Drone Day is an annual international event celebrating experimental sound and community. First dreamed of by Marie Calrie Leblanc Flannagan in Waterloo, 11 years on Drone Day is now celebrated in dozens (perhaps hundreds?) of cities across the globe. This is the second ...

Live Coding, Musical Synthesis and Networked Collaboration. Live coding is the practice of writing code as a performative act, with the output of this coding act taking the form of music, audio explorations, sound art, visuals, choreography, or storytelling. This worksh...

Relations, not Blank Slates is a reckoning with the coloniality of settler experimental music, and a proposal for an otherwise musical practice. The program offers artistic inquiries into canonical works, and frameworks of settler experimental music are entwined with co...

Continuation of Synth workshop. Live Coding, Musical Synthesis and Networked Collaboration. Live coding is the practice of writing code as a performative act, with the output of this coding act taking the form of music, audio explorations, sound art, visuals, choreograp...

(un)certainty is an immersive, multi-disciplinary collaborative project between composer Lawton Hall, percussionist Abby Fisher, and multimedia artist Mare Hirsch. It engages with the most cutting-edge research being conducted in particle physics. The multi-sensory expe...

SlowPitchSound’s otherworldly environmentally focused adventure Within Touch is a 50-minute audio/visual performance that features a unique style of musical making, which mirrors the incredible unfurling of the natural world. Within Touch is a multi-sensory show, comb...

CHANNEL MIGRATION is a 14-station audio walk running the full length of Schneider Creek, from Victoria Park Lake all the way to Doon, where the Creek joins the Grand River. Each station’s soundscape blends field recordings, creek-inspired music, and brief narrative re...

Temporal Waves is a new project from renowned Canadian tabla player Shawn Mativetsky, transporting the tabla into a rich electronic sound world. Shawn’s tabla is bathed in the neon glow of analog synthesizers, the woozy warp of hand-manipulated tapes, and the electric...

Currently Pirarán is promoting La Fábrica Colapsada, this is a 30-minute-long operatic, networked piece made with visuals, multichannel audio, microtonal tuning, polytemporal rhythmic structures, fixed media, reactive algorithmic music in the form of improvisational s...

Memories Beyond The Grave follows the close sibling relationship between Francois René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) and Lucile de Chateaubriand (1764-1804), a bond strengthened through their love of nature during childhood and adolescence. Numerous poems and letters by...

The Montréal-based Swedish vocalist and composer Erika Angell defies categorization. Her voice has been described as “a guiding presence” (Exclaim) that “splits the difference between the divine and demonic, skillfully unhinged” (Under The Radar) and “sits al...