Imagined Spaces with Dame Cook & Sergei Kofman

Contrasting wildly different approaches to integrating acoustic and electronic music these two artists imagine ways in which instruments and sound design create spaces both real and imagined.

Coming off a residency at Chalmers House this summer, Sergei's music explores the relationship between acoustic piano, live processing, and modular synthesizer. Using a pitch tracking algorithm to control the synthesizer, the music explores the connection points and failures of technology. Dame Cook's recent album "in that bedroom, in that white house" in contrast samples instruments and room noises in a deconstruction of bedroom pop aesthetics. Coupled with their superimposed film projections the effect is of being in multiple places at the same time.

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Sergei Kofman (b. 1996) is a composer and producer based in Toronto. Sergei works in a wide range of mediums, including recorded and live experimental electronic music, film music, and music production. Sergei completed a masters degree in Composition from the University of Toronto in 2020, where he was awarded the 2021 Ann H. Atkinson prize for his piece Voices in the Whir.

In 2022, Sergei received support from the Toronto Arts Council for his project, I Hear the Scent of Change and Stillness, an EP which was released in 2023, accompanied by a concert at Toronto's ArrayMusic.

Sergei also works under the artist name Measure, an experimental electronic solo project which encompasses most of his musical output. Under the Measure moniker, Sergei releases solo work, performs live across Toronto, and contributes music to film and media projects. His credits include Nick Funness' film The Hedonist, Brigita Gedgaudas' dance-technology piece Be Vardų, Be Kojų, and Parisa Sabet's art installation project Sabzeh.

Sergei/Measure is currently working on his debut full-length album, "Artefacts", with the Toronto-based label Halocline Trance.

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