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Team Vancouver versus Team Montréal

Past President of the NOW Board of Directors, Régis Painchaud put this great event together.

I hope you can check it out.

L’ÉTHÉÂTRE: Vancouver’s new summer cultural event.

Vancouver, July 25, 2010.- On July 5, 2010,Visions Ouest Productions launched a new summer cultural event that celebrates media arts, visual arts and stage performance. We have presented a series of shows, get-togethers, workshops, festive evenings and collaborative projects with some forty artists and artisans representing various disciplines including circus, film, theatre, poetry, music and visual arts.

So it is a celebration of summer and above all, the pleasure of getting together, highlighting a cultural season and on Wednesday night, July 28 starting at 6 PM you are invited to a wine and cheese for the opening of an exhibition PLEIN ART of works by fifteen visual artists including Alexander Schick, Pierre Ruiz, Jesse Rubin, Nelly Roy, Josette Martinet, Sylvie Godin, Michel Gascon, Lorraine Fortin, Rose Eysmond, John Deasy, Jean-Guy Dallaire, Lina Cutnam, Linn Bouchard and Martine Bilodeau,

Plein Art will be followed by a music improvisation game with two teams: VANCOUVER VS MONTREAL at 8 PM. The Vancouver team will be conducted by Coat Cooke withJoel Lower, Tommy Babin, Patrick Pennefather and Daniel Ruiz and Montréal team directed by André Duchesne with Stéphanie Simard, Rémi Leclerc, Patrick Hamilton and Bernard Falaise.

Join us for a great festive evening in a brand new venue. Admission by donation.

All the events will take place at the Auditorium of the Jules Verne School, located at 5445 Baillie Street in Vancouver, at the corner of 37^th Avenue, between Oak and Cambie, near the Van Dusen Botanical Gardens.

For more information on the program, visit www.rendez-vousvancouver.com

The Circuit

NOW has been part of establishing a loft touring network across Canada for individual improvisors.

The Circuit presently includes Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montréal, Rimouski, Fredericton and Halifax. We hope to add Winnipeg later in the year. Single musicians apply for touring support from the Canada Council for the Arts and travel to the previously mentioned centres and play solo and/or with musicians in that city. This is an effort to strengthen and build a community of Canadia artists playing contemporary improvised music.

If you're interested drop a line to now@noworchestra.com

The Inhabitants CD Release May 27

The Inhabitants have a CD release of their disc, A Vacant Lot on Thursday, May 27th at the Cobalt (917 Main St.) at 8 pm. The recording is on the Drip Audio label. This is a great label that you have to check out if you haven't had the chance http://www.dripaudio.com/releases.php?release=26

The Inhabitants are JP Carter/trumpet+electronics, Dave Sikula/guitar, Pete Schmitt/bass and Skye Brooks/drums.

I've managed to hear the band several times live and have to say that I think they are a really creative band. The CD is a really accurated representation of the band live. The music belies what I think must be a really organic process. It has a naturally listenable flow that has the unique character of a band that has played a lot together.

I highly recommend listening to this release. Drip Audio is doing great things and this is the proof.

Kudos to Jared Burrows and Clyde Reed

Since October 2009, guitarist Jared Burrows and bassist Clyde Reed have been curating a fantastic musical evening (up to 28 Wednesdays now)

at the Jazz at Presentation House Studio series in North Vancouver (333 Chesterfield Avenue - one block west of Lonsdale).

The series has been running most Wednesdays and has featured some of Vancouver's finest improvising players.

It's an acoustically beautiful setting and really treats the listener to an intimate musical experience.

Jared and Clyde are to be highly lauded for presenting this regular opportunity for Vancouver and the North Shore to hear some of the finest music that you can hearl

I hope you can out to check out some of the shows. They start at 8:30 pm and the cover is only $8, with tea and cookies.

To get more information go to http://www.myspace.com/jazzatpresentationhouse

Clyde Reed/bass Jared Burrows/guitar

Orkestra Futura: L.E.D. by the Light on You Tube

I thought that I should post the You Tube URLs of excerpts from the five sections of Stefan Smulovitz' composition, The Mad Scientist Machine.

You Tube URLs for Mad Scientist Machine

Part 1 – Stefan Smulovitz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaueU35vwBM&feature=related

Part 2 – Pauline Oliveros

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbp_G3eohDk&feature=related

Part 3 – Lisle Ellis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psmBGaU4PZo&feature=related

Part 4 – John Oswald

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byCBLdCtPKM&feature=related

Part 5 – Paul Cram

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_timMuTS8so&feature=related

Orkestra Futura - Mad Scientist Machine

Check out the recent You Tube post fo the Orkestra Futura show in Vancouver in November 2010.

Part 1 - Stefan Smulovitz - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaueU35vwBM

Part 2 - Pauline Oliveros - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbp_G3eohDk

Part 3 - Lisle Ellis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psmBGaU4PZo

Part 4 - John Oswald - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byCBLdCtPKM

Part 5 - Paul Cram - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_timMuTS8so

NOW's Orkestra Futura @ the Vancouver East Cultural Centre November 28th, 2009

The NOW Orkestra Futura sets sail with its inaugural concert on November 28th @ The Vancouver East Cultural Centre's Historic Theatre.
This promises to be a fascinating meeting of improvised music and technology that will feature a major new work from Vancouver's own Stefan Smulovitz. The composition, Mad Scientist Machine was created in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for his degree of Master of Fine Arts at SFU.
For the concert,"The Machine", converts the conductors’ ideas into light, specifically computer controlled coloured LED
lights, which are then used as cues for musicians in Okestra Futura to follow. Each color has a different meaning: red - melody, orange - imitate, yellow - open, green - noise, blue - drops, purple - loops, white - long tones,and black - silence. The machine can also be controlled via the internet.

For this night’s performance we have four internet conductors - including two founding NEW Orchestra Workshop members Paul Cram (Halifax) and Lisle Ellis (New York). Also conducting will be John Oswald (Toronto), Pauline Oliveros (who will be conducting from Oslo).
I'm also very excited to have two esteemed guests that have traveled here for the occasion. American violist, Eyvind Kang, who now resides in the Pacific Northwest makes the trip up here after concerts in Asia. Toronto-based singer, Christine Duncan, in her second project with NOW large ensembles comes to work as part of our dynamic vocal section of the group.
This is an incredibly exciting version of the NOW large ensemble history:
Voices: DB Boyko, Viviane Houle, Peter Hurst, Christine Duncan
Strings: Eyvind Kang, Jesse Zubot, Dave Chokroun, Tommy Babin
Horns: JP Carter, Brad Muirhead, Coat Cooke
Guitar: Chad MacQuarrie
Keyboard: Chris Gestrin
Laptop: Stefan Smulovitz
Percussion: Joseph "Pepe" Danza, Kenton Loewen

Hear It NOW 2009: L.E.D. by the Light
Saturday, November 28 at 8pm
The Historic Theatre at the Cultch - 1895 Venables Street (at Victoria Drive)
Tickets: $25 (regular) / $20 (members) / $8 (students)
www.noworchestra.com

Dangerous Improv: music meets dance

This will be a great series with some of Vancouver's top improvising dancers and musicians.

Hope you can make it out.

October 26 - 28 at 8pm @ The Roundhouse Community Centre (Pacific and Davie) in Vancouver

For more info go to www.roundhouse.ca

Clamour (www.sonicpresence.ca)

The Sonic Presence Series called Clamour has been really magnificent.

Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF9yjKJqK44

There you'll see a magical slice of the noworchestra.com production featuring percussionist Jeffrey Allport and electronics performer Lee Hutzulak and get a taste of what a delicious evening it was

The series continues this Thursday, October 22 from 5 - 7 pm @ The Western Front (303 East 8th Avenue in Vancouver).

This week Music on Main presents Cris Derksen on solo cello and electronics in the first set, and the second set features electroacoustic sound artist Chantale Laplante and saxophonist Jeremy Brown produced by the Western Front.

Admission is $10 (and if you're there before 5:30 pm admission includes the Clamour martini).

www.sonicpresence.ca

This is a very exciting and important series.

Hope you can make it.

Jazz @ Presentation House - Wed. October 7th

Jazz at Presentation starts this Wednesday, October 7th at 333 Chesterfield Avenue in

Noth Vancouver (3rd St. one block West of Lonsdale).

The Jared Burrows Quartet kicks off the series at 8:30 pm.

Admission is $8.00.

It looks like a great series.

Check out all of the details at www.myspace.com/jazzatpresentationhouse

See you there!