Thursday, August 29th @ Sheppard West Station (1035 Sheppard Ave. West) - 7pm - FREE - All Ages
Intersection Day 1 featuring:
Music For Subways:
SARAH HENNIES & GERMAINE LIU
CLARINET PANIC
MIKA POSEN
JASON DOELL with CONTACT
@ Sheppard West Station / Pioneer Village Station / Highway 407 Station / Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station
7pm - FREE - All Ages
Intersection presents 4 site specific performances in Toronto's newest subway stations on Line 1 (Yonge-University). Performances start at 7:30pm sharp at Sheppard West Station & then travel north.
SARAH HENNIES & GERMAINE LIU (http://www.sarah-hennies.com)
@ Sheppard West Station / 7:30pm
Sarah Hennies is a composer based in Ithaca, NY whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including queer & trans identity, love, intimacy, psychoacoustics, and percussion. She is primarily a composer of solo and chamber works, but is also active in improvisation, film, performance art, and dance. She presents her work internationally as both a composer and percussionist. For this performance she will be joined by Toronto percussionist Germaine Liu in a vibraphone duo.
CLARINET PANIC (https://clarinetpanicdeluxx.bandcamp.com)
@ Pioneer Village Station / 8:15pm
Clarinet Panic bring their expanded sax infused ensemble to the public arena for your pleasure, featuring Olivia Shortt and Naomi McCarrol-Butler, along with the regular quartet of trouble makers. Hectic dream jams from cellist Cory Latkovich, avant percussionist/eccentric genius D. Alex Meeks (Hooded Fang, Holiday Rambler), saxophonist Karen Ng (Andy Shauf, Convergence Ensemble, etc) and guitarist Sebastian Shinwell. Clattering ahead like the score to a never ending horror film, inching towards climax as cello and sax play a game of back & forth only to be driven forward by systematically antagonistic drum patterns and their own instrumental curiosity. Rigid breakdowns give way to seemingly free form guitar & sax chaos, only to slam us back in the exacting grid like patterns with more force & precision that ever before. Bastard chamber music meets math rock. Sponsored by Beef Jerky Unlimited.
MIKA POSEN (http://mikaposen.com)
@ Highway 407 Station / 9pm
Ottawa based violin & violist Mika Posen's composition work sits somewhere between contemporary classical, ambient, and the more outsider tendrils of popular music. She has collaborated with Timber Timbre, Basia Bulat, The Weather Station, Evening Hymns, Snowblink, Maylee Todd, Broken Social Scene, and Feist to name a few. Her piece of Highway 407 Station will be a string quartet work tied to the arrival & departure of the subway trains.
JASON DOELL with CONTACT (http://www.jasondoell.com / http://www.contactcontemporarymusic.org)
@ Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station / 9:45pm
Composer Jason Doell teams up with contemporary classical ensemble Contact to present a piece of new music in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station. Doell's work merges contemporary classical ideas with a background in avant rock / punk & jazz that informs his approach to composition. This piece sees Contact's musicians spread through out to concourse of the station merging their acoustic sounds with the natural hum of an active subway station.
This event would not be possible without support from Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, Canadian Heritage, Toronto Arts Council, SOCAN Foundation - Fondation SOCAN, Canadian Music Centre, Moog Audio, Wellington Brewery and The City of Toronto
Music For Subways:
SARAH HENNIES & GERMAINE LIU
CLARINET PANIC
MIKA POSEN
JASON DOELL with CONTACT
@ Sheppard West Station / Pioneer Village Station / Highway 407 Station / Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station
7pm - FREE - All Ages
Intersection presents 4 site specific performances in Toronto's newest subway stations on Line 1 (Yonge-University). Performances start at 7:30pm sharp at Sheppard West Station & then travel north.
SARAH HENNIES & GERMAINE LIU (http://www.sarah-hennies.com)
@ Sheppard West Station / 7:30pm
Sarah Hennies is a composer based in Ithaca, NY whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including queer & trans identity, love, intimacy, psychoacoustics, and percussion. She is primarily a composer of solo and chamber works, but is also active in improvisation, film, performance art, and dance. She presents her work internationally as both a composer and percussionist. For this performance she will be joined by Toronto percussionist Germaine Liu in a vibraphone duo.
CLARINET PANIC (https://clarinetpanicdeluxx.bandcamp.com)
@ Pioneer Village Station / 8:15pm
Clarinet Panic bring their expanded sax infused ensemble to the public arena for your pleasure, featuring Olivia Shortt and Naomi McCarrol-Butler, along with the regular quartet of trouble makers. Hectic dream jams from cellist Cory Latkovich, avant percussionist/eccentric genius D. Alex Meeks (Hooded Fang, Holiday Rambler), saxophonist Karen Ng (Andy Shauf, Convergence Ensemble, etc) and guitarist Sebastian Shinwell. Clattering ahead like the score to a never ending horror film, inching towards climax as cello and sax play a game of back & forth only to be driven forward by systematically antagonistic drum patterns and their own instrumental curiosity. Rigid breakdowns give way to seemingly free form guitar & sax chaos, only to slam us back in the exacting grid like patterns with more force & precision that ever before. Bastard chamber music meets math rock. Sponsored by Beef Jerky Unlimited.
MIKA POSEN (http://mikaposen.com)
@ Highway 407 Station / 9pm
Ottawa based violin & violist Mika Posen's composition work sits somewhere between contemporary classical, ambient, and the more outsider tendrils of popular music. She has collaborated with Timber Timbre, Basia Bulat, The Weather Station, Evening Hymns, Snowblink, Maylee Todd, Broken Social Scene, and Feist to name a few. Her piece of Highway 407 Station will be a string quartet work tied to the arrival & departure of the subway trains.
JASON DOELL with CONTACT (http://www.jasondoell.com / http://www.contactcontemporarymusic.org)
@ Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station / 9:45pm
Composer Jason Doell teams up with contemporary classical ensemble Contact to present a piece of new music in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Station. Doell's work merges contemporary classical ideas with a background in avant rock / punk & jazz that informs his approach to composition. This piece sees Contact's musicians spread through out to concourse of the station merging their acoustic sounds with the natural hum of an active subway station.
This event would not be possible without support from Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, Canadian Heritage, Toronto Arts Council, SOCAN Foundation - Fondation SOCAN, Canadian Music Centre, Moog Audio, Wellington Brewery and The City of Toronto
Friday, August 30th @ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.) - 9pm - $15/$20 - All Ages
Intersection Day 2 featuring:
JOAN LA BARBARA
ELI KESZLER
GERMAINE LIU
@ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.)
9pm - $15/$20 - All Ages
JOAN LA BARBARA (http://www.joanlabarbara.com)
Avant-garde composer / performer / sound artist & actor Joan La Barbara explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument expanding traditional boundaries in developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques: multiphonics, circular singing, ululation and glottal clicks that have become her "signature sounds", influencing several generations of composers and singers. She has composed commissions for chamber ensembles, orchestra, multiple voices, interactive technology, dance, video and film, including a score for voice and electronics for Sesame Street and pieces for the film "Arrival" with Jóhann Jóhannsson. In her expanisive & diverse career La Barbara has premiered works by such composers as Robert Ashley, John Cage, David Behrman, Morton Feldman, Alvin Lucier, Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Morton Subotnick. Her solo performance in Toronto will include 3 pieces: “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, “Erin”, and “Windows … ”
ELI KESZLER (http://www.elikeszler.com)
NYC based percussionist / composer Eli Keszler creates intricate music from the simplest ingredients. Merging live percussion with electronics, his "so fast it's slow" style dips into new age territory while also taking cues from free jazz, dub, and avant-garde electronic music. His pointed drum hits decay into the distance, as dubbed out electronic beats & chimes wave over his textural tapestry. Ghostly remnants of past beats dissipate as ringing tones reach over them. Keszler has collaborated with Oneohtrix Point Never, Ashley Paul, Loren Conners, C. Spencer Yeh, Oren Ambarchi & many others. Don't miss his first solo gig in Toronto supporting his newest record "Stadium"
GERMAINE LIU (https://soundcloud.com/germaine-liu)
Germaine Liu brings her ever mutating group, Imaginary Percussion Ensemble to the Jam Factory. This iteration features Evan Cartwright (Eucalyptus), Kat Estacio (Pantayo), Germaine Liu (the one & only!), Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Heather Saumer, Joe Sorbara, Brandon Valdivia (Not The Wind, Not The Flag, Lido Pimienta), and Mark Zurawinski.
$15 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes and ShowClix: https://www.showclix.com/event/intersection-day-2
$20 at the door
All Ages
We regret that this venue is up one flight of stairs and therefore not fully accessible.
Photo by Mark Hahaney
This event would not be possible without support from Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des Arts du Canada, Canadian Heritage, Toronto Arts Council, SOCAN Foundation - Fondation SOCAN, Canadian Music Centre, Moog Audio, Wellington Brewery and The City of Toronto
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2189299524709022/
JOAN LA BARBARA
ELI KESZLER
GERMAINE LIU
@ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.)
9pm - $15/$20 - All Ages
JOAN LA BARBARA (http://www.joanlabarbara.com)
Avant-garde composer / performer / sound artist & actor Joan La Barbara explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument expanding traditional boundaries in developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques: multiphonics, circular singing, ululation and glottal clicks that have become her "signature sounds", influencing several generations of composers and singers. She has composed commissions for chamber ensembles, orchestra, multiple voices, interactive technology, dance, video and film, including a score for voice and electronics for Sesame Street and pieces for the film "Arrival" with Jóhann Jóhannsson. In her expanisive & diverse career La Barbara has premiered works by such composers as Robert Ashley, John Cage, David Behrman, Morton Feldman, Alvin Lucier, Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Morton Subotnick. Her solo performance in Toronto will include 3 pieces: “Solitary Journeys of the Mind”, “Erin”, and “Windows … ”
ELI KESZLER (http://www.elikeszler.com)
NYC based percussionist / composer Eli Keszler creates intricate music from the simplest ingredients. Merging live percussion with electronics, his "so fast it's slow" style dips into new age territory while also taking cues from free jazz, dub, and avant-garde electronic music. His pointed drum hits decay into the distance, as dubbed out electronic beats & chimes wave over his textural tapestry. Ghostly remnants of past beats dissipate as ringing tones reach over them. Keszler has collaborated with Oneohtrix Point Never, Ashley Paul, Loren Conners, C. Spencer Yeh, Oren Ambarchi & many others. Don't miss his first solo gig in Toronto supporting his newest record "Stadium"
GERMAINE LIU (https://soundcloud.com/germaine-liu)
Germaine Liu brings her ever mutating group, Imaginary Percussion Ensemble to the Jam Factory. This iteration features Evan Cartwright (Eucalyptus), Kat Estacio (Pantayo), Germaine Liu (the one & only!), Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Heather Saumer, Joe Sorbara, Brandon Valdivia (Not The Wind, Not The Flag, Lido Pimienta), and Mark Zurawinski.
$15 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes and ShowClix: https://www.showclix.com/event/intersection-day-2
$20 at the door
All Ages
We regret that this venue is up one flight of stairs and therefore not fully accessible.
Photo by Mark Hahaney
This event would not be possible without support from Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des Arts du Canada, Canadian Heritage, Toronto Arts Council, SOCAN Foundation - Fondation SOCAN, Canadian Music Centre, Moog Audio, Wellington Brewery and The City of Toronto
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2189299524709022/
Saturday, August 31st @ Yonge Dundas Square (1 Dundas St. East) - 2-10pm - FREE - All Ages
Intersection Day 3 featuring:
EVAN ZIPORYN and CONTACT play ENO & FRIPP
MAN FOREVER
AVA MENDOZA'S UNNATURAL WAYS
RETIRED
AVRHA
NULL POINT ENSEMBLE play HENNIES & DUNN
THE VELVET CRYSTALS
LORDE AWESOME
@ Yonge Dundas Square (1 Dundas St. East)
2 - 10pm, FREE, All Ages
EVAN ZIPORYN and CONTACT play ENO & FRIPP (http://www.contactcontemporarymusic.org)
Post minimalist composer & Bang On A Can founder Evan Ziporyn joins Toronto contemporary classical ensemble Contact for a set of music by Brian Eno & Robert Fripp. Contact feels more like a rock band, or a group of avant jazz experimentalists, and in a time of melting genres & lost classification they are a shoe in.
MAN FOREVER (http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/man-forever)
Kid Millions of Oneida fame returns to Toronto with his minimalist compositional psych percussion ensemble joined by a crew of local drummers, for a sure to be a pummelling, visceral live experience. Kid weaves threads of swaying percussion together like an orchestrated landslide. Voices floats calmly above trance like structures, constant motion, vibration, pulsing rhythms. Beats melt into a single wave, celestial hums coalesce around dance snares.
AVA MENDOZA's UNNATURAL WAYS (https://unnaturalways.bandcamp.com)
Brooklyn, NY based freak punk / avant rock trio led by guitarist/vocalist Ava Mendoza (John Zorn, Nels Cline, Carla Bozulich) & featuring Tim Dahl (Lydia Lunch, Child Abuse) on bass and Sam Ospovat on drums lands in Toronto on the heals of their 3rd record "The Paranoia Party" on Sleeping Giant Glossolalia. Over their years of playing together the group has developed a deeply personal sound; raw, heavy and never far from an absurd nervous breakdown. Drawing from their backgrounds in noise rock, free jazz, and metal the band pushes the boundaries of written music to put on powerful and unpredictable live shows. Consistent lyrical themes include: political paranoia, inclusion/exclusion, alter egos and alternate realities. A funny and blunt celebration of the best and worst of the modern American landscape.
RETIRED (https://retired1.bandcamp.com)
Toronto free form punk jazz wanderers Retired bring dark eerie forbidding sonic meanderings to life with percussive movements that cruise seamlessly through ominous bass tones. Guitar growls unhinged, as saxophone splutters a bitter syrup. Like a junkyard creation slowly breaking apart as it races towards an impending destruction that will never come. Becoming more haunting & mangled as it evolves from one form to another. The swing of jazz emanates from what is more like some lost kraut jam.
AVRHA (http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2017/11/recording-avrha.html)
Avrha is a collaboration between Alaska B and Brendan Swanson (Yamantaka // Sonic Titan). Hypnotic drums and percussion meld with dynamic keys in a bittersweet nightmare of new age heavy prog.
NULL POINT ENSEMBLE (https://nullpointseries.wordpress.com)
Null Point is an initiative for experimental music and sound in Buffalo, NY founded in 2014. A flexible collective of artists working at junctures between music, performance, media art, and social practice, Null Point programs context-sensitive, embodied, participatory, and durational sound work. Past projects include new place-based sound works in vacant Buffalo grain silos, concerts emphasizing limit situations of performance and audition, and participatory events in community spaces. For their performance at Yonge Dundas Square they will present the Canadian premieres of Sarah Hennies' "Everything Else" and David Dunn's "PLACE", part 10.
THE VELVET CRYSTALS
The Velvet Crystals are from a distant universe where the sky is holographic, the ocean is made up of unicorn tears and the ground below glitters. These fiery human beings take in the world around them and turn it into sound. A collective of music-making rebels that are playing everything and anything that is wacky, weird and wild. The collective is made up of core members Emilie Gelinas-Noble, Austin Lamarche, Olivia Shortt and Katherine Watson.
LORDE AWESOME (https://lordeawesome.bandcamp.com)
Lorde Awesome is an improvisational music collective centred around Avery Strok and James Bailey. Founded with Richard Vainio in 2008 with the express purpose of "creating new sounds", their works run the gamut from white noise and free jazz, to heady, celestial trip-outs. The current group lineup is essentially a synthesizer army with percussion and saxophone, all with a singular mind for sonic exploration. They're pleased to have with them, as always: Bob Vespaziani, Heloise Simone George, Matt Wyner, Colin Reid, and Charles Hackbarth. Lorde Awesome begets a new ice age, the sound of glaciers carving the earth while the dying mastodon screams its last scream.
This event would not be possible without support from Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, Canadian Heritage, Toronto Arts Council, SOCAN Foundation - Fondation SOCAN, Canadian Music Centre, Moog Audio, Wellington Brewery and The City of Toronto
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/693414231174182/
EVAN ZIPORYN and CONTACT play ENO & FRIPP
MAN FOREVER
AVA MENDOZA'S UNNATURAL WAYS
RETIRED
AVRHA
NULL POINT ENSEMBLE play HENNIES & DUNN
THE VELVET CRYSTALS
LORDE AWESOME
@ Yonge Dundas Square (1 Dundas St. East)
2 - 10pm, FREE, All Ages
EVAN ZIPORYN and CONTACT play ENO & FRIPP (http://www.contactcontemporarymusic.org)
Post minimalist composer & Bang On A Can founder Evan Ziporyn joins Toronto contemporary classical ensemble Contact for a set of music by Brian Eno & Robert Fripp. Contact feels more like a rock band, or a group of avant jazz experimentalists, and in a time of melting genres & lost classification they are a shoe in.
MAN FOREVER (http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/man-forever)
Kid Millions of Oneida fame returns to Toronto with his minimalist compositional psych percussion ensemble joined by a crew of local drummers, for a sure to be a pummelling, visceral live experience. Kid weaves threads of swaying percussion together like an orchestrated landslide. Voices floats calmly above trance like structures, constant motion, vibration, pulsing rhythms. Beats melt into a single wave, celestial hums coalesce around dance snares.
AVA MENDOZA's UNNATURAL WAYS (https://unnaturalways.bandcamp.com)
Brooklyn, NY based freak punk / avant rock trio led by guitarist/vocalist Ava Mendoza (John Zorn, Nels Cline, Carla Bozulich) & featuring Tim Dahl (Lydia Lunch, Child Abuse) on bass and Sam Ospovat on drums lands in Toronto on the heals of their 3rd record "The Paranoia Party" on Sleeping Giant Glossolalia. Over their years of playing together the group has developed a deeply personal sound; raw, heavy and never far from an absurd nervous breakdown. Drawing from their backgrounds in noise rock, free jazz, and metal the band pushes the boundaries of written music to put on powerful and unpredictable live shows. Consistent lyrical themes include: political paranoia, inclusion/exclusion, alter egos and alternate realities. A funny and blunt celebration of the best and worst of the modern American landscape.
RETIRED (https://retired1.bandcamp.com)
Toronto free form punk jazz wanderers Retired bring dark eerie forbidding sonic meanderings to life with percussive movements that cruise seamlessly through ominous bass tones. Guitar growls unhinged, as saxophone splutters a bitter syrup. Like a junkyard creation slowly breaking apart as it races towards an impending destruction that will never come. Becoming more haunting & mangled as it evolves from one form to another. The swing of jazz emanates from what is more like some lost kraut jam.
AVRHA (http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2017/11/recording-avrha.html)
Avrha is a collaboration between Alaska B and Brendan Swanson (Yamantaka // Sonic Titan). Hypnotic drums and percussion meld with dynamic keys in a bittersweet nightmare of new age heavy prog.
NULL POINT ENSEMBLE (https://nullpointseries.wordpress.com)
Null Point is an initiative for experimental music and sound in Buffalo, NY founded in 2014. A flexible collective of artists working at junctures between music, performance, media art, and social practice, Null Point programs context-sensitive, embodied, participatory, and durational sound work. Past projects include new place-based sound works in vacant Buffalo grain silos, concerts emphasizing limit situations of performance and audition, and participatory events in community spaces. For their performance at Yonge Dundas Square they will present the Canadian premieres of Sarah Hennies' "Everything Else" and David Dunn's "PLACE", part 10.
THE VELVET CRYSTALS
The Velvet Crystals are from a distant universe where the sky is holographic, the ocean is made up of unicorn tears and the ground below glitters. These fiery human beings take in the world around them and turn it into sound. A collective of music-making rebels that are playing everything and anything that is wacky, weird and wild. The collective is made up of core members Emilie Gelinas-Noble, Austin Lamarche, Olivia Shortt and Katherine Watson.
LORDE AWESOME (https://lordeawesome.bandcamp.com)
Lorde Awesome is an improvisational music collective centred around Avery Strok and James Bailey. Founded with Richard Vainio in 2008 with the express purpose of "creating new sounds", their works run the gamut from white noise and free jazz, to heady, celestial trip-outs. The current group lineup is essentially a synthesizer army with percussion and saxophone, all with a singular mind for sonic exploration. They're pleased to have with them, as always: Bob Vespaziani, Heloise Simone George, Matt Wyner, Colin Reid, and Charles Hackbarth. Lorde Awesome begets a new ice age, the sound of glaciers carving the earth while the dying mastodon screams its last scream.
This event would not be possible without support from Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, Canadian Heritage, Toronto Arts Council, SOCAN Foundation - Fondation SOCAN, Canadian Music Centre, Moog Audio, Wellington Brewery and The City of Toronto
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/693414231174182/
Sunday, September 1st @ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.) - 8:30pm - $20/$25/$30 - All Ages
Intersection & The Music Gallery present Intersection Day 4 featuring:
MORTON SUBOTNICK
LEUCROCUTA
@ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.)
8:30pm, $20/$25/$30, All Ages
MORTON SUBTOTNICK (http://www.mortonsubotnick.com)
Electronic pioneer Morton Subotnick has been creating innovative compositional works with electronics, computers, and alternative media for over 50 years. His large scale electronic composition "Silver Apples of the Moon" commissioned by Nonesuch Records was the first of it's kind and inspired decades of composers & performers to utilize electronic instruments in modern chamber music. Since then it has become a landmark recording & has been entered into the National Register of Recorded Works at the Library of Congress, of which only 300 recordings throughout the entire history of recorded music have been chosen. Subotnick continues to create boundary pushing music for both electronics & classical instruments. For this rare concert Subotnick will perform "Silver Apples of the Moon Revisited".
LEUCROCUTA (https://soundcloud.com/lauradickens)
Laura Dickens' (Slutcode) solo project Leucrocuta sees her venture into dark electronic territory drawing on influence from industrial, ambient and outsider synth pop. Hard drum machines rhythms skitter & flow under layers of her vocals. Swaying like the winds, they coat her sonic landscape as they cut through with sharp hums. Vocal shadows scurry like insects. Leucrocuta feels like a dream often on fast forward, the distorted world seems almost surreal as it melts & shifts. Dickens' vocals become the only spirits that can inhabit the mutating forest she's created.
$20 Students / Arts Workers
$25 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes, and ShowClix: https://www.showclix.com/event/morton-subotnick
$30 Door
All Ages
We regret that this venue is up one flight of stairs and therefore not fully accessible.
This event would not be possible without support from Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des Arts du Canada, Canadian Heritage, Toronto Arts Council, SOCAN Foundation - Fondation SOCAN, Canadian Music Centre, Moog Audio, Wellington Brewery and The City of Toronto
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/638761886610134/
MORTON SUBOTNICK
LEUCROCUTA
@ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.)
8:30pm, $20/$25/$30, All Ages
MORTON SUBTOTNICK (http://www.mortonsubotnick.com)
Electronic pioneer Morton Subotnick has been creating innovative compositional works with electronics, computers, and alternative media for over 50 years. His large scale electronic composition "Silver Apples of the Moon" commissioned by Nonesuch Records was the first of it's kind and inspired decades of composers & performers to utilize electronic instruments in modern chamber music. Since then it has become a landmark recording & has been entered into the National Register of Recorded Works at the Library of Congress, of which only 300 recordings throughout the entire history of recorded music have been chosen. Subotnick continues to create boundary pushing music for both electronics & classical instruments. For this rare concert Subotnick will perform "Silver Apples of the Moon Revisited".
LEUCROCUTA (https://soundcloud.com/lauradickens)
Laura Dickens' (Slutcode) solo project Leucrocuta sees her venture into dark electronic territory drawing on influence from industrial, ambient and outsider synth pop. Hard drum machines rhythms skitter & flow under layers of her vocals. Swaying like the winds, they coat her sonic landscape as they cut through with sharp hums. Vocal shadows scurry like insects. Leucrocuta feels like a dream often on fast forward, the distorted world seems almost surreal as it melts & shifts. Dickens' vocals become the only spirits that can inhabit the mutating forest she's created.
$20 Students / Arts Workers
$25 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes, and ShowClix: https://www.showclix.com/event/morton-subotnick
$30 Door
All Ages
We regret that this venue is up one flight of stairs and therefore not fully accessible.
This event would not be possible without support from Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des Arts du Canada, Canadian Heritage, Toronto Arts Council, SOCAN Foundation - Fondation SOCAN, Canadian Music Centre, Moog Audio, Wellington Brewery and The City of Toronto
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/638761886610134/
Wednesday, September 25th @ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.) - 8:30pm - $17/$20 - All Ages
Burn Down The Capital Presents:
XIU XIU
JESSICA MOSS
CARES
@ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.)
8:30pm, $17/$20, All Ages
XIU XIU (https://xiuxiu.bandcamp.com)
The long running & unclassifiable band fronted by singer / composer / tortured mastermind Jamie Stewart is at it again with their 2019 release "Girl with Basket of Fruit" on Polyvinyl. This tour sees Jamie join forces with the Swans rhythm section of Thor Harris & Christopher Pravdica. Haunting emotional ballads channeled through a filter of writhing vocal whispers and harsh noise gurglings juxtapose against frantic rhythmic electronics, Stewart's vocals shouting into an industrial, brutal techno influenced void. A true chameleon of the post punk world, Xiu Xiu merges influences from pop music sorrow, caustic noisescapes, the outskirts of electronic dance music and a sundry of other cut by hand puzzle pieces. Xiu Xiu effortlessly balances darkness with light in a crippling display of brutal force and subtle care. Not to be missed!
JESSICA MOSS (https://jessicamoss.bandcamp.com)
Montreal violinist & vocalist Jessica Moss (Silver Mt. Zion), continues to ride the rails behind her 2nd solo LP "Entanglement" on Constellation Records, following the evolution of her solo music for violin, voice & electronics. Tortured violin loops weave a web of bristly yet comforting fur. Errant vibrations blistering into distorted notes. Beauty finds a way to exist amongst inevitable sorrow. Contemplative and cosmic sound pieces exist in a space between the global hum. Get here on time for an inspiring & introspective performance.
CARES (https://cares.bandcamp.com)
Ambient noise project of James Beardmore sees him build flowing drones full of haunting textures slowly writhing. He disassembles these methodical drones into piles of crunching noise like he's moving large tangles of cables. Electronic hums and clips become oscillated beats for a blink before they merge into the reforming drone.
$17 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes, Ticketscene: www.ticketscene.ca/events/25112/
$20 at the door
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/383284175644651/
XIU XIU
JESSICA MOSS
CARES
@ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.)
8:30pm, $17/$20, All Ages
XIU XIU (https://xiuxiu.bandcamp.com)
The long running & unclassifiable band fronted by singer / composer / tortured mastermind Jamie Stewart is at it again with their 2019 release "Girl with Basket of Fruit" on Polyvinyl. This tour sees Jamie join forces with the Swans rhythm section of Thor Harris & Christopher Pravdica. Haunting emotional ballads channeled through a filter of writhing vocal whispers and harsh noise gurglings juxtapose against frantic rhythmic electronics, Stewart's vocals shouting into an industrial, brutal techno influenced void. A true chameleon of the post punk world, Xiu Xiu merges influences from pop music sorrow, caustic noisescapes, the outskirts of electronic dance music and a sundry of other cut by hand puzzle pieces. Xiu Xiu effortlessly balances darkness with light in a crippling display of brutal force and subtle care. Not to be missed!
JESSICA MOSS (https://jessicamoss.bandcamp.com)
Montreal violinist & vocalist Jessica Moss (Silver Mt. Zion), continues to ride the rails behind her 2nd solo LP "Entanglement" on Constellation Records, following the evolution of her solo music for violin, voice & electronics. Tortured violin loops weave a web of bristly yet comforting fur. Errant vibrations blistering into distorted notes. Beauty finds a way to exist amongst inevitable sorrow. Contemplative and cosmic sound pieces exist in a space between the global hum. Get here on time for an inspiring & introspective performance.
CARES (https://cares.bandcamp.com)
Ambient noise project of James Beardmore sees him build flowing drones full of haunting textures slowly writhing. He disassembles these methodical drones into piles of crunching noise like he's moving large tangles of cables. Electronic hums and clips become oscillated beats for a blink before they merge into the reforming drone.
$17 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes, Ticketscene: www.ticketscene.ca/events/25112/
$20 at the door
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/383284175644651/
Upcoming Fall 2019 Shows:
SEPT 21ST: Fly Pan Am + Khora @ Matt Durant Studio
OCT 11TH: Sarah Page + Joni Void + Joyful Joyful @ Burdock
NOV 7TH: Oliver Coates + ACT! @ The Garrison
NOV 11TH: Ami Dang @ Burdock
OCT 11TH: Sarah Page + Joni Void + Joyful Joyful @ Burdock
NOV 7TH: Oliver Coates + ACT! @ The Garrison
NOV 11TH: Ami Dang @ Burdock
