festivals
Xenakis – celebrating the life and work of composer, architect and visionary Iannis Xenakis.
Vancouver New Music Festival 2011
20-22 October 2011
Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie Street)
Shows at 8PM each night
Tickets $20 regular, $15 students & seniors, available through Brown Paper Tickets (www.brownpapertickets.com or 1-800-838-3006), Sikora’s Classical Records (432 West Hastings Street) and at the door.
Three-night passes $50/$35 available only through Vancouver New Music (604.633.0861) and at the door.
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Contour, for a hallway an audiovisual installation by Adam Basanta will be installed in the upstairs lobby of the Scotiabank Dance Centre each night of the festival.
Iannis Xenakis – special exhibit, opening on September 30, 5-7PM, continues until Oct. 18, 9AM-5PM, Mon-Fri (CMC, 837 Davie Street) – FREE EVENT
Something Rich and Strange film screening on Friday, October 21 at 6PM (Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street) – FREE EVENT
Benoît Gibson book launch party on Saturday, October 22 at 6PM (CMC, 837 Davie Street) – FREE EVENT
“Listening to the music of Iannis Xenakis…is like being flung back into some fierce atavistic world before culture existed…Such magnificently innocent music is bound to be out of place in our oblique, knowing age, so obsessed with its past, so fastidiously ironic, so concerned, in its art, to layer ambiguity upon ambiguity. That Xenakis could have denied this pervasive cultural trend for 40 years is an amazing feat. Perhaps only someone who had no need of the western tradition, someone whose roots lay elsewhere, could have done it.” – from Iannis Xenakis’ obituary, by Ivan Hewett, published February 5, 2001 in The Guardian
Celebrating the work and influence of one of the most original and prolific creative figures of the 20th century, VNM’s 2011 Festival honours the 10th anniversary of the death of composer, architect and visionary Iannis Xenakis. Xenakis’ works span every media and numerous approaches, from orchestral to electroacoustic to multi-media. Also a mathematician, experimental engineer and architect, theoretician, educator, and author, Xenakis was a true renaissance figure.
Part of Random Elements – a celebration of Iannis Xenakis.
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theatre for the ears
October 21 – 23, 2010
Theatre for the Ears
concert at 8PM each night | free artist chats at 7PM each night
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Tickets: $20 regular, $15 students & seniors (each night)
Tickets available at Zulu Records (1972 West 4th Avenue), Scratch Records (1 East Hastings Street), Tickets Tonight (604.684.2787), and at the door.
Three-night passes $50/$35 available only through Vancouver New Music 604.633.0861 and at the door.
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COPYRIGHT/COPYLEFT
October 21 – 24, 2009
Show starts 8pm each night
Free Artist Chats at 7pm each night
Negative Landscapes: free symposium on 24 October 2009, 2:30pm
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 (www.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.