NEW! Theatre for the Ears - audio/visualizations
call for submissions
Deadline: 15 September 2010
VNM is looking for local artists working with sound and image to be part of the 2010 festival.
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Recorded 13 June 2010 | Vancouver Art Gallery
Featuring music by Veda Hille.

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Recorded 24 January 2010 | Ironworks

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Coming up in Fall 2010...
>> FESTIVAL
Theatre for the Ears - audio/visualizations
21-23 October 2010
concert @ 8pm each night
Free ARtist chats @ 7pm each night
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Tickets $20 regular, $15 students & seniors
Tickets will be available in September at Zulu Records (1972 West 4th Avenue, Scratch Records (726 Richards Street), Tickets Tonight at 604.684.2787 / www.ticketstonight.ca and at the door

Three-night passes $50/$35 available only through Vancouver New Music 604.633.0861 and at the door.

Theatre for the Ears explores intersections of sound and image with a festival of visual music, abstract cinema, experimental animation, lumia, cymatics and interactive live audiovisual performance.

FeaturIng: Robin Fox (Australia), jamie griffiths & Viviane Houle (Canada), Pierre Hébert & Stefan Smulovitz (Canada), Aaron Koblin & Aaron Meyers (US), Daito Manabe (Japan), Vade (aka Anton Marini) (US) + more


>> SPECIAL EVENT
Barry Truax - A Portrait
19 November 2010; 8PM
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Free artist chat @ 7PM
Tickets: $30 regular, $20 students & seniors
Tickets will be available by early September 2010 from Sikora’s Classical Records (432 West Hastings), Tickets Tonight ticketstonight.ca/604.684.2787, and will be available at the door.

Vancouver New Music looks back over Barry Truax’s impressive 40-year career in music.  Truax is a composer of national and international acclaim, and has pioneered some of the most groundbreaking work in electroacoustic composition. Vancouver New Music is pleased to present the first full evening concert in Vancouver dedicated entirely to the work of this city’s most celebrated composers.

The evening will feature a retrospective of Truax’s works, beginning with Riverrun (1986), a now classic work that introduced the technique of granular synthesis to the world.  The audience will also be treated to the world premiere of excerpts from Truax’s forthcoming music theatre work Enigma, The Life and Death of Alan Turing.

2009-10 SEASON
>> COMMUNITY
Spring 2010 Soundwalks
The horizontal city - Led by Chris O'Connor
Sunday, April 25, 2010, 5pm
Meeting Location: Vancouver Art Gallery (robson & Howe); meet on the steps on the Robson Street side of the gallery [map]
Looping back on itself multiple times, this soundwalk eschews the ‘vertical’ city in favour of a ‘horizontal’ exploration.

Marauding through the sounds of Marpole - Led by Jean Routhier
Sunday, May 2, 2010, 5pm
Meeting Location: Characters Cafe/Bookstore (8419 Granville St.) [map]
This walk explores the industrial side of Vancouver’s south end.

Soundwalks are FREE and open to the public, but participants must call to reserve: 604.633.0861. Participants should be sure to wear appropriate footwear and clothing for any weather condition.

A Soundwalk is a silent group walk led along a planned route to experience a location's ambiance and underlying rhythms. All too often the sounds of the environment pass by unnoticed because of our uncanny ability to shut them out. A Soundwalk enables its participants to actively listen, opening ears and consciousness to the complex orchestration that the environment is composing at all times. It is a musical-sonic adventure that reveals the banal to be extraordinary!



>> SPECIAL EVENT
Kolot (sounds/voices)
Saturday, October 3, 2009; 8pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Free artist chat at 7pm
Tickets $25 regular, $15 student/senior, available from Sikora’s Classical Records (432 West Hastings) at Tickets Tonight (ticketstonight.ca/ 604.684.2787, surcharges apply) and at the door.

World Premiere of a new work by Dániel Péter Biró (Victoria); featuring Contralto Noa Frenkel (Isreal/Netherlands), Pianist Sven Thomas Kiebler (Germany), and works by Luigi Nono, and Chaya Czernowin.
http://people.finearts.uvic.ca/~dpbiro/

Kolot was commissioned with the assistance of the British Columbia Arts Council Music Commissioning Program and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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>> FESTIVAL
Copyright/Copyleft
Vancouver New Music Festival 2009
21 – 24 October 2009,
concert @ 8pm each night
Free ARtist chats @ 7pm each night
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Tickets $20 regular, $15 students/seniors each night; available at Zulu Records (1972 West 4th Avenue), Scratch Records (726 Richards Street), through Tickets Tonight (ticketstonight.ca; 604.684.2787; surcharges apply) and at the door. Passes for all four nights $60 and $40, available only through Vancouver New Music (604.633.0861) and at the door.

A festival of sonic collagism, and the art of sampled and repurposed sounds and images. Featuring Jackson 2bears, Uri Caine, Chris Cutler, DJ Tapes, Eric The Red, Holzkopf, Mark Hosler (Negativland), John Oswald, People Like Us (Vicki Bennett), Scanner, David Shea and Sonarchy.

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Free panel discussion– Negative Landscapes
Saturday, 24 October 2009, 2:30pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
A discussion about copyright/copyleft, intellectual property rights and art with Peter Hatch, Doug Horne, Mark Hosler, Martha Rans and Aja Rose Bond; moderated by Kate Milberry.

>> SPECIAL EVENT
Hofesh Shechter Company (London)
(in association with DanceHouse)
Uprising and In your rooms
Friday, November 6 2009, 8pm
Saturday, November 7 2009, 8pm
Vancouver Playhouse (Hamilton and Dunsmuir)Tickets Adult - Premium seating $65, Regular seating $59; Senior - Premium seating $62, Regular seating $56; Student - $35 (with valid ID only. Student price tickets are limited.) Tickets go on sale September 8 through www.ticketmaster.ca

Hofesh Shechter (formerly with Batsheva Dance Company) is a fast rising star of the UK dance scene. His work is supremely physical, embracing elegant stage compositions and charged with engaging ideas. Uprising is an energetic and muscular work for seven men. In your rooms is “an arrestingly powerful piece” (The Guardian) for 11 dancers and five musicians with an original score by the choreographer. Both pieces brim with playful, gritty physicality that is at times provocative, political and personal, presenting a society which is scarily alienating, yet shockingly familiar.

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The Collaborative Relationship: Choreographer/Composer
(in association with The Dance Centre)
Saturday, November 7, 2009, 11:30Am
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Free
A panel discussing the collaboration between choreographers and composers; featuring Hofesh Shechter and others.

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>>COMMUNITY
Sonic Playground - Painted Sounds
Graphic Scores - notations and visual representations
co-presented by Western Front New Music
Sunday, November 15, 2009, 11am - 5pm
Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue
FREE, however as the number of participants is limited, please email giorgio [at] newmusic [dot] org by November 8, 2009 to register.

Painted Sounds is a workshop that will focus on the use of graphic notation, where signs and symbols are used to represent sounds.  Using graphic notation both composers and performers do not need any prior knowledge of how to write or read traditional musical notation. All participants will be encouraged to engage in large-scale abstract drawings that will form the basis for one collective or multiple graphic scores that will then be interpreted and performed by the group. At the end of the workshop participants will give a live music performance of the piece(s) they've created. Bring your own instruments and your voice.

>> SPECIAL EVENT
Baby Dee (NYC)
Saturday, December 5, 2009; 8pm
Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews
Tickets $20 regular, $15 student/senior available from Tickets Tonight (ticketstonight.ca/604.684.2787, surcharges apply) and at the door.

Performance artist, classically trained harpist, church organist, circus sideshow veteran, freak-show musician and transgender street legend, Baby Dee delivers surreal, cabaret-infused ballads on piano, harp and accordion.
http://www.babydee.org/

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>>COMMUNITY
Complaints Choir
The Vancouver Complaints Choir is back with more complaints!
Date TBC, 2010
Various locations
Complaints & participants needed!
An all new Complaints Choir with all new complaints woven into song by Veda Hille. Email giorgio [at] newmusic [dot] org with complaints or if you're interested in being part of the choir.
http://www.complaintschoir.org/

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>> COMMUNITY
Phil Minton - Feral Choir
Workshop: January 22 - 24, 2010
Performance: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 4pm
Free Workshop & Performance
Ironworks Studio, 235 Alexander Street
Phil Minton’s Feral Choir workshop has been a hit all over the world.  A renowned singer and improviser, Minton led a choir of community participants in a fun and experimental vocal workshop and performance.
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http://www.philmintonsferalchoir.com/

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>> SPECIAL EVENT
Quasar - quatuor de saxophones (MonTreaL)
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 8pm
Free artist chat at 7pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Tickets $25 regular, $15 student/senior available from Tickets Tonight (ticketstonight.ca/604.684.2787, surcharges apply) and at the door.

Ardent devotees of the music of our time, the Quasar saxophone quartet is dedicated to premiering and promoting contemporary music that is multi-dimensionally conceived. Celebrated for its energy, audacity and exceptional technical ability, Quasar explores different aspects of artistic creation from instrumental music to live electronics, from improvisation to instrumental theatre. Quasar received two OPUS prizes.
http://www.quasar4.com/

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>>CONCERT SERIES
Vancouver New Music Concert Series -
April 2010
Tickets for each concert $25 regular, $15 students/seniors available from Tickets Tonight (ticketstonight.ca/604.684.2787, surcharges apply) and at the door. Passes for all 3 concerts are $65/$30 and are available only through Vancouver New Music (604.633.0861) and at the door.
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Quatuor Bozzini (Montreal)
Thursday, April 8, 2009, 8pm
Free artist chat 7pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
$25/$15; passes also available (see details above)
Moving freely between the avant-garde and traditional, Quatuor Bozzini have been called a group that “gets its teeth into music” (Irish Times). Lauded for its “intense musicality and immense sensitivity” (Musicworks), the Quatuor Bozzini seeks to bring together artists from different horizons – collaboration being the sinews of every artistic creation. The program features a new work for string quartet and tape by Bernard Falaise.
http://www.quatuorbozzini.ca
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Kuniko Kato - Sound Space Experiment (Japan)
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 8pm
Free artist chat 7pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
$25/$15; passes also available (see details above)
A “striking percussionist -- in more ways than one” (Mark Swed, LA Times), Vancouver New Music is pleased to welcome Kuniko Kato back to Vancouver.  Kato’s exciting and highly virtuosic solo performances have earned her an international reputation as one of the most promising new percussionists in the world, and have garnered attention from the likes of Seiji Ozawa, Toru Takemitsu, James Wood, Steve Reich, Keiko Harada, Franco Donatoni and others. Kuniko Kato will perform excerpts from her Sound Space Experiments on specially constructed steel drums - a concert that is not to be missed!
http://www.kuniko-kato.net
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Sounds Unlikely (ON/BC)
Premieres of new works by Peter Hatch and Marci Rabe
Thursday, April 22, 2010, 8pm
Free artist chat 7pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
$25/$15; passes also available (see details above)
Premieres of chamber works for Western and Asian instruments, a Donatoni recorder solo, court music from the Tang Dynasty, and more! Revel in an exciting amalgamation of sounds with this concert of new pieces and extraordinary repertoire.  The program will feature the premiere of Songs Without Words by Peter Hatch and two new compositions by Marci Rabe. Featuring special guests Mei Han and Guillian Liu (Red Chamber), and recorder player Terri Hron (Montreal).
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>> MUSIC THEATRE
Stitch (Toronto)
An Urban Vessel Production
Presented in Association with Western Front New Music
Friday, April 30, 2010, 8pm
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 4pm + 8pm
EDAM Studio, 303 East 8th Avenue
Tickets $20 regular, $15 student/senior available from Tickets Tonight (ticketstonight.ca/604.684.2787, surcharges apply) and at the door
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Music by Juliet Palmer, text by Anna Chatterton.
Performed by Christine Duncan, Patricia O’Callaghan & Neema Bickersteth

From the abuse of the sweatshop to the fantasy of costume and the empowerment of sewing-it-yourself, the sewing machine has been a force for liberation and exploitation since its invention in the 19th century. Anchored in the sounds and rhythms of sewing, Stitch uncovers the emotional layers of the relationship between woman and barely-tamed machine. Hemmed in by the language of sewing and the inexorable rhythm of the machine, three women fight to find space for imagination and individuality.
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