West Coast Radians, loudspeakers, recycled iPads, bark, leaves, cardboard.
Hours. Minutes. Seconds. is an audiovisual installation that explores our cultural habit of measuring and counting time. Visitors are invited to step inside what feels like the interior of an un...

Interactive Performance Workshop
In this interactive performance, audience members will be able to participate in two of our interactive projects, Canvas Conductor and Speed Run. The sound generated for both works is reliant on gesture; the former utilizing the action ...

In FUTURE PASTORALE, three performers create a path connecting the past and future. Using Claude Vivier's rarely-performed and enigmatic Ojikawa as a foundation, the artists construct an evening of collaboratively-composed/improvised acoustic and electronic performances...

DIY Instruments and Noisemakers
In this instrument building workshop, Duo Cichorium will guide attendees through the development of DIY instruments commonly used in their musical practice. This includes the (possible) creation of music box scrolls, windchimes, rattlers...

At the heart of this concert is the world premiere of Confined in Everyday Scenes, a new suite for solo cello and fixed electronics by composer Frank Horvat, commissioned by acclaimed cellist Joann Whang. This powerful work invites audiences into a profound musical jour...

Up-cycled, repurposed kitchen bowl instruments. Four racks of microtonal resonant bowl instruments played by a quartet of Laurier teachers. ‘Microtonal’ means unusual tunings which can drastically change how one hears harmony and melodic lines. The music is also ‘...

Fragmented Forms is an ever-evolving cast of fierce experimentalists that turn medieval European and Makam music inside out, formed by the collaboration of Labyrinth Ontario and Cory Harper-Latkovich’s Jelly Ear.
Fragmented Forms explores the possibilities of improvi...

Presented by OE Patron Mohan Thomas
Violinist Leslie Ting performs What Brings You In, the live album - pieces by Linda Catlin Smith, Rose Bolton, Julia Mermelstein, Germaine Liu, and Leslie Ting. With percussionist Germaine Liu, these pieces formed the foundation of a...

Land of inspiration and living heritage, Guinea carries two symbols that meet in Nimba: the Nimba mask (N’Dimba), a maternal figure of the Baga people embodying fertility, abundance, and protection and Mount Nimba, a massif listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site for i...

Improv
Jaz Tsui facilitates an improvisation workshop and discussion, covering a variety of practical and philosophical entry points to the craft, drawing on their years of experience as an improviser. This will be a session that caters to all levels of improviser with...

Twisted Ritual turns a percussion quartet concert into a shared ceremony shaped by sound, time, and immersion. Performed by Kairos Percussion Quartet, the program brings together six contrasting works that unfold across the evening as a single, connected experience.
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Inspired by video games and choose-your-own-adventure storytelling, The Sylvan Legacy is an unpredictable performance shaped in real time by decisions made by the audience. Using their smart devices, audience members collectively control musical, visual, and narrative e...

Celebrating it’s 50th anniversary Canto Ostinato by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt is one of the most quietly radical works of late-20th-century minimalism. Written as a sequence of repeating musical cells, the piece unfolds through gentle harmonic shifts, pulsing rhy...