Artist: Kat Estacio
Song: Kat Estacio - [excerpt]
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.
Synth-drift shared space with bowls and gongs in this set — and those latter percussive elements were trance-ified into lurching mantras when loop-locked with a beat repeater. Mixed with swirling visuals overhead, this was arguably the day's trippiest set.
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