avec Parler bien

This episode of the Innovations Podcast features a conversation with Jane Chan and Nicolas Hyatt of the chamber music duo Parler bien. Their debut record histoires du comté d’essex features a series of pieces written around and with the words and stories of francophones from Nicolas’ home community: Windsor and Essex County in southwestern Ontario. We discuss the duo’s collaborative composition process, their approach to speech music, and some of the realities of this regional linguistic dialect.

The Innovations Zine is made possible with the generous support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal and the SOCAN Foundation.