Scotiabank Nuit Blanche

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche presents junctQín keyboard collective performing Sonic Toys in Transit in partnership with Al Green Theatre

junctQín is featured in Toronto’s 2010 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche!

junctQín presents Invention in Three Parts, a performance installation by Douglas C. Wadle.  Seven oversized scores project onto the walls for the toy pianists to interpret:  one original and six colourful abstractions. Each new score sets up new conditions; each new condition creates new performances.  Simultaneously, a solo cellist performs in a room with six microphones while a sound artist creates a live-mix of this musical line to play back into the theatre. The audience moves freely, manipulating the space and creating physical barriers and challenges to the performers. How do the performers navigate physically and musically? Does the audience interfere or remain passive spectators? What is the reaction to each other’s intrusion?

This performance art installation will also feature special guest cellist Kerri McGonigle and sound designer Peter Olsen.

The Al Green Theatre & Jacobs Lounge Visual Arts Space at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre,       750 Spadina Avenue Toronto, Ontario

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Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is a signature event produced by the City of Toronto.

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August Concerts

Hear AND see junctQín in action!

Music Mondays:  August 9th, 2010 at 12:15pm

10 Trinity Square (behind the Eaton Centre), Toronto

Take your lunch hour to Church of the Holy Trinity!
Suggested donation to Music Mondays is $5-15

See junctQín share keyboard space and ESP in music for 3 hands by Mauricio Kagel and Morton Feldman. Watch and listen to the Canadian première of Wood Music for piano, 3 players and 2 pairs of chopsticks by Finnish composer Tomi Räisänen.
This concert also features humourous pieces, including the Canadian première of German composer Moritz Eggert’s hilarious Nasentanz (yep, a piece for piano and NOSE) and hysterical tour de force:  One Man Band 2 for piano, toy piano, harmonica, squeaky object and foot pedal with wood block.
Hear Shhhhh…..then…..Bounce, Rattle’n Squeak:  selections from Toronto composer Susan Griesdale’s Out of the Box, and David Rakowski’s brilliant étude, Touch Typing
AND witness Thierry de Mey’s Musique de table!  Yes, junctQín will play 3 acoustically engineered tables!

Plein Air Garden Concerts:  August 11th, 2010 at 7:30PM

Raff Pavilion of the Sky at 345 Balliol St., Toronto

Join us outdoors after dinner! Continue reading

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