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Welcome To Array’s 2021|22
Fall/Winter Season!

We invite you to dive deep into contemporary music with Array this season! We look forward to seeing you at the Array Space as live audiences return to select concerts, and we’re introducing post-concert online Cocktail Chats for Array Ensemble shows so you can meet the artists. Enjoy!

Audiopollination

Audiopollination 2: Akimbo+O’Reilly | Hall+Lima

December 10, 2021 @ 8:00 pm ET

-And- (curated by Christof Migone)

December 12, 2021 @ 12:00 pm ET

Audiopollination

Audiopollination 3: Bill Gilliam & Eugene Martynec

January 14, 2022 @ 8:00 pm ET

Canadian Creative Music Collective 2

January 28, 2022 @ 8:00 pm ET

Four New Works

February 5, 2022 @ 8:00 pm ET

Audiopollination

Audiopollination 4: Jessica Houghton & Rob Clutton

February 11, 2022 @ 8:00 pm ET`

Canadian Creative Music Collective 3

February 25, 2022 @ 8:00 pm ET

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50+ Friends Who Care

New This Season! Micro-grants for Artists Selected by Array’s Donors!

Arraymusic News

Oct. 28, 2021 • Introducing Array’s new House Manager.

Accepting Applications For. . .

Emerging Composers Workshop • And much more!

Living Room Talks

Digital magazine & video interviews w/ artists

The Array Ensemble

Don’t miss out! Discover Array’s amazing chamber ensemble this season!

Equity

Array Is committed to inclusivity. Read Arraymusic’s Equity Action Plan

Array Space Access Program

LGBTQ, BIPOC and people living with a disability, needing support to rent our Array Space for your art can apply to our Array Space Access Program.

Array to Zed Podcasts

Explore the wonder-full world of contemporary music

ArrayTV.com

Check out our free video-sharing archive chocked full of cool performance videos

Arraymusic in Pictures

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Tune in December 12 for -And- (Curated by Christof Migone)

Organized by Toronto artist Christof Migone, -And- is a 12 hour online event featuring 32 artists from six countries across three continents. The second in a series of twelve annual events based on the 12-word phrase ‘you and I are water each fire air of life and death’, -And- focuses on repetitions, conjunctions, duos, and open possibilities.

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Up next at Array: Audiopolination featuring: Glen Hall + Elizabeth Lima & Heraclitus Akimbo + Patrick O'Reilly -DECEMBER 10, 2021 @ 8PM ET

Register for the free livestream and learn more at the link in bio

The Array Ensemble's presentation of Gradients of Detail: A Chiyoko Szlavnics retrospective is starting TONIGHT at 8pm. Get your tickets: $25/Pay What You Want LINK IN BIO

The Array Ensemble's first performance of the year is TONIGHT! TIckets for the livestream at the link in our bio

Join us for a special presentation of Gradients of Detail: A Chiyoko Szlavnics Retrospective, livestream at 8pm

Program Notes
Gradients of Detail (2005-6), string quartet
by Chiyoko Szlavnics

Gradients of Detail was commissioned by Montréal-based Quatour Bozzini through the Canada Council for the Arts, in 2005. It premiered in Berlin at Maerzmusik in the Spring of 2006. It was the second of a long series of drawing-based compositions I completed between 2004-2014.

The composition's extremely challenging material was inspired by the acoustical concept of a 'critical band': (the band of audio frequencies within which a second tone will interfere with the perception of the first tone by auditory masking. Wikipedia, October 24, 2021). I had been introduced to the concept by James Tenney's 1988 composition, Critical Band, and decided it would be interesting to place most of Gradients of Detail within it, i.e., to mostly compose non-unisons or clusters, using harmonic series based intervals.

The composition's drawings reveal how its form was conceived as a triptych; how such exceptionally-sustained music was intuitively designed to unfold in time, and in pitch space––how the narrowing and expansion of the space(s) between the pitches create various structural dynamics throughout the piece. They also reveal how unisons and silences are important structural elements, with the silences providing the listener with a few moments to release the intensity of the 'just heard', before the music continues.

Resembling plant structures, the drawings were inspired by my childhood encounters with the alien-looking milkweed plant: its pods, its delightful silky parachute seeds, and its occasionally-visiting striped caterpillars. It turns out that Milkweed is the only plant on which the Monarch butterfly will lay its eggs. Tragically, I have recently learned that 'modern' agricultural practices have largely destroyed the habitats of this precious plant along the Monarch butterfly's migration routes in North America.

Get to know composer Chiyoko Szlavnics ahead of our special retrospective on Saturday!

Born and raised in Toronto, Chiyoko Szlavnics has had a Berlin-based practice for twenty-three years. Her first compositions were written for her own musical trio, as well as for contemporary dance projects, in the early 1990s. She joined Hemispheres Music Projects in 1992, and 40 fingers saxophone quartet in 1993, at the invitation of Nic Gotham. While composing for both ensembles, Szlavnics often consulted with James Tenney, whose invaluable input is still relevant to her work today. A year-long Fellowship grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude took Szlavnics to southern Germany in 1997. Following her residency, Szlavnics moved to Berlin and joined its burgeoning experimental music scene, vigorously exploring music in just intonation.

Around the year 2003, drawings became the basis for Szlavnics’s compositions. This new-found graphic approach led to the creation of abundant compositions for acoustic instruments (solo to chamber orchestra, sometimes together with sinewaves), as well as pure sinewave pieces exploring density and non-unison beating. In 2010, Szlavnics began creating more complex “moiré” drawings. These drawings quickly became an independent artistic ouevre, and have since been included in international exhibitions featuring sound-inspired visual art.

Chiyoko Szlavnics’s compositions have been presented at numerous European festivals, and performed at locations as varied as Seoul, Tel Aviv, Ostrava (Czech Republic), Vienna, Linz (Austria), Bellelay Abbey (Switzerland), Berlin, Donaueschingen, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Brussels, Turku (Finland), Oslo, Montréal, Toronto, New York, Guelph, Regina, Los Angeles and Vancouver. Her music has been featured numerous times in German radio broadcasts and print media, and in international webcasts and blogs. Szlavnics is currently composing a new piece for six voices from the London-based EXAUDI ensemble, drawing inspiration from Anne Carson’s remarkable book: “Eros The Bittersweet”.

https://www.arraymusic.ca/gradients-of-detail-chiyoko-szlavnics-retrospective/

Keep up to date with your Arraymusic month at a glance! We've got The CCMC on November 26, and Chiyoko Szlavnics on November 27 LINK IN BIO

The CCMC returns to Array Friday, November 26!

Join us at 8pm for this free livestream event--Check out our website for more details

Tune in to @situatedsounds:Eulogies, TONIGHT at 8pm
PWYC, suggested donation $25

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Tonight's the Night! Our season kicks off at 8pmwith Audiopolination featuring @dianeroblin & @yvonneng--Free

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Get to know @kristinaguison, one of the curators behind @situatedsounds ahead of this Saturday's show!

Kristina Guison is a Manila-born and raised, sculpture/installation, performance artist and tattoo artist. She completed a BFA in Sculpture/Installation at OCAD University in 2016 and is currently pursuing a specialist in Psychology and a double minor in Biology/Anthropology at University of Toronto. She has exhibited work and participated in artist residencies in Canada, The Philippines and Spain.

Shooting with @puppetmongers was such a treat! We can't wait to see the final product!

Our team is ready to capture and edit your next video project. Contact us for more details

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We are incredibly excited to invite a small studio audience to our broadcast of: Gradients of Detail: Chiyoko Szlavnics Retrospective, performed live by the Array Ensemble!

Tickets for this event are very limited, so get yours now at the link in our bio

To find out more about how we're keeping audiences safe, please see our website

Our season kicks off this Friday with Audiopolination, featuring Yvonne Ng and Diane Roblin! Join us for this free online event, starting at 8pm-LINK IN BIO

We had so much fun recording with the @operaqueens!!

Array is fully-equipped for your next video shoot or performance recording

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Our 2021|2022 season kicks off Friday November 12 with Audiopolination, featuring Yvonne Ng and Diane Roblin

Join us for this free online event, starting at 8pm-LINK IN BIO

Join us virtually for @situatedsounds IV: Eulogies November 13 @ 8pm. Tickets $25/PWYW LINK IN BIO

Situated Sounds opens its 2nd season with Situated Sounds IV: Eulogies, inviting artists to respond by contemplating on Eulogies and their vast connections to memory, pasts, laments, celebrations, completions, and endings, as preludes to new trajectories.

Welcome to the new arraymusic.com as we officially launch our 2021|2022 season!

You can check out all the details at the link in our bio!

We are taking this step to keep our community and everyone who is entering our space.

We are open for the fall!

The Array Space is available to rent for concerts, rehearsals, livestreams, classes and more!

Please note that due to COVID restrictions, we are currently operating at half capacity with social distancing and masking requirements.

For more information, please visit https://www.arraymusic.ca/array-space/rent/ or click the link in our bio

We’d like to take a moment to introduce our new House Manager, Conor McSweeny!

Conor comes to us after having served as the City Director at Sofar Sounds Toronto, as well as the Bookings Manager at 918 Bathurst Centre, and brings a wealth of experience to Array.

When he’s not putting on events, Conor likes playing music and taking photos with cameras that are older than he is.

Welcome to the Array Community!

3 World Premieres of new music by Up-and-Coming Composers' who worked with Composer Mentor Raven Chacon as part of Arraymusic's intensive Young Composers' Workshop & Concert Program - FREE Concert this Sat. July 24 8PM- *|arraymusic.ca|*

@situatedsounds tomorrow at 8pm featuring @theothertimfeeney @_sebastien_r_ @sheldon.storey

Some images of what to expect in @amahl.arulanandam Array performance tonight. Amahl will be performing work by @sophdupuis alongside his own original music.

Tune in for @isladen.world tonight at 8pm! Isla Den presents a live audio-visual performance of their 2020 release Virtual Garden. Live footage and expanded audio arrangements are paired with analog and digital video environments depicting the world the songs exist within. #newmusic #experimentalmusic #CMC #contemporarymusic

Get ready for an amazing audio-visual performance by @isladen.world streaming tomorrow at 8pm as part of the Interstitial Space series! Concert info can be found in our bio

Pandemic Pieces by Sandeep Bhagwati -
Concert This Friday and Saturday
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We are getting ready for Yaz Lancaster’s @yeehawyaz “Interstitial Space” concert on May 31st and wanted to share this beautiful clip from “wind_down_2”.

Swipe to see Yaz’s bio and concert program. Program designed by Yaz.
Concert link is in our bio!

Upcoming Micro-Concert Mon May 31 @8PM featuring Yaz Lancaster as part of Array's new Interstitial Space Series! Find our free livestream link on *|https://www.arraymusic.ca/|* FREE