Digital North — New Connections

A brand new concert series in Toronto, Digital North supports new Canadian electroacoustic music from across the country by featuring both emerging Canadian composers as well as bringing new attention to historic and significant Canadian electroacoustic works.

The first concert in this new series will feature the theme of ‘new connections’, as it brings together:

Three winning compositions from the Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s prestigious 2024 Jeu de temps / Times Play electroacoustic competition

Three original compositions from emerging and diverse composers based in communities across the country

One important, historical work by pioneering Canadian composer and broadcaster Norma Beecroft, from the CMC’s musical archive.

Programme:

Dominic Sambucco: re-azioni (2023) (Quebec)

Alison Hain: Consciousness Transfer (2024) (Manitoba)

Mikael Meunier-Bisson: musicfriend (2024) (Quebec)

sylvi macCormac: Russell Wallace Qekiyeksut (2024) (Coast Salish Territory)

INTERMISSION

Steven Webb: Gen(Self) (2024) (Manitoba/Ontario)

Matthew Ariaratnam: Take Hold, Left in the Cold, Heal the Line: (2023) (British Columbia)

Norma Beecroft: From Dreams of Brass (1967) (Ontario)

Host or Publisher Digital North