Sep
26
7:00 PM19:00

Montréal // Beverly Glenn-Copeland with Mimi O’Bonsawin

Playing with a hero of mine. **To protect the artist, full mask mandate in effect**

Beverly Glenn-Copeland and friends: The Salon Evening with Mimi O’Bonsawin

Doors: 7PM | Show: 8PM

General Admission: $40 (taxes incl) Online | $45 At the Door
**This venue is wheelchair accessible with wheelchair accessible bathrooms and welcoming of service animals**

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Sep
4
8:00 PM20:00

Montréal // Stretching the Unison

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Free, online reservation required.

The PHI Foundation is pleased to present Stretching the Unison, a performance organized by Adam Kinner, featuring Erin Hill, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, and Frédérique Roy.  

To play together, to feel time and pitch from the same position, to be in unison, is one of the foundations of musical performance. And yet, how together we actually are, in general or in a particular passage, is a matter of perspective, positionality, and context. What may seem to be unison at one moment can appear disjointed at another. Unison in music can be thought of as the feeling of listening to another that is also oneself, with all the misrecognition and disidentification inherent in such a formulation. 

Adam Kinner, an artist who works across performance, music, and dance, has invited three artists—Erin Hill, Naomi McCarroll-Butler, and Frédérique Roy—to play music with him that focuses on the question of unison and its limits. While the music proceeds from a desire to be together, to blanket one another in the warmth of each other’s tone, it also readily gives in to the limits of this togetherness and the desire to flee when you hear yourself reflected back. In the resonant space of the PHI Foundation, the artists will stretch the unison until it breaks, or holds them together.

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Jun
4
7:30 PM19:30

NYC // M3 film screening

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.

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May
15
9:00 PM21:00

Toronto // Jaron Freeman-Fox and The Opposite of Everything

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

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May
11
7:30 PM19:30

Toronto // 10 Ragas to a Disco Beat

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

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