The Canadian Music Centre and the Cascadian Institute of Cultural Design present: an evening of music for subwoofers and guitar and subwoofers! The event will feature a selection of electronic compositions for low loudspeakers drawn from an international call for works. Expect the walls to growl!
Especially given that the theme of the concert is sonic intrusion, we’d like to acknowledge that the event is happening on territory belonging to the Huron-Wendat, Petun, Seneca and, most recently, the Mississaugas of the New Credit Indigenous peoples.
Heavy Traffic takes outside sounds and makes them part of the concert, using electrical machinations to blend the two together. If the music can’t escape the traffic, the traffic can’t escape being concertized!
Time: Doors 7:30pm, Show 8:00pm
Tickets: $10 student/senior/arts worker, $20 regular, $25 if you’d like to contribute more to the artists
*The Canadian Music Centre is an accessible venue through a street level entrance to the right of the main entrance. The CMC has gender neutral washrooms. Contact ontario@musiccentre.ca with any questions pertaining to accessibility.
Featuring
- Drum & Lace’s “Above”
- Daria Baiocchi’s “Lore Ipsum”
- Alessandro Baldessari’s “SubHuman”
- Matt Horrigan & Graham Banfield’s “Heavy Traffic”
- George Rahi’s “a thousand pounds of vibrating metal”
- Neil Brandt’s “Speech and Song: Form in the Lecture Recital”
- RD Wraggett’s “Schrodinger’s Cat’s Rejoinder”
- Alanna Ho’s “the presence of words through walls that do not correspond to a feeling”
- Colin Frank’s “Room”
- Alexandra Spence’s “sky and sea were indistinguishable”
About the organizers
Matthew Horrigan is a Vancouver-based musician and software developer known for twisted sound designs and unconventional use of electronics. Matthew trained at McGill University and got an MFA from Simon Fraser University, subsequently teaching computer music at the latter, as well as inhabiting Vancouver’s (quasi-)underground performance art scene as a drummer and concert organizer.
Graham Banfield is a music creator, educator, performer, and researcher equally at home with acoustic and electronic musics. Graham has played in Carnegie Hall and worked with EMMY, GRAMMY, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composers. He holds a Master’s of Music from Yale University and is presently completing doctoral studies at the University of Toronto.
Cascadian Institute of Cultural Design is a recently established Vancouver-based arts company devoted to the weird and rockin.’ Love it? Bring on the adulation! Don’t? Bring on the tomatoes! We promise you the kind of show you won’t forget.
Canadian Music Centre is the catalyst that connects you to the ever-evolving world of Canadian musical creation through performance, education and promotion. The CMC provides unique resources for exploring, discovering, and performing Canadian music. We are passionate about nurturing a musical community that honours our legacy and supports the professional development of Canadian musicians and composers.
