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Welcome To Array’s 2021|22
Spring/Summer 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!

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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.

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We’re super excited for @apureapparatus Spire Choir tomorrow. The show will be available in person at the Array Space and online (link in bio) at 6pm and 8pm. This show is a co-presentation with @mocatoronto

This Friday @ Array: The Spire Choir
8PM
Free Livestream
PWYC In-Person

The Spire Choir is a sound performance involving a human performer and a bio-sensing voicing apparatus that is co-crafted by Xuan Ye and Jason Doell. Performing with and in algorithms, the Spire Choir intersects the acts of vocal improvisation, mindful movement and neurofeedback.

The resulting soundscape spires up through multimodal entanglements of sound, mind, body and cognitive technologies.

This project is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

https://www.arraymusic.ca/spire-choir-2022-featuring-xuan-ye/

An incredible group of composers has been hard at work with the Evergreen Club Gamelan at Array all month!

Come see the Young Composers Workshop Concert, THIS THURSDAY @ Array

The event will also be livestreamed on Array's Youtube Channel

Find out more at our website

Introducing our new board member: Adam Tindale

Adam Tindale is an electronic drummer and digital instrument designer. He is an Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Digital Futures Initiative at OCAD University. Adam performs on his E-Drumset: a new electronic instrument that utilizes physical modeling and machine learning with an intuitive physical interface. He completed a Bachelor of Music at Queen’s University, a Masters of Music Technology at McGill University, and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Music, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Victoria.

July 8 @ Array: ARRAY PRESENTS THE SPIRE CHOIR (2022) – Featuring Xuan Ye
July 8, 2022 @ 6 PM and 8 PM ET--LINK IN BIO

https://www.arraymusic.ca/spire-choir-2022-featuring-xuan-ye/

Get to know our new board member: Michael Palumbo

Michael Palumbo (BFA, MA) is an electroacoustic music improviser, teacher, and developer. His PhD research spans distributed creativity, temporality, and version control systems.

Performing under the pseudonym thispatcher, he has released two albums: Guitar Smattering, featuring solo performances for electric guitar and modular synth, and Early Electroacoustic Works Vol. 1 & Vol. 2, a selection of his compositions from 2005-2014.

He teaches private lessons on a wide range of topics, see here for more info.

He is the producer and host of the monthly electroacoustic improvisation show Exit Points, and regularly performs with his voice, a hardware modular synthesizer and his own code as a soloist and in the telematic ensembles Void * Ambience, and The Placeholder Group.

Michael has presented his research internationally, including in the Journal of New Music Research and at such conferences as ISEA, NIME, Expo ’74, AES, and Network Music Festival.

Introducing our new board member: Afraaz Adam Mulji

I am looking forward to serving the exemplary experimental ethos, pathos and logos Array music has stalwartly embodied and championed; since its inception. I vow to steer the organization in the best interests of the constituents, and fastidiously champion best practices, while reaching out and developing impactful partnerships across the globe. As an intersectional Canadian; the vision for a highly inclusive and responsive institution that will become the paragon upon which other organisations will be modeled, Insha'Allah, is my hope and prayer for Array Music.

Introudcing our new board member, Michelle Breslin:

Array music has been one of those places in Toronto that I have looked to over the years to see who's doing what, and what kind of interesting music is going on. I'll be the first to tell you, I haven't experienced enough of what happens there!
Working with Array Music on the board of directors would be such an excellent opportunity to learn and to help shape the coming years of the musical community in this city, and across the country and to participate in illuminating its wonderful history.

One of my mom's favourite photos of me is when I visited the Array Evergreen Gamelon studio. I can see it too, my smile is just so joyful and I'm surrounded by beautiful instruments. I probably had just hit the gong behind me.

I can't wait to see what's next!

Get to know our new board members, starting with Amahl Arulanandam @amahl.arulanandam

"When I was first starting out in the New Music/Experimental Music scene in Toronto, Array Space served as a meeting place, concert venue and hub for the community and I would work with and meet many people who would become good friends and working partners.

I would like to help Array continue to foster this and be a real cornerstone in the strange music community, or arts community in general for artists both local and abroad."

Please give a warm Arraymusic welcome to our new board members! Amahl Arulanandam, Michelle Breslin, Afraaz Adam Mulji, Michael Palumbo & Adam Tindale!

Contemporary Dance Returns to Array with @nostoscollectives BAD RITUALS, June 10 & 11

Get your tickets at LINK IN BIO

This Saturday @ Array: IDR Italian Doc Remix, an Array Co-Presentation

IDR’s new album Pandemonium focuses on the crossover between Italian folkloric/early music sources fused with jazz, improvisation & rock!

IDR presents its new album Pandemonium, focused on the crossover between Italian folkloric/early music sources fused with jazz, improvisation and rock, all blended in a Downtown New York sound.

https://www.arraymusic.ca/italian-doc-remix/

We’ve had such a blast with @emergensies.collective over the past few days. Still one more live show to go! Come by for 5pm to catch the last performance! Admission free

This weekend @ Array: Emergensies Collective Presents: Interstitial Space; curated by Array's own Dan Tapper

Emergensies Collective pair music and animation, with a focus on creating visual content in response to sonic creation and exploration. Their most recent works are structured around composition for solo vibraphone emphasizing the use of extended techniques and exploration of the vibraphone.

The extended and experimental techniques of this process are mirrored in the animations, using rotoscoping techniques to abstractly track the motion of performance, rather than to create a direct figurative copy.

In this upcoming performance installation Emergensies Collective will create a space utilizing multiple projections and animations in accompaniment with live vibraphone performance and experimentation. The exhibition will be available to experience at the Array Space between May 7th to May 9th.

https://www.arraymusic.ca/emergensises-collective/

TONIGHT:CCMC CONCERT 4 @ 8PM ET
Livestream link in bio

We are getting pumped for @emergensies.collective upcoming show! The work will be on view during the day May 7th, 8th and 9th with an opening event on May 7th at 7.30pm.
Come by to see beautiful audiovisual animations presented on multiple screens!

More info can be found through the link in our bio

🚨🚨TONIGHT @ 8PM--Join us for Situated Sounds: Biologies, featuring: Andrew Raffo Dewar, Adam Tindale & Colin Clark, and Arraymusic's very own Dan Tapper!
FREE LIVESTREAM-LINK IN BIO👀👀

It was 50 years ago today
Some composers had some songs to play
Their hip new music was all in style
And they were guaranateed to raise an eye

So may I introduce to you
Celebrating
50 years of Array!!!

Array is turning 50 TOMORROW!

Please join us on April 20 at 7pm for a special broadcast featuring Array's history, plus interviews with Array VIPs past and present--LINK IN BIO

This Friday @ Array: ARRAY CO-PRESENTS: Thollem/ACVilla/Sorbara
LINK IN BIO FOR MORE INFO
8PM
Live Performance @ Array Space: $10 at the door (cash only)
Livestream Online: Free

We welcomed an audience to the Array Space for the first time in what felt like forever for @hello_gold_cove Adrian Berry's RITUAL, a multimedia installation
Thank you to Adrian and their team for transforming our space!

Announcing: An Evening with Leela Gilday LIVE in-person & online from Lula Lounge!

Featuring:
Dawn and Shawna Redskye
Mimi O'Bonsawin (livestream only)

We've teamed up with our friends at Small World Music and Lula Lounge to celebrates the Spring Equinox with female Indigenous music powerhouses, Leela Gilday, and sister duo, Dawn & Shawna Redskye.

This event will also be broadcast live for those who are unable to join us in person, featuring a virtual-only performance by Mimi O'Bonsawin on TKMF's Youtube Channel

Tickets: at the link in bio

This event is generously supported by Factor and The Department of Canadian Heritage

This Friday @ Array: Audiopollination returns with the very first in-person event of the year!!
Doors at 7:30pm for a 8pm start
$10 or PWYC--limited space, masks mandatory

The event will also be live-streamed from the Array Youtube channel
Set 1:
Dimitar Pentchev/ Thispatcher
Set 2:
Paul Newman/ Sarah Albu / Allison Cameron/ Elizabeth Lima
Set 3:
KARLA: (Yunjin Claire Lee and Roni Newman)
KARLA is an art collective formed by the modular synthesis company Rabid Elephant and Toronto keyboardist Yunjin Claire Lee. Yoni Newman (Rabid Elephant of Toronto) and Yunjin have been making music together since 2018, releasing their debut album 'KARLA Is Here' (2019) and co-producing Yunjin's album 'Voluntary Response (2020). Drawing from their backgrounds in visual arts, film, and music brings them to produce cinematic soundscapes.

It was a pretty wild process, but we have a new piano!! Thank you to Ed at Gallery 345 for letting us have his baby, and thank you @braymorecrane for getting it into the building!

Tune in tonight for a FREE broadcast of Audiopollination featuring: Jessica Houghton & Rob Clutton

LINK IN BIO

We've been busy recording all week and we can't wait to share PREMIERES with you on February 19! This online event features 6 premieres of 6 new works by acclaimed composers from Ontario & abroad

Get your tickets at the LINK IN BIO

Squad goals

#50yearsofArray

Your February 2022 Arraymusic Month at a Glance

Go to arraymusic.ca for more info