New Music Edmonton Autumn Equinox

Name: New Music Edmonton Autumn Equinox
Start: 2025-09-20T19:30:00-06:00
Location: 9931 78 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 1N6, Canada

Schedule

Sat, 20 Sep, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

9931 78 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 1N6, Canada | Edmonton, AB

New Music Edmonton is celebrating its 40th anniversary season!
Non alcoholic drinks available for purchase.

Access Intimacy
Brooke Leifso and Gary James Joynes
Access Intimacy, the score by Berlin-based composer Michael Winter and local Brooke Leifso is deceptively simple, amplifying the difference of breath and body through sonic practices. The piece premiered in December 2024 and received support from Art Quarter Budapest (part of the Eastern European Network). The Edmonton premiere will be performed by Brooke Leifso and Gary James Joynes. Gary, known for droning electronic-based sound art was invited to perform alongside Brooke. This work exists in an intersection of their art practices: meditative, contemplative. Access Intimacy is also a term coined by disability activist Mia Mingus, that speaks to the magical interdependent support, more here.

pseudo-antigone
Simone A. Medina Polo
pseudo-antigone shares excerpts from her recent album Melancholic Melodrama showcase the storytelling of the album and the experimental pop sound design around it. The album tells a quasi-fiction about the undoing of an insecure artist who severed her own humanity in a Faustian bargain to become TMZ-level pop star disaster. Sonically, the album is influenced by the work of artists like FKA twigs, Charli xcx, A.G. Cook, and SOPHIE with overproduced and exaggerated pop music with punchy beats, industrial production, and ironic yet heartfelt lyricism.

Golden Sun Trio
Nadir Bellahmer, Ethan Bokma & Mustafa Rafiq
This performance coincides with the release of “Lifecycles Ritual Myth”, the group’s second full-length record and first with Edmonton label, Honey Farm Records. An unofficial release party. Vinyl will be available for purchase through the band.

Clinker
Gary James Joynes
Panta Rhei unfolds like an evolving river of sound. Inspired by Heraclitus’s philosophy that “everything flows,” the performance builds an ever-shifting sonic landscape that resists structure, embracing transformation. As modules connect and disconnect in real-time, the audience is immersed in a living sound sculpture—fluid and impermanent. In Panta Rhei, the only constant is change.

Nanyen Lau and Jia Jia Yong
Nanyen Lau, erhu and Jia Jia Yong, konghou
Nanyen Lau and Jia Jia Yong celebrate Chinese traditional music. Nanyen brings out the rich and soulful tone of the erhu, a traditional two-stringed bowed instrument, through repertoire that highlights regional genres and musical interpretations. Jia Jia plays the modern Konghou, a double-strung harp with features that allow for unique techniques and ornamentation. Each artist will perform select solo pieces, and together, will present a unique arrangement of the famous Chinese folk song “Moon Reflection on the Erquan Springs”, demonstrating the harmony of the two instruments.
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