GHOST GRAIN | X AVANT XXI: Memory Mannnnn

For our first night, Brooklyn based experimental guitarist Ava Mendoza returns to Toronto for a visceral solo performance. Guitarist Andrew Noseworthy & harpist Grace Scheele bring Christopher Mayo’s compositions to life, along with their own storied improvisations.

Ava Mendoza (Natural Ways, Bill Orcutt’s Guitar Quartet) creates raw angular guitar pathways with an array of electronic effects mutating her virtuosic busted blues techniques into an all encompassing sonic spectrum. Mendoza’s vocals wind over these twisted landscapes. Andrew Noseworthy & Grace Scheele open the night with some custom made pieces by composer Christopher Mayo from their latest album “Walk the Darkness Down”. Employing rattling tones, dissonant guitar howls and haunting rhythmic unease the Toronto based duo manifest the perfect score to an October night. 

Curated by Tad Michalak

INSTALLATION 
Outside of performances, attendees can interact with sound sculptures from Night 2 artist Stephanie Orlando. 

Inspired by everyday sounds from her time working as a bike mechanic, Stephanie Orlando’s Sonic Bikes installation invites attendees to interact with the spectrum of noises and musical textures of recycled bike parts.

Radio Haha brings the best and weirdest stand-up and sketch comedians together with stars of the experimental music scene for a surreal and psychedelic comedy show from composer-comedian James Hamilton Lowrie and comedian Justin Gayle.

Live band! Sound design! Characters! Canadian-famous comedians! Experimental music-famous musicians! Is it actually on the radio? No, it is not – why does everyone keep asking me this?!