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COMING UP...
Quasar quatuor de saxophones (Montreal)
30 Jan 2010; 8pm | Scotiabank Dance Centre [more info...]

Sonic Tonic - Vancouver New Music Concert Series
8, 15 & 22 April 2010; 8pm | Scotiabank Dance Centre
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2009-10 SEASON
>> COMMUNITY
Soundwalks
Soundwalk
Led by Chris O'Connor
Sunday, September 20, 2009, 2pm
Meeting location: Strathcona at Hawks and Georgia (corner of MacLean Park)
Free
This soundwalk will utilize both drawing (on paper) and movement (in space) while exploring the curiosities of this historic neighbourhood.

False Creek Soundwalk
Led by Kristen Roos
Sunday, September 27, 2009, 2pm
meeting location: the courtyard of the Plaza of Nations at the stage in front of the Edgewater Casino (750 Pacific Blvd.)
Free
This soundwalk listens to the aural environment that currently exists around False Creek. Tourism, consumerism and global economic forces predominantly define the spaces explored during the walk.


Soundwalks are FREE and open to the public, but participants must call to reserve: 604.633.0861. Participants should be sure to wear appropriate footwear and clothing for any weather condition.

A Soundwalk is a silent group walk led along a planned route to experience a location's ambiance and underlying rhythms. All too often the sounds of the environment pass by unnoticed because of our uncanny ability to shut them out. A Soundwalk enables its participants to actively listen, opening ears and consciousness to the complex orchestration that the environment is composing at all times. It is a musical-sonic adventure that reveals the banal to be extraordinary!



>> SPECIAL EVENT
Kolot (sounds/voices)
Saturday, October 3, 2009; 8pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Free artist chat at 7pm
Tickets $25 regular, $15 student/senior, available from Sikora’s Classical Records (432 West Hastings) at Tickets Tonight (ticketstonight.ca/ 604.684.2787, surcharges apply) and at the door.

World Premiere of a new work by Dániel Péter Biró (Victoria); featuring Contralto Noa Frenkel (Isreal/Netherlands), Pianist Sven Thomas Kiebler (Germany), and works by Luigi Nono, and Chaya Czernowin.
http://people.finearts.uvic.ca/~dpbiro/

Kolot was commissioned with the assistance of the British Columbia Arts Council Music Commissioning Program and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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>> FESTIVAL
Copyright/Copyleft
Vancouver New Music Festival 2009
21 – 24 October 2009,
concert @ 8pm each night
Free ARtist chats @ 7pm each night
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Tickets $20 regular, $15 students/seniors each night; available at Zulu Records (1972 West 4th Avenue), Scratch Records (726 Richards Street), through Tickets Tonight (ticketstonight.ca; 604.684.2787; surcharges apply) and at the door. Passes for all four nights $60 and $40, available only through Vancouver New Music (604.633.0861) and at the door.

A festival of sonic collagism, and the art of sampled and repurposed sounds and images. Featuring Jackson 2bears, Uri Caine, Chris Cutler, DJ Tapes, Eric The Red, Holzkopf, Mark Hosler (Negativland), John Oswald, People Like Us (Vicki Bennett), Scanner, David Shea and Sonarchy.

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Free panel discussion– Negative Landscapes
Saturday, 24 October 2009, 2:30pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
A discussion about copyright/copyleft, intellectual property rights and art with Peter Hatch, Doug Horne, Mark Hosler, Martha Rans and Aja Rose Bond; moderated by Kate Milberry.

>> SPECIAL EVENT
Hofesh Shechter Company (London)
(in association with DanceHouse)
Uprising and In your rooms
Friday, November 6 2009, 8pm
Saturday, November 7 2009, 8pm
Vancouver Playhouse (Hamilton and Dunsmuir)Tickets Adult - Premium seating $65, Regular seating $59; Senior - Premium seating $62, Regular seating $56; Student - $35 (with valid ID only. Student price tickets are limited.) Tickets go on sale September 8 through www.ticketmaster.ca

Hofesh Shechter (formerly with Batsheva Dance Company) is a fast rising star of the UK dance scene. His work is supremely physical, embracing elegant stage compositions and charged with engaging ideas. Uprising is an energetic and muscular work for seven men. In your rooms is “an arrestingly powerful piece” (The Guardian) for 11 dancers and five musicians with an original score by the choreographer. Both pieces brim with playful, gritty physicality that is at times provocative, political and personal, presenting a society which is scarily alienating, yet shockingly familiar.

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The Collaborative Relationship: Choreographer/Composer
(in association with The Dance Centre)
Saturday, November 7, 2009, 11:30Am
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Free
A panel discussing the collaboration between choreographers and composers; featuring Hofesh Shechter and others.

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>>COMMUNITY
Sonic Playground - Painted Sounds
Graphic Scores - notations and visual representations
co-presented by Western Front New Music
Sunday, November 15, 2009, 11am - 5pm
Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue
FREE, however as the number of participants is limited, please email giorgio [at] newmusic [dot] org by November 8, 2009 to register.

Painted Sounds is a workshop that will focus on the use of graphic notation, where signs and symbols are used to represent sounds.  Using graphic notation both composers and performers do not need any prior knowledge of how to write or read traditional musical notation. All participants will be encouraged to engage in large-scale abstract drawings that will form the basis for one collective or multiple graphic scores that will then be interpreted and performed by the group. At the end of the workshop participants will give a live music performance of the piece(s) they've created. Bring your own instruments and your voice.

>> SPECIAL EVENT
Baby Dee (NYC)
Saturday, December 5, 2009; 8pm
Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews
Tickets $20 regular, $15 student/senior available from Tickets Tonight (ticketstonight.ca/604.684.2787, surcharges apply) and at the door.

Performance artist, classically trained harpist, church organist, circus sideshow veteran, freak-show musician and transgender street legend, Baby Dee delivers surreal, cabaret-infused ballads on piano, harp and accordion.
http://www.babydee.org/

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>>COMMUNITY
Complaints Choir
The Vancouver Complaints Choir is back with more complaints!
Date TBC, 2010
Various locations
Complaints & participants needed!
An all new Complaints Choir with all new complaints woven into song by Veda Hille. Email giorgio [at] newmusic [dot] org if you're interested in being part of the choir..
http://www.complaintschoir.org/


>> COMMUNITY
Phil Minton - Feral Choir
Workshop: January 22 - 24, 2010
Performance: Sunday, January 24, 2010, 4pm
Free Workshop & Performance
Ironworks Studio, 235 Alexander Street
Phil Minton’s Feral Choir workshop has been a hit all over the world.  A renowned singer and improviser, Minton will lead a choir of community participants in a fun and experimental vocal workshop and performance.

Free to participate! if you're interested in participating please email info [at] newmusic [dot] org before January 18, 2010. No experience necessary!

The workshops will be followed by a public performance of the choir on Sunday, January 24 at 4pm.
http://www.philmintonsferalchoir.com/

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>> SPECIAL EVENT
Quasar - quatuor de saxophones (MonTreaL)
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 8pm
Free artist chat at 7pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
Tickets $25 regular, $15 student/senior available from Tickets Tonight (ticketstonight.ca/604.684.2787, surcharges apply) and at the door.

Ardent devotees of the music of our time, the Quasar saxophone quartet is dedicated to premiering and promoting contemporary music that is multi-dimensionally conceived. Celebrated for its energy, audacity and exceptional technical ability, Quasar explores different aspects of artistic creation from instrumental music to live electronics, from improvisation to instrumental theatre. Quasar received two OPUS prizes.
http://www.quasar4.com/

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>>CONCERT SERIES
Vancouver New Music Concert Series -
April 2010
Tickets for each concert $25 regular, $15 students/seniors available from Tickets Tonight (ticketstonight.ca/604.684.2787, surcharges apply) and at the door. Passes for all 3 concerts are available only through Vancouver New Music (604.633.0861) and at the door
Quatuor Bozzini (Montreal)
Thursday, April 8, 2009, 8pm
Free artist chat 7pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
$25/$15; passes also available (see details above)
Moving freely from avant-garde events to traditional concerts, the Bozzini Quartet was recently qualified by the Irish Times as a "group which gets its teeth into music. Quiet or loud, fast or slow, these Canadian musicians play with compelling engagement". Deeply devoted to music as a universal language, these four young artists fervently communicate their musical esthetics, transcending time and space - old music or new music, unknown music or famous music, strange music or familiar music.

Kuniko Kato (Japan)
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 8pm
Free artist chat 7pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
$25/$15; passes also available (see details above)
Featured in last year's Solus festival of virtuoso musicians, percussionist Kuniko Kato returns to Vancouver for a solo performance. Kato is a spectacular, energetic and multi-award winning performer.

Sounds Unlikely (ON/BC)
Premieres of new works by Peter Hatch and Marci Rabe
Thursday, April 22, 2010, 8pm
Free artist chat 7pm
Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street
$25/$15; passes also available (see details above)
This concert features new works new works for Western and Asian instruments by Peter Hatch (Kitchener-Waterloo) and Marci Rabe (Vancouver); featuring Red Chamber's Mei Han and Guillian Liu, and recorder player Terri Hron (Montreal).



>> MUSIC THEATRE
Stitch (Toronto)
An Urban Vessel Production
Friday, April 30, 2010, 8pm
Saturday, May 1, 2010, 2pm + 8pm
EDAM Studio, 303 East 8th Avenue
Tickets $20 regular, $15 student/senior available from Tickets Tonight (ticketstonight.ca/604.684.2787, surcharges apply) and at the door
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Music by Juliet Palmer, text by Anna Chatterton, directed by Ruth Madoc-Jones, movement by Marie-Josée Chartier. Performed by Christine Duncan, Patricia O’Callaghan & Neema Bickersteth

From the abuse of the sweatshop to the fantasy of costume and the empowerment of sewing-it-yourself, the sewing machine has been a force for liberation and exploitation since its invention in the 19th century. Anchored in the sounds and rhythms of sewing, Stitch uncovers the emotional layers of the relationship between woman and barely-tamed machine. Hemmed in by the language of sewing and the inexorable rhythm of the machine, three women fight to find space for imagination and individuality.

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