Sunday, June 26, 2022
Doors at 7:00pm – Show at 7:30pm
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CMC Presents: Greg Bruce // Grace Scheele
Greg Bruce (Post-digital saxophone)
Pursuit Grooves
Vanese Smith – Music/Sound Artist, DJ, Educator, Visual Artist
Unfortunately due to illness, Pursuit Grooves will not be able to join us for this event, instead we are pleased to be joined by:
Grace Scheele
harpist, composer, and improviser
Ticket price:
General Admission. $15 Advance / $20 at the door
CMC Members and Arts Workers. $12 Advance / $15 at the door
Students. $10 anytime
Greg Bruce Workshop: Embrace Lofi! Cassette Tapes and Creative Practice
12pm – Event link
Venue:
Canadian Music Centre
20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, ON
M4Y 1J9
416-961-6601 x202
COVID-19 Safety Information:
The health and safety of our staff and all visitors continues to be of the utmost importance to us. CMC Presents are masked events.
CMC staff will be onsite to welcome you, and we ask that you kindly follow their direction and guidance at all times.
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Greg Bruce is an improvisor and composer searching for new sounds through the forgotten opportunities of analogue technology. His work blends contemporary classical, folk, and minimalist musics; and exposes the sonic potential of acoustic feedback and tape media. Through a breath-powered instrumentarium – a saxophone augmented by state of the art, lo-tech – Greg seeks to investigate the human/machine dialectic and invoke a post-digital future.
Hailing from St. John’s (NL) and currently based in Montréal (QC), Greg is a University of Toronto Doctor of Musical Arts Candidate whose research in feedback saxophone is supported by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship. His professional work with tape media is similarly supported by a Canada Council for the Arts research and creation grant.
For his first appearance at the Canadian Music Centre, Greg will present his seminal post-digital compositions. With a tenor saxophone augmented by a guitar amp and portable cassette recorder, he will conjure musical works ranging from modal feedback melodies to dark, tape-loop soundscapes.
Website: https://www.gregbruce.ca/
YouTube: Greg TheSquare
Instagram: gregthesquare
Recordings:
Greg Bruce Trio – Live at the Black Sheep on George EP (2021)
Kitchuses by Ouroboros (2017)
American-Canadian Grace Scheele is a contemporary harpist, composer, and improviser dually based in Kitchener and Toronto. Her music hones minimalistic textures within noise landscapes – creating a sound that is “a pliable, fluid, continuum…that’s as beautiful as it is unconventional” (Canadian Music Centre).
Grace interweaves electronics, structured improvisation, and sampling: reimagining the pedal harp as an electroacoustic instrument. Recently, she premiered 12 Layers at the Canadian Music Centre’s 2021 Multilocation Festival and performed her film score “How Do Clowns Say I Love You” during TIFF’s 2020 Next Wave Film Festival. She has performed at The Music Gallery, Soundstreams, Numus Concerts, ImprovFest, Kultrún World Music Festival, Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, and the Aga Khan Museum’s Moon Landing Festival.
Website: gracescheele.com
Facebook: @graceharpsit
Instagram: graceharpsit_
Recordings:
Greensborough (2022)
