In memoriam Ted Phillips:
- Shortly after I had wrapped up this roundup last night, word came through about Ted Phillips' sudden and unexpected passing, so please forgive me for a few hastily-written words here. Ted was a sui generis figure in local music circles, seen most often at shows investigating curious sounds and novel ways of generating them. He was also a sound artist with a sneaky sense of humour in finding sound-sources to granulate and process in performance. Once, several years back, he gave me some very useful advice in wringing the best sound out of less-than-ideal field recordings, and I still think of one of my workflows for dealing with recordings of very quiet performances as the "Ted Phillips treatment".
It is also weird and poignant for me to acknowledge Ted in this space, as when we'd cross paths, he'd almost inevitably give thanks and praise for these listings and in my mind he was always part of my perceived audience of people that would actually pay attention to these entries. Despite his particular ways, he'd never hesitate to offer a word of encouragement to those he felt deserved it.
I am sure there will be opportunities for a proper sharing of memories, but while the city's bike lanes stay a little bit quieter this week, let's keep an eye out for each other.
Community notes:
- Support emerging composers! Shoe Box Composers Concerts "was founded to create more opportunities for emerging composers to write pieces for diverse instrumentations and hear them played live." They have a show coming up at The Tranzac (see listings below), but to keep things moving + growing have also started a gofundme to keep things sustainable, so support them if you are able. Hat tip to Madeleine Ertel, who is doing the organizational legwork here.
- DRONE:KLUB is returning to the Long & McQuade Clinic Hall this week (Thursday, July 13th) for their last event until the fall. "Droners, Friends and Audience are all welcome for this free indoor event. Masks are encouraged. Bring your instrument, wires and adapters."
- Meanwhile, perhaps interestingly, my initiative to try get informed about some of the shows that I've been missing for my listings has had underwhelming results, so I'll mention this here once more: if you have a cool show coming up that I should know about, please fill out this form so I can add it when I'm putting a future roundup together!
Concert announcements:
Mourning [A] BLKstar (Jane Inc) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2023-07-18 (Tuesday). $20. [more info]
Shoe Box Composer's Concert [featuring pieces by: Aidan McConnell, Alyssa Giammaria, Benjamin Gabbay, Lucas Schlotfeld, Madeleine Ertel, Mateos Labbe-Phelan, Max Donaldson, Rashaan Allwood, Sean Parker, Yu-Pin Lai] (feat. Jared Berger/Jahred Warkentin/Bien Carandang/Danielle Sum) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-07-19 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Picastro (Someone is Flying / Funeral Lakes) / The Dakota Tavern 2023-07-20 (Thursday – early show, 7 to 9 p.m.). $13.54, 19+. [FB event]
Life Force [Diane Roblin/Bruce Cassidy/Tim Shia/George Koller/Alexander Brown] / Hirut 2023-07-20&21 (Thursday & Friday). $15, reservations suggested.
The Listening Biennial (feat. Germaine Liu) / MOCA 2023-07-21 (Friday). $free. [more info]
Nick Fraser Quartet feat. Tony Malaby / The Rex 2023-07-26–29 (Wednesday–Saturday) [FB event]
Nice Pals 008 (feat. By Divine Right / Shotgun Jimmie / Burs / Dave Schoonderbeek) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2023-07-28 (Friday). $20 adv, $25 doors. [FB event]
Nilan Perera [guitar] & Casey McGlynn [live painting] [kids art table to join in!] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-07-30 (Sunday – 5 p.m.).
Happy Sundays (feat. Not A Band / Yound / Gaijin Smash) / The Baby G 2023-07-30 (Sunday). $free, 19+. [FB event]
Nico Paulo (Evan J Cartwright) / The Baby G 2023-07-31 (Monday). $20.05, 19+. [FB event]
Luge [I Love it Here, I Live Here LP release] (Not A Band / Tago Mago) / The Garrison 2023-09-08 (Friday). $20.61, 19+. [FB event]
Burn Down the Capital, Venus Fest and the Music Gallery present (feat. Beverly Glenn-Copeland [The Ones Ahead album release!] / Teiya Kasahara) / Eastminster United Church 2023-10-15 (Sunday). $39.23, all ages. [FB event]
Is your show missing from this list? Submit it via this form!
Shows this week:
Dun-Dun Land, Night 9 (feat. Dun-Dun Man / Fleshtone Aura) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-07-11 (Tuesday – early!). $pwyc.
Josh Cole Presents (feat. Rob Clutton/Josh Cole/Ryan Driver/Phil Melanson) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-07-11 (Tuesday) [more info]
Donna Lee Quartet [Brodie West/Marilyn Lerner/Josh Cole/Phil Melanson] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-07-12 (Wednesday – early)
Think of a Name [10-year anniversary reunion!] (Commander Goznales / Jane Ozkowski/Ken Brennan) / Array Space 2023-07-12 (Wednesday) [FB event]
The Listening Biennial (feat. Olivia Shortt) / MOCA 2023-07-14 (Friday). $free. [more info]
Musica Universalis (feat. Kyle Hutchins/Colin Fisher / Chiquita Magic) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-07-14 (Friday). $10 suggested donation. [FB event]
Video hits:
- Some charming lo-fi animation for this new track by The Titillators, from the forthcoming album That's The Night, which will be seeing a vinyl release via Tin Angel Records.
It happened this week...
- ...on July 10, 2014 at The Imperial Pub.
Ken Aldcroft + Mike Gennaro - [excerpt from first piece]
- ...on July 11, 2014 at Double Double Land.
Zacht Automaat - A Whiter Shade of Pale
[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.]
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