Laura Gillis has been crafting songs as Vividness for quite some time now, though this evolution is a slightly more recent development. Joined by Michelangelo Iaffaldano the mysterious Hildegard von Bingo on guitar and Lorne Shapiro on viola de gamba, the goal here was as much to explore textures and interactions as to deliver songs.
You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:
[Track Could Bend is back at Wenona on Tuesday (February 2nd) with sets from OH GEE (Marilyn Yogarajah & Rod Campbell) and Ryan Kinney.]
*Does anyone know the title to this one? Please leave a comment!
Track Could Bend will be having its tenth anniversary in April — although given how time got weird for a while there and the series took fourteen months off, it seems like a slightly ambiguous mark for celebration. This big round number, however, felt like the right opportunity to mark a special occasion. In the beforetimes, TCB marked its anniversaries with special events, gathering the folks who had played over the previous year and drawing names from a hat to construct some spontaneous new combos. I had the notion to scale that up and duly invited back everyone who had ever played the series — over three hundred performers! — for an afternoon and evening of fun.
As fate would have it, the long-planned-for day came with a monumental snowstorm, so the inability to get around kept some folks at home. And yet, this event still saw twenty-one performers take the stage, duly selected from the hat and sorted into seven trios. As is often the case, these instant bands made some gorgeous sounds, showing off the ability of TCB's community to adapt, co-operate and thrive. A fun time was had by many — a fitting launch to the next ten years.
The day lead off with this vocals-forward trio, Isla Craig (MFS#4, 18) singing and Michelangelo Iaffaldano (MFS#45, 84) grumbling over some percussive textures from Fahmid Nibesh (MFS#67, 78, 79).
You can check out the full set over on youtube:
[Track Could Bend will be back at Wenona Lodge, its usual home, on April 1st in a special co-presentation with Ministry of Phonic Services presenting sets from Mira Martin-Gray & Sierra Weston and Wilderness Adventure Ride.]
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:
[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.]
This duo pairing moved through some ethnomusicological mystery zones, exploring real folk forms from fake places. Krakowiak, known for his extra-quiet percussion work, was on cello here, while Iaffaldano alternated between accordion and guitar.
You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:
[Track Could Bend is back at Wenona on Tuesday (November 7th) with sets from Ben Grossman and Ozone.]
This special evening was convened by Liz Lima as a gathering to connect Johanna & Vanita Monk (visiting from Rotterdam) with local improvisers. Vanita (voice) and Johanna (soprano sax, clarinet) started off in duo format, transcending language and showing a deep connection from decades of musical co-exploration. From there, each took turns with the local musicians, coming from different angles to respond to their sounds.
You can check out some more from the evening over on youtube:
Goodness gracious! How nice it is to get outside, and to be somewhere a little unfamiliar, and to see folks from your community doing cool things! This soundwalk was conceptualized by Germaine Liu to use percussion and voices to reflect and enhance the sounds in a stretch moving from Canoe Landing Park and running along The Bentway, under The Gardiner Expressway. Accompanied by the whirr of traffic and backbeat of underpass construction, the groups' sounds fit in like ghostly counterparts to the sonic landscape. Truly delightful. (And for the record, the participants in the piece were: Bea Labikova, Aki Takahashi, Bee Pallomina, Brenda Joy Lem, Fahmid Nibesh, Joe Sorbara, Lieke van der Voort, Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Mingjia, Stephanie Chua, Raphael Roter, Heather Saumer, and Christine Duncan.)
In addition to the audio clips above, here's a slightly more expansive visual record. (Do be warned, this was taken with a handheld camera, so there are some shaky spots here):
Bumping Into... is a series of mini-chats with a variety of peeps that you might run into in some of our local music communities. (There's a bit of an intro and my thoughts behind the series here.)
How are you? Where are you?
Oh hi Joe! Fancy running into you here! I am well, thanks.
What have you been up to since March or so?
Visual art is my first love so I reverted to it, as it is well suited to domestic solitude. So I am drawing, painting and collaging like there’s no tomorrow (ahem). The rare contacts with other artists and audience are a treasure, of course. The socially distanced DUST performance in Humber Valley was almost overwhelming — so many friends in one place!
What else? I made a very silly puppet show written entirely in anagrams of the phrase “Happy Birthday to You”. This was for the Concrete Cabaret event series, which has moved from the Tranzac to Zoom like everything else. Also I made an appearance on Laura Gillis’ solo album for her project VIVIDNESS. I play guitar and humdrum, an instrument of my invention. Laura is currently making trippy, abstract videos for each track on the album and I am helping her a little bit with that. Oh, and I jammed with Tomasz Krakowiak in the park a couple of times during the summer. He’s reverted to violoncello — his first instrument — and of course he slays it.
Also I am having rather vivid dreams. Here’s one: “I am in a room with a blue ceiling that has the face of god on it. He has no mouth and his eyes are closed. I ask him for sight even though I can see. He births two eyes out of his eyelids: they look like boiled eggs. I receive one in each hand, thank him and go on my way."
Have you found any new ways to do old things? How are you feeling about the shifts in how music is being made/shared/listened to?
Drum machines! Who knew they’re so much fun? Umm, everyone else, I guess. As audience member under the current constraints I’m having trouble getting excited about live streaming and online events. They don’t deliver the communal feel for me. When cooped up I’d rather enjoy formats that are better suited for the home: music recordings, films, books, etc. However I am grateful for video communication channels that allow me to see and hear my friends and especially my family in Italy. Who knows when I will see them again.
Any works of art that have been a light for you in these times? Anything that's just been a good diversion?
Ammar 808 will have you bounce around the room, which is always a good thing.
Hindi devotional films have everything that I love about cinema and none of the filler.
The best thing I’ve read this year is Isaac Babel’s Red Cavalry but it's not what you would call uplifting. I highly recommend Robert Sapolski’s Behave, which is a humane, nuanced and and masterful condensation of a vast, difficult field: the biology of human behaviour. My friends Marina Kaganova & Leo Decristoforo just finished Life in Three Voices, a documentary about Georgian traditional singers Ensemble Adilei and Chamgeliani sisters, who also happen to be friends. The singing is extraordinary and the film radiates the warmth and joy of communal music making that we miss so much.
How are you feeling about 2021?
Feeding hope is the highway to disappointment.
Anything else we'd chat about if we bumped into each other?
Oy! I’d love to know about any plans you have for live music when such things start to happen again. Also, I want to start a band. You know everyone; can you put me in touch?
This trio of Andy Yue, Michelangelo Iaffaldano, and James Bailey were regulars on the local improvised music circuit a few years back, but hadn't played a gig together for five or six years. Unsurprisingly for a grouping with some voracious sonic explorers, there was no attempt made to play what/how they used to play, so this set saw Yue on keyb, Bailey on trumpet and saxophone and Iaffaldano on a delicate construction of SK-1 and phone samples — at least until something went sideways there, forcing him to improvise with voice and whatever else could be found near at hand.
This duo set of cosmic folk-drone from Michael Franklin and Michelangelo Iaffaldano took its name from the fact that this show was being held on the name day for the teleporting, torch-extinguishing patron saint of artillerymen, mathematicians, and miners. The main portion of the set (extracted above) combined Franklin's hurdy-gurdy with Iaffaldano's prepared guitar and field recordings before their rousing coda shifted to Uilleann pipes and drums.
[Track Could Bend is back at Wenona on Tuesday, February 5th with sets from Meg Remy's Last Tape, William Davison & Bob Vespaziani plus the T.O. debut of Hamilton's all-star Freaky Boos.]
The return of "the quietest big band in the known world" (one of several projects re-ignited with the return of percussionist D. Alex Meeks to these parts) brought out a baker's dozen of old hands and new to attempt to collectively make as little noise as possible. The ensemble this time included Nicholas Buligan, John Oswald, James Bailey, Mike Smith, Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Lina Allemano, Cory Latkovich, Kayla Milmine, Brian Abbott, Mark Zurawinski, Sebastian Shinwell, Paul Newman and Meeks, all quietly blowing, rubbing or scratching at their instruments — or, just pausing to eat some fruit. As always, there's no proper way to replicate the aural experience via a recording, as the thing that is striking about DUST in the flesh is that bare minimum of sound interacting with the environment. If it needs to be (barely) heard to be comprehended, there is at least a greater chance of that now re-occurring.
Moving from the Southern Cross' carpeted living-room zone to the more acoustically delicate sanctuary at the Music Gallery gave this the air of something of a special occasion for DUST. They were also a bit more of a "big band" than the last couple times I'd seen 'em, with eleven players on hand, all endeavouring to make as little sound as possible. The approach was a bit more "musical" than some of the rustlings I caught last time out, but there were still plenty of hushed abstractions here, including the return of Alex Lukashevsky's turntable. This set's MVP might have been Ryan Driver, who added not only some balloon membrane murmurings, but also brought a wooden spool that he rolled quietly along the wooden floor.
This quite wonderfully-named duo saw cellist cheryl o working with multi-instrumental wiz Michelangelo Iaffaldano, who played piano, guitar, clarinet, harp and accordion. Although Iaffaldano was often playing two of those instruments at a time, the music mostly involved around the interchange of spare, calming textures. On the second piece here, Iaffaldano set his violin on top of the piano and made little bowing swipes on the open strings while picking out piano notes.
This evening's manifestation of "the quietest big band in the known world" started off as a quartet, but had seven members by night's end, each endeavouring to make as little noise as possible with their instruments. Heather Saumer put in a valiant effort here, rarely playing her trombone, instead choosing to luxuriate in the ruffled sound its bell made when rubbed across the carpet, or listening to the inside of a cowbell as if it were a seashell. Pianist Avesta Nakhaei, often a maximalist by inclination, managed to pare things back to gently-played phrases that added just the faintest bit of melodic structure to the proceedings. Beyond that, you can try and extrapolate some quiet glass-clinks, subtle sax licks and a double bass string being flossed by a hair plucked from a bow just above the noise floor of this recording.
[DUST is definitely best appreciated live and in a quiet room, so their upcoming set at the Music Gallery, leading things off at St. Dirt Elementary School's 15th Anniversary celebration, should be about ideal. As the invite to the event cheekily comments, earplugs are entirely optional.]
One of the most intriguing sets of the entire festival was a late addition, not even appearing in the program. Tomasz Krakowiak is perhaps the most subtle percussionist in the city, relying on quiet rustlings and rubbings on his drumhead with seeming disconcern for his instrument's rhythmic possibilities, while Michelangelo Iaffaldano is a musical polymath, seemingly able to MacGyver sounds from any instrument or object. He started this set on violin (played resting on his knee) for an exceptional bit of minimalist interaction with Krakowiak; things got louder on the second, longer piece, where Iaffaldano switched to guitar, which he played by bowing a metal rack that was held against the strings. Incredible stuff.
Ten members deep this night out, there was once again some of the intriguing quiet rustles that I had heard before from this wilfully-quiet improvisational big band. But this wonderful little atmospheric segment here managed to explore something a little different from what I'd heard them do before.
This grouping (perhaps appropriately) deconstructed and reconstructed itself even before its first/only gig took place. Originally conceived as an opportunity for cellist cheryl o and percussionist Rick Sacks to improvise together, some last-minute reconfigurations were needed when schedule conflicts kept the latter away. And thus previously-scheduled quartet members Rob Clutton (bass) and Michelangelo Iaffaldano (prepared guitar and miscellaneous) were augmented by Hamilton's Steven Sauve (piano) and David Schotzko (who I had recently seen in a rather different context, on percussion).
While setting up, cheryl looked over the numbers and commented, as a sort of framing instruction, that the musicians shouldn't feel the need to always be playing all at once. As the set began, she took her own advice and held back, allowing space to develop. That would be the most tantalizing element here, and as the night progressed, the quintet found increasing room for the sounds to linger — the first set selection here is tasty enough as it builds up a bit of intensity; but the second, led by Sauve's prepared piano line, is just exquisite, hinting at the slow melodic interplay you might hear from, say, The Necks. This night wasn't the gig that was envisioned when it was being put togther, but it was surely a satisfying experiment.
Under the guidance of the elusive Abraham Dust, the ever-shifting members of "the quietest big band in the known world" continue to invert the standard musical paradigm by generating the least amount of volume possible, leaving in their wake only the bare husks of melodies and residues of rhythm. Drums, cello, synths, violin and saxophone all take on strange qualities when played with the minimum force to register, which multiplies when the quietudes rustle against one another.
[This longer segment has been broken into a couple parts, in case you want to separate Part 1's "deep cut" from Part 2, which'd be known in the biz as "the single". The group is taking a seasonal break, but will return to The Tranzac in February; you can keep up with their whisperings via their facebook page.]
Founded as a blog about one curmudgeon's love affair with the em dash, Mechanical Forest Sound has grown to become a community-based archive of local musical culture. Assuming that "independent music" isn't just boys with guitars and "culture" isn't just some sort of pageant, MFS is an investigation of a wide range of artists, reflecting on concerts as shared experiences, acts of citizenship and a chance to get down — fuzzy photographs and clear-sounding original live recordings a specialty.
Current manifestations of this project include Track Could Bend, a monthly concert series featuring "improvised music and weird rock offshoots", presented in a casual environment.
At one point I wrote full-on concert reviews, and for longer I thought I would catch up and write about shows in the past. But these days, because of, y'know, life, do not expect much in the way of full show reviews — but live recordings with blurbs will be posted as quickly after the fact as is feasible.
You can also check out full sets uploaded to the Live Music Archive. [not currently active]
N.B.: All recordings should be available & playable. If you come across any broken links, invisible or non-functioning players, etc, please leave a comment and I will tend to it ASAP.
ALSO N.B.: I'm perpetually on the lookout for a new place to stash my MP3's online. If you know of any place that allows a couple gigs of stuff to be openly linked to for streaming, drop me a line!
All MP3's on this blog are audience recordings shared as a reminder of the excitement of seeing live music. If you are an artist who doesn't want their music shared in this way, please contact me and I shall remove it forthwith.
An eve (songs of ours played with this beautiful band) [songs by Ryan Driver & Maggie Keogh] (feat. Ryan Driver [solo] /Maggie Keogh/Max Donaldson/Jaron Freeman-Fox/Harry Bartlett/Maxwell Stover/Blake Howard) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-10-20 (Tuesday – early). $pwyc. [more info]
Intersection Music & Arts presents ["an evening-length multidisciplinary production"] (feat. Les Gents Qui Partent / Andrew Noseworthy) / Canadian Music Centre 2026-10-20 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [more info + RSVP]
Music Hosted by Karen Ng ["five alto saxophonists ... play a 30 minute piece of multiphonics by German improviser and composer Frank Gratkowski"] (feat. Patrick O'Reilly [solo] / Bea Labikova/Nicola Miller/Karen Ng/Ben Rositsan/Brodie West) / Wenona Lodge 2026-10-20 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [more info]
Dan Pitt & Harry Bartlett / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-10-20 (Tuesday). [more info]
Ministry of Phonic Services presents (feat. Sweet Lips / Bag) / United Unlimited 2026-10-21 (Wednesday). $15 or pwyc, all ages. [more info]
Altered States Artist Showcase (feat. Dave Clark/Paul Kolinski/Mike Milligan) / Water to Wine 2026-10-21 (Wednesday). $pwyc. [more info]
ESP Free Jazz Thursdays (feat. Brent Tanemura/Lauchlin Wood/Rob Clutton/Aidan Miller) / Water to Wine 2026-10-22 (Thursday). $pwyc. [more info]
Dorky&Best with Meghan Cheng (feat. Germaine Liu duos with Aniqa, Brian, Leslie, Raphael, Tilman and Tina / Dorkestra + Live Visuals [Germaine Liu/Bea/Claire/Heather/John/Mark/Matthew/Meghan/Mira/Rob) / Array Space 2026-10-23 (Friday). $PWYC (suggested $5-$25), no one turned away for lack of funds. [FB event]
Experimental Link Series: Strings of Iran (feat. Hossein Behroozinia/Mehdi Rostami/Pooyan Ranaei/Bamdad Fotouhi) / Trinity Presbyterian Church 2026-10-24 (Saturday). $43.63. [tickets + more info]
Zoo Owl (Steve Shiffman & The Land of No / Aedon Bears) / Handlebar 2026-10-24 (Saturday). $pwyc. [FB event]
Salon d’exposition (feat. Afraaz Adam Alnoor Mulji & Ali Rajan) / Array Space 2026-10-25 (Sunday – 2 p.m.) [more info]
Imaginary North and The AMBiENT PING present Ambient Afternoon (feat. Bay Mud / A.V.E. / dreamSTATE) / Society Clubhouse 2026-10-25 (Sunday – 2 p.m.). $12.67 (advance), $15 (door), all-ages and family-friendly. [tickets + more info]
Nick Fraser presents (feat. Mira Martin-Gray [solo]) / Nick Fraser's Special Topics) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-10-27 (Tuesday)
The Music Gallery & Burn Down The Capital present (feat. Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen / Slow Attack Ensemble) / Church of the Holy Trinity 2026-10-28 (Wednesday) [tickets + more info]
More Noise Please! presents: Blood and Black Lace (feat. Rich Oddie / Pravik / Babies R Stupid / Sarin / Blood Visions From The Blood God / Tender Prey) / BSMT254 2026-10-28 (Wednesday). $22.63, all ages. [tickets + more info]
Altered States Artist Showcase (feat. Diana Piruzevska & Christobal Lavanchy) / Water to Wine 2026-10-28 (Wednesday). $pwyc. [more info]
Burn Down The Capital presents (feat. Trevor Dunn/Karen Ng/Nick Fraser / Colin Fisher/Will Hunt/Jack Johnston/Cal Adam) / Standard Time 2026-10-29 (Thursday). $28.27, all ages. [FB event]
ESP Free Jazz Thursdays (feat. Brent Tanemura/Kae Murphy/Brodie West/Tania Gill/Germaine Liu) / Water to Wine 2026-10-29 (Thursday). $pwyc. [more info]
lightsweetcrude presents: An Evening of Visual Music (feat. Rob Clutton / Michael Kaler) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-10-29 (Thursday). $pwyc. [FB event]
Halloween Spooktacular (feat. catl.) / The Bell & The Beacon 2026-10-31 (Saturday). $31.59, 19+. [tickets + more info]
Kieran Daly/Dan Fortin/Philippe Melanson / The Rex 2026-10-31 (Saturday – 11 p.m.). $pwyc. [more info]
Not Dead Yet's Day of the Dead (feat. Slash Need / Head Crack / The Mall) / 131 McCormack Street 2026-11-01 (Sunday). $26.11, 19+. [tickets + more info]
Soundstreams Encounters: Violins Unbound [works by André Ristic, John Beckwith, Chris Paul Harman, Parisa Sabet, Ana Sokolović] (feat. Judith Fliedl & Roan Ma) / Hugh's Room 2026-11-02 (Monday). $free with reservation. [more info]
The King's Grief ["present[ing] Judith Weir’s micro-opera King Harald’s Saga, punctuating Weir's tragic narrative with the music of Thomas Adès, Oliver Knussen, Thierry Tidrow, Mary Dering, John Dowland, and casting the works as incidental music within a larger drama."] (feat. The Happenstancers) / Redeemer Lutheran Church 2026-11-06&07 (Friday&Saturday). $38.95 (general admission), $12.19 (student). [tickets + more info]
Labyrinth Ensemble with Canan Sezgin Geylan and Yahya Geylan / Aga Khan Museum 2026-11-07 (Saturday). $50 (regular), $45 (friends of Aga Khan Museum), $37.50 (students and seniors). [more info]
Not Dead Yet presents (feat. Weird Nightmare [Hoopla record release shows]) / Osler Records 2026-11-18&19 (Wednesday & Thursday). $24.94, 19+. [tickets + more info]
Mike DeiCont & Dan Fortin / Sellers and Newel 2026-11-25 (Wednesday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]
Marilyn Lerner & Matt Brubeck / Sellers and Newel 2026-11-26 (Thursday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]
Mira Martin-Gray Band (G. Mark Weston) / Annette Studios 2026-11-26 (Thursday). $pwyc.
Small World Music's Ishq Festival: An Evening of Qawwali and Khayaal (feat. The Saami Brothers) / Toronto Pavillion 2026-11-27 (Friday). $55.30 + up. [tickets + more info]
Fiver with the Fiver Trois / Dina's Tavern 2026-11-28 (Saturday). $21.97, 19+. [tickets + more info]
Soundstreams Encounters: Orison [a new music theatre work-in-progress featuring the ondes Martenot] (feat. Daniel Áñez & James O’Callaghan) / Hugh's Room 2026-11-30 (Monday). $free with reservation. [more info]
A duo double-bill (feat. BLOOP [Lina Allemano & Mike Smith] / Karen Ng & Rob Clutton) / Sellers & Newel 2026-12-06 (Sunday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]
Freesound preents: Music for String and Reeds (feat. Aysel Taghi-Zada/Matthew Antal/Amahl Arulanandam/Matti Pulkki) / Array Space 2027-05-21 (Friday). $27.96 (general admission), $17.31 (student/seniors/arts worker). [tickets + more info]
Musica Universalis (feat. C'est la fête Large Ensemble) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-05-08 (Friday)
Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman / JOYSHAPE / Ryan Dugre / Nick Flanagan) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-05-10 (Sunday)
Cosmic Homeostasis XXXII / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2026-05-17 (Sunday)]
Playscape Emporium: Paint, Play (feat. Duo Cichorium/Constant Yen/ Rowan Campbell/Charlee Wielgoz/Fahmid Nibesh/Joe Strutt/Mira Martin-Gray) / Array Space 2026-05-21 (Thursday)
Wenderly Park (Colin Fisher / Isla Craig) / Le Monde 2026-05-22 (Friday)
Ministry of Phonic Services presents (feat. Ben Rempel & Justin Gunter / Not the Wind, Not the Flag / Doug Tielli & Mike Gennaro) / Bickford Park 2026-05-24 (Sunday)
Life Drawing (feat. Cosmic Homeostasis) / Riverdale Park 2026-05-31 (Sunday)
Prepare the Ground Festival (feat. William Basinski) / Trinity-St. Paul's Centre 2026-05-31 (Sunday)
Track Could Bend #117 (feat. saucering / Colin Fisher/William Hunt/Jack Johnson/Cal Adam) / Wenona Lodge 2025-06-02 (Tuesday)
Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Ayal Senior/Nathan Yell/Marilyn Yogarajah / David Sait / Nick Flanagan / Nathan Yell) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-06-14 (Sunday)
Andre Ethier (Cows in Rain / Eliza Niemi) / Dina's Tavern 2026-07-05 (Sunday)
Track Could Bend #118 (feat. Ubersuck / Mike Gennaro / Wilderness Adventure Ride) / Wenona Lodge 2026-07-07 (Tuesday)
Toronto Improvisers Orchestra / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-07-12 (Sunday)
Ayal Senior and Friends (feat. Country Phasers / Meggie Remy / Nick Flanagan / Heraclitus Akimbo) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-07-12 (Sunday)
Rebecca Hennessy's Singer-Songwriter Circle (feat. Rebecca Hennessy/Michael Herring/Felicity Williams/Patrick O'Reilly) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-07-19 (Sunday)
The Fiver Trois (Isla & The Sorry Brothers) / Dina's Tavern 2025-07-24 (Friday)
Jennifer Castle (Potions) / The Garrison 2025-07-25 (Saturday)
Heraclitus Akimbo (Hoover Party / Del Stephen / Hex-A-Decimal × Leucrocuta) / The Sun Room at 918 Bathurst 2025-07-26 (Sunday)
Kathryn Merriam with Bea Labikova/Raphael Roter/Heather Saumer / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-07-29 (Wednesday)
The Ryan Driver Sextet With Thom Gill As Ryan Driver / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-07-31 (Friday)
Track Could Bend #119: An Evening of Graphic Scores co-presented with Public Library (feat. Public Library with Roa Lee and Alison Melville) / Wenona Lodge 2026-08-04 (Tuesday)
Humbucker Music Residency (feat. Humbucker Music / Sandy Ewen) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-08-07 (Friday)
new works for improvising musicians (feat. Josh Cole/Lina Allemano/John Oswald/Nick Storring/Owen Kurtz) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-08-10 (Monday)
Track Could Bend #120 (feat. Dave Grenon's Indistinctive Gait w/ Ayesha Lye / Caution Wet Floor Signs) / Wenona Lodge 2026-09-01 (Tuesday)
Equinox and Solstice Residency (feat. Ghostlight) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-09-05 (Saturday)
Ministry of Phonic Services presents: Back to School Field Trip: Dome (feat. Brandon Auger / Ben Grossman / Fahmid Nibesh) / CNE Bandshell 2026-09-17 (Thursday)
Ministry of Phonic Services presents Back to School Field Trip: Otherwise (feat Heraclitus Akimbo / qeTTe fossa & Mateos Labbé-Phelan) / Bickford Park 2026-09-22 (Tuesday)
Ministry of Phonic Services presents Back to School Field Trip: UFO (feat. Gayle Young & Reinhard Reitzenstein / SlowPitchSound / Fleshtone Aura & Sandro Perri / tête à tête à tête) / Oculus Pavilion 2026-09-25 (Friday)
Imaginary North and The AMBiENT PiNG present Ambient Afternoon (feat. Jessica Deutsch / Little Jim / R Grunwald) / Society Clubhouse 2026-09-27 (Sunday)
Track Could Bend #121 (feat. Shawn Will / Benny Liquid / Debacle Rebuttal) / Wenona Lodge 2026-10-06 (Tuesday)
Musica Universalis (feat. Not the Wind, Not the Flag) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-10-09 (Friday)
Ur Audio-Visual label showcase: Sean Travis Ramsay Memorial (feat. Heraclitus Akimbo / Percy Bangs / The Blue Funz) / 918 Bathurst – Sanctuary 2026-10-11 (Sunday)
Idée Fixe Records 15 (feat. Potions / Roy / Kyla Marlena / Alex Lukashevsky / Isla Craig / Joseph Shabason with Thom Gill / Cormac Culkeen with Michael Cloud Duguay / Bry Webb / Jennifer Castle) / St. Stephen-in-the-Fields 2026-10-13 (Tuesday)
Jay Anderson & Matt McLaren’s 25-year Renewal of Musical Vows (feat. Jay & Matt's All-Star Band with Friends and Guests / Steamboat / Saffron Sect) / Ted's Collision 2026-10-15 (Thursday)
X Avant XXI: Memory Mannnnn, Night 3: Ancient Circuitry (feat. Mani Mazinani's Solar Organ Ensemble / For The Youth: Reilluminated) / First Unitarian Church 2026-10-16 (Friday)
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