Toronto Area Sites
- Organizations & Promoters
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- The Ambient
Ping
- Toronto's weekly free live improvisational, ambient and experimental
music performance event
- ARRAYMUSIC
- contemporary music organization specializing in creation and performance
of new concert music; studio space hosts (and is available for) performances,
improvisations
- Art Metropole
- visual art centre which also supports audio art and distributes recordings
- Association
of Improvising Musicians Toronto (AIMToronto)
- promoting local, creative, improvising musicians
- Autumn Leaf Performance
- Producers of new opera
- Canadian Music Centre
- Canada's primary source for Canadian contemporary music representing
530 composers, promoting and distributing 700+ CDs, and archiving and
distributing 15,000 scores
- Clonk
- Neil Wiernik, Greg Smith: dissemination, diffusion and presentation
of bleeding edge experimental electronic music, incl. live events & net
broadcasts. Planned: limited edition cd label, more live presentations
- Earshot
- composers' collective producing concerts of new Canadian concert music
with an emphasis on young composers
- Glenn Gould
Studio
- concert venue frequently hosting new chamber music among other events
- Guelph Jazz
Festival
- best small jazz festival in North America
- The
Leftover Daylight Series
- weekly live music series with an emphasis on improvisation
- The Music Gallery
- Toronto's principal performance space/promoter for new music, improvisation,
world music. Music education provider, programs in creative/world percussion,
computer-assisted music & multiple guitar ensemble.
- New Guitar
- concert series devoted to new concert music for the guitar
- New Adventures
in Sound Art
- produces performances, installations, lectures and workshops concerning
electroacoustic and sound art
- New Music
Concerts
- presents an annual series featuring contemporary chamber music, electroacoustics,
multi-media presentations and sound art
- NUMUS
- new music society and concert series in Kitchener-Waterloo
- Oasis Open Stage
(email only)
- jump in and play along - you never know what you'll hear, or who you'll
be performing with. Oasis 294 College St, Toronto. Tuesdays 8PM.
- Open Ears
- new music festival in Kitchener-Waterloo
- r.i.p.theSystem
- founded by .miQ schmidT, the beginnings of a Canadian-based noize/hardcore/industrial/electronica/grindcore
label that promotes the digital hardcore underground and DiY spirit; associated
sites: ZYMOTIC,
clipfit, exist,
death force
- Rough Idea
- Presenter VTO annual May festival and intermittent but intelligent concerts
throughout the calendar.
- Soundstreams
- promoters of new concert music
- Stained
Productions
- independent promotions partnership that presents live music events
in electronic, experimental and related genres
- Tapestry
- producers of new opera
- Toronto Max User
Group (MUG)
- Max/Msp a graphical programming environment for music and media applications.
The Toronto MUG shares not only of technical knowledge but also critical
understandings of artistic issues and process issues.
- Ulterior
- improvisers' pages
- Wavelength
- weekly live music series and monthly zine, dedicated to uncovering underground
music from Toronto and beyond
- Interpretive Ensembles &
Performers
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- ARRAYMUSIC
- new music ensemble (8-piece)
-
Continuum
- new music ensemble (6-piece)
- Ensemble Noir
- ensemble programming music by composers from a broad range of cultural
backgrounds with an emphasis on the works of composers from Africa and
its Diaspora
- Eve Egoyan
- pianist specializing in turn of the 20th century and new works
- Evergreen
Club Gamelan
- new music gamelan
- Esprit Orchestra
- new music ensemble (45-piece)
- The Glass
Orchestra
- new music on glass instruments
- Labels & Distributors
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- Artifact Music
- label for new music
- Centrediscs (Canadian
Music Centre)
- 700+ CD titles featuring Canadian artists
- the
ceiling
- record distributor and label (Kitchener, ON)
- Free Market
Records
- label for Manzinani, Vorvis, Saskia, The Lucy Furs
- Oval
Window Records
- a label for creative, improvising musicians living in Toronto
- Subverseco
- label for Books on Tape, Zug Island, others (formerly Rollerderby Superstar)
- Spool Records
- record label dedicated to free improvisation, new music, and sound art
- Verge Music Distribution
- vast CD mailorder & wholesale: 8200+ titles of experimental music, free
improv, etc. (Uxbridge, ON)
- Text Media
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- Eye Magazine
- general music/arts/film/entertainment listings (weekly)
- feedback_monitor
list
- IDM, techno, ambient, experimental, trip-hop, drum'n'bass and other
electronic music; event listings, playlists, news, new release information
- Incursion
- an organisation for exceptional media, featuring a biweekly music review,
interviews, essays, an online artspace and more
- indieville.com
- a webzine about experimental, improvised, and independent music
- Musicworks Magazine
- Toronto-based periodical covering experimental music, free improvisation,
sound art and more
- NOW Magazine
- general music/arts/film/entertainment listings (weekly)
- SoundList
- website and weekly email newsletter for experimental music, free improvisation
and sound art events in the Toronto area
- The Wholenote
Magazine
- concert music listings including the torontohearandnow.com
new music listings (monthly) and resources
- Radio
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- CHRY 105.5 FM
- Cult
of the Personality
- classic industrial, noise, experimental, ambient, glitch, indie,
12-2 am each Wednesday. Host: Jason
Tenter
- Underground
Noise
- experimental/avant-garde music, 2-4 am each Sunday. Host: Jeff Selver
- CIUT 89.5 FM
- The
Audible Woman
- new music by women composers, 6-8 pm first Wednesday of each month.
Host: Sarah Peebles
- feedback_monitor
- weekly electronic/experimental radio show - wesbite includes playlists,
reviews, interviews, and event listings for Toronto and area. Tuesdays
10-12 p.m. Host: Greg Clow
- In Through
the Outside
- improvised music, etc., 3-5 pm each Wednesday. Host: Nilan Perera
- CKLN 88.1 FM
-
Dat Dere
- creative music from the black experience and around the world, 11am-2pm
each Tuesday. Host: Chloe Onari
-
Why Not?
- improvised music, 7-11 am each Wednesday. Host: Mike Hansen
- Art on Air
- an exhibition of audio art, 2-2:30 pm , including Radio Music Gallery
Institute (1st Thursday of each month), Deep
Wireless (2nd Thursday of each month), The Lost and Found (3rd
Thursday of each month) and Deep Ears (4th Thursday of each month)
- Missing Sense/Electric Storm
- new orchestral/chamber/electronic/acousmatic music, 11:30pm-2am
each Sunday. Hosts: James Bailey and Ron McFarlan
- Other Resources
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- Rick
Sack's "A petit concert..."
- useful links page for new concert music in Toronto.
- Composers, Improvisers &
Sound Artists
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- John
D.S. Adams
- composer/musician of experimental and improvised music, interpreter
of the music of David Tudor
- Ken Aldcroft
- jazz and improvising guitarist, composer and producer
- ARC
- improvisational experimental/ethno-ambient trio
- Martin Arnold
- composer, conductor, organizer
- Aidan Baker
- experimental guitarist & poet
- Von Bark
- manual labourer/art critic, plays saxophone, untuned guitars, and monophonic
analog devices, and is a founding member of the Zen
Existential Puppet Theatre
- Allison Cameron
- composer/improviser: originally from Vancouver, B.C., studied in Amsterdam
before moving to Toronto in 1989
-
Canadian Electronic Ensemble
- oldest continuous live-electronic group in the world: Larry Lake, David
Jaeger, Paul Stillwell, Michael Dobinson, Jim Montgomerey, Rose Bolton
- Cirque-Samsara
- is a project in apo-cultural navigation by Nik Beeson which has included
ventures into experimental music.
- Dwight
Chalmers (email only)
- improvisor - trumpet and piano - based on Toronto Islands
- Darren
Copeland
- soundscape composer, radio artist, sound designer
- Michael Davis
- composer of electroacoustic music, computer programmer
- sound artist, composer
- dreamSTATE
- improvisational ambient electronic soundscape artists
- Shahin
Etemadzadeh (email only)
- guitarist, electronics builder/designer, improviser
- John Kameel Farah
- composer, improvisor, pianist
- Colin
Fisher
- improviser: guitar, tenor sax, percussion, misc
- Dan Friedman
- Ottawa-native improvising/composing saxophonist and sound hacker active
on the Toronto scene
- Mike
Gennaro
- improviser, percussionist, organizer
- Alan Glicksman
(email only)
- M.S.G. play, record and perform experimental soundscapes (since1984).
M=McNeil, S=Spears, G=Glicksman.
- Ben Grossman
- is a musician, composer and improviser focusing on hurdy gurdy, percussion
and electronics.
- Glen Hall
- composer, woodwinds, recording artist, leader-OutSource, redShift,
Sonora, director-(416) 2001 festival
- Michael
Keith
- guitarist, composer, improviser
- Penn
Kemp
- sound poet; animation and sound text of several poems, current discography,
upcoming events
- KNURL
- a.k.a. Alan Bloor is known as one of the premier noise artists in Canada,
using contact mics and scrap metal to create incredibly powerful harsh
noise
- Oval
Window Records
- improvisers Myk Freedman, Ryan Driver, Tania Gill, Julia Hambleton,
Kai Koschmider, Jake Oelrichs, Mike Overton, Evan Shaw
- Laurel
MacDonald
- improbable music : singer : composer
- Maz Fusion
- shines tha Sonic Crimes, coz it's a Freakuntry an' about fookin' time!
- .miQ
- plays guitar for SCHIZOID
(D-Trash Records)
and moderates the Riot-Soundz
message board
- Mirobolus String
Trio
- create their own eclectic music, transforming jazz, modern chamber
music, free improv, tangos and folk music
- MOIRED
- four member media collective based in Toronto dedicated to electronic
improvisational music, developing new systems for sound creation
- cheryl o
- experimental improvising cellist working with electronic treatments
and loops - always interested in new improvisational situations
- Oiseaux Exotiques
- composer/performer duo presenting new chamber music
- John
Oswald
- composer, saxophonist, plunderphonics
- Juliet
Palmer
- composer and sound artist from New Zealand based in Toronto
- Stephen Parkinson
- composer
- Sarah Peebles
- electroacoustic composer, improvisor, radio broadcaster
- Tim Posgate
- composer, guitarist, bandleader. Current projects; Elbow (with Rob
Clutton), Jazzstory and Tim Posgate Horn Band
- eldritch
Priest
- composer, improviser and iconoclast
- Barry
Prophet (email only)
- composer, improviser, percussionist, educator, sound sculptor specializing
in works featuring microtonally tuned glass
- John Mark
Sherlock
- composer
- Debashis Sinha
- leads the Ima Ensemble, a group that is firmly rooted in the western
paradigm of improvisational music, but is able to use material from a
wide variety of musical traditions
- Linda
C. Smith
- composer
- Joe
Sorbara
- drummer, percussionist, composer, improviser, etc.
- Philip Strong
- sømnambulab : composer : sound designer : percussionist
- Teamwork
group (email only)
- rhythms, odysseys & sequences. Architecture, painting, & installations.
Mpc's, guitars, & toy whistles. Birds signing, trains passing & underground
tunnels...
- Josh Thorpe
- experimental and process composition, performance and conceptual art.
Also: writing and editing.
- michael trommer
- composer/sound artist
- Rob Wannamaker
- composer, improviser, instrument inventor, pianist, theorist, founder
of SoundList
- Carol
Ann Weaver
- composer, performer, music professor at Conrad Grebel College/University
of Waterloo.
- Woodchopper's
Association
- large ensemble specializing in freestyle improvisation and multi-disciplinary
presentations
- Zug Island
- the Kimchee ep, music by experimental producer jeph wacheski
- Farther Afield (but in
Ontario)
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- Outside
Out
- free improvising quartet (London)
- The
Nihilist Spasm Band
- improvising noise band and instrument builders since 1965 (London)
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