2025 SCHEDULE
May 2025
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May
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29
May
Thu
(un)certainty (installation)
(un)certainty (installation)
(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...
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
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...
29
May
Thu
Null Point presents Relations, not Blank Slates
Null Point presents Relations, not Blank Slates
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...
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
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...
30
May
Fri
(un)certainty
(un)certainty
(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...
30
May
Fri
SlowPitchSound presents Within Touch
SlowPitchSound presents Within Touch
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...
31
May
Sat
Channel Migration
Channel Migration
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...
31
May
Sat
Synth Petting Zoo
Synth Petting Zoo
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...
31
May
Sat
Shawn Mativetsky presents Temporal Waves
Shawn Mativetsky presents Temporal Waves
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...
31
May
Sat
Memories Beyond the Grave
Memories Beyond the Grave
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....
31
May
Sat
Erika Angell
Erika Angell
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...
June 2025
01
June
Sun
Anang Binesi
Anang Binesi
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...
01
June
Sun
Raphael Weinroth-Browne
Raphael Weinroth-Browne
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...
01
June
Sun