Miracle Territory #5: Joyful Joyful & Matt Rogalsky
Schedule
Sat Sep 21 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Take Cover Books | Peterborough, ON
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Local drone-hymn Polaris nominated heroes Joyful Joyful & legendary Kingston-based experimental composer and XI Records artist Matt Rogalsky join forces for the return of this year's Miracle Territory programming.Joyful Joyful
Joyful Joyful doesn’t shy away from offering such experiences of departure; they’re willing to unsettle their audiences because they themselves are unsettled. Their shared penchant for spooky, heavy music, and self-described “omnivorous” listening practices equip them with an array of sonic concepts that support this effort; Diamanda Galás, The Rankin Family, Pan Sonic, Pauline Oliveros, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Yma Sumac, and Catholic hymnody were just a few that came up. Observing their audience gives them insight about the effect of each song—something they considered while arranging the album. Its arc is marked by soft, sometimes sudden oscillations between cacophony and euphony, day and night (listen for insects), and from sexual, visceral entanglements to more ephemeral, celestial ones.
https://www.ideefixerecords.com/product/joyful-joyful
Matt Rogalsky
Matt Rogalsky is a settler-identifying Canadian, living in Kingston Ontario Canada, also known as Katarokwi, on territories of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee. His academic background includes undergraduate studies in experimental music at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver with Martin Bartlett, Barry Truax, Pauline Oliveros and George E Lewis from 1985-1991; MA studies 1993-95 in the Department of Music at Wesleyan University with Ron Kuivila, Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton and many others; and a PhD (1999-2006) from City University London focusing on the history of David Tudor's Rainforest, supervised by Simon Emmerson.
He is a performing member of Composers Inside Electronics, with many presentations of Rainforest and other David Tudor works since 1998, and co-created Rainforest V, which was acquired in 2017 by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for its permanent collection. He teaches at Queen's University (Canada) as Professor in the departments of Drama and Music, Film and Media, and the Cultural Studies Graduate Program. He is Director of the Sonic Arts Studio, originally named Queen's Electroacoustic Music Studio, founded by David Keane in the 1970s and later directed by Kristi Allik.
Rogalsky is currently collaborating with Geographer Dr Laura Jean Cameron on installation work and an experimental monograph and radio documentary series about Canadian field recordist William WH Gunn. In 2024 he will begin publishing electronic compositions from a series entitled Revisitations, with a new release on the late Phill Niblock’s XI Records entitled Visitations and Revisitations. These pieces began as studies on the work of other composers, and exist as works which pay hommage to their continuing resonances, including Niblock’s.
Doors at 7pm.
Music at 7:30pm.
Tickets are $25 or PWYC
N.B. Take Cover has a bathroom, but it is not accessible as it’s located down a flight of stairs in our basement.
MIRACLE TERRITORY is an independent music + arts presenter in Peterborough/Nogojiwaning programming, producing, and promoting thoughtfully-curated, all ages/accessible DIY events featuring diverse + adventurous music in alternative venues. See less
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Where is it happening?
Take Cover Books, 360 George St N, Peterborough, ON K9H 7E7, Canada,Peterborough, OntarioEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
