Digital North

Due to unforeseen circumstances Digital North: QUAD DAMAGE has been postponed one day to Saturday, November 29th at 7:00 pm at the Canadian Music Centre. We hope you are still able to join us and listen to an exciting program of Canadian electroacoustic music! 🎶

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Mehrdad Jafari Raad is a Toronto-based composer working across concert music, film scoring, and electronic music. Holding a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Toronto, his work draws inspiration from traditional Iranian music as well as other musical traditions he explored during his studies, engaging contemporary classical and electroacoustic practices through a nuanced, narrative-driven approach.

Come hear his 3 movement work ‘Upcycling Music Project’ at QUAD DAMAGE at the Canadian Music Centre on November 28th.

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Save and get your early bird tickets 🎟️ today for QUAD DAMAGE, a surround sound experience at the Canadian Music Centre November 28th!

Digital North — Quad Damage A brand new electroacoustic concert series featuring emerging Canadian composers and historic Canadian electroacoustic works.

We’re looking for submissions for our upcoming concert plans! 👾 Send us your best electroacoustic or video music works. Submissions can be stereo or multichannel.

All Canadian residents welcome to apply, whether you are here legally or illegally. (No human is illegal)

The amount of new Canadian electroacoustic music is mindblowing 🤯

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sylvi macCormac began composing Wheels Soundscapes: Voices of People with Dis Abilities at SFU and VAMS in 1998. She received an international Honourable Mention in France in 1999 for the composition Waves of Kokoro, screened the documentary Patience & Absurdity in London during the 2012 Paralympics, co-produced The Feather (songbook and CD) with Dave Symington at VAMS in 2016, and acted in the Canadian feature film Bella Ciao! in 2018 and the CBS series Charmed in 2021.

Come hear sylvi’s echo acoustic portrait ‘Russell Wallace Qekiyeksut’, which received the jef chippewa Award for Indigenous Cultural Background in JTTP 2024, coordinated by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community.
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Norma Beecroft was a Canadian composer, record producer, broadcaster, and arts administrator. A member of the Canadian League of Composers/La Ligue Canadienne des Compositeurs and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, she was commissioned to write works for such organizations as the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, The Music Gallery, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the National Ballet of Canada, the Quebec Contemporary Music Society, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and York Winds.

She was among a generation of pioneering professional electronic music composers in Canada. From 1967 to 1976 she worked independently in the Electronic Music Studio inside the Edward Johnson Building (UTEMS) of the University of Toronto Faculty of Music where she focused on multitrack recording and looping as an extension of existing instrumental or vocal sounds.

Come hear one of her best-known works, From Dreams of Brass (1964) for soprano, narrator, choir, orchestra and tape at Digital North’s first concert on May 17th!

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Alison Hain (Mutable Body) constructs hyper-real soundscapes from synthesized and sampled sources, orchestrating worlds at once familiar and alien.

Building on over a decade of electroacoustic improvisation, performance, and experimental composition, Mutable Body's current work distills genre-agnostic compositional forms into imagined scores for the minds eye and the stage. Their latest work, a full length album titled Night Between Worlds, merges glitched braindance rhythms, prog rock, highly curated samples, and orchestral instrumentation into diverse and highly stimulating soundscapes. This work also serves as a soundtrack to an as yet unreleased sci-fi novel of the same name.

Moving from a long standing DIY background into the academic field, Alison's works maintain a heart-first raw ethos that is expanded by musical theory studies and formal classical training. They graduated from the University of Manitoba in Spring 2024 with a Bachelor of Music, majoring in Composition. With a prior background in film studies and directing, Alison specializes in composition for many forms of media, as well as video editing, production, writing, and narrative development. They have performed with festivals across Canada as solo electronic act Mutable Body, produced short films and documentaries for television and the web, worked in 3D graphic design, and are currently working on multiple novels.

Come hear Alison's work 'Consciousness Transfer' on May 17th!
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Matthew Ariaratnam is an interdisciplinary sound artist, composer, guitarist, and listener based on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations – so called Vancouver, BC.

He is currently primarily focused on free improvised music and part of the 8EAST Collective curating free improvisation concerts. His current projects include a duo with drummer Adrian Avendaño, Ambr Aria, Sounding the Dusk Meridian, Magic Maze, Gamelan Bike Bike, Gamelan Trike Trike, and a monthly collaborative music series Improv Karaoke. He creates sensory walks, sonic bike rides, writes dumbpop and chamber music, and frequently collaborates with choreographers, visual artists, and theatre-makers.

Come hear Matthew's work 'Take Hold, Left in the Cold, Heal the Line' at Digital North's first show — May 17th!

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