147, Gentrification, vie nocturne and Indigenous street life
Free City Radio25 Jan 2023

147, Gentrification, vie nocturne and Indigenous street life

On this edition of Free City Radio I will be featuring a podcast from a community art project in Montreal that I participated in about how to mobilize collectively as artists and activists against gentrification. You can find the full podcast here: @reverberations-crise This is the write up on the episode: Dans ce sixième épisode du balado 'Réverbérations d'une crise: une enquête sonore sur le logement à Montréal', on peut entendre la deuxième partie de l’essai sur la politique de la vie nocturne, ainsi qu’une entrevue avec un travailleur de rue dédié aux membres des Premières Nations. /// In this sixth episode of the podcast 'Réverbérations d'une crise: Sounding the Housing Crisis in Montreal', we can the second part of the essay on the politics of night life, and an interview with a street worker dedicated to the First Nations people. 1. “Essai sur la politique de la vie nocturne à Montréal - part 2”, par/by Hubert Gendron-Blais 2. “2 (Pierre Parent)”, par/by Stefan Christoff 3. Petit exercice de spéculation politique 4, par/by Julien Simard & Hubert Gendron-Blais (avec la voix de/with the voice of Marjolaine Lord, et un extrait de la pièce "Waiting for Cravings", and an exerpt of the piece "Waiting for Cravings", par/by Julien Simard). 4. End theme, par/by Joseph Sannicandro *Note de Hubert Gendron-Blais: -Références: Gonzalez, Xochitl. “Why Do Rich People Love Quiet? The sound of gentrification is silence”. ‘The Atlantic’, septembre 2022. -Extraits musicaux: Hubert Gendron-Blais, “Montreal Solidarity Drone”. Mtl. Drone. ‘Balcony Drone’, Cuchabata Records, CUCH-173, 2020. ce qui nous traverse, “Passages parmi quelques sillons sur la voie oblique”, ‘des lignes’, Cuchabata Records, CUCH-096, 2016. ce qui nous traverse & The Mighty River, “Ignis”, ‘CUCH-2019’, Cuchabata Records, CUCH-154, 2019. Devenir-ensemble, “Retrouvailles (Joni Void Remix)”, ‘Résonances manifestes’, Cuchabata Records/Creative Sources Recordings, CUCH-199/CS-741, 2022. Devenir-ensemble, “Essai sur le mouvement et ses timbres propres”, ‘CUCH-2021’, Cuchabata Records, CUCH-196, 2021. ce qui nous traverse, “حرب (De Guerre)”, ‘des lignes’, Cuchabata Records, CUCH-096, 2016. ce qui nous traverse, “cette part nocturne”. 'The Nightingale: A Julee Cruise Tribute,. Signora Ward Records, 2022. Enregistrements de terrain réalisés par Hubert Gendron-Blais. *Note de Stefan Christoff: Pierre Parent of the Indigenous Street Worker Program, an initiative by the RÉSEAU de la communauté Autochtone de Montréal that helps keep vulnerable people safe on the streets. Pierre speaks about the specific ways that the housing crisis in Montreal and gentrification is impacting low income and street involved Indigenous people and communities. Soundscape on this edition is an organ and violin duet between Stefan and Fern O'Dactyl on violin.

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