Chambersonic imagines the book as an acoustic chamber, its pages populated with an ensemble of players who breathe together, enacting translations between instruments and materials. The space comes alive with rehearsals, scores, and a reverberation of adjoining environments – aural, social, physical, visual, political. A conductor fades in and out as agencies, noises, and situations test their volumes and energies – all until voices morph into rebellious notation, signalling the near-silenced, the dissonant, and the ignored.

A collection of poems, essays, performance scores, and audio recordings, Chambersonic thematically and formally reflects on the practice of soundmaking, combining poetic and experimental music techniques in ways that will appeal to readers and listeners alike. (From Talonbooks)

Oana Avasilichioaei is an award-winning poet, performance artist and translator. She has written several poetry collections, including We, Beasts, Limbinal, Operator and Eight Track which was a finalist for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Prize for poetry. She won the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award for translation for the book Readopolis, originally written in French by Bertrand Laverdure. Avasilichioaei lives in Montreal.