2025 SCHEDULE

May 2025

24
May
Sat

Drone Day

Drone Day

7:00 pmWaterloo Park Bandshell Free
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 ...

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29
May
Thu

(un)certainty (installation)

(un)certainty (installation)

All Day EventKitchener Waterloo Art Gallery Free
(un)certainty features a ring of computer-controlled mechanical woodblocks. The piece is inspired by recent advances in physics, including the Muon g-2 project at Fermilab, which uses sensors on an electromagnetic ring to measure the behavior of strange subatomic partic...

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29
May
Thu

Synth workshop with Alejandro Franco Briones, Iván López Pineda, and Diego Villaseñor de Cortina

Synth workshop with Alejandro Franco Briones, Iván López Pineda, and Diego Villaseñor de Cortina

5:30 pmKitchener Waterloo Art Gallery Free
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...

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30
May
Fri

Synth workshop with Alejandro Franco Briones, Iván López Pineda, and Diego Villaseñor de Cortina

Synth workshop with Alejandro Franco Briones, Iván López Pineda, and Diego Villaseñor de Cortina

5:30 pmKitchener Waterloo Art Gallery Free
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...

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30
May
Fri

(un)certainty

(un)certainty

8:00 pmKitchener Waterloo Art Gallery $25
(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...

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30
May
Fri

SlowPitchSound presents Within Touch

SlowPitchSound presents Within Touch

9:30 pmKitchener Waterloo Art Gallery $25
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...

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31
May
Sat

Channel Migration

Channel Migration

9:00 amVictoria Park/Willow River Park Free
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...

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31
May
Sat

Synth Petting Zoo

Synth Petting Zoo

11:00 amKitchener Waterloo Art Gallery Free
Are you “synth curious?” If so, stop by the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery on Saturday, May 31st for an all-day “synth petting zoo!” There will be a range of synthesizers and electronic instruments to explore, ranging from classic keyboard synthesizers to mind b...

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31
May
Sat

Pirarán

Pirarán

4:00 pmThe Registry Theatre $25
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...

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31
May
Sat

Memories Beyond the Grave

Memories Beyond the Grave

8:00 pmConrad Centre for the Performing Arts $40
Memories Beyond The Grave, composed by Michael Donovan, 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....

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31
May
Sat

Erika Angell

Erika Angell

9:30 pmThe Registry Theatre $25
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...

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June 2025

01
June
Sun

Anang Binesi

Anang Binesi

11:00 amVictoria Park/Willow River Park Free
Biidanaamo (vai) “h/she takes h/ first breathe” Anang Binesi. Biidanaamo (vai) is an immersive performance that uses Anishinaabe teachings to create a new experience where Indigenous perspectives and contemporary music come together. Inspired by the idea of a new sp...

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01
June
Sun

Raphael Weinroth-Browne

Raphael Weinroth-Browne

1:00 pmThe Registry Theatre $25
Internationally renowned cellist and composer Raphael Weinroth-Browne is redefining the cello with his signature blend of metal and Middle Eastern music influences. His epic compositions combine cinematic soundscapes and unbridled virtuosity, and his live shows are a sp...

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01
June
Sun

Ringdown

Ringdown

3:00 pmConrad Centre for the Performing Arts $25
Ringdown's music is like calling your first love on a rotary telephone, percussively tearing out the hammers from a 1924 vintage upright, and flinging each of them into space while you wait for every heartache you've ever felt to quietly return. Collaborators Caroline S...

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