Recording: Toronto Improvisors Orchestra

Artist: Toronto Improvisors Orchestra

Song: [set 2, 2nd piece]

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), April 9, 2023.

Toronto Improvisors Orchestra - [set 2, 2nd piece]

A thousand pardons, please, for the lack of photo or any cogent notes from this one — it turns out sometimes when you pop in for a TIO gig on a quiet Easter Sunday, you'll sometimes get asked to come on up and join in, and then you're all distracted from documenting things.

Recording: Electroacoustic Autumn Ensemble

Artist: Electroacoustic Autumn Ensemble (feat. members of Toronto Improvisor's Orchestra)

Songs: [two excerpts]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Ayal Senior's monthly), October 9, 2022.

Electroacoustic Autumn Ensemble - [excerpt 1]

Electroacoustic Autumn Ensemble - [excerpt 2]

This group (Keiran Maraj, Fuzzy Nibesh, and Heraclitus Akimbo) was assembled to aim for some seasonal pumpkin spice buzzes and whirrings, which was augmented by additional sounds by a trio of performers (James Bailey, Jonathan Luke, Ryan Kinney) from the Toronto Improvisor's Orchestra.

You can watch some more from this set over on youtube:

Recording: Toronto Improvisor's Orchestra

Artist: Toronto Improvisor's Orchestra

Song: [set 2, 2nd piece] [conductor: Diane Roblin]

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), October 9, 2022.

Toronto Improvisor's Orchestra - [set 2, 2nd piece]

With the cooler weather bringing out a larger crowd of musicians, the TIO was looking more like, well, an orchestra this time out, with enough bodies on hand that it made sense to add some more structure. Some of that came from a series of shifting duos and trios, but the heart of it was some conduction to co-ordinate the members. Rod Campbell conducted one piece in this set, but for this one, Diane Roblin took over, nearly dancing aross the room as she co-ordinated the note-burtsts, held together throughout with some nice circular vibe-sounds from David Story's MalletKat.

Recording: Temporary Ensembles

Artist: Temporary Ensembles, composed of Chris Adriaanse, Rob Diack, Cory Latkovich, Jonathan Luke, Paul Newman, Daniel Pencer, Joe Sorbara, Laura Swankey, and Logan Mills.

Songs: [excerpts form various improvisations]

Recorded at Array Space (Somewhere There presents), March 13, 2016.

Jonathan Luke + Laura Swankey - [temporary ensemble #1]

Rob Diack + Paul Newman - [temporary ensemble #2]

Daniel Pencer + Chris Adriaanse - [temporary ensemble #4]

Logan Mills + Daniel Pencer + Chris Adriaanse + Joe Sorbara - [temporary ensemble #5]

Logan Mills + Jonathan Luke + Joe Sorbara - [temporary ensemble #8] [excerpt]

Laura Swankey + Chris Adriaanse + Rob Diack + Daniel Pencer - [temporary ensemble #9]

Cory Latkovich + Paul Newman - [temporary ensemble #10]

"Temporary Ensembles are born, live short and potentially magical musical lives, and then sublimate into thin air." As a prelude to a session learning the signals and cues for John Zorn's "game piece" Cobra, this night began with an exercise in pure improvisation with the assembled musicians literally throwing their hats in the ring for audience members to randomly select playing combos while convener Joe Sorbara rolled dice to see how many people would play together at a time. Extremely informal, the night felt more like a workshop than a gig, but those who wanted to just listen were welcome along for the ride.