From the unhinged curatorial mind of Sanjeet Takhar comes a really unique and beautiful event. Come lounge at the Music Gallery and drink tea with some of the city’s best and brightest improvisers. 🍵

As a part of Music Gallery’s What Is: Spirituality Series, we will be reimagining Charanjit Singh’s seminal 1982 album 10 Ragas to a Disco Beat. 918 Bathurst’s sanctuary space transforms to a tea salon of dreams as thirteen artists of many modalities take over the main hall for a night of free improvisation in an ode to experimentation.

Anuja Panditrao - voice
Nilan Perera - guitar
Marilyn Yogarajah - trumpet
Araz Salek - tar
Hardeep Chana - drumset / harmonium
Gurpreet Chana - tabla
David Psutka - electronics
Granny Smith - guitar, electronics
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - glissotar, saxophone
Enzo Sun - projections, tea service
Peter Rahul - projections
Lian McMillan - tea service
Rajvi Dedhia - dance
Dainty Smith - dance
Bhavajan Kumar - dance

Brandon Davis (bass) leads a trio with myself and Joe Sorbara (drums).

crazy fusion fiddle music with a ridiculous band.

Jaron Freeman-Fox - fiddle
Anh Phung - flute
Luan Phung - guitar
Chris Pruden - piano
Alan Mackie - bass
Steve Foster - drums
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - clarinet

porch couch is Jaron Freeman-Fox on banjo and Alan Mackie on fiddle. I’ll be playing some whistle and mer agatha tunes.

More info TBA <3

groovy music feat Jacobi Vanderham, Cedric Noël and Oisín Hannigan. ACUA on tour from Berlin. more info TBA.

The audio-visual piece I produced with synthesizer player Shoko Nagai will be premiered alongside pieces by the rest of the 2023 M3 cohort. Under the direction of Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa, the 12-piece cohort is made up of some truly inspiring improvisers from around the world.

live recording for the soundtrack of Erin’s trans survival horror game.

more info TBA.

Cowbird Collective is a group of composer/performers: Brian Abbott, Germaine Liu, Paul Newman. Manuel Morales and myself. We’ll be presenting some new work as a part of a 2024 residency at the Tranzac and Array Space.

$30 standing, $45 seated. Info and tickets here!

Presented as a part of Labyrinth Ontario’s Western and World Symposium, I’ll be playing a 40-minute site-specific drone piece with spacialized audio and a live performance aspect. This one goes out to Catherine Christer-Hennix and Lamonte Young.

The rest of the festival includes talks and performances by great musicians and theorists investigating eurocentrism and decolonial practice in music / music education. Check out more info here.

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Western and World is a symposium that challenges the hegemony of Western musical practices through close attention to non-Western traditions. Through a combination of embodied and conceptual practices, our inaugural symposium will feature presentations on hip-hop cosmology; deep listening of Buddhism’s relation to contemporary drone music; performances of traditional music forms from Finland and Korea; participatory workshops on singing and playing makam music; and much more.

⭐️Headlining performances include an improvised free jazz/poetry set by Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez; Ross Daly’s This Tale of Ours Ensemble; and Kelly Thoma’s music group.⭐️

The symposium asks a number of critical questions:
•How are socio-cultural value systems expressed in musical forms?
•In what ways does music play an integral role in processes of decolonization, social justice, and revolutionary change?
•How might we diversify the musical landscape with other musical materials?
•How can we distribute resources to ensure more equitable funding structures and dismantle the primacy of Western classical music?
•What imaginative realities are possible through attunement to non-Western traditions?

gratuit / free!!

info here.

Modal Music with members of Labyrinth Ontario at our favourite living room.

Labyrinth welcomes Iranian oud player Yasamin Shahhosseini for a concert at the Aga Khan Museum.