Showing posts with label patrick o'reilly. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Recording: Clutton/Cole/O'Reilly/Howard

Artist: Rob Clutton/Josh Cole/Patrick O'Reilly/Blake Howard

Songs: [set 1 excerpt] + This is what happens inside a room [edited excerpt]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Brodie West presents), December 10, 2025.

Rob Clutton/Josh Cole/Patrick O'Reilly/Blake Howard - [set 1 excerpt]

Rob Clutton/Josh Cole/Patrick O'Reilly/Blake Howard - This is what happens inside a room [edited excerpt]

Slated as an evening with Brodie West's Double Basses Quintet, the last-minute absence of the host shifted the terrain somewhat. Without West's saxophone (and the compositions for the group he's been working up), this turned into a chance for the remaining musicians to expand their zones a bit and improvise. There were still two double basses, giving Rob Clutton and Josh Cole a chance to work off each other, and some extra space for Patrick O'Reilly to explore the textures generated by his guitar and pedals. There was also one other substitution, as Blake Howard was sitting in for Nick Fraser and adding his genial chaos to the proceedings. The longer excerpt here contains an impromptu monologue from Howard, giving a darkly-comedic franework for the musicians to work around. (Or it's possible that Howard has indeed been trapped in the Southern Cross for the past forty million years and needs our assistance.)

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Recording: Cosmic Homeostasis

Artist: Cosmic Homeostasis

Songs: Split Infinitive [excerpt] + Urdu Amphitheatre [excerpt]

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), August 31, 2025.

Cosmic Homeostasis - Split Infinitive [excerpt]

Cosmic Homeostasis - Urdu Amphitheatre [excerpt]

A vibrant showing for a long weekend with fifteen homeostasisists joining in. An unusually-robust turnout of guitarists gave a unique flavour to the proceedings and a bit of structure for the drift over two sets.

The homeostasis crew on this occasion included:

  • Nilan Perera - guitar + preparations, namer-of-things
  • Broken Pink Umbrella - Intellijel Vascadia + effects
  • Dan Friedman - Wire Hum, real and imaginary
  • Fahmid Nibesh - Tranzac house guitar, ebow, vox
  • Hilary Martin - pedals
  • Jim Davis - bass
  • Leslie Partridge - classical guitar
  • Matt Collins - guitar
  • Mira Martin-Gray - laptop, voice
  • Patrick O'Reilly - piano + SK-1
  • Paul Newman - tenor sax
  • Rob Cruickshank - synth/electronics
  • Scott M2 - Roland S-1
  • Zack Berwick - OP-1 + effects
  • Heraclitus Akimbo - tape loops, Zoia

And, as always, you can check out the complete proceedings from the afternoon over on bandcamp:

[Cosmic Homeostasis will be closing out the year's activities at The Tranzac on Sunday, November 30th at 2:30 p.m.]

Friday, April 11, 2025

Recording: Cosmic Homeostasis XXVII

Artist: Cosmic Homeostasis XXVII

Song: Helium [excerpt]

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), March 23, 2025.

Cosmic Homeostasis XXVII - Helium [excerpt]

Returning to the Southern Cross for teh first residency appearance of 2025, Cosmic Homeostasis was shifted from its traditional fifth-Sunday-of-the-month but still had a robust turnout to generate some drifting space-drones.

You can listen to the full session over on Bandcamp:

The ensemble for this performance consisted of:

  • Dan Friedman - Sonicware Liven XFM, Korg NTS-1, Hmong mouth organ, namer-of-things
  • Philip Hamilton - oscillators
  • %%30%30 - percussion
  • Jim Davis - bass sans fret, vox
  • Jonny Luke - cornet
  • Eric Cinnesealach - clarinet, recorders, whistles
  • Eliza Cinnesealach - clarinet, recorders, whistles
  • Rob Cruickshank - electronics
  • Sarah Peebles - shō
  • Del Stephen - radios, tapes, synthesizer, whistles
  • Scott M2 - Roland S-1
  • Paul Newman - tenor saxophone
  • Ian McPhedran - kalimba, pedals
  • Sterling McPhedran - kalimba, pedals
  • Elliott Chapin - flute
  • Patrick O'Reilly - piano (set 2 only)
  • Heraclitus Akimbo - Roland S-1, effects

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Recording: Nolan Hildebrand

Artist: Nolan Hildebrand

Song: portals II

Recorded at University of Toronto – Walter Hall (Nolan Hildebrand’s DMA Recital), March 11, 2015.

Nolan Hildebrand - portals II

You know it's not business as usual when you arrive for a DMA recital at the music school and greet your candidate as he's setting out a big jar of earplugs for the audience. Coordinating the proceedings in a Meshuggah t-shirt, Nolan Hildebrand's afternoon of music presumably had the requisite rigour required by his professors, but kept things wrapped in noise show aesthetics.

With an eight-channel speaker array set up around the auditorium, many of the pieces used spacialization effects quite nicely, moving from the interstitial audio collages to the performaces on stage. There was an inneresting variety to those as well, ranging from Hildebrand's own solo improvisations for modular synth (with some cool sound-triggered visualizations) to pieces for violin and MAX patch, to a percussion ensemble, to the all-star group (Colin Fisher, Patrick O'Reilly, Louis Pino) joining Hildebrand on this piece.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Recording: Carded Ensemble

Artist: Carded Ensemble

Songs: [two excerpts]

Recorded at Walter Hall, February 24, 2025.

Carded Ensemble - [excerpt 1]

Carded Ensemble - [excerpt 2]

"Carded", Patrick O'Reilly's ongoing compositional project, has been a work-in-progress for a few years now, taking blank playing cards and turning them into handmade improvisational cues. The cards can be dispatched in various ways, from dealing performers a hand, to (as was the case here) giving each player a full custom deck with the instruction to turn over and interpret a new card every minute.

That, with the addition of timed solo spots for each of the participants, gave enough structure to keep a nine-piece ensemble from tripping into chaos and too-muchness. It also fosters a genuine sense of play, both in the novel interpretations required and in the act of occasionally passing cards around to share a cue. This particular incarnation of Carded was even more deeply collaborative, as the decks of cards used by the nine performers were each made by nine guest "composers".

The ensemble for this performance was:

  • Patrick O'Reilly: guitar and pedals
  • Samuel Little, double bass
  • amiel ang: vibes, gong, music stand
  • Samuel Laramee: synths and piano
  • Omar Yazaw: saxophone
  • Leah Reavster: saxophone
  • Brendan Beaton: trumpet
  • %%30%30: percussion
  • Annie Elgie: balloons, voice

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Recording: Trivial Musical Pursuits

Artist: Trivial Musical Pursuits

Songs: Eiffel Tower + 1939

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Friends of Clue Note present) October 29, 2024.

Trivial Musical Pursuits - Eiffel Tower

Trivial Musical Pursuits - 1939

This one requires a brief explanation. Given the opportunity to pull together something as a fill-in for a Tranzac late set, this took inspiration from the show that was immediately before it, namely the debut of the new Clue Note residency for trivia and experimental music. Idea: why not combine them? So: this set offered the musicians a series of trivia questions, and their goal was to "answer" them through brief performances (timed to a five-minute hourglass).

The first set (as heard in these pieces posted here) was performed as a trio with Patrick O'Reilly (circuit-bent Casio), Sara Constant (flute) and Heraclitus Akimbo (Kaossilator mini, tapes), while the second (as seen in the video below) saw them augmented by Marilyn Yogarajah (piano, trumpet) and Raph-o-tron 3000 (keytar).

You can check out that aforementioned set over on youtube:

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Recording: Patrick O'Reilly

Artist: Patrick O'Reilly

Song: [first section]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Kurt Newman presents: an evening of cool solos), July 16, 2024.

Patrick O'Reilly - [first section]

It turns out that the use case Patrick O'Reilly has found for his microtonal guitar is slow-moving and swelling, inspired by gnawa music. Coming from another angle, this piece was also inspired by Albert Ayler, whose voice is heard in the repeated interview fragment.

You can check out some more from this set (and the rest of the evening's second half) over on youtube:

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Recording: Knots

Artist:

Songs: #1 [composer: Patrick Booth] + Sunrise [composer: Joe Sorbara]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Furniture Music presents), June 30, 2024.

Knots - #1

Knots - Sunrise

This set was presented under the auspices of the Furniture Music composition workshop, which turned out to be wholly appropriate as it was a space for the musicians to share their pieces and work out some approaches on the fly. The first of a three-show mini-tour, although all the members of this group had played with some of the others, this was their first time convening as a quartet — and, in fact, Michigan-based saxophonist Patrick Booth and drummer Joe Sorbara were meeting for the first time as they set up to play. Guitarist Patrick O'Reilly and double bassist Phil Albert rounded out the unit, and all four contributed pieces to be explored over two sets.

You can check out the full performance over on youtube:

Sunday, December 3, 2023

Recording: Cosmic Homeostasis XXI

Artist: Cosmic Homeostasis XXI

Song: Low-pressure Supercollider Sounds [excerpt]

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), October 29, 2023.

Cosmic Homeostasis XXI - Low-pressure Supercollider Sounds [excerpt]

A special day for the Cosmic Homeostasis collective, celebrating the release of a pair of recordings as a new album. Both birthed in a period when gathering at The Tranzac was unfeasible, "Broken Telephone" was a lockdown-era initiative where members of the group built layer upon layer of sounds as the recording passed from one person to the next. "Christie's Transmission" emerged from a period of tentative returning to gathering — in this case, outside on a couple occasions in late summer of '21 in Christie Pits. The latter recordings were beautifully collaged together by Jeffrey Sinibaldi, who also released these sounds on a tape from Vacancy Recordings.

Meanwhile, it was business as usual for the musicians who gathered to make some sounds together, with electronic sounds mixing with horns, percussion and even some tap dancing percussion. As usual, the full session is available over on bandcamp:

The participants this time around were:

  • Paul Newman - tenor saxophone
  • Rob Cruickshank - electronics
  • Michelangelo Iaffaldano - voice, guitar, software synthesis
  • Eric Kinsella - bass clarinet + percussion
  • Scott M2 - Animoog
  • James Bailey - Roland SE-02 with radios
  • Victor O - Casio
  • Christina Muratore - harmonica
  • Michael Lynn - tap + clarinet
  • Maebh Clark/Dame Cook - hauntological experiments
  • Shelodyn - improvidence
  • Philip - clip mic + oscillator
  • Ian + Sterling McPhedran - radio
  • Patrick O'Reilly - circuit bent Casio SK-1
  • Heraclitus Akimbo - Kaossilator + Zoia
  • Jeffrey Sinibaldi - namer-of-things

[Cosmic Homeostasis will close out the year with a special non-afternoon, non-Sunday event, taking over the Southern Cross on Saturday, December 30th in an evening that will be shared with Audiopollination for a special pre-NYE celebration.]

Sunday, August 27, 2023

Recording: Never Was

Artist: Never Was

Songs: [improvisation excerpt] + Dancing Through [composer: Joe Sorbara]

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

Never Was - [improvisation excerpt]

Never Was - Dancing Through

"We're the nine-piece band Never Was," said guitarist Patrick O'Reilly with a smile as this set got underway. In fact, though the band has seen some evolutions and expansions lately, due to summertime vagaries he was joined only by double bassist Brandon Davis for this outing. That gave them oodles of space to explore together, with O'Reilly spinning off with his usual array of effects and extended techniques, while Davis did a superb job of keeping things grounded. Staying true to the group's sonic space, they tackled some pieces from its book alongside some improvisations.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Recording: Laura Swankey & Patrick O'Reilly

Artist: Laura Swankey & Patrick O'Reilly

Song: Is there any such thing as a waste of time?

Recorded at Bar Orwell (TONE Festival), June 13, 2023.

Laura Swankey & Patrick O'Reilly - Is there any such thing as a waste of time?

The TONE Festival continued to do a nice job of mixing it up this year, presenting larger-scaled shows (including presenting the local return of the Sun Ra Arkestra) alongside smaller, more-experimental affairs such as this one in Bar Orwell's cozy livingroom-like space. The local openers at this one seemingly came prepared to get a little noisier than usual to get the crowd ready for the visiting headliners — Patrick O'Reilly's guitar effects were more spiky and distorted than they might be in this context. At one point I wasn't sure if one sound I was hearing was coming from the stage or if someone's car alarm was going off outside, although there was room for more shimmery, softer zones as well.

Friday, June 16, 2023

Recording: Cosmic Homeostasis XIX

Artist: Cosmic Homeostasis XIX

Songs: Disco Whispers [excerpt] + Zero Gravity Bird Ceremony [excerpt]

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), April 30, 2023.

Cosmic Homeostasis XIX - Disco Whispers [excerpt]

Cosmic Homeostasis XIX - Zero Gravity Bird Ceremony [excerpt]

Another fifth-Sunday-of-the-month drone meetup brought out a mid-sized group (a dozen people) for some space-drift, spreading out around the Southern Cross.

The ensemble this time around was:

  • Paul Newman - tenor saxophone
  • Philip Hamilton - oscillator, contact mic
  • fuzzy - guitar, pedals
  • Patrick O'Reilly - circuit bent SK-1, piano
  • Nilan Perera - prepared guitar + slicer pedal
  • Ian McPhedran - guitar + pedals
  • Sterling McPhedran - guitar + pedals
  • Scott M2 - Animoog
  • Ron Blake - iOS apps
  • Sheldon - percussion+
  • Victor O - toy keyboard + mixer
  • Heraclitus Akimbo - synths

And as usual, you can stream/download the full session over on bandcamp:

[Cosmic Homeostasis will be back in the Southern Cross on the afternoon of the fifth Sunday of July — that is to say on July 30th, 2023.]

Monday, April 3, 2023

Monday Roundup #116

Concert announcements:

Musica Universalis (feat. SonoRa [Glen Hall/Alan Mackie/Tilman Lewis/Andrew Furlong]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-04-14 (Friday)

%%30%30 presents ["fully acoustic, fully outdoors, all proceeds going to the West Lodge tenant-run food bank"] (feat. Output 1:1:1 / FEURA / Mark Ballyk / Kurt Newman / FuZzy / Psychosics) / Parkdale Provincial Park 2023-04-15 (Saturday). $PWYW, entry by donation, NOTAFLOF.

The Ossingtones [Glen Hall/Diane Roblin/Bruce Cassidy/Andrew Furlong/Lowell Whitty] / La Rev 2023-04-15 (Saturday)

Dan Pitt & Harry Bartlett / Sellers & Newel 2023-04-21 (Friday). Minimum donation $15. [FB event]


Shows this week:

"We've Got Nothing" live album recording series (feat. Peripheral Vision / Aline's étoile magique) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-04-04 (Tuesday). $PWYC ($10 suggested).

Track Could Bend #78 (feat. Density Creep / Flip Side [Allison Cameron/Fahmid Nibesh] / James Bailey & %%30%30) / Wenona Lodge 2023-04-04 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

The Allison Cameron Band [Allison Cameron/Kurt Newman/Thom Gill] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-04-05 (Wednesday)

Cots (Alex Lukashevsky) / Tibet Street Records 2023-04-06 (Thursday). $20. [FB event]

Audiopollination (feat. Martin van de Ven/Grace Scheele/Mira Martin-Gray / James Bailey/Susanne Farkas/Nilan Perera / Daniel Field/Jack Brock/Shanika Maria / Tapocalypse Now [mkl32/fuZzy/Heraclitus Akimbo]) / Array Space 2023-04-07 (Friday). $10 (or PWYC). [FB event]

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Ayal Senior/Kurt Newman/Andrew Furlong / David Sait / Nick Flanagan / Jaz Tsui) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-04-09 (Sunday – 2:30 p.m.) [FB event]

Sundays in April Residency (feat. Eucalyptus) / Hirut Cafe and Restaurant 2023-04-09 (Sunday). Suggested $15 per person.

Caleb Klager/Stefan Hegerat/Michael Palumbo / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-04-09 (Sunday)


Bandcamp corner:

  • Good Friday is also Bandcamp Friday, so if you're lucky you'll have the day off to pick through the many, many wonderful artists you can support. Here's a couple things on my list:

It happened this week...

  • ...on April 7, 2017 at The Music Gallery (Emergents III).

Laura Swankey with Patrick O'Reilly - unknown

  • ...on April 8, 2017 at Array Space (Audiopollination #53.1).

Abigail Trotsky/Chris Trotter/Mike Spears - [excerpt]

[Do remember that you can click on the tags below to go back and find the original posts (and often, more stuff) from these artists.]

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Recording: Cosmic Homeostasis XVIII

Artist: Cosmic Homeostasis XVIII

Songs: The Ways We Unravel [excerpt] + Space [edited excerpt]

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), January 29, 2023.

Cosmic Homeostasis XVIII - The Ways We Unravel [excerpt]

Cosmic Homeostasis XVIII - Space [edited excerpt]

The year's first Cosmic Homeostasis gathering (which happens when there's a fifth Sunday in a month) brought out a robust crowd, with twenty (or so) musicians taking over the perimeter of the Southern Cross and generating some sonic drift zones. A real nice mix of acoutic and electronic sounds, and ranging from some louder zones into quieter interplay.

The participants this time out were:

  • Marilyn - various percussion, singing bowls, namer-of-things
  • Philip Hamilton - guitar, box w/ a string and llama toenails
  • Ron Blake - ipad apps
  • Scott M2 - Animoog
  • Mira Martin-Gray - mini synth, mini theremin
  • Yasmine E - pocket piano, various percussion, rainmaker
  • Adrian Russouw - violin
  • Del Stephen - keyboard synth + cassettes
  • Sophie Jaworski - wooden frog
  • Paul Newman - tenor saxophone
  • Patrick O'Reilly - Volca FM/effects
  • Rod Campbell - trumpet
  • Todd Macdonald - mandolin/Mood
  • Hilary Martin - singing bowl
  • Myfawny Ashmore - singing bowl
  • Michael Lynn - bass + stuff
  • Sterling + Ian - Atari junk console
  • Rob Cruickshank - electronics + resonator
  • Heraclitus Akimbo - synths, etc.

It's tough to get that many folks in the frame, but most of them make an appearance in this footage you can see over on youtube:

And, of course, you can also listen to the whole performance over on bandcamp (and, if you'd like, support the collective's future works with a purchase!):

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Recording: Chapped Lips

Artist: Chapped Lips

Song: [first section]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #75), January 3, 2023.

Chapped Lips - [first section]

This seasonally-appropriate, pinterest-obsessed trio arose from a challenge I issued to guitarist Patrick O'Reilly, asking if he would be interested in bringing out some of the younger musicians he'd encountered in his work at U of T. He eagerly agreed, enlisting vocalist Annie Elgie and bassist PT Sandberg — and bringing along his guitar and his usual array of pedals. Sandberg showed a bassist's appreciation for repetition — something that can be daunting to commit to in an improvised context — while Elgie used a harmonizer pedal and some other tricks to pry her way in between the other sounds on stage.

You can check out some footage from this set over on the TCB youtube playlist:

[Track Could Bend is back at Wenona on Tuesday, February 7th, with sets from Xicada (Ilyse Krivel) and Adversarial Networks (Caleb Klager, Chris Pruden, Luan Phung, and David Lipson).]

Saturday, December 31, 2022

Recording: Double Group Continuous Improvisation

Artist: styrofoamNosebleedPrincess/Mira Martin-Gray/David Parker/Andrew Finlay Stewart + Del Stephen/Patrick O'Reilly/James Bailey/Tyson Headon

Songs: [two excerpts]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Audiopollination 10th Anniversary Bash: Double Group Continuous Improvisation), December 4, 2022.

styrofoamNosebleedPrincess/Mira Martin-Gray/David Parker/Andrew Finlay Stewart - [first group excerpt]

Del Stephen/Patrick O'Reilly/James Bailey/Tyson Headon - [second group excerpt]

A round number anniversary is always worth celebrating, and more so for this labour of love devoted to creative expression and community building. Kudos to Mike Lynn for putting in the work to keep Audiopollination going for a decade — definitely worth celebrating with a slice of pie and a crowded room in the Southern Cross.

After the "regular" Audiopollination sets, Lynn turned the remainder of the afternoon over to collaborators exploring parallel paths in community cacophony. This portion brought back a concept that Del Stephen has been deploying [del-ploying?] and tweaking for a while now, under a couple different names: basically inviting a large group of musicians, and then making a random draw to sort them into small ensembles — in this case, eight musicians playing as two quartets. The "continuous" element came in the transition when the players picked their moments one-by-one to depart/enter the stage at the halfway mark. The first group here (styrofoamNosebleedPrincess, amplified objects; Mira Martin-Gray, guitar; David Parker, guitar; Andrew Finlay Stewart, violin) explored some aggressive jangling while the second (Del Stephen, octapad; Patrick O'Reilly, Game Boy and pedals; James Bailey, trumpet and crutch; Tyson Headon, bass) casually backed into a sort of bitcrushed Bitches Brew vibe.

You can check out some footage from this set over on the Audiopollination youtube channel:

Saturday, December 10, 2022

Recording: Del Stephen & The Heart Loft Group

Artist: Del Stephen & The Heart Loft Group

Song: Translation Emotion Express [Part 2]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Today Versions presents: Last Place), November 13, 2022.

Del Stephen & The Heart Loft Group - Translation Emotion Express [Part 2]

This was another in a series of bands that were purpose-built, it'd seem, for the purposes of playing a particular piece, brought together to "complete" some compositions in, perhaps, the last place they need to be. Joined by Jeff Sinibaldi (electronics, gentle percussion), Andrew Finlay Stewart (violin), Michael Lynn (bass), and Patrick O'Reilly (guitar, effects), the group stretched out over two expansive compositions, gentle thoughts curling out into insistent notions.

You can watch a bigger chunk of this set over on youtube:

Monday, December 5, 2022

Monday Roundup #99

Concert announcements:

Dun-Dun Land: Night 2 (feat. Jesse Levine & Robin Buckley / Dun-Dun Man) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-12-13 (Tuesday – early!). $pwyc.

Audiopollination (feat. David Sait/Aidan McConnell/Marilyn Yogarajah / Rod Campbell/%%30%30%30/Fuzzy Nibesh / Thispatcher/David Story/Raquel Skilich/Cassie Norton / Love Children of the Apocalypse) / Array Space 2022-12-16 (Friday). $10 (cash or card, NOTAFLOF). [FB event]

Titanium Riot (BLOOP) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-12-18 (Sunday – early!) [FB event]

Boxing Week Special (feat. Rapport / Spirale Parfait / Scott Hardware) / The Baby G 2021-12-29 (Thursday). $13.85, 19+. [FB event]

Tranzac New Year’s Eve (feat. Eucalyptus / Owen Pallett / Bernice / LAL / Phèdre / José Contreras / Chiquitamagic) / The Tranzac 2021-12-31 (Saturday). $25 in advance, $30 at the door. [FB event]


Shows this week:

Track Could Bend #74 (feat. Mad's Happy Music [Madeleine Ertel/Aline Homzy/Beth Silver/Alexa Belgrave] / Ecotone [S. Brothers/M. Mucci]) / Wenona Lodge 2021-12-06 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Peripheral Vision (Plastic Babies) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-12-06 (Tuesday)

Ghostlight (SeniorBeatBox) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-12-07 (Wednesday) [FB event]

DMA Recital: Patrick O'Reilly (feat. Annie Elgie/Laura Swankey/Madeleine Ertel/Bea Labikova/Mira Martin‐Gray/Joe Strutt/Andrew Furlong/Joe Sorbara) / Walter Hall 2022-12-08 (Thursday). Free, open to the public, livestream available. [more info]

Cosmic Country for Communists (feat. Janet Macpherson/Kurt Newman/Harry Bartlett/Andrew Furlong/Blake Howard / Cathryn Naiker / Nick Flanagan) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-12-08 (Thursday)

Rückstreuung: Sound Performance (feat. Debashis Sinha) / MOCA Toronto 2022-12-09 (Friday). $free with admission. [FB event]

Long Winter (feat. Sicayda / VRIM / Bobby Gadda / SSunday / SORB / E-PRIME) / The Parkdale Hall 2021-12-09 (Friday). PWYC, all ages. [FB event]

Musica Universalis (feat. Colin Fisher Quartet [Mark Hundevad/Brandon Valdivia/Andrew Furlong/Colin Fisher] / Aline Homzy/Josh Cole/Nick Storring) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-12-09 (Friday). $10. [FB event]

Glen Hall's Ossingtones [Glen Hall/Diane Roblin/Bruce CassidyChris Cawthray/Rob Clutton ] / La Rev 2022-12-10 (Saturday)

Lee Paradise (Moon King) / Monarch Tavern 2021-12-10 (Saturday). $15, 19+. [FB event]

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Ayal Senior/Kurt Newman/Andrew Furlong / Jessie Dara / Nick Flanagan / Tzevi Sherman) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-12-11 (Sunday – 2:30 p.m.)[FB event]

SynCirSundays (feat. The Electronoise Orchestra [Connor Bennett/William Davison/Mira Martin-Gray/Mike Hansen/Heraclitus Akimbo]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-12-11 (Sunday – early!). $10/pwyc [FB event]

Happy Sundays (feat. Beams / Joy Shape / Isla Craig) / The Baby G 2021-12-11 (Sunday). $free, 19+. [FB event]


It happened this week...

Patrick O'Reilly will be leading an ensemble in a performance of his open-source composition "Carded" at his graduating recital on Thursday (check out the listing above), making it on-point to share a couple live excursions from a few years back:

  • ...on December 8, 2018 at Array Space (Audiopollination 66).

Laura Swankey & Patrick O'Reilly - [excerpt]

  • ...on December 9, 2018 at Array Space (Somewhere There's Second Sunday Series).

William Davison/Patrick O'Reilly/{AN} EeL - [excerpt]

[Do remember that you can click on the tags below to go back and find the original posts (and often, more stuff) from these artists.]

Friday, November 18, 2022

Recording: Wapamaku

Artist: Wapamaku

Song: unknown*

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Cosmic Country for Communists), November 10, 2022.

Wapamaku - [first set, second piece]

A different vibe at Kurt Newman's monthly, with frequent collaborator Patrick O'Reilly bringing along one of his other projects — Wapamu (a moniker that is drawn from the performers' first names: Waleed Abdulhamid, O'Reilly himself, and Max Senitt). With Newman joining in on weissenborn and pedal steel, an extra syllable was added, and some nice grooves — Newman's melodically languid floating on top of it all gave O'Reilly more space for abstract funk scratchiness while Abdulhamid and Sennit locked in to provide a rock-solid foundation.

* Does anyone know the title to this one? Please leave a comment!

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Recording: Icterus

Artist: Icterus

Song: Three Wars

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), September 11, 2022.

Icterus - Three Wars

This was, apparantly, the first show for this unit since 2019 — a possibly-tricky situation when involving some certainly-tricky music for nimble fingers. But given that the nimble fingers (and minds) involved here were those of Stefan Hegerat (drumkit), Rob Grieve (guitar), Patrick O'Reilly (guitar), and Mark Godfrey (bass) things were generally handled with aplomb. This long-ish piece — almost a suite — shows off several of the terrains they were capable of traversing.