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The Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) has joined forces with New Music Concerts (NMC) and the Aga Khan Museum to present a performance installation by internationally renowned composer Sandeep Bhagwati and his ensemble Śabdagatitāra. Dive into a phenomenal musical and visual adventure with an immersive and participatory experience that blurs the lines between space and time, tying music and visual art together through composition and improvisation.Presented as a free improvisational performance installation throughout the Museum's Atrium, ten soloists from various backgrounds and traditions will experiment with music, poetry, and visual art to stimulate your eyes, ears, mind, and heart. Conceived and created by internationally renowned composer Sandeep Bhagwati, this immersive event transcends all temporal, artistic, and cultural limits. This activation forms part of New Music Concert's 2024 Future Resonance Festival, as well as Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ)'s Homage Series (2023/2024).
From 10 am–5:30 pm, performers will spend the day on an archipelago of five musical islands, relaying music back and forth with each performer contributing according to their own temporality, tradition, emotion, rhythm, and score. Meanwhile, performers will weave a captivating musical landscape where you can wander and listen.
Included as part of the installation are twelve postcards, each bearing a different poem and tempo, that visitors are invited to place in front of a chosen performer. The postcard will then be added to the score, and performers will slowly alter the tempo and style of their music in response.
Featuring seven performers from Berlin’s Śabdagatitāra ensemble:
Lucy Zhao | Pipa
Deniza Popova | Bulgarian Voices
Eva Glasmacher | Soprano
Murat Gürel | Turkish Violin
Klaus Janek | Double Bass
Gebrüder Teichmann (Andi & Hannes) | Ready-made instruments
And three soloists from Quebec:
Terri Hron | Recorder and Objects
Reza Abaee | Gheychak
Valentina Plata | Voice
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
77 Wynford Drive, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M3C 1K1
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