Vancouver New Music
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A bit about our upcoming One-Page Score Project on the Sunshine Coast with Laboratorio... Thanks Coast Reporter! https://www.coastreporter.net//write-that-song-by-painting

Join Adrian Verdejo for an exclusive online concert of solo guitar and electronics. Be the first to hear world premieres by Wolf Edwards and Peter Hannan, alongside recent works by Diego Lozano Verduzco, Julia Mermelstein, and Rodney Sharman. We’re thrilled to be able to present this reimagined program by one of Canada’s finest guitarists.... ADRIAN VERDEJO Premieres February 20 at 2pm PST Stream until February 28 at 2pm PST Tickets on sale now: https://thepointofsale.com/tickets/verdejo In the meantime, enjoy this amazing performance of Wolf Edwards' Cluster Bomb Unit by Duo Verdejo:

In advance of Adrian Verdejo’s upcoming online concert (Feb. 20-28), get into a guitar mood with this playlist featuring Adrian Verdejo, JIJI, Gordon Grdina, Xuefei Yang, Janet Feder, Julia Reidy, Alessandra Novaga, Aram Bajakian and Sundar Subramanian... https://www.mixcloud.com/VancouverNewMusic/for-guitar/ (Also enjoy this fantastic artwork by @apocalypsechow from Guitars! Guitars! the 2007 VNM Festival. We can hardly believe it’s been that long!) ... #guitar #classicalguitar #newmusic #contemporaryclassical #experimentalmusic #sologuitar #linkinbio

In advance of Adrian Verdejo - solo guitar (Feb. 20-28), get into a guitar mood with this playlist featuring Verdejo, JIJI, Gordon Grdina, Xuefei Yang, Janet Feder, Julia Reidy, Alessandra Novaga, Aram Bajakian and Sundar Subramanian... https://www.mixcloud.com/VancouverNewMusic/for-guitar/

Check it out! https://www.parallel03.com/ The Parallel 03 website is now live! Have some fun interacting with sounds, sights and texts that have been filtered, translated, mistranslated and compiled by the collaborators. Then on Saturday, November 28 at 1:30pm PST join the artists for an online chat about their unusual creative process.... #parallel03 Raven Chacon John Dieterich Adrian Avendaño John Brennan Parmela Attariwala Alanna Ho Marina Hasselberg Elisa Ferrari #joelschuman #interactive #newmusic See more

Raven Chacon creates graphic scores using symbols and explores acoustic sounds through electric systems, playing with feedback. His compositions might include h...ome-made instruments of bone, glass, or antlers; accidental field recordings; or guitar pedals with a dying battery. Stir spoke to the artist from the Navajo Nation’s Fort Defiance before streamed concerts here for Chan Centre for the Performing Arts' Dot Com Series and for Vancouver New Music November 28. He's also part of Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, about Indigenous resurgence, at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery to December 6. https://www.createastir.ca/articles/raven-chacon-vancouver

Raven Chacon chats about the nebulous nature of the Parallel 03 project with Stir Vancouver's Gail Johnson... "It's a bit difficult to explain at this moment, because the project is constantly shape-shifting, Chacon tells Stir. Overall, the project has been a process of anonymous equitable generative composition and recording. The Dropboxes and Google Translates and Zoom-Skypes are our instruments to bend. We weren't able to be in the same room, so we will bring you to thi...s neutral space that we met in, which in one form is a vinyl LP, and in another is a web-based instrument anyone can play, and make their own alternate universe of the album. Catch the launch of the Parallel 03 web project (with John Dieterich + the artistic collaborators) online on Nov. 28; and don't miss the presentation of 3 of his pieces (online as well) by the Chan Center UBC. https://www.createastir.ca/articles/raven-chacon-vancouver

Check out this beautiful new video from Deerhoof (feat. Parallel 03 collaborator and 1/2 of Endlings - John Dieterich)...

Our ongoing PARALLELS series brings internationally renowned artists together with local musicians to create new works that are specific to the time, places, and people involved in their creation. Here is a clip from PARALLEL 01: Uri Caine + Ensemble. Full video: https://youtu.be/cagOEDspjc8 Next month we present the latest instalment of PARALLELS with Raven Chacon + John Dieterich. Details forthcoming!... #newmusic #soundart #contemporarymusic #experimentalmusic #vanarts #orchestra #orchestral #orchestralmusic #conductor #vannewmusic #vancouverelectronicensemble See more

Attention drone afficionados! This Wednesday our friends at Vancouver Co-op Radio CFRO's Soundscape and Accordion Noir shows team up for 3 hours of accordion dronescapes for a good cause... The Night the Drone Stood Still Oct 28, 9 PM Midnight Three-hour fundraiser special for Vancouver's Co-op Radio... CFRO 100.5 FM CoopRadio.org Drone, Sustained Tones & Drawn Out Accordion A night of experimental squeezebox jointly presented by Co-op Radio's Soundscape and Accordion Noir For your Spooky Pleasure and the Benefit of Co-op Radio's Fall Fundraising Drive Tune Out with Us and get Spooked! Presented by Brady Marks from Soundscape: FuriousGreenCloud.com Bruce Triggs from Accordion Noir: AccordionUprising.org Donate to support: www.CoopRadio.org Images for this video: Meagan Carsience (All created in-camera with no digital processing!) MCarsience-Photography.com Drone layers: (Immediately go pay for at least one recording from these musicians.) "Would Grandpa Like It? Markus Nikolai Asthmatic Worm (2002 compilation on the Mobilé label. I fear it’s out of print? Great though.) "D2 - (Voce celesteII) Francesco Maria Narcisi & Giacomo Fidanza The Accordion Sessions (2017) http://timereleasedsound.bandcamp.com (With bits of broken accordion included in the CD packaging!) And two tiny fragments from: "O Marie (Live) Lost Bayou Ramblers From their Gasa Gasa Live (2014) http://lostbayouramblers.com/ "The Wild Lankum The Livelong Day (2019) http://lankumdublin.

The Music of Raven Chacon Presented by the Chan Centre for their Dot Com Series Premieres this Friday, November 20, 7pm PST For more info, visit https://chancentre.com/events/raven-chacon/... Please also join Vancouver New Music for PARALLELS 03: Endlings (Raven Chacon + John Dieterich) + Collaborators Saturday, November 28, 1:30pm PST By donation To register, visit https://newmusic.org/parallel-03-endlings/

Here is a snippet of last November’s PARALLEL 02 with Okkyung Lee (USA) leading the audience into the performance centre. Join us online on Saturday, November 28th at 1:30pm PST for the premiere of PARALLEL 03, an interactive web presence that will provide an endlessly varying representation of a collaborative work between New Mexico-based musicians Raven Chacon + John Dieterich (known together as Endlings) and six Vancouver musicians + sound artists. More info: newmusic.org (link in bio) #newmusic #soundart #contemporarymusic #experimentalmusic #collaboration #composer #composition #vanarts #vannewmusic

Watch an excerpt of Oren Ambarchi's dense and intricate performance at The Annex last February. Explore more archived videos on our Vimeo and YouTube channels. Oren Ambarchi’s works are hesitant and tense extended songforms, located in the cracks between several schools of sound-thinking: from modern electronics and processing; to laminal improvisation and minimalism; to the physicality of rock music, slowed down and stripped back to its bare bones, abstracted and replaced with pure signal.

Intertidal room - a soundwalk Artist Chat with Jacek Smolicki Visit our Vimeo channel to listen to a recording of this artist chat, which took place on September 28, 2020.... Details about how to participate in a self-guided version of this soundwalk can be found at our website: newmusic.org "I have spent the last several months traversing such intertidal zones in and around Vancouver. I have observed and listened to its inhabitants wondering how their diligent compliance to cyclical rhythms of nature can derail our human obsession with the constant growth and progression. My attempts to connect with those intertidal critters and learn from them through attentive listening and creative field recording has quickly become accompanied by other qualitative techniques and historical research, including learning from indigenous perspectives on transformations that affected those zones, their inhabitants and their resilient stewards. The resulting work is an audio piece intended to be listened to while walking at low tide, solitarily or collectively. It interweaves elements of creative storytelling, historical research creative field recording, and soundscape composition." - Jacek Smolicki

https://parallel-03-endlings.eventbrite.ca Parallel 03 brings together a new collaboration between New Mexico-based musicians Raven Chacon and John Dieterich (known together as Endlings) and six Vancouver musicians and sound artists utilizing a variety of cross-platform and anonymous methods for composition and improvisation. Composed, recorded, and arranged over four months of isolation in 2020, the eight collaborators became generators, translators, mistranslators and filters for each others’ ideas in an incalculable feedback loop of expansive processes. Join us online on Saturday, November 28th at 1:30pm (PST) for the premiere of an interactive web presence that will provide an endlessly varying representation of the collaborative work.

Then he says something that, to my gardener’s ears, is remarkable: Music shapes space. I ask him what he means. Well, he says, a room that is filled with the vibrations of music is fundamentally different than a quiet one, as far as your body is concerned.... In other words, it feels different. Because you are not separate from the music, you are surrounded by it.

Echoing the words of our friends at Publik Secrets...

If you happen to be in Kamloops check out this self-guided Soundwalk...

Seeking Comfort in Covid Times Created by prOphecy sun Launch date: October 4, 2020 Location: Mount Pleasant Alleyways and Beyond... Duration: approx. 60 minutes Seeking comfort is a 60-minute, self-guided soundwalk that invites participants to stroll, even linger and loiter, and listen to the sounds of Vancouver’s alleys and beyond. As Frauke Behrendt writes, soundwalking is a spatio-temporal, embodied, situated, multi-sensory and mobile practice. Inspired by this and what Jean-Luc Nancy describes as voices possessing a presence that moves and breathes beyond a location, and in particular, Hildegard Westerkamp’s seminal notions on the intermixing of aural ecologies, Seeking comfort encourages listening to the milieu of pandemic life through the lens of public and domestic space. Directions on how to take part in this self-guided soundwalk will be posted on our website newmusic.org on October 4, 2020. They will remain available for you to download so that you can explore the walk in your own time. This soundwalk is part of Culture Days.

***POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN*** New date & time - Sat Oct 3 at 5pm Sold out - if you already have a reservation it will be valid for the new date. If you won’t be able to make it please let us know. Limited wait list now open.

due to rain, wild bells / frequencies / drift has been postponed to saturday, oct. 3 at 5pm (note earlier start time)due to rain, wild bells / frequencies / drift has been postponed to saturday, oct. 3 at 5pm (note earlier start time)

Join us tonight (Tues. Sept. 22) at 6pm PDt for an online chat with Roxanne Nesbitt (Wild Bells) and George Rahi (frequencies) in conversation with Giorgio Magnanensi. We'll be chatting about the concept of "open spaces" both physical and creative ecologies of participation, how instruments of sound can shape or be shaped by diverse experiences and aesthetic sensibilities, and more. There will be a short moderated discussion, then we'll open the conversation to questions ...from everyone. To register/link details at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/artist-chat-wild-bells-frequenc @roxannenesbitt @george.rahi.sounds @publiksecrets

In the spirit of Wild Bells / frequencies / Drift, we offer you a playlist of music by artists who have pushed the limits of traditional instruments by inventing their own. The resulting sounds are as varied as the creations themselves from meditative, to cinematic, to playful, and everything in between. Featuring music by: Harry Partch, Trimpin, Moondog, Stefan Lakatos, Meara O'Reilly, The Vegetable Orchestra, Sarah Angliss, Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong, Paolo Angeli, Dieg...o Stocco, Hildur Guðnadóttir (featuring Halldór Úlfarsson's "halldoraphone"), and Harry Bertoia. Chat about creating instruments, "acoustic commons", and new ways of being through sound with Roxanne Nesbitt and George Rahi this Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 6pm (PDT) https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/artist-chat-wild-bells-frequenc

BC Culture Days | Fête de la culture is coming up! VNM is excited to present 3 events as part of this celebration. Jacek Smolicki's Intertidal room a soundwalk, Wild Bells / frequencies / Drift - sold out, and Seeking Comfort in Covid Times - a soundwalk by prOphecy sun.