Jane Tingley’s work will be featured in the upcoming group exhibition Around Frayed Edges at the Agnes Jamieson Gallery (Minden, Ontatio) from March 18 through May 29, 2010. Opening reception: March 19 at 4pm

A narration spun through work that pushes the limits as to what an artist can do with fibre today. Similar to social misfits that sit on the outskirts of society, like mad inventors experimenting, and geniuses with universal knowledge, this exhibition encourages the far reaches of thought and imagination. Does society hang by a thread, will the Fates cut the cord, oh what a tangled web we weave…here is an opportunity to see work that follows a string into a world on the periphery.

Curated by Laurie Carmount

Artists: Marianne Kyryluk, Carl Stewart, Robin Ripley, Jean Farrell, Heidi Hudspith, David R. Harper, Jill Odegaard, Laura Trach, Liz Menard, Nadine Papp, Wendy O’Brien, Johanna Nousiainen, Fay Wilkinson, Audrey MacLean, Caitlin Erskine-Smith, Barbara Wisnoski, Erika DeFreitas, Carmella Karijo Rother, Suzen Green, Sandi Luck, Cynthia Jackson, Amanda McCavour, Ilona Staples, Karen Goetzinger, Catherine Vamvakas Lay, Karina Bergmans, Jane Tingley

Agnes Jamieson Gallery

176 Bobcaygeon Road

Minden, Ontario

www.mindenculturalcentre.com

Jane Tingley is the matralab coordinator.

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Lilira: Soundscapes of Inukjuak

Sound artist Nimalan Yoganathan has been commissioned by Resonance104.4FM Radio in the UK to produce the radio art piece Lilira: Soundscapes of Inukjuak. It was premiered this week on show framework:afield that is curated by Patrick McGinley and dedicated to field recording based compositions.

Nimalan recently participated in an artist residency in Inukjuak, Nunavik during July and August 2009 (funded by Conseil des Arts et des lettres du quebec). He was studying and recording the sonic environment to gain insight into the richness of Inuit culture. This included both natural sounds such as the wind and huskies, as well as cultural sounds including carvers at work and  throat singing. These field recordings serve as the compositional foundation for this piece. Nimalan also led weekly sound art workshops for youths between age 13 and 16, during which they were taught outdoor field recording techniques. Each youth was given their own digital recorder to document their sound walks around the community. Nimalan has included portions of their field recordings in this piece.

The podcast of Lilira: Soundscapes of Inukjuak can be heard here

Further details on the piece

Nimalan Yoganathan is a matralab research assistant.

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Choses étonnantes vues en rêve

Composer Nicolas Gilbert’s new orchestral work Choses étonnantes vues en rêve is currently being profiled on a new Radio-Canada website. This work has been commissioned by the Orchestre Métropolitain. The web site contains interviews, photos and project details. It will be updated regularly until the work’s premiere in mid-April and will allow the public to follow the rehearsals and general advance of this project. Nicolas will also frequently add blog entries to the site.

Nicolas Gilbert is a post-doc researcher at matralab.

Contemporary music composer/pianist Farangis Nurulla Khoja will be premiering Juftar in Montpellier, France on March 5, 2010. This work has been written for the National Symphony Orchestra of Montpellier.

Further info

Farangis Nurulla Khoja is an artist-in-residence at matralab.

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How Many Slaves Do You Own?

Beginning at 18h00 on Friday March 12, 2010, Engrenage Noir / LEVIER – in collaboration with the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) – will present How Many Slaves Do You Own? Art and the economies of exploitation, past and present, a 3-day exploration of coercive economies operating locally and afar.

The event will take place at the MAI (3680 Rue Jeanne-Mance) with organized site visits to ‘Nigger Rock’, a historical gravesite in St. Armand, Quebec and Old Montreal.

Through a mixture of musical performances, theatre, dance and street art interventions, along with keynote talks and round-table discussions, we will examine the equation between consumer product consumption and exploitation, the impact of trans-Atlantic and Aboriginal slavery in Quebec, the plight of domestic, immigrant and migrant workers in Canada, the prison industrial complex in North America, and the international sex trade and trafficking of women and girls.

In preparation for this event Engrenage Noir / LEVIER commissioned new work from Jason Selman and Chimwemwe Miller; Moe Clark in collaboration with Andy Williams and Jenn Doan; Naila Keleta Mae in collaboration with Rebecca Foon and Pohanna Pyne Feinberg; Melissa Mollen Dupuis and Émilie Monnet; Éric Létourneau; Lynne Cooper; Reena Almoneda-Chang, Pascale Gagnon, Caroline Hudon and Meena Murugesan.

Louise Lachapelle and Devora Neumark will be co-facilitating the event.

A detailed schedule is available upon request.

For more information contact: combiendesclaves@engrenagenoir.ca

Devora Neumark is an artist-in-residence at matralab.

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Hypertext and Performance:

A Resonant Response to Joanna Baillie’s Witchcraft

is a three-year FQRSC-funded interdisciplinary theatre project that engages both English romantic literature specialists and contemporary theatre research-creation practitioners in studying, performing, and teaching Joanna Baillie’s gothic play, Witchcraft.

The research-creation component for 2009-2010 includes live performance of six multimedia theatre scenes to be performed during the Congress for Humanities at Concordia’s Hexagram Black Box this May and June 2010.

Three scenes from Joanna Baillie’s play will be interwoven with three contemporary responses to the play, commissioned from three playwrights, Lindsay Wilson (MA Playwriting, Concordia), Joanna Donehower (current MA Playwriting, Concordia), and Patrick Leroux (Artistic Director, Assistant Professor, Concordia).  Three directors—Alison Darcy (professional director and actor), Cristina Iovita (professional director and PhD in Humanities student), and Patrick Leroux—are currently rehearsing as autonomous production units in Matralab’s Black Box

Patrick Leroux is a matralab researcher.

Cristina Iovita is an artist-in-residence at matralab.

After having spent Fall of the 2009 researching and experimenting with various musicians, rehearsals will commence this week at the matrabox. Audio and video documentation will be recorded and archived.

Chantale’s work and upcoming events

Chantale Laplante is an artist-in-residence at matralab.

Sandeep and Navid Navab will also lead workshops about the OMax programming environment from February 14 through February 17, 2010 at IRCAM. These workshops will be organized in the context of the FQRSC funded research/creation project Native Alien.

Sandeep’s composition Invite will be performed on February 17, 2010 at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall (Montreal) as part of the event Trombone and Electronics with Haim Avitsur. Michal Seta will be diffusing a live eight-channel electroacoustic environment (using a program designed by Navid Navab), accompanied by New York based trombonist Haim Avitsur. (8pm, Free Admission)

Sandeep Bhagwati is the matralab director.

Michal Seta and Navid Navab are matralab research associates.

More elements will be added over the coming weeks !

2009 “Souvenir de Wien“ for string quartet. FP Temple Lutry (Switzerland) 01.08.2009 Beethoven Quartett (Please note: The performance was not recorded. This file is just a MIDI-FIle out of the Finale Software - no musicality whatsoever)

2009 “Transience“for 1-3 aerophones, 1-3 chordophones, each player from a different tradition of music making. Commissioned by Jeremias Schwarzer (recorder) and Makiko Goto (koto). This recording is of the North American premiere performance by Cleo Palacio Quintin (flute), Elin Soderstrom (viola de gamba). Montreal 08.05.2009.

2009 “Stele I Ectoplasm“ for prepared piano, jazz trumpet, 4 percussionists and 8 channel live-electronics. FP Montréal (Oscar Peterson Hall) 29.01.2009 Linda Brady (piano), Charles Ellison (trumpet), Sandeep Bhagwati, Isak Goldschneider, Krista Martynes, Julie Loranger (claves) Navid Navab (live electronics)

2008 “Racines Ephemeres” (64 variations on a theme by Claude Vivier)” for 8 wandering musicians, obbligato conductor and live-electronics. Commissioned by Sammlung Essl Foundation for Wien Modern Festival. FP Essl Foundation, Klosterneuburg/Vienna (Austria) 15.11.2008 Nouvel Ensemble Moderne Montreal, Lorraine Vaillancourt.

• Movement I
• Movement II
• Movement III
• Movement IV
• Movement V
• Movement VI

2007 “Vineland Stelae” for trombone solo, 8 master soloists from different ethnic traditions, 8 orchestral groups and 8 channel live-electronics. Commissioned and funded by the California Institute of the Arts, the Multi-Arts Production Fund and Meet the Composer. FP R.E.D.C.A.T. Theatre Los Angeles, 1.-4. November 2007, Miks Svoboda Trombone, Ashish Khan, Alfred Ladzekpo, Vinny Golia, David Johnson, I Nyoman Wenten, Swapan Chaudhuri, Daniel Rosenboom, Vicky Ray, New Century Players , Calfornia EAR Unit, CalArts Ensemble

Movement I

2007 “Scardanelli Sonata” for keyboard instruments. FP of “Komet” as piano piece in a movie called “One Minute More”, Pianist: Guy Livingston, Filmmaker: Nelleke Koop. (Again, these recordings are only MIDI-renderings. No musician playing here.)

Movement I: Komet

Movement II: Diotima

Movement III: Pallaksch

2006 “Atish-e-Zaban” Fires of the Tongue” for 6 voices a capella (SMATBarB), Commissioned by the World New Music Festival 2006. FP 26.7.2006, Neue Vocalsolisten, Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Movement I

2006 “illusies van harder en zacht” chamber music for chinese and western instruments, several versions (translations), Comissioned by Asian Culture Link Vienna FP 21.4.2006, ensemble on-line vienna, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin

Movement I

Movement II

Movement III

2005 “Inside a Native Land” concert text installation for trombone and eight orchestral groups with 8 channel live electronics. Commissioned for Mike Svoboda by the State of Baden Württemberg FP by Mike Svoboda and the Ensemble Mosaik Berlin 12.3.2005 Heiligkreuzkirche Berlin.
Movement 1: Invite
Movement 2: Stele I
Movement 3: Stele II
Movement 4: Stele III
Movement 5: Divide
Movement 6: Stele IV
Movement 7: Stele V
Movement 8: Stele VI
Movement 9: Stele VII Islands
Movement 10: Stele VIII
Movement 11: Stele IX

2004 “MORA” for trombone, bassclarinet, cello and obbligato conductor. Commissioned by Webern Einklang Composer’s Forum Mittersill FP by Ensemble „die reihe” Vienna FP 18.9.2004 Town Hall Mittersill, Austria

Variation I

2004 “Cliff!” Audio Art work after a poem by Ulrike Draesner,.Commissioned by the National German Radio (Deutschlandradio Berlin). Produced in my own studio, final mix in the Deutschlandradio studios. First broadcast 5.11.2004 by Deutschlandradio Berlin

2003 “Sangit Sambhav” Co-written with Ashok Ranade. Performed by Ensemble Modern, conducted by Kasper de Roo.

2003 “Rasas” Multiple Composition for Ensemble. Commissioned by the Millennium Programme of the City of Frankfurt and by the Ensemble Modern. FP by the Ensemble Modern conducted by Kasper de Roo
Variation 1: Avatars
Variation 3: Beats&Bows
Variation 5: Chaplin
Variation 9: Divine Duets

1991 “Variations (String Quartet No.1)” Performed by Orpheus Quartet

2004 “Stele I” Performed by Ernst Surberg

2002 “Songs on Nothing” Performed by Martina Koppelstetter, Jagdish Mistry
Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3
Movement 4

“Ritual der Erinnerten” (1996) Performed by SWR Vokalensemble, conducted by Rupert Huber

2000 “Meerasongs” Performed by Martina Koppelstetter, Georg Glasl
Movement 1: Now You Can’t Close Me In
Movement 2: He Had No Words For Me
Movement 3: On A Sudden The Sight
Movement 4: Look How He Wounds Me
Movement 5: My Eyes Stretched Wide

On January 7, 2010 in Halifax Bhagwati’s “STELE III for James Tenney” in the version for string orchestra will have its Canadian premiere in the concert “New Music for a New Year” played by Symphony Nova Scotia and conducted/ comprovised by Bernhard Gueller, together with works by Armanini, Charke, Cram, Brady and Blais. This will be part of the annual Forum of the Canadian New Music Network.

On February 6, 2010 in Montreal, Xenia Pestova will play the World Premiere of Bhagwati’s recently completed “Scardanelli Sonata in three movements” for piano solo.

The Christmas party was a success - thanks to all who attended!

Les Territoires édifice Belgo, 372 rue Ste Catherine O #527, Montréal, Qc. H3B 1A2, Canada. info@lesterritoires.org

www.lesterritoires.org

Les Territoires is pleased to present Lignes imaginaires, a solo exhibition by artist Karen Zalamea. The exhibition will be presented from November 12th to December 1st, 2009 and the vernissage will take place on Saturday, November 14th from 2 p.m to 5 p.m. The artist will be present at the opening.

La galerie Les Territoires est fière de présenter Lignes imaginaires une exposition de l’artiste Karen Zalamea.
L’exposition se tiendra du 12 novembre au 1er décembre 2009. Le vernissage, en présence de l’artiste, aura lieu le samedi 14 novembre de 14h à 17h.

Lignes imaginaires draws connections between physical gestures and mechanical modes of production. Through photographs and a video and sculpture-based installation, Karen Zalamea shows evidence of repeated actions, revealing processes driven by both object-making and performance. The exhibition traces the passage of time, effort and play.

Lignes imaginaires établit des liens entre des gestes physiques et des modes de production mécaniques. Par le biais de photographies et d’une installation basée sur la vidéo et la sculpture, Karen Zalamea exhibe les preuves d’actions répétées, révélant des processus issus de la fabrication d’objets et de la performance. L’exposition porte les traces du passage du temps, de l’effort et du jeu.

Karen Zalamea lives and works in Montréal. In 2009, she completed a Master of Fine Art degree at Concordia University under the supervision of Manon De Pauw. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Sylvie and Simon Blais Foundation Award for Emerging Visual Artists. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, England, France and Holland.

Karen Zalamea vit et travaille à Montréal. En 2009, elle a complété une maîtrise en Beaux Arts à L’Université Concordia sous la supervision de Manon De Pauw. Elle est lauréate de plusieurs récompenses, dont le prix de la Fondation Sylvie et Simon Blais pour la relève en arts visuels. Ses travaux ont fait l’objet d’expositions au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Angleterre, en France et en Hollande.

When: Nov 6 at 8:45pm

Where: Hexagram Black Box EV OS3.845

This piece is centered around the involuntary expressions of displacement.  For this work, I research involuntary gestures made by “Montrealers displaced by War Genocide and Human Rights Abuses” who were interviewed by a large CURA project of the same name, led by oral historian Steven High.  Can we find any traces of their experiences in their normal gestural repertoire ?  We analysed 12 long lifestory interviews and excerpted gestures that are then transposed into a gestural theatre work.

“Gesturing/Lamentations” does not last long - around 25-30 min, followed by a short Q&A session with all participants.  This show is by invitation only and part of the conference on Remembering War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations: Oral History, New Media and the Arts, Nov. 5 - 8<http://news.concordia.ca/events/015516.shtml> organized by the above-mentioned almost eponymous CURA project.

Oct. 22nd, 2009 at 7:00 pm (19hr)
matralab EV 4.502, Concordia University
1515 Ste Catherines St West

Pianist Guy Livingston talks about music and time, from his perspective as creator of the sixty-seconds-for-piano project. Livingston will draw from his experiences over the last decade living in Paris and Amsterdam and commissioning works from hundreds of composers, as well as screening a selection of one-minute films produced in Holland.

Born in Tennessee, with degrees from Yale, NEC, and the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands, pianist Guy Livingston wowed critics and audiences with his successful “Don’t Panic” CD. Sixty composers each wrote one minute for Livingston, and the CD was featured on NPR, in The New York Times , Le Monde , Sports Illustrated , and was praised by the Atlanta Constitution as the ‘party record of the year.’ Livingston is based in Paris and Amsterdam and travels widely as a pianist and director. Concerto appearances have been with the Orchestre Nationale de France and the Chicago Symphony. Livingston has recorded two CDs of the music of George Antheil, and is producing a DVD with 60 musical clips by vanguard Dutch filmmakers.