Recording: Spectrum Soundbath

Artist: Spectrum Soundbath

Songs: [two excerpts]

Recorded at Trinity–St. Paul's Centre (Sanctuary Drone), October 5, 2024.

Spectrum Soundbath - [excerpt 1]

Spectrum Soundbath - [excerpt 2]

Taking place in a variety of hang-out-able environments, Spectrum Soundbath is a rigourously-participatory exercise in community drone-making, with the organizers towing along a wagonload of percussive tools and other items to spread out for folks to make sounds with. Taking over the stage after Cosmic Homeostasis' balcony performance, the soundbath crew greeted the pre-dawn, starting with a small crew but gaining in strength as friends dropped in to end their own Nuit Blanche explorations. This is a sort of sonic experience that makes the most sense when you're in the middle of it, but for documentary purposes, here's a couple scenes from the proceedings.

Recording: Cosmic Homeostasis

Artist: Cosmic Homeostasis

Songs: Sanctuary Drone [four excerpts]

Recorded at Trinity–St. Paul's Centre (Sanctuary Drone), October 5, 2024.

Cosmic Homeostasis - Sanctuary Drone [excerpt 1]

Cosmic Homeostasis - Sanctuary Drone [excerpt 2]

Cosmic Homeostasis - Sanctuary Drone [excerpt 3]

Cosmic Homeostasis - Sanctuary Drone [excerpt 4]

After a couple expansive outdoor performances, the Cosmic Homeostasis crew were ready to make some further explorations into durational drone-making. Holding down the middle stretch of this all-night unofficial Nuit Blanche event, the musicians took over the Sanctuary's balcony, spreading out to give a spacialized mix to the audience down on the floor. Nearly twenty musicans came and went over the course of the night, adding some additional variety to the sonic textures. There was also a nice mix of acoustic and electronic sounds — the former especially blooming with the room's beautiful acoustics.

The participants in the Sanctuary Drone were:

• Blash Belmar - erhu, flutes
• Dan Friedman - Korg NTS-1, harmonica, whistling
• Eric Cinnesealach - clarinet
• Ian McPhedran - guitar
• Janel Jones - trumpet, voice
• Magick - Magick
• Matt Collins - guitar
• Maxim Gontcharenko- singing bowls
• Michelle Breslin - guitar
• Mickle32 - effects
• Paul Newman - tenor saxophone
• Phil Johnston - tape loops, effects, 1-string guitar
• Rosalind Saunders - violin
• Ron Blake - apps, etc.
• Ryan Kinney - electronics
• Sonia Leung - violin, windchimes
• Heraclitus Akimbo - synths, effects, accordion

If you want to hear (a lot) more of this, I have archived the bulk of the performance over on bandcamp:

Recording: DRONE:KLUB

Artist: DRONE:KLUB

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Trinity–St. Paul's Centre (Sanctuary Drone), October 5, 2024.

DRONE:KLUB - [excerpt]

A community-based initiative from the AMBiENT PiNG crew, DRONE:KLUB is a mind-meld/meet-up for electronic musicians to share a clock signal and collaborate. Familiar with TSP from a Drone Day event earlier this year, the crew held down the primetime evening slot of this unofficial Nuit Blanche event, playing for a couple hours (plus overlap time as Cosmic Homeostasic eased in after them) and bringing some planetarium vibes to the church's beautiful space.