Event will be livestreamed online at https://contaqtnewmusic.org/

Sunday April 21st

4pm EDT/ 1pm PDT

FREE

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Virtual CONTAQT is an ongoing project hosted by ContaQt, featuring past and future collaborators. Initiated by the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020, the project represents the ensemble's search for a means of collaborating with artists from around the world while still primarily based in different geographic locations.

This event marks the third official Virtual ContaQt performance, following Terry Reilly's 88th birthday celebration with Evan Ziporyn and friends, "Poppy 88" (June 2023) and "Bell Dreams + ContaQt" (October 2023) presented in collaboration with the Saskatchewan ensemble Bell Dreams and Sounds Like: An Audio Festival!

For this performance, ContaQt will be joined by Tina Pearson to present telematic imaginings of her ongoing work "Root Blood Fractal Breath" working telematically intentionally, moving beyond replicating a piece, or playing together, in a networked environment.

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Tina Pearson is a Canadian composer, sound artist, media artist and facilitator. Her projects are nuanced sonic investigations of perception, presence and place, and connections that are minimized or forgotten. Her work references biospheres, ancestries, spectral structures and long spans of time; usually incorporates attention states; and often occurs in contexts beyond concert or gallery, including outdoors, and within/through online platforms. As a performer (flute, voice, glass, accordion, objects, electronics), Pearson’s sound worlds reveal unusual textures and phenomena. Pearson’s work has been commissioned for concerts, installations, choreography, and video in centres through North America and Europe. Pearson was editor of Canada’s Musicworks, and taught Sound Studies at OCAD University in Toronto. She is co-director of LASAM Music, member of the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, and the Experimental Music Unit, and a certified Deep Listening® practitioner through Pauline Oliveros. Pearson is of Nordic and Slavic descent, and is grateful to live and work within the territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.

https://tina-pearson.com/

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ContaQt combines 21st-century new-classical and experimental music with the sensibilities of rock and jazz to form a hybrid chamber ensemble that defies genres. Praised by the Globe and Mail as “thought-provoking” and “highly entertaining”, and by the New York Times as “mesmerizing” ContaQt has premiered works by emerging and established Canadian and international composers and has performed at venues and new music festivals around the world.

https://contaqtnewmusic.org/

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Special thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council and City of Toronto for their ongoing funding support.

Special thanks to Evan Ziporyn for inspiration and initial experimentation.

Special thanks to Tina Pearson for guidance in the telematic universe.

Special thanks to Wawken Studio for technical support, live sound, audio and video production and broadcasting.

Photo by Sarah Fraser Raff

Come celebrate the release of Bilal Nasser's new record "How Can We Say Nothing", live at Meteor with Nate Blackton and Heart Map Ambient Ensemble (London/Toronto)

Doors: 8:30

Music: 9:00

$15 cover

Vinyls of the new record will be available for purcahse

Join Bilal Nasser and friends for a night of classical guitar, shoe-gaze, ambient-chamber, and everything in between. As part of Bilal's album release tour with Heart Map Ambient Ensemble. Featuring: Turtle Pleasure and Simon Farintosh.

Live from Array Space Toronto

Doors: 7:30

$15 cover

ALL AGES EVENT - 8PM START - $15 COVER AT THE DOOR! Join us for a night of upbeat rock and soul cleansing ambience. Supporting Bilal Nasser on tour, Heart Map, Frantic Lullabies and Daniel Walton and the Dreamland Band fill a wide range. From Neo-Classical, to Progressive Rock, to Post-Rock Shoegaze. This is not a night to miss!

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024

Doors at 7:00pm – Show at 7:30pm

CMC Presents : India Gailey – Problematica

Ticket price:

General Admission. $15 Advance / $20 at the door

CMC Members and Arts Workers. $12 Advance / $15 at the door

Students. $10 anytime

Venue:

Canadian Music Centre

20 St. Joseph Street

Toronto, ON

M4Y 1J9

416-961-6601 x202

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India Gailey

India Gailey (she/they) is a cellist, composer, vocalist, and improviser who appears most often in the realms of classical and experimental music. Recently named by CBC as one of “30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30,” she works as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborator with various disciplines to create works of exploratory art. She has worked with numerous living composers, including Edward Enman, Andrew Noseworthy, Nicole Lizée, Yaz Lancaster, Philip Glass, and Michael Harrison; written music for concert, film, dance, and theatre; and is a member of the acclaimed environmental improvisation quartet New Hermitage, which recently released their fifth album, Unearth.

In May 2022, India released her second solo cello album, to you through (Redshift Records), which was praised as “a truly exceptional display of unparalleled talent” (Take Effect) that “flows like poetry” (The Whole Note). She also wrote music for Symphony Nova Scotia to illustrate Rebecca Thomas’s children’s book I’m Finding My Talk. India is the recipient of numerous honours, including awards from Arts Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Talent Trust, the Canada Council for the Arts, and Acadia & McGill Universities. Her recent work has been presented by organizations such as the Canadian Music Centre, International Contemporary Ensemble (NYC), Metropolis Ensemble (NYC), and Government House (NS). India is currently based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). She loves raspberries, large marimbas, and the smell of burning thyme.

indiayeshe.com

CMC Ontario is proud to host an evening showcasing the incredible work of our artists in residence from December and January.

Featured artists:

Backlined Quartet https://withkoji.com/@Backlined

Paolo Griffin https://paologriffin.com/

Arie Verheul van de Ven https://soundcloud.com/arievandeven

Doors @ 6:00

First set @ 6:30

Second set @ 8:00

Third set @ 9:30

Refreshments and conversation between sets

Track Could Bend #87

Wenona Lodge / 1069 Bloor St. W.

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Doors around 8:30, music around 9, done around 11

PWYC

1) battle milk

battle milk begs the question: what if you threw all your instruments down the stairs instead?

2) SOUP

SOUP is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm or hot (but may be cool or cold), that is made by Sara Constant combining ingredients of meat or vegetables with stock, milk, or water.

Let's be careful and considerate in the performance space! Please consider wearing a mask when not performing/imbibing.

Backlined Collective, a Toronto/Montreal-based and newly-formed experimental gtr. quartet, comes to Arraymusic on Saturday, November 4th. Performing music from their recent debut set at La Sala Rossa (MTL) this past August, the program includes Julius Eastman's "Buddha" (arr: Emmanuel Lacopo), Erich Barganier's complete "Geisslerlieder" suite, and selected short solo works.

Featuring ensemble members that are recent mainstays across the Toronto-Montréal experimental guitar/new music/improvised music communities, you won't want to miss the TO debut for this brand new collective!

https://withkoji.com/@Backlined

Saturday November 4th, 2023

7:30pm doors, 8pm show

Tix: 15$ advance/20$ at the door

no one turned away for lack of funds

This concert would not be possible without support from Exit Points, Arraymusic, and People Places Records.

Special thanks to Daisy Betlej for the event poster/graphic.

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Backlined Collective is an interdisciplinary guitar-driven collective made up of core members Erich Barganier, Emmanuel Lacopo, Andrew Noseworthy, and Patrick O’Reilly. Each member’s individual experiences as performers, composers, and improvisers combine to create a multi-faceted collective practice. Rather than following established contemporary chamber ensemble trajectories, the group’s merging of creative practices manifests across projects that feature the member’s newly composed music, group improvisations, new arrangements, collaborations with visual and video artists, non-standard performance formats, and working with underperformed composers.

Backlined’s stylistically-fluid projects transcend the classical ensemble paradigm and allow for varied interpretive approaches. These methods allow the collective to explore post-notational open scores, long-form ambient soundscapes, noise-based structures, groove-based rhythmicism, and more. With membership situated in both Ontario and Québec, Backlined especially seeks to promote an ongoing collaborative relationship with underrepresented Canadian composers, while developing their own original set of evolving music.

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Erich Barganier is a composer and multi-instrumentalist exploring experimental technology, the edge of noise, improvisation, generative processes, and new forms of notation. His music has been released on People Places Records (PPR), Belts and Whistles Records, Infrequent Seams, Off Latch Press, and has been presented by Bang on a Can, and National Sawdust, among others.

Acknowledged as one of CBC’s 2023 30 under 30 classical musicians, Emmanuel is a guitarist and composer who showcases the guitar in a new light through his original compositions that mesh his influences in progressive metal, math rock, and post-rock into a post-classical experience. Lacopo’s latest release with People Places Records, Eastman, is a re-imagination Julius Eastman’s music arranged for guitar and electronics and “it needs to be heard to be believed” (CBC 2023).

Andrew Noseworthy is a multidisciplinary artist whose work coalesces wide-ranging styles and distinct artistic practices. All while operating the DIY digital label people places records, his genre-fluid projects include compositions for contemporary music ensembles; performing with hardcore and experimental rock bands in DIY venues; commissioning and premiering new works involving the electric guitar; pop music production and audio engineering; and integrative work that combines seemingly disparate elements from any number of these settings.

Patrick O’Reilly is a composer/guitarist and a community-driven fixture in the Toronto creative music scene. He is co-curator of the Furniture Music concert/workshop series and operates the W/DRWN record label. His trio Wire Circus have released two albums showcasing Patrick’s compositions alongside the pixilated/frenetic improvisation that is the culmination of their longstanding collaborative history. He also co-leads the international quartet Sonic Perfume, and the trio WAPAMA who explore freedom of expression through rhythm, melody, and harmony.

COVID Safety Measures:

Masks are recommended

If you have any symptoms of COVID-19, please stay home regardless of the test results

Live in-person/hybrid performance of new music for combined ensembles Bell Dreams and Contaqt, two experimental music ensembles with members working across Saskatchewan, Ontario, British Columbia, and the United States.

Featuring:

Jeff Morton, pedal steel guitar, keyboard, electronics

Edith Skeard, flute, voice, electronics

Ernie Dulanowksy, modular synth, keyboards, electronics

Jerry Pergolesi, trumpet, percussion, electronics

Sarah Fraser Raff, violin

Allison Wiebe, piano

Andrew Noseworthy, guitar, electronics

Presented by Unheard Sound Collective and PAVED Arts as part of the annual Sounds Like: An Audio Festival, in partnership with ContaQt.

Welcome to the third episode of Radio HAHA! An experimental fusion of comedy and sound art with live musical backing takes place monthly in the Tranzac's Living Room. Show up and see what happens. The show on Oct. 3 will feature:

Comedians: Doug Koning, Jordanne Brown, Todd Graham, Bonez Poley

Hosts: Justin Gayle and James Hamilton Lowrie

Electronic Guitar: Andrew Noseworthy

Come on out it will be a trip!

Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/radio-haha-tickets-686730157387

Welcome to the second episode of Radio HAHA! An experimental fusion of comedy and sound art with live musical backing takes place monthly in the Tranzac's Living Room. Show up and see what happens. The show on Sep. 5 will feature:

Comedians: Sarah Ashby, Marc Hallworth, Tara Henderson, Chris Sandiford, Collin Sideris, and Rae Gallimore

Hosts: Justin Gayle and James Hamilton Lowrie

Electronic Guitar: Andrew Noseworthy

Come on out it will be a trip!

Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/radio-haha-tickets-686730157387

people places records presents:

Erich Barganier: "Geisslerlieder" Album Release Show

w/guests Emmanuel Jacob Lacopo, Patrick O'Reilly and Andrew Noseworthy

August 8th 2023

8:00 pm – 11:00 pm / Doors: 7:00 pm

La Sala Rossa

4848 Boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC, Canada

Erich Barganier (he/him) is a composer &

multi-instrumentalist who writes music that explores

experimental technology, the edge of noise,

improvisation, generative processes, and new forms

of notation. Recent collaborators include Mark

Stewart, Noise Catalogue, BlackBox Ensemble,

House on Fire & Instruments of Happiness.

Barganier's new album is a grotesque antithesis to the stereotypical “guitar god,” centered on the idea of masculine failure through the lens of the electric guitar solo. All of the guitars on the album are prepared, digitally manipulated, detuned, struck with hammers, combs, and pipes; and all performed by the composer.

The fragility of the "ideal" masculine image based on strength drives the downward-spiral narrative of the record– a flailing and helpless dance rooted in tight, restrictive form that slowly breaks apart over the course of five tracks.

"Geisslerlieder" is available everywhere August 3rd. For more info about the album and to preorder visit: https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/.../geisslerlieder

Welcome to Radio HAHA! An experimental fusion of comedy and sound art with live musical backing takes place monthly in the Tranzac's Living Room. Show up and see what happens.

This first outing on Aug. 1st will feature:

Hosts: Justin Gayle and James Hamilton Lowrie

Sound design: James Hamilton Lowrie

Comedians: Dan Curtis Thompson, James O'Hara, Tim Blair, Lily Langen, Jeff Hobbs, and Andie Hong

Music: Andrew Noseworthy

Come on out it will be a trip!

Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/radio-haha-tickets-686730157387

Exit Points 39

Friday, June 30

Cost: $20 at the door. Cash/Card/Mobile

Advance tickets: https://linktr.ee/exitpoints

Doors open: 7:30pm

Show begins: 8pm sharp

Venue: Array Music, 155 Walnut Ave, 2nd Floor. Main entrance at top of a silver accessibility ramp

About the artists:��

Ananya Ganesh @ananyaganesh

Ananya Ganesh (b. 1997) is an improviser from Madras based in North America. Their idiosyncratically simultaneous improvisation of piano and voice lies between the unrealizable and what could be(coming). Playing with and at the limits of the ear and of embodiment, their work unfurls as an expression of indeterminacy, spontaneity, and the joys of dissonance and (in)access. Live performances, improvised from and with disregard for “maps” created for each venue, consist of modular short-form vignettes and long-form works. Ganesh sculpts these open forms through the explorations of dynamics, texture, density, registral color, imbricated lines, and sparseness.

https://ananyaganesh.bandcamp.com/album/precis-loving-2��

Amahl Arulanandam @amahl.arulanandam

With tastes ranging from baroque music to death metal, Toronto-based cellist Amahl Arulanandam is known for his musical versatility and ability to adapt to many different genres. Feeling at home in studios, small clubs and large concert-halls, Amahl hopes to convey that musical expression is beyond genres and labels.

Amahl takes special pleasure in playing on areas of the cello other than the strings.

�https://vc2celloduo.bandcamp.com�

Alejandro @piraran.ensamble

Alejandro is a composer, live coder and sound artist from Mexico City, currently residing in Dish with One Spoon territory. Alejandro is also a PhD Candidate in the Department of Communications Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University. His research entails the development of infrastructure, interfaces, and protocols for online live-coded music and sound art creation. His research is related to the fields of sound studies, time studies, and internet studies with a perspective mediated by de-colonialism, anti-fascism, Marxism, and feminism. Some of his major interests are: time-oriented music, networked art ecologies and musical/technological notational systems. He makes algorithmic acid music and performs on-the-fly documentaries in the context of networked collaborations.��

https://piraran.bandcamp.com/album/maa-m-sica-cida-algor-tmica�

Veronica Zupanic @veronicazupanic

Veronica Zupanic is a violinist based in Tkaronto (Toronto). As a performer, her interests are in the expansive sound spectrum of the violin and in the expressive potential of electronics. She performs with the Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME) at the University of Toronto, which has recently collaborated with composers including Magnus Lindberg, Snežana Nešić, and Ana Sokolović. She has previously collaborated with the contemporary specialist Microcosmos Quartet in Vancouver. She is currently a graduate student in violin performance at the University of Toronto where she studies with Mark Fewer.

Andrew Noseworthy @anmusiccomposer

Andrew Noseworthy (he/him/his) is a multidisciplinary artist whose music reflects upon the acceptance/rejection of “locality,” while addressing ideas of post-regional spaces and questions of accessibility for the musical voices within them. His genre-fluid projects coalesce wide-ranging styles and distinct artistic practices, while building sustainable relationships through communal collaboration. He is a member of the post-genre duo laydøwn (with Yaz Lancaster) and the Toronto-based ensemble Contaqt. With Aeryn Santillan, he is a co-founder of the experimental hardcore duo this place is actually the worst and independent digital label people | places | records.

https://www.anmusiccomposer.com/

Black Galaxie @blackgalaxie204

Black Galaxie (aka Nolan Hildebrand) is a composer, improviser, researcher, and noise artist based in Toronto, Canada. Nolan’s music practices are centered around noise. Through noise, Nolan explores conceptual and physical extremities to create intense and engaging music. His compositions span classical ensembles and electroacoustic music, and performance in an experimental solo project dubbed BLACK GALAXIE. He is currently pursuing a DMA at the University of Toronto with a focus on graphic notation and electroacoustic music.

https://blackgalaxie.bandcamp.com/album/black-galaxie-v

Alexander Vincent @_alexandervincent

Alexander Vincent has been working on a full length album for the past 2 years. He has leaned deeper into his artistic taste, leaning heavily on string arrangement, live instruments and cutting, cynical lyrics. The album "If There's No Way Out", is being be released one song at a time every month in 2023. The latest single is titled "Hold My Leash". Alexander rose to popularity as the drummer and co creater of the band Magic! Penning the song "Rude", which topped Billboard Hot 100's chart for 6 weeks. He was the recipient of 2 Juno awards and several Socan awards. Gaining him much respect as a writer/producer globally and in his home country of Canada. As a producer, he has produced for notable artists such as Sabrina Claudio, Audrey Nuna, Son Lux, Allen Stone, Mahalia, Justin Nozuka, and featured artists Shakira and Sean Paul on 2 songs by Magic! He is currently working on many musical projects with different artists ranging from pop to avant garde. Ever pushing forward his boundaries and exploring uncharted musical territory.

�https://alexandervincentmusic.com�

Ron Johnston @bassguy23

Classically trained, Ron’s first love has always been Jazz. He has been professionally performing and recording, (locally and abroad), with a number of different groups since 1971. Ron has also appeared in numerous TV shows and films as a musician extra, including being a main band member in the Oscar winning film “Chicago”. He was one of the original members of the well known Hard Bop band “Kollage”. He performed and recorded with the group for their first nine years.

Currently, Ron can be seen working with Juno award winner Bob DeAngelis, The Tanya Wills Quartet, Fifth Element, as well as freelancing with many other groups in the Toronto area. In addition to teaching privately, Ron is the bass instructor at the

acclaimed St. Michael’s College School in Toronto.

Marc Herscovitch

Marc is a drummer and bass player who has played in a variety of rock and metal bands over the last 15 years. He now plays solo music under the name Paws of Chaos as well as records with a project called Size of the Howl.

�https://pawsofchaos.bandcamp.com�

Michael Palumbo @michaelpalumbo_

Michael Palumbo is a musician, teacher, and programmer. A PhD candidate in Digital Media at York, he is researching electroacoustic music improvisation in online, multiplayer virtual reality. He teaches sound and video art at York, creative coding with javascript at OCAD, and private lessons in coding and music. He improvise as a soloist and in ensembles, and runs the Exit Points series and record label.

https://linktr.ee/michaelpalumbo

@arraymusictoronto

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Jelly Ear returns to for the final edition of its monthly series at the Tranzac to play improvised takes on medieval tunes.

feat.

Allison Cameron, organ ,melodica

Yang Chen, Percussion

Sara Constant, flutes

Cory Harper-Latkovich, rebec

Andrew Noseworthy & Seb Shinwell, guitars

Open Ears: YANG CHEN AND GUESTS PRESENTS

7:00pm

The Registry Theatre

122 Frederick St.

Kitchener, ON

longing for _, the debut album of Toronto-based percussionist Yang Chen manages to do the unthinakable: showcase their audacious eclecticism, sharp curatorial sensibility, and exceptional skill all at the same time. As such, Chen is right at home on the celebrated cross-border imprint People Places Records, a label known for embracing young, vibrant artists operating loosely within the bounds of contemporary composition.

longing for _ includes collaborations with one of People Places’ head honchos, guitarist-composer Andrew Noseworthy alongside other respected (and largely emerging) talent such as Yaz Lancaster, Connie Li, Jason Doell, Sara Constant, Sarian Sankoh, Stephanie Orlando and Charles Lutvak. On it, Chen performs on everything from bicycle to steel pan evoking styles that span elegiac R&B to full-on electroacoustic abstraction.

Intersection Music & Arts Co-Presents: Christopher Tignor live in Toronto, ON at Arraymusic!

Join us for the Toronto date of acclaimed Brooklyn-based experimental composer and violinist Christopher Tignor’ spring tour where he will wage a self described, “war against what electroacoustic music might be, solo, 100% live, no tracks or loops, just blood, sweat, tears and a lot of rosin.”

With special guests Alex Ven+Andrew Noseworthy’s Ambient Works.

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023

7:30pm doors, 8pm show

Arraymusic

155 Walnut Ave., Toronto, ON, M6J 3W3

15$/10$ students

Intersection Music & Arts Co-Presents: Christopher Tignor live in London, ON at the Variety Café!

Join us for the London date of acclaimed Brooklyn-based experimental composer and violinist Christopher Tignor’ spring tour where he will wage a self described, “war against what electroacoustic music might be, solo, 100% live, no tracks or loops, just blood, sweat, tears and a lot of rosin.”

With special guests Alex Ven+Andrew Noseworthy’s Ambient Works.

Sunday, April 30, 2023

6:30pm doors, 7pm show

Variety Cafe

466 Dufferin Ave, London, ON, N6B 1Z7

15$/10$ students

Soundstreams’ Encounters series aims to bring people together through music and discussion to explore themes that resonate in their communities. New Canadian music stimulates and provokes ‘cultural conversations’, music with underlying themes that resonate with our time and place. A ‘cultural conversation’ is a form of storytelling: multiple participants interpret and respond to themes that ponder identities, values, attitudes and issues; and such conversations unfold over time.

This season, Soundstreams offers programming that aims to broaden these artistic horizons with exciting guest curators. Our Encounters series began in December by featuring a program curated by Métis scholar Rena Roussin. Later this season, we will also feature an evening created by turntablist and first-generation Grenadian Canadian Cheldon Paterson (SlowPitchSound) and composer James O’Callaghan, exploring “sampling” in the hip-hop and new music communities.

On April 13, the series continues with Encounters – Blurred Realities. Composers Maziar Heidari, Saman Shahi and Keyan Emami from the Iranian Composers of Toronto (ICOT) will premiere a new 15-minute work for percussion quartet and electric guitar. Titled Stream of the Unconscious, this work delves into the mind of a displaced person: the ongoing identity battle of a refugee, the constant daydreaming of an immigrant, and their collective efforts to negotiate new meaning in the intersectionality of their lives.

The Encounters series offers a musical experience that is free and accessible to all. Seats are limited, and patrons can reserve their free admission ticket by visiting soundstreams.ca.

Encounters – Blurred Realities

Heliconian Club, 35 Hazelton Ave, Toronto

April 13 @ 8pm

Artists: Richard Burrows, Yang Chen, Jamie Drake, Tim Francom (percussionists) and Andrew Noseworthy (electric guitar)

Maziar Heidari, Saman Shahi and Keyan Emami, curators/ composers

This piece is composed collectively by members of ICOT, Maziar Heidari, Saman Shahi and Keyan Emami in close collaboration with their creative partners: Richard Burrows, Yang Chen, Jamie Drake, Tim Francom (percussionists), and Andrew Noseworthy (electric guitar).

Stream of the Unconscious makes several references to music that was once heard by the composers in various stages of their lives. Some of this music may have been used by the Iranian State media as propaganda, while others may have been lullabies on the radio, or forbidden and underground revolutionary anthems. The aim of the work is to act as a commentary about how these melodies live and breathe as fragmented remains of memory and distant history in an immigrant’s conscious or subconscious psyche.

The piece also makes some use of free improvisation, rendering each performance of it somewhat different. In the spirit of this feature, this evening will include two full performances of the work spaced by a brief discussion among the creative partners and Soundstreams’ artistic team to dig deeper in the meaning, approach, and inspirations behind the work.

ICOT is a non-profit art organization founded by five Toronto-based composers and musicians in 2011 with the mission of creating new works that bridge Canadian and Iranian culture through music and art. ICOT has produced over 60 new works since its inception, and has curated or has been involved as featured artists over 35 concerts.

ICOT has produced 2 operas (Operatic Narrations of Arash the Archer, The Journey: Notes of Hope), 2 ballets (5 Tableaux from Khosrow and Shirin, Trio in Chaargah), 12 orchestral works (Secret of Solstice, Recall The Eden), dozens of chamber works and vocal works, as well as three call for scores that allowed ICOT to collaborate with over 20 composers from 8 different countries.

ICOT has received commissions from the National Ballet of Canada, Tirgan Festival, Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Toronto, 13 Strings, and has been featured in Ottawa Chamberfest, Hamilton Philharmonic’s What next Music Festival, Nuit Blanche Festival, Canadian Music Centre’s 2017 Season as well as LADOM Ensemble’s 2017 Debut Atlantic’s Eastern Canada tour. In addition to the aforementioned groups ICOT’s music has been performed by Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra, Symphony on the Bay and Ton Beau String Quartet.

ICOT’s current members are Maziar Heidari (Music Director), Keyan Emami (Artistic Director), and Saman Shahi (Executive Director).

The Toronto Heliconian Club in Yorkville, will serve as the evening’s venue for the event. It is the oldest association of its kind in Canada, founded in 1909 to give women in the arts and letters an opportunity to meet socially and intellectually. Members range from women who have earned great distinction to those in the early stages of their careers.

Stream of the Unconscious is commissioned with support from the Ontario Arts Council. Encounters: Blurred Realities is supported by TD.

The Music Gallery Presents: SOoUP with Bridgette Bardon’t and Andrew Noteworthy; featuring Sarah Peebles

The Music Gallery presents 3 days of sodium-based programming. Artists of many mediums stir up sonic soundscapes to leave you at ease. Pair a sound experience in the lounge with your sauna circuit, complete with a soup pairing.

Night 1/3

NO FUNERAL RECORDS PRESENTS:

WHERE: THE KILLROOM, HAMILTON, ON (ASK FOR ADDRESS)

TIME: DOORS 8:00PM

COST: $10

CAPACITY LIMITED

ALI'S BIRTHDAY! LETS PARTY

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Massa Nera (Jazzy heart wrenching screamo from new Jersey)

https://massanera.bandcamp.com/

Cease (New Hamilton hardcore with members of Stay Down and Cohezion)

This Place Is Actually The Worst (NY/TO drum machine screamo. Mems of Massa Nera)

Boxcutter (GTA screamo, Loud and intense)

neck (Everyones favourite clown. Emo rap, with a postive twist)

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we strive to make all of our shows inclusive. if you have have questions, please feel free to reach out.

NFDIY PRESENTS:

MASSA NERA (NJ)

https://massanera.bandcamp.com/album/derramar-querer-borrar

TERRY GREEN (ON)

https://terrygreen.bandcamp.com/album/lp

THIS PLACE IS ACTUALLY THE WORST (NJ+ON)

https://thisplaceisactuallytheworst.bandcamp.com/

TREEHOUSE OF HORROR (ON)\

https://treehouseofhorrormp3.bandcamp.com/

DOORS AT SEVEN PM

ALL AGES; $15/NOTAFLOF

SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 2023

BAR ORWELL @ 1595 DUNDAS W

NO FUNERAL RECORDS PRESENTS:

WHERE: THE STUDY ROOM, KITCHENER, ON (ASK FOR ADDRESS)

TIME: DOORS 8:00PM

COST: $15-$20 / PWYC

CAPACITY LIMITED

ALI'S BIRTHDAY WEEKEND. LETS PARTY!

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Massa Nera (Jazzy heart wrenching screamo from new Jersey)

https://massanera.bandcamp.com/

Basque (Local screamo, no funeral posterchild, Equal parts angry and sad)

This Place Is Actually The Worst (NY/TO drum machine screamo. Mems of Massa Nera)

A Perennial Daydream (Ethereal indie from Southern Ontario)

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The Study Room is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. There are several steps at the entrance and down to the basement.

we strive to make all of our shows inclusive. if you have have questions, please feel free to reach out.

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023

Doors at 7:00pm – Show at 7:30pm

CMC Presents: Yang Chen and Andrew Noseworthy

Ticket price:

General Admission. $15 Advance / $20 at the door

CMC Members and Arts Workers. $12 Advance / $15 at the door

Students. $10 anytime

Venue:

Canadian Music Centre

20 St. Joseph Street

Toronto, ON

M4Y 1J9

416-961-6601 x202

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Yang Chen

Yang Chen (they/them) is just happy to be here with you 🙂 They are a percussionist with many side-hustles who prioritizes collaboration, personal growth, and joy. Yang is a grateful nexus of playful curiosity, cross disciplinary yearning, classical training, and loving relationships. All of which influence process & product within their work.

Website: www.yangchen.ca

Instagram:instagram.com/yango.bongo

Bandcamp: peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com

Recordings: longing for _

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Andrew Noseworthy

Andrew Noseworthy (he/him/his) is a multidisciplinary artist whose music reflects upon the acceptance/rejection of “locality,” while addressing ideas of post-regional spaces and questions of accessibility for the musical voices within them. His genre-fluid projects coalesce wide-ranging styles and distinct artistic practices, while building sustainable relationships through communal collaboration. Recent collaborators include The Metropolis Ensemble, The 21C Guitar Conference, Angie Moon Dance Theatre, Saman Shahi, India Gailey, Yang Chen, Tim Brady/Bradyworks, Phong Tran, Adam Cuthbért, SlowPitchSound, Greg Bruce, The St John’s International Sound Symposium, Bekah Simms, Tanea Hynes and Andrea Lodge. He is a member of the post-genre duo laydøwn (with Yaz Lancaster) and the Toronto-based contemporary ensemble Contaqt. With Aeryn Santillan, he is a co-founder of the experimental hardcore duo this place is actually the worst and independent digital label people | places | records. Andrew is currently a PhD candidate at Western University.

Website: www.anmusiccomposer.com

Twitter: twitter.com/anmusiccomposer

Facebook: facebook.com/anmusiccomposer

Instagram: instagram.com/anmusiccomposer

Bandcamp: anmusiccomposer.bandcamp.com

YouTube: youtube.com/anmusiccomposer

Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/anmusiccomposer

Track Could Bend #75

Wenona Lodge / 1069 Bloor St. W.

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Doors around 8:30, music around 9, done around 11

PWYC

1) Chapped Lips

Annie Elgie - Voice

Patrick O'Reilly - Guitar

PT Sandberg - Bass

Three Shoppers Drug Mart self-sponsored product testers making sounds that are xtra xtra chapped or our number isn't 533-3311

2) Ambient Works

Alex Ven/Andrew Noseworthy/Yang Chen/Adrian Irvine/Zain Solinski

Winter flavours to warm your insides.

Let's be careful and considerate in the performance space! Please wear a mask when not performing/imbibing.

Alkali Collective Performs “I’m sure you will” as part of this concert program

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Alkali Collective Presents: Four | Three

Join three fourths of Alkali Collective for an evening of contemporary trio and quartet music. Featuring a music by Monica Pearce, Nico Muhly, Yaz Lancaster and more!

Tickets: $20/adults, $15/students, $10/ages 12 and under

Live-Stream Tickets: $15/per household, link to be emailed before concert.

All tickets available online at eventbrite.ca and at the door.

About Alkali Collective:

Named for the salt water that surrounds our province, Alkali Collective is a new and dynamic ensemble dedicated to the creation, performance, documentation, and educational outreach of 21st-century music.