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The Lost Karaoke Tapes 2019/20 CONCERT SERIES
From the Artistic Director
I first heard the music of Nicole Lizée nearly 20 During these 20 years we’ve commissioned her
years ago when Soundstreams produced a numerous times, including a project in 2014 that
concert with Ensemble Contemporain de introduced her (and us!) to the legendary
Montréal performing her Left Brain, Right Brain. Australian Art Orchestra. Tonight, as then, you’ll
The piece really irritated me! Not because I hear members of the AAO together with
didn’t connect with it - on the contrary – for exceptional Canadian guest artists in another
days I simply couldn’t get it out of my head. Lizée world premiere.
Now I know why. Her work speaks to us of However, that 2014 concert came to an abrupt
nostalgia - not the sentimental kind – the kind end two-thirds of the way through because of a
that comes from listening to what outdated massive power outage in Toronto. Tonight we’ll
analogue technologies have to tell us about the make history (fingers crossed!) by featuring the
human condition. They’re just like us: they’re Australian Art Orchestra and Canadian guests
glitch-prone, they warp, they distort, and they’re in the debut of their first full and completed
highly imperfect. But just like the Volkswagen evening concert in Canada!
Beetle, they’re lovable. She’s the perfect
antidote for the digital age.
She also brings new and intriguing ways
of hearing the very music we thought we
knew, whether ‘80’s pop or the classics. Lawrence Cherney
By deconstructing familiar music down to its
essentials, much in the way that Bartok did with
traditional Hungarian folk music, Nicole offers
us the luxury of feeling like we’re hearing it again
for the first time when she reconstructs it.
Soundstreams wishes to acknowledge that this production is presented on the traditional land of
the Wendat, Anishinabek, Haudenosaunee, and the Mississaugas of the Credit River First Nation.
This land is the subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, and we encourage
you to learn about your responsibilities to this treaty. Today, this meeting place is the home of
many Indigenous people and Soundstreams is grateful to have the opportunity to collaborate
and create alongside them.
Cover image: Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann
SOUNDSTREAMS.CA 3About Soundstreams The Lost Karaoke Tapes
Program
A world leader among contemporary music They include Encounters, a free discovery
companies, Soundstreams is the foremost series featuring performances, discussions, and Karappo Okesutura Volume 3 60’
global presenter of new Canadian music. audience participation; RBC Bridges, helping
Lawrence Cherney, Artistic Director and Menon talented contemporary composers worldwide
Dwarka, Executive Director are committed to launch their careers; BMO SoundWave provides
showcasing the work of living Canadian and accessible tickets to young adults; and Composer
international composers with a focus on SoundMakers provides interactive learning
innovative thematic and experiential program- experiences online, in the classroom, and in the
ming. Soundstreams also serves a broad community. Nicole Lizée
community of music lovers through free
outreach and education programs.
Australian Art Orchestra
Peter Knight, Artistic Director, Trumpet Quinsin Nachoff, Saxophone and Clarinet
and Electronics Samuel Pankhurst, Bass
Special Thanks Georgie Darvidis, Voice Steve Raegele, Guitar
Andrea Keller, Piano Ben Reimer, Percussion
Reuben Lewis, Trumpet and Electronics Joe Talia, Drums
Karappo Okesutura Volume III was developed by the Australian Art Orchestra and Nicole Lizée in Nicole Lizée, Turntables Leanne Zacharias, Cello
partnership with Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Soundstreams, and with financial
support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Australia Council for the Arts, Creative Victoria and
the Ian Potter Foundation.
Production Team
Caroline Hollway, Production Manager Brandon Wells, Audio Engineer
and Stage Manager
This concert is presented with the generous support of Steinway & Sons
4 2019/20 CONCERT SERIES SOUNDSTREAMS.CA 5Artist Biographies
Nicole Lizée traditional jazz styles as well Lauded for her music, Keller Satsuki Odamura, and his multi- Quinsin Nachoff and Nicole Lizée. Currently Sam
Composer/Turntables as free improvisation and cross has received three ARIA award winning long-running Saxophone and Clarinet is busy with his experimental
disciplinary compositional forms. Awards, six Australian Jazz collaboration with theatre- studio pop project Magic Person,
Called a “brilliant musical This led to overseas study with ‘Bell’ Awards, two Art Music maker, Tamara Saulwick. NYC-based saxophonist and celebrated improv piano trio
scientist” and lauded for acclaimed practitioners Shelley Awards, an APRA Professional composer Quinsin Nachoff has The Wild with Erik Griswold and
“creating a stir with listeners Hirsch and Theo Bleckmann in Development Award, the earned a reputation making Richard Daniell, post-hardcore
for her breathless imagination 2013. Georgie has performed in Merlyn Myer Composing “pure, bracing, thought- improv trio Porscha featuring
and ability to capture Gen-X acclaimed Chamber Made Women’s Commission, and Reuben Lewis provoking music” that is Stefano Roselli, and a telepathic
and beyond generation”, Nicole productions Permission to fellowships from the MCA/ Trumpet and Electronics “cliché-and convention-free” Vibraphone/Bass duo with
Lizée creates new music from Speak, Between 8 and 9and Freedman Foundation and the (Ottawa Citizen). His music Vanessa Tomlinson. Pankhurst is
an eclectic mix of influences Diaspora. She has worked Australia Council. Andrea is a Reuben Lewis’s practice is moves fluidly between jazz the owner/engineer at DILLIGAF
including the earliest MTV extensively with the Australian Yamaha artist and a represent- both singular and eclectic. and classical worlds and is Studios (QLD) and tours UK/
videos, turntablism, rave Art Orchestra, including ed artist of the Australian As an active performer, soul-stirring yet intricately Europe/US extensively as a
culture, Hitchcock, Kubrick, tours to London, Poland and Music Centre. composer and bandleader, cerebral. His passions reach session bassist in various
1960s psychedelia and 1960s JazzFest Berlin, as well as he has refined a unique into both arts and sciences, indie bands.
modernism. She is fascinated by featuring as a guest artist electro-acoustic language, with physics or astronomy
the glitches made by outmoded with the Rubiks Collective, devised through trumpet with concepts sparking inspiration
and well-worn technology and the Australian Contemporary Peter Knight extended techniques and for exhilarating compositions.
captures these glitches, notates Music Ensemble and the AAO Artistic Director, Trumpet, preparations alongside live Steve Raegele
them and integrates them into Bennetts Lane Big Band. In and Electronics analogue processing with A state of constant Guitar
live performance. 2017 Georgie was nominated pedals and amplifiers. The unpredictability is vividly
for the Freedman Jazz Perpetually curious, Peter 2018 release of the debut captured in Nachoff’s group Montreal guitarist Steve
Nicole was awarded the 2017 Fellowship, recognizing her Knight’s practice defies album Abstract Playgrounds Flux, which features the talents Raegele plays composed
SOCAN Jan. V. Matejcek Award interdisciplinary vocal practice.
categorisation. Peter’s work as with his ensemble I Hold the of saxophonist David Binney, music and improvised music.
and received the Canada both performer and composer Lion’s Paw gained both keyboardist Matt Mitchell, and His style has emerged from a
Council for the Arts Jules Léger is regularly featured in a range national and international drummers Kenny Wollesen and love of jazz, psychedelia, rock
Prize for New Chamber Music Andrea Keller of ensemble settings, he also acclaim – including a glowing Nate Wood. Their JUNO- and roll, archaic pop music and
Piano
in 2013. She is a Civitella Ranieri composes for theatre, creates review in ‘The Wire’ magazine nominated second release, art music. His recording Last
Foundation Fellow and received sound installations, and is the and a nomination for the Best Path of Totality, thrives in the Century was released in 2010
a 2016 Lucas Artists Fellowship With a growing body of work Artistic Director of one of Ensemble at the Australian spaces between genres, styles on influential Vancouver label
Award. This Will Not Be Televised,
traversing styles, Andrea Keller Australia’s leading contempo- Jazz Bell Awards. In 2017, he and inspirations, and garnered Songlines Recordings to
her seminal piece for chamber has been invited to compose rary music ensembles, the performed an 8-hour durational a 4.5 star review in DownBeat: critical acclaim. In 2013 he
ensemble and turntables, placed and arrange music for Ensemble Australian Art Orchestra (AAO). sleep concert with his co-led “Path of Totality is a stunning, performed Nicole Lizée’s 2012:
in the 2008 UNESCO Interna- Offspring (2017), The Sydney ensemble, The Phonetic deep dive of an album, the sort Triple Concerto For Power Trio
tional Rostrum of Composers’ Women’s Jazz Collective Peter’s role with the Australian Orchestra at the Serralves of music in which one could and Orchestra as a featured
Top 10 Works. She is a Korg (2016), The Letter String Art Orchestra sees him touring Festival in Portugal. Other spend hours submersed.” soloist with the Kitchener-
Canada and Arturia artist. Quartet (2016), The Song regularly with the group both in notable collaborations include Waterloo Symphony. He has
Company (2015), Marshall Australia and abroad. He also performances with the performed with John Hollenbeck,
McGuire (harp)(2015), Zephyr commissions new work for the ensemble ACME, which Drew Gress, Bendik Hofseth,
Georgie Darvidis (string) Quartet (2015 & 2014), ensemble and curates a range premiered his multidisciplinary Samuel Pankhurst Christine and Ingrid Jensen,
Voice Black Arm Band (2012-current), of innovative programs for work i know that i know at the Bass Miles Perkin, Erik Hove, Emma
Genevieve Lacey & James large and small settings. 2017 Melbourne Festival. Frank, Nick Fraser, The Doxas
Georgie Darvidis is one of Crabb Duo (2014), ‘Poetica’ Outside of the AAO Peter Reuben has been appointed Samuel Pankhurst is a bassist, Brothers, L’Orchestre National
Melbourne’s most versatile and ABC Radio National (2013), performs regularly as a solo to the role of Associate Artist multi-instrumentalist and de Jazz de Montreal, Ensemble
adventurous young artists. Early Genevieve Lacey (recorder) artist developing a distinctive for 2019/2020, as part of the producer. He is best known KORE, Architek Percussion,
musical study exploring theatre (2013), Four Winds Festival modality for trumpet and Australian Art Orchestra’s for his extensive work with TorQ Percussion, Nicole Lizée’s
and classical vocal technique (2010), Claire Edwardes electronics under the moniker, Pathfinders – Music the late Australian icon Allan SaskPower, Warhol Dervish
led to major roles with The (percussionist) (2010), Allotrope. Other current projects Leadership Program. Vincent Browne OAM, as well String Quartet, The Australian
Melbourne Theatre Company Melbourne Women’s Interna- include: Daughter’s Fever, as trumpet iconoclast Scott Art Orchestra and with indie
and The Victorian Opera tional Jazz Festival (2010, featuring Melbourne alt folk Tinkler. As a long time member rock legends The Dears as
Company. After completing a 2003, 2000), Seraphim Trio luminary, Paddy Mann (AKA of the Australian Art Orchestra well as Dears frontman
Bachelor of Music at The (2009), Ten Part Invention Grand Salvo); his celebrated he has premiered new commis- Murray A. Lightburn.
Victorian College of the Arts, (2009), Mike Nock (2002), cross-cultural sextet, Way Out sioned works by Alvin Lucier,
she began to investigate more Australian Art Orchestra (2002). West, with koto virtuoso Erik Griswold, Peter Knight,
6 2019/20 CONCERT SERIES SOUNDSTREAMS.CA 7Artist Biographies Soundstreams Staff and Board of Directors
Ben Reimer burbling location atmospherics. Zero (conceived by architect Rick Lawrence Cherney, Artistic Director Daniel Weinzweig, President
Percussion In live situations, Talia often Derksen) at the WSO New Music Menon Dwarka, Executive Director Lawrence Smith, Vice-President
uses tape and effects to Festival and the Agassiz Chamber Tim Crouch, Director of Marketing Norman Woo, Treasurer
Ben Reimer has been called process and warp his own Music Festival, where Leanne & Patron Experience Janne Duncan, Secretary
a “genre-bending wiz” (PuSh) and others’ playing into presented Listening Booth: Emma Fowler, Director of Artistic Planning Kate Applin
establishing himself as a uncanny chains of echoes twenty solo recitals for one & Outreach Daniel Bernhard
leading figure in contemporary and spectral smears of sound. audience member at a time. Zoe Lin, Manager of Advancement Katherine Smalley
drumset performance. He A virtuoso drummer, as a & Patron Engagement Carolyn Turnbull
has spent the past fifteen percussionist Talia emerges Felix Mills, Community Engagement Associate
years exploring a new role from the traditions of jazz and Lori Campbell, Volunteer Coordinator
for drumset in the context of free improvisation and has
through-composed music. developed a unique personal
Ben has performed with the language of shifting accents,
Winnipeg Symphony, Royal subtle virtuosity and discreet
Winnipeg Ballet, Manitoba extended technique that he
Theatre Centre and Thunder welds equally ably in jazz, rock,
Bay Symphony. He has been new music and improvisational
a guest soloist in the Bang contexts. Like his electronic
On A Can Marathon, Brandon works, his drumming often
University “Pro Series”, the demonstrates a keen attention
Winnipeg International New to long-form structures,
Music Festival, Edmonton dynamic development and
New Music, Calgary New group interactions.
Music, University of Toronto
New Music, GroundSwell,
Cluster New Music + Integrated Leanne Zacharias
Arts Festival, The Little Cello
Secrets
Chamber Music Series That
Could, Music on Main, PuSh Leanne Zacharias is a dynamic
Festival, Innovations En cellist, educator and interdisci-
Concert, live@CIRMMT and plinary artist known for
Roulette NYC concert series. innovative collaborations with
Ben is a member of Architek artists of all stripes, across
Percussion and is a Sabian genres and geographies.
Cymbals, Yamaha Canada
April 23–24, 2020
and Vic Firth artist. Her project Music for Spaces Drake Underground
re-imagines concerts, public
and natural space with sound,
Joe Talia and recent work includes an
Drums immersive soundscape filling
the Canadian Museum for A musical exploration of
Melbourne born and now Human Rights as part of the the anonymous secrets
based in Tokyo, Joe Talia is an Winnipeg Symphony New of Torontonians.
improviser and composer who Music Festival, CityWide:
works with percussion, tape simultaneous recitals by
and electronics. Focussing on 50 cellists presented by the
the use of Revox tape machine International Cello Festival
and analogue synthesizers in of Canada, and Sonus Loci:
combination with instruments a sound installation on ice,
and field recordings, Talia’s selected by Winnipeg’s 2013
electronic works patiently build Warming Huts Art & Architecture
up sparkling, detail-rich sound competition. Recent appearances
worlds of gliding tones, include the Pressure Waves Visit Soundstreams.ca or call (416) 408-0208 for tickets.
skittering percussion and New Music Workshop, Portal
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