Artist: Debashis Sinha
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Recorded at The Music Gallery (X Avant XVI – Night 3), October 16, 2021.
The Music Gallery's annual X Avant Festival felt like a return and a renewal in all the right ways. Although these weren't the first events presented by new-ish Artistic Director Sanjeet Takhar, they were the first ones in person, with performers and audience sharing space — a long-awaited return from all sides. Each of the nights played off the festival theme "You in Mind", looking for ways to amplify and support the overlapping communities being drawn together. Day Three ("Process") was "dedicated to the global thread of sustained tone as a healing modality" — by way of an eight-hour drone zone, letting the audience lay back on 918 Bathurst's sanctuary floor and watch projections planetarium-style on the high-arched ceiling.
With an automated voice in the background listing off data like the ghost of a reference librarian (perhaps some of Sinha's "machine learning generated audio"), this set found a woozy digital equilibrium, leavened by the analog breath of a harmonium. (You can hear Sinha's own recording of his set over at his soundcloud.)
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