MOONBEAN
May 31, 2025
2pm-3:30pm
At 8EAST
Sequencer-based Improvisation entails the synchronizing of one or more instruments together via a “Master Clock,” then using sequencers, sound design, audio mixers, and effects to spontaneously compose fluid and spontaneous music in real-time. Join MOONBEAN for a brief presentation followed by an open studio session, where we will make sound together with the synchronized electronic instruments. Bring your instruments. A small assortment of synthesizers, drum machines and effects will be also available for you to try! If you have headphones, you can bring those along too.
This workshop is drop-in and FREE with a NOW Membership
Bring your instrument (and amp if possible). If you have headphones, you can also bring those along to this workshop! Please arrive at 1:45 if you need to set up your instrument.
MOONBEAN is a hardware electronic duo composed of Valentina Morelli and Colin Harrington. They are Toronto/Guelph based multimedia artists, A/V technicians, and multidisciplinary musicians. MOONBEAN has toured Canada and Europe playing semi-improvised electronic dance music. They also produce and direct music videos. Outside of their artistic practices, Valentina is Festival Manager and Community Partners Manager of Guelph Jazz Festival and Colin works for The International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) as a technician and research assistant in their ImprovLab at University of Guelph.
Since 1978, the New Orchestra Workshop Society (NOW) has presented music improvisation workshops, offering space for exploration and participation. Our workshops are for improvisers of all levels of ability and ranges of experience, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, age, race or religion. We protect privacy in our workshops and adopt the We Have Voice Collective Code of Conduct. Read more about NOW workshop policies here.
Donations gratefully accepted (here).
MOONBEAN will be performing
May 31 at Green Auto, Doors 7pm, music at 8pm.
Tickets are available here.
Norm Adams and Joe Sorbara
June 7, 2025
2pm-3:30pm
At 8EAST
Come explore intentional sound making with cellist Norm Adams (Halifax) and percussionist Joe Sorbara (Guelph)!
This workshop is drop-in and FREE with a NOW Membership
Bring your instrument (and amp if possible).
Please arrive at 1:45 if you need to set up your instrument.
Cellist Norm Adams and percussionist Joe Sorbara are both performers and organizers working in Canadian creative experimental music. Having known one another for decades, they finally came together to make some music in September 2022. Since, Norm and Joe have developed a unique “tabletop” cello and percussion duo that brings their far-reaching creative minds into focus on a particular and peculiar sound-world of rhythm, pitch, texture, sonority, and heart combined with a projected birds-eye-view of their performance that offers audiences a compelling perspective of dancing hands at work in the music.
https://www.ovalwindowmusic.org/joesorbara/projects/normadamsjoesorbaraduo.php
Also!
Norm Adams and Joe Sorbara will be performing
June 7 at 8EAST, Doors 7:45pm, music at 8pm.
Find out more here