Jason Kahn
Alan Licht: About SOUND ART
JazzFest International
Voice ++ 09
May 7 - May 9
Featured Vocalists: Christopher Butterfield [Victoria], Cathy Lewis [Victoria], Susanna Hood [Toronto], Carol Sawyer, Robert Minden and Carla Hallett [Vancouver].
Photo of Susanna Hood by John Lauener
SuperMusique
Noa Frenkel
Friday, February 27, 8 pm; $10/$8
Workshop/Open Rehearsal at: Grace Lutheran Church; 1273 Fort St.
CONTINUITY Zbigniew Karkowski, Atsuko Nojiri, Daniel Menche
Pauline Oliveros
Saturday November 22 - Monday November 24
Saturday, November 22, 8 PM
CONCERT: Pauline Oliveros, solo accordion, electronics and voice at Grace Lutheran Church, 1273 Fort Street at Moss
Sunday, November 23, 1-4 PM
WORKSHOP: Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros at Open Space, 510 Fort Street, Victoria
Monday, November 24, 1 PM
DISCUSSION with Pauline Oliveros at University of Victoria, Philip T Young Recital Hall
triPOD dance collective and Qfwfq, Mating Habits Of The Bower Bird
eldritch priest: the brown study
Inside Pianos
Inside Pianos
Jeffrey Allport, Gust Burns, Andrea Neumann
Friday October 3, 2008 8pm
$12 / $10 students, seniors, members
Jazzfest International 2008
Voice ++
May 3-10, 2008.
The 4th annual Open Space Voice++ Festival, Voicing Up a Storm, descends on Victoria May 3rd to 10th, 2008. This year’s festival features a Vocal Swarm through downtown streets, a live virtual performance with players spread across North America and Europe and the premiere performances of works by iconic American composer Pauline Oliveros, Vancouver composer Jeremy Turner, local composer Cathy Lewis, Coast Salish artist Bradley Dick and Montreal sound artist Kathy Kennedy.
Voice++ performers include the Coast Salish Unity Drummers and Singers, members of Hexaphone, Viviane Houle and Stefan Smulovitz, Christine Duncan, Hypatia, Nick Fairbank, Cari Burdett, the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and many more. Works by these performers and by John Cage, Meredith Monk, Alvin Curran and others are included in the program.
Ad Hoc Ensemble
Saturday April 26, Doors, 7:30pm, Concert 8 PM at Open Space. Tickets $12 Regular, $10 for memebers , seniors and students.
Sunday April 27, Workshop for musicians and those interested in developing improvisational skills, 1 PM at Open Space. Tickets $10
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Kathy Kennedy Workshop
Sunday, February 24, 1-3 PM
Prelude to the 4th annual Open Space Voice++ Festival
Tickets $8
Registration Deadline is February 22. Call Open Space for details.
Sound artist Kathy Kennedy (Montreal) has been commissioned by Open Space and CFUV 101.9 FM Community Campus Radio to compose a community voice work for the 4th annual Open Space Voice++ Festival. The work will be a vocal swarm through the streets of Victoria during the week of the festival May 3 – 10, 2008. As the first phase in creating the piece, Kathy Kennedy is visiting Victoria Sunday February 24 to meet with interested participants and to give a voice workshop at Open Space. Everyone is welcome, regardless of level of experience with voice.
Achim Kaufmann, Frank Gratkowski, Wilbert de Joode
Wood Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music
907 Pandora Ave.
November 25, 2007, Workshop: 5pm, Concert: 8pm
$10/$12
Open Space and the Victoria Conservatory of Music presents the Trio Kaufmann / Gratkowski / de Joode in a concert of Improvised Chamber Music Sunday, November 25 at 8 pm at Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Wood Hall. The trio also offers a workshop for musicians at 5 pm the same day.
Photo: Goran Potkonjak
Gayle Young Residency
Open Space is hosting a residency with Canadian composer, author, and instrument designer Gayle Young from October 27 through November 9, 2007.
Tony Wilson & Carsick
Tony Wilson & Carsick in Concert
Saturday, October 20 8pm
$10/$12
Workshop: Styles of Music Improvisation
Monday, October 22 7 pm
Drop in Fee
Victoria - Critically acclaimed avant garde composer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Tony Wilson works in the jazz and improvisation realms. On October 22, he will present new works from his recently released solo CD Horse’s Dream at Open Space. This Hornby Island based guitarist has inspired audiences for many years with his cutting edge guitar stylings that fall somewhere in between the ambient sounds of Bill Frisell and the more angular atonal playing of Sonny Sharrock.
Gordon Monahan Residency
Gordon Monahan Residency
October 1 -6, 2007
Workshop October 1, 7 pm
Installation October 3 and 4: 11am – 3 pm, October 5: 11am – 7pm, October 6: 11am – 5 pm
Opening and Artist Talk October 5, 7:30 pm
Artist Talk and Screening October 4, 1:30pm
Performance October 4, 8pm
Open Space and the Victoria Conservatory of Music welcome sound artist Gordon Monahan (Toronto, Berlin) to Victoria. Monahan will present an exiting array of sonic works, including a new 8-channel sound installation, a performance featuring solo piano, Theremin and swinging speakers, an artist talk and a workshop all taking place Monday October 1 to Saturday October 6.
New Music Workshop Series
October 1 — December 3
Open Space introduces a New Music Workshop Series facilitated by an array of local and visiting composers, musicians and sound artists, each offering their unique perspective on the creation of real-time music.
Audiospace 2007
Audiospace 2007 features the work of Chantal Dumas, who was commissioned by Open Space New Music to write a Call for Submissions and to create a sound piece for the Audiospace web gallery.
The Call for Submissions was sent electronically to audio, media and art lists and was active from April to June 15, 2007. 17 audio submissions were received and include an eclectic array of electronic, recorded acoustic and mixed works from solo artists, duos and ensembles, one of which is performed by an Avatar Orchestra by way of the Second Life virtual reality site.
The Audiospace 2007 gallery is open for pubic listening, viewing and input until November 19, 2007. Visitors to the site are invited to make comments through the Comment function embedded in each artist's submission page, and to interact by clicking on the Interact page to vote on 5 questions. Visitor input will determine the financial remuneration available to the artists who have submitted works.
Click here to enter Audiospace 2007.
Audiospace is a web-based audio art project within the Open Space New Music program that explores the Internet as a venue for sound works. Audiospace provides a forum for artists and World Wide Web community members to discuss and investigate the impact of the Internet on the creation, dissemination and perception of sound, music, and human interaction.
Jazzfest International
Jazzfest International
IMP(s) (Victoria)
Monday, June 25 2007
8:00pm doors at 7:30pm
$12.00
ZMF Trio (Vancouver/Toronto/New York)
Friday, June 29 2007
8:00pm doors at 7:30pm
$15.00
Marianne Trudel Quintet (Quebec)
Saturday, June 30 2007
8:00pm doors at 7:30pm
$15.00
Gamelan Madu Sari
Gamelan Madu Sari (Vancouver)
In concert Saturday, June 9, 2007 8 PM
Workshop June 4 - June 8.
Searching for Semar and other new collaborative works for Gamelan Orchestra and live interactive digital media.
Featuring Javanese artist Sutrisno Hartana with Vancouver composer/performers Michael O’Neill, Andrew Czink, Mark Parlett, Ben Rogalsky and Kenneth Newby and the 12-member Madu Sari ensemble.
Voice + +
Voice + +
Monday May 7 - Saturday May 12
Workshops: Free. Concerts: $10/$12 or $20 for 3
The 3rd annual Voice++ Festival continues open space's exposition of the depths and edges of human vocal expression. Voice++ brings together local and national practitioners in performances, collaborations and public workshops that illuminate relations between people, places, cultures, and technologies - all through the human voice.
Voice ++ offers 3 concert performances, a range of community workshops, an artist panel discussion and a Voice++ Listening Room from May 7 through May 12 at Open Space.
Voice ++ begins Monday evening, May 7, with the opening of the Voice++ Listening Room, a reception, DVD screening and a preview performance by 2 of Canada’s most adventurous vocalists. Christine Duncan, regarded by National critics as “one of the most elastic and versatile vocal instruments in Canada” is joined by Festival alumnus and well-known experimental vocal specialist DB Boyko in a wild mix of selections from their recently released CD Idiolalla. The evening also offers the first workshop by Duncan and Boyko to start the creation of Large Noise Goes Walking (At Dusk), a community-created composition commissioned for the Voice++ Festival by CFUV Community Campus Radio. Victoria singers and musicians are invited to collaborate with Duncan and Boyko in workshops May 7 – 11 to form a Voice++ ensemble that will perform the created work on Saturday, May 12.
East Van Strings
François Houle, Joëlle Léandre, Raymond Strid
François Houle, Joëlle Léandre, Raymond Strid
New Music
Saturday, November 4, 9pm
Internationally acclaimed clarinetist François Houle joins forces with French virtuoso bassist and composer, Joëlle Léandre and Swedish percussionist Raymond Strid for an evening of incomparable sound. Houle’s performances and recordings embrace diverse musical spheres: classical, jazz, new music, improvised music, and world music. Joëlle Léandre performs contemporary classical music (Scelsi, Wolff, Bussotti, Kagel), plays improvised music, works with theatre directors and poets, and performs as a soloist. Raymond Strid first came to prominence with the Swedish band Gush (Mats Gustafsson, Sten Sandell). He creates sounds, colours, and movements that give his music a clear body and character that is balanced against the intuitive and unexpected.
Telephone: 20 Questions and Other Guessing Games
Telephone: 20 Questions and Other Guessing Games
Thursday, October 5, 8 pm
Tickets $8 members/students/seniors, $10 general
A collaboration spanning two cities over 13,000 km apart, Telephone puts a modern technological twist on a classic campfire game. Navigating through a sonic territory of shifting tectonic plates, these artists stitch together ambient soundscape, Toyko influenced noise mayhem, raw effects and irresistible groove with threads of irony and dark humour. This innovative intercontinental exchange of sounds and ideas made its debut at the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne, Australia in March 2006. Victoria is Telephone’s second engagment on a four-city Canadian tour.
external links:
Western Front (Vancouver)
www.front.bc.ca
westspace (Melbourne, Australia)
www.westspace.org.au
Tetuzi Akiyama, Jeffery Allport and Amy Horvey
Tetuzi Akiyama, Jeffery Allport and Amy Horvey
510 Fort Street
July 3rd
8pm
Tetuzi Akiyama (guitar)
Fresh from having his album “Route 13 to the Gates of Hell: Live in Tokyo” named one of the top 50 albums of 2005 by Wire Magazine, Tetuzi Akiyama uses his performances to think beyond the mere conventions of music in an attempt to come to terms with sound. Combining a unique blend of sultry country blues and exploratory free improvisation, Akiyama’s experimental guitar playing crosses genres and techniques, using acoustic and electric guitar, a resonator guitar combined with a Samurai sword, and turntable without records. This performance is part of his U.S./Canada Tour, funded by the Japan Foundation.
Jeffrey Allport (percussion)
The improvisations of Vancouver-based percussionist Jeffrey Allport eschew the grand gesture in favour of inhabiting a minute sound-world of carefully extracted tones and scrapes, as well as silence itself. Through a variety of preparations and extended techniques, Allport uses his diverse palette to paint improvised solo sound-pictures, as well as to colour and shade the improvisatory efforts of his collaborators. Allport has recorded and collaborated with a wide variety of artists and improvisers, and has toured in Canada, the United States, Japan and Western Europe
Amy Horvey (trumpet)
Amy Horvey returns to Victoria (where she received her BMus.) having established herself as a leading international interpreter of cutting-edge Classical music. Horvey’s intimate style shuns the machismo of the traditional trumpet to investigate the instrument’s sonic architecture. Amy is a trumpeter with the Thunder Bay Symphony, teaches at Lakehead University, and is currently touring Canada with a program of new music for trumpet.
Hildegard Westerkamp Soundscape Residency and Concert
Hildegard Westerkamp Soundscape Residency and Concert
May 24 – 27, 2006
All events at Open Space, 510 Fort Street, Victoria
Call 383-8833 for more information