Soundwalk

10:30am @ Roos Island Gazebo, Victoria Park

free admission

University of Guelph professor and new-music flautist Ellen Waterman will lead a guided soundwalk through the Kitchener core.

Electroacoustic Concert

noon @ the Kitchener City Hall Rotunda

free admission

One of the most intriguing events of Open Ears 2001 was a concert of electroacoustic music in City Hall Rotunda. Join us again for this free concert brought to us by New Adventures in Sound Art. Since 1998, New Adventures in Sound Art, through Sound Travels, has been developing innovative and affordable strategies for multi-channel concert spatialization (8 channels of sound move independently in space to 8 speakers positioned in a circle around the audience). This Sunday's concert will feature works by Paul Dolden, David Eagle, Monique Jean, and a world premiere by Francis Dhomont (commissioned especially for Sound Travels).

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the Glass Orchestra

2:30pm @ Zion United Church

$18 / $12

The Glass Orchestra, founded in 1977, is the only ensemble in the world whose musicians create and perform contemporary compositions entirely with glass instruments. Drawing on a wide range of musical influences and performance techniques, the musicians explore the unique sonic properties of glass, creating an ethereal, percussive soundscape with a vast array of glass instruments, both "found" and custom made. The skill of the members of the Orchestra in designing and making glass instruments has earned them a place in the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments.

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excerpted from the piece "Neo Mandatto," from the CD "live from the archive, vol. 1," (no label)

Philippe Keyser, Kappa's artistic director

Kappa

4:30pm @ the King Street Theatre

$18 / $12

From Montreal, nine highly skilled and creative musicians explore the frontiers of jazz and contemporary music. The organized chaos and polyrhythmic eruption of their electric guitars, harmonica, saxophones, trumpet, percussions, and multiple electronic devices will incite you to an active and profound listening that allows the awakening of the senses within a universe of timbres, rhythms and unusual melodies. This appearance brings you new pieces by Paul Dolden, Scott Godin, James Harley, and Yannick Plamondon as well as the work of Michael Mantler and Sun Ra.

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from James Harley's piece "bien serré," from Kappa's self-produced CD of the same name

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