Montréal // mer agatha + porch couch
porch couch is Jaron Freeman-Fox on banjo and Alan Mackie on fiddle. I’ll be playing some whistle and mer agatha tunes.
More info TBA <3
porch couch is Jaron Freeman-Fox on banjo and Alan Mackie on fiddle. I’ll be playing some whistle and mer agatha tunes.
More info TBA <3
groovy music feat Jacobi Vanderham, Cedric Noël and Oisín Hannigan. ACUA on tour from Berlin. more info TBA.
The audio-visual piece I produced with synthesizer player Shoko Nagai will be premiered alongside pieces by the rest of the 2023 M3 cohort. Under the direction of Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa, the 12-piece cohort is made up of some truly inspiring improvisers from around the world.
live recording for the soundtrack of Erin’s trans survival horror game.
Cowbird Collective is a group of composer/performers: Brian Abbott, Germaine Liu, Paul Newman. Manuel Morales and myself. We’ll be presenting some new work as a part of a 2024 residency at the Tranzac and Array Space.
$30 standing, $45 seated. Info and tickets here!
Presented as a part of Labyrinth Ontario’s Western and World Symposium, I’ll be playing a 40-minute site-specific drone piece with spacialized audio and a live performance aspect. This one goes out to Catherine Christer-Hennix and Lamonte Young.
The rest of the festival includes talks and performances by great musicians and theorists investigating eurocentrism and decolonial practice in music / music education. Check out more info here.
- - -
Western and World is a symposium that challenges the hegemony of Western musical practices through close attention to non-Western traditions. Through a combination of embodied and conceptual practices, our inaugural symposium will feature presentations on hip-hop cosmology; deep listening of Buddhism’s relation to contemporary drone music; performances of traditional music forms from Finland and Korea; participatory workshops on singing and playing makam music; and much more.
⭐️Headlining performances include an improvised free jazz/poetry set by Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez; Ross Daly’s This Tale of Ours Ensemble; and Kelly Thoma’s music group.⭐️
The symposium asks a number of critical questions:
•How are socio-cultural value systems expressed in musical forms?
•In what ways does music play an integral role in processes of decolonization, social justice, and revolutionary change?
•How might we diversify the musical landscape with other musical materials?
•How can we distribute resources to ensure more equitable funding structures and dismantle the primacy of Western classical music?
•What imaginative realities are possible through attunement to non-Western traditions?
gratuit / free!!
info here.
Modal Music with members of Labyrinth Ontario at our favourite living room.
Labyrinth welcomes Iranian oud player Yasamin Shahhosseini for a concert at the Aga Khan Museum.
crazy fusion fiddle music with a ridiculous band.
Jaron Freeman-Fox - fiddle
Anh Phung - flute
Luan Phung - guitar
Chris Pruden - piano
Alan Mackie - bass
Steve Foster - drums
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - clarinet
Brandon Davis (bass) leads a trio with myself and Joe Sorbara (drums).
From the unhinged curatorial mind of Sanjeet Takhar comes a really unique and beautiful event. Come lounge at the Music Gallery and drink tea with some of the city’s best and brightest improvisers. 🍵
As a part of Music Gallery’s What Is: Spirituality Series, we will be reimagining Charanjit Singh’s seminal 1982 album 10 Ragas to a Disco Beat. 918 Bathurst’s sanctuary space transforms to a tea salon of dreams as thirteen artists of many modalities take over the main hall for a night of free improvisation in an ode to experimentation.
Anuja Panditrao - voice
Nilan Perera - guitar
Marilyn Yogarajah - trumpet
Araz Salek - tar
Hardeep Chana - drumset / harmonium
Gurpreet Chana - tabla
David Psutka - electronics
Granny Smith - guitar, electronics
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - glissotar, saxophone
Enzo Sun - projections, tea service
Peter Rahul - projections
Lian McMillan - tea service
Rajvi Dedhia - dance
Dainty Smith - dance
Bhavajan Kumar - dance
Patrick Smith - sax
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - sax and clarinets
Nick Fraser - drums
Alex Fournier - bass
Dan Pitt - guitar
Patrick Smith - sax
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - sax and clarinets
Nick Fraser - drums
Alex Fournier - bass
Dan Pitt - guitar
Waleed Abdulhamid - voice, bass, percussion
Oisín Hannigan - bodhran, percussion
Naomi - sax+clarinet
Waleed is an amazing musician and a dear teacher of mine. More info TBA.
Support Labyrinth and their great cultural work in Toronto. We’re throwing a fundraiser with performances of solos and duos from the ensemble. Sadaf and I will do a santur / woodwinds set.
Big night for improvised music at La Lumière:
Devin Gray (solo drumset, NYC)
Ananya Ganesh (piano, MA) / Alex Fournier (bass, TO) / Naomi McCarroll-Butler (reeds)
Raphaël Foisy (guitar) / Geneviève Gauthier (sax) / Jean Néant (electronics) / Adriane Munden-Dixon (violin)
Mey-e Nab: CGO with Sepideh Raissadat.
Mey-e Nab: CGO with Sepideh Raissadat.
Curated by Raphaël Foisy (Small Scale Music), I’ll be joining Ensemble Déplacer d’l’Air for a fantastic free symposium of experimental music.
Ensemble Déplacer d’l’Air is:
Élyze Venne-Deshaies, Geneviève Gauthier, Geneviève D’Ortun, Valérie Lachance Guillemette, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Andrea Prochazka Mercier - Saxophones
Véro Marengère - Electronics
- - -
MUSIQUES CACHÉES - ARTS SONORES ET TRANSDUCTION DES GENRES II
INSTALLATIONS, CONCERTS/PERFORMANCES, TABLES RONDES
Hexagram, Montréal, les 12, 13 et 14 AVRIL 2024
Yvel CHAMPAGNE (CHAM-PANG) . Anne-F JACQUES + Stephanie CASTONGUAY . Rosalie CHRETIEN . Christelle SAINT-JULIEN . Geneviève ACKERMAN . Gaëlle SCALI . Nathalie BAROU . Ensemble DÉPLACER D'L'AIR . AC/CC. ECHÖNYMPHIA . Léa BOUDREAU . Jérôme JOY & Karen Eliott TRUDEAU . CHOEUR QUEER
POP Montreal & Kickdrum present:
Corey Gulkin + Tara Kannangara + mer agatha: Double Album Release
8PM doors | 9PM show
$15 online | $18 at the door – NOTAFLOF
**Stairs are required to get to the venue. There is no elevator.**
Mey-e Nab: CGO with Sepideh Raissadat.
Michael Davidson (vibraphone) leads a band playing the music of Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy and Mary Lou Williams. The band will feature some iteration of these players in a double quartet:
Aaron Blewett - drums
Aidan McConnell - drums
Dan Fortin - bass
Jack Johnston - bass
Devon Henderson - bass
Michael Davidson - vibraphone
Racha Moukalled - vibraphone
David Hodgson - tenor saxophone
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - bass clarinet
the old becomes new… Sun Milk is a trio born out of decoration day.
Tryal is the solo project of Alex Samaras.
Joe Sorbara, Maddy Ertel, Patrick O’Reilly, etc
Returning to our favourite place: PERTH ROCK CITY.
8:00 - BLOOP (Lina Allemano / Mike Smith)
8:30 - Morgan-Paige
9:30 - Women From Space Big Bang! Plays Björk; 17-piece improvising band
Tara Kannangara - trumpet/voice
Nicole Rampersaud - trumpet/electronics
Maddie Ertel - trumpet
Heather Saumer - trombone
Karen Ng - alto sax/clarinet/flute
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - alto sax/bass clarinet/clarinet/flutes
Nirvana Sagar - tenor saxophone/clarinet
Bea Labikova - alto sax /bari sax/clarinet/bass clarinet/flute/fujara
Grace Scheele - harp/electronics
Vanese Smith (Pursuit Grooves) - electronics/beats
Shn Shn - voice/guitar/synth
Mira Riselli - upright bass/electric bass
Racha Moukalled - vibraphone/piano/malletstation
Yang Chen - vibraphone/percussion/drumset
Angelica Zavala - drumset
Laura Swankey - voice/electronics
tUkU Matthews - voice
ARRANGEMENTS of BJÖRK’s music by:
Jessica Ackerley
Mingjia Chen
Lieke Van Der Voort
Maddie Ertel
Nicole Rampersaud
Heather Saumer
Elyze Venne-Deshaies - saxo
Fahmid Nibesh - guitar + noise
Evelyn Charlotte-Joe - drums
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - clarinets and noise
PWYC $10-$20
Live at the Golden Apple (email for address)
PWYC $10-$20
PWYC $10-$20
All Ages
PWYC $10-20
All Ages
notaflof $10-20
19+
PWYC $10-20
Bring sketches and tunes for a band to play.
A long-form work performed from sunup to sundown on the shortest day of the year.
feat Paul Newman, Brian Abbott, Sara Constant, Jamie Thompson
The Queer Songbook Orchestra’s annual holiday fundraiser show. This year will feature special guests and some players from the Queer Songbook Youth Orchestra and raise funds for that initiative.