Monday Roundup #178

Community notes:

• The big event this week is the Western and World Symposium being put on by Labyrinth Ontario (and co-presented with The Music Gallery and TONE Festival) at 918 Bathurst from Wednesday through Saturday. Except for two paid-attendance concerts on Thursday and Saturday evening, the whole thing is free to attend (registration encouraged) and features Toronto kulintang heroes Pantayo and a music group workshop led by Kelly Thoma, as well as many other roundtables, performances, amd workshops.

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Concert announcements:

Aline's Étoile Magique / Toronto Jazz Fest – Village Stage 2024-06-24 (Monday). $free, all-ages, outdoors. [more info]

Jennarie (Kae Murphy Quintet) / Toronto Jazz Fest – Village Stage 2024-06-26 (Wednesday). $free, all-ages, outdoors. [FB event]

Bruno Capinan / Toronto Jazz Fest – Main Stage 2024-06-27 (Thursday). $free, all-ages, outdoors. [more info]

Exit Points #50 (feat. Nirvana Sagar/Alexis Dionne/Hymns57/Donovan Locke/Jackie Leung / Wendelin Bartley/Sarah Belle Reid/El Mahboob/Stephanie Chua/Michael Palumbo / Switchemups!) / Array Space 2024-06-28 (Friday). $20 advance/$25 door. [FB event]

Lewdline: Latineo (feat. Bruno Capinan ) / Toronto Pride – Wellesley Stage 2024-06-29 (Saturday) [more info]

Alternaqueer: Planet Künst (feat. E-prime / Künst Kids / Sydney Quest / Alexandher Brandy / Kanna Worm / Milkshook / Craven Blood / Anne Alien / Halal Bae / Slash Need / Myst Milano) / Toronto Pride – South Stage 2024-06-30 (Sunday) [more info]

Slutcode (Jazz Dads / Hex-A-Decimal) / See-Scape 2024-07-04 (Thursday). $10/pwyc. [FB event]

Burn Down The Capital presents (feat. Lucas Abela / Brian Ruryk / Deprivation Tactics / Mira Martin-Gray) / See-Scape 2024-07-24 (Wednesday). $17.52 advance/$20 door, 19+. [FB event]

Is your show missing from this list? Submit it via this form!

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Shows this week:

Cowbird Composer Collective Tranzac Residency Concert #2 (feat. Paul Newman/Brian Abbott / Sallow [Naomi McCarroll-Butler]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-10 (Monday) [FB event]

Not Dead Yet (feat. io & Colin Fisher / Pet Retina / Measure) / Seescape 2024-06-11 (Tuesday). $15, notaflof

Ghostgirl residency (feat. Aline Homzy & co.) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-11 (Tuesday) [more info]

Josh Cole presents (feat. Josh Cole & friends with John Oswald) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-11 (Tuesday)

Brodie West Presents (feat. The Brodie West Quintet) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-12 (Wewdnesday)

Queer Pride: QSO 10 Year Anniversary Show (feat. Queer Songbook Orchestra with Alanna Stuart, Alex Samaras, Lydia Persaud, Matt Nethersole, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff & Thom Gill) / Buddies in Bad Times 2024-06-12 (Wednesday). $30-$45. [more info]

Kelly Elizabeth (Westelaken / Brock Mattson) / The Dakota Tavern 2024-06-12 (Wednesday). $13.54 advance/$15 door. [more info]

Titanium Riot / The Emmet Ray 2024-06-12 (Wednesday). $10-$15 [FB event]

TONE Festival (feat. Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez / Lee & Gamble Unlimited / Roa Lee) / The Music Gallery 2024-06-13 (Thursday). $20 advance, all ages. [FB event]

Tranzac Fundraiser II (feat. US Girls / Eucalyptus / Cots) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-06-14 (Friday). $20 adv, $25 door, 19+

Audiopollination (Diane Roblin/Jamie Eriksen/Anne Amores / Laura Swankey/Nilan Perera/Tliman Lewis / Patrick O’Reilly/Connor Bennett/Afraaz Adam Mulji/Patrick Booth / Stik Sharpi/Uisill Galar/Bri Clarke) / Array Space 2024-06-14 (Friday). $10 or PWYC (cash or card). [FB event]

Not Dead Yet presents (feat. Tyvek / XV) / Monarch Tavern 2024-06-14 (Friday). $21.41, 19+. [more info]

Musica Universalis (feat. Colin Fisher / Andrew Furlong / William Hunt / Mark Hundevad) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-14 (Friday)

Ross Daly's This Tale of Ours Ensemble / The Music Gallery 2024-06-15 (Saturday). $25 general admission; $15 or more Pay What You Can Afford admission; $15 MG members. [FB event]

TONE Festival (feat. Mas Aya [Coming And Going record release] / Colin Fisher [Suns of the Heart record release) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-06-16 (Sunday). $20 advance, $25 door, all ages. [FB event]

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It happened this week...

With the news Sunday of the fiery descruction of St. Anne's Anglican Church, regular calandar-based introspection is postponed to remember some sounds heard within those walls:

• ...on April 11, 2013 at St. Anne's Anglican Church (Images Festival Opening Night Gala).

Tim Hecker - [excerpt]

• ...on April 20, 2013 at St. Anne's Anglican Church.

Hamid Drake & David Mott - Corredor [opening sequence]

• ...on June 18, 2019 at St. Anne's Anglican Church (Invocation Presents).

Lubomyr Melnyk - Butterfly [excerpt]

Recording: Lubomyr Melnyk

Artist: Lubomyr Melnyk

Songs: Butterfly [excerpt] + Windmills [excerpt]

Recorded at St. Anne's Anglican Church (Invocation Presents), June 18, 2019.

Lubomyr Melnyk - Butterfly [excerpt]

Lubomyr Melnyk - Windmills [excerpt]

A night out to church with mystic and braggart Lubomyr Melnyk, who in his seventies is still claiming the crown as the world's fastest durational piano player. Dismissing such prosaic notions as the concept of sound as waves, Melnyk has moved beyond science in seeking out the magical origins of sound, telling the crowd that magic is the slave of sound and the universe is a slave of magic. (Melnyk is not adverse however to deploying technology, such as in a number of "dual piano" pieces that involve one part prerecorded during soundcheck that is then played along with during the concert.)

Melnyk dabbled a bit in "normal" piano styles (such as the beginning of "Butterfly" heard here), but most of the concert was played with his "continuous" technique — rapid flurries of notes that flow like a river into a sort of drone, and creating astonishing overtones that aren't fully captured in recordings. (For a local connection, his continuous playing was first documented in his KMH album, recorded and released by Music Gallery Editions during his late-70's time in the city.) The night ended with the nearly hour-long "Windmills", a musical version of a meticulously-detailed pointillist painting telling the story of a windmill: first functioning in high efficiency, then struggling against storm-winds, then adrift as an untethered soul after collapsing.