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.

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

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