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| 2006/07 |
| Faux Future |
28 September 2006 | 8pm
Faux Future
Stefan Udell & Ian Wyatt, Ken Roux, Tanya Pea, and Sara Gold (Vancouver)
Anza Club, 3 West 8th Avenue.
Tickets $12/$8
Radical music that brings us together and promotes discourse and action, challenging ideas of “work” as composition, and “performance” as expression.
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| No Neck Blues Band (USA) · w/IMP(s) (Victoria) |
10 November 2006 | 8pm
Arts Club Theatre, 1585 Johnston Street (Granville Island)
Tickets $20/$15
An iconic collective of experimental improvisers whose music ranges from an anthropological recapitulation of primal shamanic music to free-jazz improvisation.
A free-form psychedelic freak-out, enhanced with ritual percussive passages and spastic discordance. |
| Sonic Playground |
An afternoon of sound exploration for everyone!
Sunday, 26 November 2006
The Roundhouse
181 Roundhouse Mews (Corner of Davie and Pacific)
Free
1pm – 2:15pm percussion
2:30pm – 3:45pm sound poetry & voice improv; sonic art & soundscape creation
4:30pm Group Performance
The afternoon's activities will be followed by a soundwalk in the neighbourhood led by Jean Routhier. |
| Spectral Space - Kim Cascone (USA) |
10 February 2007 | 8pm
Kim Cascone, solo performance
Video In, 1965 Main Street
$15 / $10
Spectral Space is a new computer music piece focused on extending density in audio material. In our age of media-overload the public has adapted to this condition by enlarging their ability to simultaneously consume multiple streams of information. With Spectral Space Cascone builds a foreground/mid-ground/background sound-field through which sounds glint, shimmer, collide and implode within the fabric of noise. |
| Each ... and Every Inch — Theatre Cryptic (UK) |
18 - 29 April 2007
Performances start at 10-minute intervals from
6:30 - 8:30pm
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 1895 Venables Street
$30/$24; VECC subscriber price $23
Each ... and Every Inch is a site-specific multi-media journey through different spaces, revealing the life of Canadian-born poet and novelist Elizabeth Smart, author of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept . Audiences begin their journey through Smart's life in guided groups of eight, and then are free to explore the installation at their own pace. With music, text, sound, visual art and video, Theatre Cryptic discovers the passion, obsession, destruction and seduction in Smart's work and in her life. |
| Silence: John Cage |
18 – 21 October 2006
Vancouver New Music Festival 2006
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St.
Tickets $15 / $10 each night
"I have nothing to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry / as I needed it” (John Cage)
Silence, the 2006 Vancouver New Music Festival will celebrate John Cage, an enormously influential composer, writer, artist, teacher and contemporary thinker, who changed the course of music in our time. Featuring performances by: Margaret Leng Tan, Kaffe Matthews, Gordon Mumma, Rogalsky Bros., Marina Rosenfeld, John Tilbury and many more. |
Unlikely…
A concert series of unusual musical collisions |
| Vancouver New Music is pleased to announce the inaugural edition of its March concert series!
Each year, throughout March, Vancouver New Music will present concerts that explore different directions within a common theme.
To kick off this new annual series, Unlikely… will feature unusual collaborations and musical collisions between artists, genres and mediums. A duo of percussionists and a duo of pianists come together in a high-energy quartet; an iconic multimedia sound artist performs with an avant-garde saxophonist; and a contemporary composer collaborates with a hard-rock hip-hop band and string quartet simultaneously. An eclectic array of unusual musical fusions, Unlikely… is a perfect collection of concerts for the curious and adventurous. |
| Hammerhead Consort (Canada) |
March 1, 2007 | 8pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St.
Tickets
$20/$15
Featuring two pianists and two percussionists, the Hammerhead Consort is one of Canada's most unique chamber music ensembles. This extraordinary quartet will present a new piece by Frederic Rzewski, the shimmering Cloches by Franco Donatoni plus Canadian works by Keith Hamel and Howard Bashaw. Free artist chat at 7pm. |
| Phill Niblock (USA) and Thomas Ankersmit (Holland) |
March 8, 2007 | 8pm
St. Andrew’s-Wesley, Burrard at Nelson
Tickets
$20/$15
Making use of the church’s architecturally specific acoustics, New York-based minimalist composer and multi-media musician Phill Niblock and Dutch experimental saxophonist Thomas Ankersmit create loud, shifting drones that generate new tonal layers within the performance space. Free artist chat at 7pm.
"Phill Niblock's music and films are concerned with detail and simplicity . . . dense, imposing sound mass . . . . Sum and difference tones pile up until they sound like an orchestra of voices . . . one listens first to one level of detail, then to another, only gradually learning to hear everything at once." - New York Times |
| Burn |
March 15, 2007 | 8pm
Peter Hannan, Kenton Loewen, Marc Destrubé, Axelrod Quartet, Pissed Off Wild
(Canada / USA)
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St.
Tickets
$20/$15
A Canadian composer, post-punk drummer, early-music violinist, classic string quartet and a hard rock-hip hop band meet and intermingle in spite of their respectively (or apparently) remote points. Together they will perform the world premiere of a new work by Peter Hannan, written especially for this unusual collection of musicians. Free artist chat at 7pm.
"Hannan's compositions strike a fascinating balance between cultural amnesia and total recall." - Globe and Mail
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Each concert is $20 regular/$15 students and seniors. Single tickets are available at Sikora’s Classical Records (432 West Hastings Street) through Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.ca / 604.280.3311) and at the door.
A pass for all three concerts is available for $45/$30 and is available only through Vancouver New Music (837 Davie Street or 604.633.0861).
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Download colour brochure and Brady Cranfield's essay On the Unlikely.
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| AudioCubes |
9 February 2007 | 8pm
Kim Cascone (USA)
Bert Schiettecatte (Belgium)
& Community Ensemble
Video In, 1965 Main Street
FREE
Kim Cascone (microsounsd.org) and Bert Schiettecatte (Percussa) lead a two-day community workshop on AudioCubes, an interactive platform for electronic music exploration, sound design and composition. The workshops culminate in a performance on February 9.
Cascone presents a solo performance the following evening, February 10 at 8pm. Tickets for this performance are $15 and $10 for students and seniors.
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| Soundwalks with Hildegard Westerkamp, et. al. |
Sunday, September 24, 2006 | 2 – 3:30pm
Led by Igor Santizo and Mark Brady
Meet at the corner of Davie Street and Pacific Boulevard; outside the Roundhouse Community Centre in front of the antique train-engine 374
Sunday, October 1, 2006 | 2 – 3:30pm
Led by Stephanie Loveless and Julianna Barabas
Meet at the corner of Davie Street and Denman Street
Sunday, April 22, 2007 | 2 – 3:30pm
Led by Stephanie Loveless
Stanley Park - meet at the tennis courts across from Parks Board offices at Beach Avenue and Park Lane. Closest bus routes C21 or C23.
Sunday, April 29, 2007 | 2 – 3:30pm
Led by Chris O'Connor
Mount Pleasant - meet at Guelph Park at the tennis courts at 8th Avenue and Prince Edward Street. Closest bus routes 99,9 or 8.
In a soundwalk, the listening “audience” moves through a place and the environment “performs.” The walking listener and the environment create a unique piece together that can only occur during the time of the walk. In a soundwalk we take the time to hear the environment: we are its true ear witnesses. And like any musician, the environment offers us its sounds for our consideration.
Soundwalks are FREE and open to the public, but participants must call to reserve: 604.633.0861. Each Soundwalk can accommodate 50 people. Participants should be sure to wear appropriate footwear and clothing for any weather condition.
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