video for a.r.p., out today. Minus used Critter & Guitari’s ETC video synthesizer and created a series of lo-fi imagery “live.” The shifting digital palette accompanies the warm, undulating track—which appears on her EP Adapt, released earlier this year. Minus is presently touring the world.