Open Ears – Festival of Music & Sound

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3pm today, join us for the premiere of Cloud Chamb

3pm today, join us for the premiere of Cloud Chamber, a new video EP from members of Arkora!

After years growing from chamber group to full fledged electric vocal consort, Arkora brings it full circle with Cloud Chamber, a compact collaboration among five composer/performers who are central to the group’s unique sound: Tova Kardonne (viola/voice/piano), Dan Morphy (percussion), Brendon Randall-Myers (electric guitar), Sharon Lee (electric violin), and Benton Roark (microtonal keyboards/fretless bass/pedal steel). Designed to roll with the challenges of our times, Cloud Chamber is an EP’s worth of new work written and recorded completely via remote collaboration using layering, cellular development, improvisation, and telephone-chain methods, as works go round the circle with each creator making their mark and passing it along. Among many goals of the project is to deepen the artistic connection among the group and to nurture a trust when handing off an idea to another creator, an action which Kardonne calls “an exciting risk” and Randall-Myers describes as “liberating” (Musicworks, Fall 2020). Cloud Chamber will be released in June 2021 via Redshift Records. As a visual element, Toronto animator, artist, and filmmaker Karly McCloskey offers an experimental film using analogue techniques inspired by the creative process to accompany the album’s release.

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2pm today. Catch the final sound project at OpenEa

2pm today. Catch the final sound project at OpenEarsFM hosted by Andrew O’Connor from Disco3000/ParkdaleRadio 🎙📻

87.5FM Kitchener or openears.ca. Link in bio.

Friendly reminder to all pass holders: Your #OE21

Friendly reminder to all pass holders:

Your #OE21 online pass to all events will be accessible until 11:59pm (EST) tonight. Missed something? Want to watch something a 2nd (or 3rd 😊) time?

We’ve got you covered!

#OE21 proudly presents Eve Egoyan At 6pm, the do

#OE21 proudly presents Eve Egoyan

At 6pm, the documentary Duet for Solo Piano will be available on openears.ca with your festival access pass.

Eve Egoyan is one of the world’s most sought-after interpreters of contemporary new music.The story unfolds over a one-year period wherein Eve develops new work that pushes the boundaries of her art, her instrument and herself.The film weaves the personal and the private with unexpected musical moments — each one exploring the events that have shaped Eve and left their mark on who she is today. Beautifully photographed and crisply edited, DUET FOR SOLO PIANO features collaborators and composers Nicole Lizée, John Oswald, David Rokeby, Linda Catlin Smith and Michael Snow.

At 8pm, experience the work Surface Tension which was created collaboratively with media artist David Rokeby for piano and interactive video, and commissioned by the Open Ears Festival in 2009.

Eve will also perform world premières of three compositions she has created for augmented and acoustic piano, a newly imagined instrument that delves into the space between what a piano can do and what Eve has always wished a piano could do. The core of these works is the live acoustic sound of the physical piano she is playing, but through the delicate intervention of technology, she tests (teases) the edges of the piano’s natural sound, ultimately pushing it beyond the familiar, through the impossible, and into the extraordinary. This project was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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