People places records presents: Yaz Lancaster, Andrew Noseworthy, Sara Constant @ The Tranzac Club (living room)
Coming off a premiere with the Thin Edge Ensemble the night before and heading into a Spring mini tour, Yaz Lancaster will be presenting a special solo set at the Tranzac (living room) in Toronto! Yaz will be joined by Andrew and Sara for some opening sets and collaborations, before presenting a screening of Ibrahim Shaddad's short film from 1994, "human being."
This event is sure to fill the intimate living room space at the Tranzac Club, so make sure you grab a ticket in advance!
Tickets: $20
19+
Doors: 7:30pm
Music: 8:00pm
Film: 9:30pm
292 Brunswick Ave.
Please wear a mask for this event. We will have masks available at the door for those who need one.
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Yaz Lancaster is a transdisciplinary artist residing in Lenapehoking (NYC). Their work as a performer, composer, poet/writer, and collaborator is grounded in queer, DIY, and liberatory frameworks. Their debut record AmethYst, comprising music for violin, voice, and electronics was released in April 2023 (ppr). Recent and upcoming collaborators include Black Mountain College/Hub New Music, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dorothy Carlos, Eliza Bagg, Massa Nera, Mingjia, Minnesota Philharmonic, Miss Grit, and Sean Pecknold. Yaz additionally works as the co-manager of people places records, a co-organizer of abolitionist music collective Sound Off, and a freelance (music) writer. They love powerlifting, horror manga, and summers down South. More at yaz-lancaster.com (http://yaz-lancaster.com/).
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Andrew Noseworthy (he/him/his) is a multidisciplinary artist whose music reflects upon the acceptance/rejection of “locality,” drawing from lived experiences while based in Labrador West and St John's (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), as well as New York City. His work addresses ideas of post-regional spaces and questions of accessibility for the musical voices within them. Andrew’s 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 experimental hardcore duo this place is actually the worst (with Aeryn Jade Santillan), post-genre duo laydøwn (with Yaz Lancaster), Toronto-based contemporary ensemble ContaQt, and co-runs people | places | records. Andrew’s previous mentors include Paul Frehner, Michael Gordon, Andrew Staniland and Sylvie Proulx. He holds degrees from Western University (PhD), NYU Steinhardt (MM), and Memorial University (Bmus, honours).
https://www.anmusiccomposer.com/
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Sara Constant is a musician and artist working in various forms of contemporary/experimental music and sound.
Sara’s practice is grounded in music and listening as forms of research, embodiment, and place/space-making. Trained as a flute player and active as a soloist, improviser, and ensemble musician, Sara has performed at festivals/series in Canada (Music Gallery, Innovations en concert, CMC Presents, Women From Space), Europe (Fylkingen, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Fondation Royaumont, Klangspuren Schwaz), and the United States (Oh My Ears, SPLICE, Cornell University).
Among others, Sara has played with Paris-based contemporary music septet Semblance, graphic score project re:frame, medieval/improvised band Jelly Ear, FAWN chamber creative, the Canadian Composers Orchestra, and alokori, an experimental music and performance art project with Montreal-based guitarist An Laurence.
As an artist, Sara’s current projects include collaborations with composers on new works, improvisations with instruments and electronics, installation work with loudspeakers, and curation work aimed at building community spaces for interdisciplinary music-making.
Sara holds degrees from the University of Toronto (flute), University of Amsterdam (musicology), and Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg (contemporary performance). From 2018-2020, Sara participated in CoPeCo, a program in experimental music co-hosted in Tallinn, Stockholm, Lyon, and Hamburg, where their projects included the development of new music for amplified flute/electronics and tours to Finland and Italy playing improvised music. From 2016-2019, Sara co-organized the Toronto Creative Music Lab (TCML)—a community-oriented summer workshop for early-career composers, performers, and ensembles working in contemporary music.
Sara is currently based in Tkaronto/Toronto, where they work as a flutist, writer (Musicworks), and curator (Music Gallery).