THE GOLDEN HOUR:  WORKS FOR THE MINI PARK

SALTY SERIES EVENT: AUG 31, 2024, 6:30 – 7:30 PM → NORTH PARK MINI PARK

FREE season launch event!

The Golden Hour will feature a series of modular, collaborative works by Teresa Díaz de Cossio, Ilana Waniuk, Alvaro Diaz, and Joseph Bourdeau. Using an expansive repertoire of sounds, including toys, radios, live instruments, and electronics, as well as the public percussion installation at North Park Mini Park, the performers will present a series of vignettes as the sun goes down.

The show will last roughly an hour, and audience members are invited to move about, or come and go freely during the performance. Bring your own chairs, blankets, picnics, and join us as we melt into the sunset together!


FRANCISCO EME

PRESTON SWIRNOFF

AKARI KOMURA w/ILANA WANIUK

a night of sound art at the brown building

Saturday Aug 24 at 7pm

Brown Building Arts 4133 Poplar St, San Diego, CA 92105

$10-20 donation

May 7th, 2024, 8-10pm

918 Bathurst

Doors Open: 7:30pm

Show Starts: 8pm

Ticket info coming soon

ChamberDestroy is co-produced by The Music Gallery and connects contemporary music ensembles from two of Canada's largest cultural centres with one common artistic goal. Ensemble Paramirabo-EP (Montreal) and Thin Edge New Music Collective - TENMC (Tkarón:to/Toronto) reunite on the heels of a highly successful joint touring/recording project (2015 and 2018), to premiere Nicole Lizée's ChamberVania (AKA ChamberDestroy, FKA ChamberKill) for double sextet, soundtrack and video and Datura for double sextet and video by Yaz Lancaster (USA) alongside, Louis Andriessen’s seminal Workers Union and Julius Eastman’s Joy Boy for unspecified ensemble.

Montreal-based Nicole Lizée is one of Canada’s most sought after and imaginative composers. Nicole’s rhythmically propulsive new work explores ephemera, idioms, and connotations of early video game culture. The 8-bit world infiltrates the chamber ensemble world as instruments assume 8-bit and pixelated characteristics. Sections of the work are duel/battle-based music: ensemble vs ensemble. The ensembles perform on custom-made instruments to evoke the infiltration through the 4th/5th wall into the chamber music world. 

Yaz Lancaster is a transdisciplinary artist based in NYC. They are most interested in practices aligned with relational aesthetics & the everyday; fragments & collage; and liberatory politics. Their work is presented in many different mediums & collaborative projects, and often reckons with specific influences ranging from politics of identity & liberation to natural phenomena and poetics. 

Louis Andriessen’s experimental compositional style developed as a rebellion against postwar serialist traditions prevalent in Europe during his formative years. Worker’s Union (1975) is an indeterminate piece ‘for any loud sounding group of instruments’. Driven by aggressive, machine-like rhythmic precision, Andriessen believes that "only in the case that every player plays with such an intention that his part is an essential one, will the work succeed; just as in the political work." TENMC and EP are revisiting this powerful composition, which featured prominently on their joint album ‘Raging Against the Machine’ (2015/Redshift Records), in honour of Andriessen’s recent passing.  

Joy Boy (1974) by visionary American minimalist composer/performer Julius Eastman, is written for open instrumentation, and includes elements of improvisation within the framework of a set harmonic structure. Joy Boy’sshimmering harmonic textures carry listeners and performers alike along for an ecstatic sonic journey. 

ChamberDestroy is made possible with generous support from The Music Gallery, the Canada Council of the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council. 

March 15: I was all ear

“Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening,” Pauline Oliveros

Sound artist and filmmaker XARENI LIZARRAGA manifests a Sonic World transporting audiences to another time, another place, through interdisciplinary art and sound performance. I was all ear invites witnesses to bolster their sonic awareness and deep listening while sharing sound that thickens the sensory stew of our lives. I was all ear celebrates the sense of sound that we depend upon to help us interpret, communicate with, and express the world around us.

WITH PERFORMANCES BY

“Echoes from a sea cave” written and performed by Dom Cooper

“In the language of the bloom” by Akari Komura

Performed by: Camilo Zamudio (percussion), Ilana Wanuik (violin), David Aguila (trumpet), and Natalia Merlano Gómez (voice)

Janet Asuncion on Kulintang (Filipino Gong Instrument)

Improvisation by Preston Swirnoff, & Xareni Lizarraga

Sonic meditation by Kerem Brulé

Filaments is a collaborative concert project featuring works for violin and electronics by artists/composers from across Canada. Each piece explores what happens when electroacoustic, multi-media, or improvisational elements stretch the boundaries of what it means to compose/perform/create works for ‘solo’ violin. Filaments features works by Róisín Adams, Ben Wylie, Julia Mermelstein with world premieres by Fjóla Evans and UVic School of Music Assistant Professor Anthony Tan.

Filaments is made possible with generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the SOCAN Foundation.

Archive

University of California, San Diego

Conrad Prebys Music Center, Experimental Theatre

Feb 3rd, 5:00pm

Ilana Waniuk - violin, visuals 

Works by: Julia Mermelstein, Germaine Liu, Ben Wylie, Ilana Waniuk

With: Teresa Díaz de Cossio - flutes, objects, electronics

Program:

Germaine Liu - Puzzle Piece (2019)* - violin, objects

Ben Wylie - Acousmonium III (2019)* - violin, electronics

Julia Mermelstein - Inner forms (2019)* - for solo violin, movement, electronics 

-intermission-

Ilana Waniuk + Teresa Díaz de Cossio - Archive (2023) - for flutes, violin, objects, electronics, fixed and live visuals

About the Program:

Archive features three works that are part of an ongoing collaborative concert project called 'Filaments' for violin and electronics by artists/composers from across Canada and the U.S. Initiated in 2018 by Ilana Waniuk with generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the SOCAN Foundation, each collaboration explores what happens when electroacoustic, multi-media, or improvisational elements stretch the boundaries of what it means to compose/perform/create works for ‘solo’ violin. 

Following a brief intermission, Ilana will be joined by Teresa Díaz de Cossio to perform 'Archive' (2023), an ongoing modular, audiovisual project dedicated to exploring memory, ritual and connection. Created by Ilana Waniuk in collaboration with Teresa Díaz de Cossio, Archive currently consists of a set of IV modules (artifacts) intended to be used as invitations for collaborative audiovisual improvisation and experimentation. Artifacts take the form of video scores, live visuals, graphic or text scores, audio files (digital/analog) and objects.

*Commissioned by Ilana Waniuk with generous support from the Canada Council for the Arts. 

Project Blank: Working Title

St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral

San Diego, CA

About Working Title:

Project Blank’s annual exhibition of local art and music returns with a ritualistic mélange of paintings, sculpture, multimedia art, and live performances. A transborder team of artists and musicians will invade the gothic halls of the historic St. Paul’s Cathedral in Bankers Hill and fill it to the brim with works that explore connections between the earthly and the divine. This three-day, community-based event will include new works, world premieres, and thought provoking performances featuring some of the most exciting creative voices in Southern California, Tijuana, and Baja California curated by Diana Benavidez and Leslie Ann Leytham. Join us as we take a pilgrimage through sacred spaces, profane realities, and everything in between!

AKARI KOMURA: Moon Greeting for solo violin performed by Ilana Waniuk

ILANA WANIUK & TERESA DIAZ DE COSSIO: Archive for flute, electronics, and live visuals

Teresa Díaz de Cossio (objects) and Ilana Waniuk (visuals) pictured with installation by Kat Gunn

Winter Composer Festival (WCF) 2024 Line Upon Line Percussion, presents guest ensemble and festival fellow in^set performing works by Joseph Bourdeau, Jessie Marino, Teresa Díaz de Cossio, David Aguila and Ilana Waniuk.

Friday, January 5th, 2024

CRASHBOX, Austin TX

Click here to buy tickets

We are thrilled to announce the release of TENMC's first solo album, Dark Flower on Redshift Records- featuring the music of revered Canadian composer, Linda Catlin Smith. Our album will be released digitally on Nov 10, 2023, and we will celebrate with an album release concert/party at Array Music on December 21, 2023, featuring world premiere performances, including the Toronto premiere of the album namesake Dark Flower (2020), for piano quartet. Our event will also be a fundraiser for TENMC, with raffles, auctions AND a  holiday party, including seasonal treat and bevvies!

We hope you can make it to celebrate Linda's music in person and join us for some festive merry-making! Pick up some albums as stocking stuffers and help us share the musical wealth!

Buy Tickets Here:

$15 for entrance 
$25 for entrance and physical album

$20 for 1 album
$35 for 2 albums
$50 for 3 albums

Thin Edge New Music Collective would like to thank the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support of this recording. 

Special thanks to Linda Catlin Smith, Dennis Patterson, David Jaeger, Nick Storring, Kristin Messina and our intrepid TENMC family.  

Presented as part of the CALIFORNIA FESTIVAL: A CELEBRATION OF NEW MUSIC, in^set trio performed a program featuring works by Pauline Oliveros, Teresa Díaz de Cossio, Ilana Waniuk, Melissa Vargas Franco, David Aguila, Kotoka Suzuki, exploring the physicality of sound through the medium of cassette tape and the resonance of found objects.

Journey of Sounds: Works for home furniture

WORKS BY: Masoud Khordad, Sahar Helmi, Farshad Arshadi, Arghavan Niroumand, Nasim Nabavi, Sohrab Motabar

in^set performs the world premier of 6 works for home furniture by MOAASER students and faculty as part of Neofonía: Festival de Música Ensenada (Mexico).

Workshop: Creative Notation for Creative Performance

September 28, 29, 30 [9am-12pm]

Description:

Working in small teams, students will have the opportunity to develop a unique compositional concept, and mode of graphic notation. Stemming from their choices, in^set will foster a dialog with students to help guide them through a process of experimentation/problem solving with the ultimate goal of providing a safe space to refine their scores and musical ideas for the final performance. Each participant or team will create a piece to be performed by in^set and/or other participants at an informal performance at the end of the workshop.

Join us for a unique music festival where distinguished musicians perform in the spectacular surroundings of Sunnuhvoll in Bárðardalur Iceland. The musicians performing have received worldwide attention for their work in the field of experimental music.

PROGRAM

Thursday July 20

Sunnuhvoll

8:00 PM Amy Cimin violin

9:00 PM Trio: Ana Luisa de Cossio violin, Cameron Anderton bassoon and Ása Ólafsdóttir guitar

10:00 PM Yvette Jackson: Left Behind - Excerpts from a Radio Opera

Yvette Jackson electronics, Amy Cimini violin, Berglind M. Tómasdóttir flute

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Friday July 21

Lundarbrekka Church

5:00 PM Tiffany Ng organ

Music by Sarah Davachi

Sunnuhvoll

8:00 PM Harp & Arp

Jesper Pedersen electronics and Katie Buckley harp

9:00 PM in^set trio

David Aguila trumpet, Teresa Díaz de Cossio flute and Ilana Waniuk violin

THE VENUE

All the concerts, apart from the organ concerts in Lundbrekkukirkja, take place in the large barn at Sunnuhvoll, Bárðardalur’s no. 1 music hall. All events of the festival will be free, but voluntary donations will be accepted.

Music Director: Berglind María Tómasdóttir

OUR SUPPORTERS

The festival is supported by Music Fund (Tónlistarsjóður) and RÚV's Composers' Fund.

REVERB II

June 22nd, 2023 

8:00pm EST   

918 Bathurst 

Tickets (available at the door ): $15 Students/Seniors/Arts Workers; $20 Adults 

Purchase Tickets Online in Advance

Livestream Link

Join us for the 2nd edition of Reverb, the final in-person concert of TENMC's 2022/2023 season. Our programme will showcase works by Romain Camiolo (Montreal), Nasim Khorassani (Iran), Bekah Simms (UK/CA) and Jocelyn Morlock (CA) alongside world premieres by Luke Nickel (EU/CA) and Devon Osamu Tipp (USA).

Reverb is designed to support artists from a variety of stages in their career through commissioning, premiering works that haven’t had the opportunity to be performed, and providing additional performances of existing compositions. 

Reverb II is presented with generous support from the Canada Council of the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, Codes d'accès and the SOCAN Foundation.   

THIN EDGE NEW MUSIC COLLECTIVE  + THE CANADIAN MUSIC CENTRE PRESENT:

DARK FLOWER

April 16

 8pm EST

digital livestream link

FREE

‘Dark Flower’ is the first in a series of digital concerts marking Thin Edge New Music Collective’s 10th anniversary season. Co-presented in partnership with our friends at the Canadian Music Centre, we are thrilled to be able to share this wonderful digital programme featuring works by Jonathan Bailey Holland, and Sarah Hennies, alongside world premieres by Alex Jang and Linda Catlin Smith. We hope you can join us on April 16th 8pm EST.

We are deeply honoured to announce that TENMC is the recipient of the Canadian League of Composers/Canadian Music Centre 2020 Friends of Canadian Music Award. We have selected Vancouver-based composer Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi as our co-recipient. The prize will be officially presented during the livestreamed concert. 

Read the full announcement at:

http://bit.ly/2020-FCMA-winners 

Dark Flower is free to attend virtually, with the option to contribute a PWYC donation to TENMC through our Canada Helps Page. 

During these difficult times, if you have the means to contribute the price of a ticket, we would like to suggest that in lieu of donating to TENMC, you direct your funds towards the Native Youth Resource Centre.

"The Native Youth Resource Centre provides support and advocacy in the areas of housing, education and employment for Aboriginal youth ages sixteen to twenty-four. While many of our clients have been involved with our Child Welfare services, some are Aboriginal youth who have recently arrived in Toronto. All are seeking opportunities, supports and stability." - Native Child and Family Services of Toronto Website.

Please visit TENMC's events page for more details on the show.