DON BYRON (NY)
• clarinets, saxophones
New York’s Don Byron is a true virtuoso— effortlessly traversing various musical roles (clarinetist, pianist, composer, arranger) and a broad stylistic scope (from free-jazz to classical, hip-hop to klezmer) with poise and charisma. His powerful and magnetic imagination will undoubtedly inspire Something Else! audiences.
EAR-CAM (Toronto)
Christine Duncan • voice
John Oswald • alto saxophone
Tomasz Krakowiak • percussion
Glen Hall • woodwinds, percussion, Kyma X, cataRT
Transducing ambient sounds as a means of sonically ‘photographing’ environments, EAR-CAM’s works layer tenor sax & bass clarinet, trumpet and electronic wind instruments, turntables, guitar, bass and drums, vocals, as well as algorithmic sources from sound design software, all to elusive and unsettling effect.
SOURPUSSY (Hamilton)
Victoria Alstein, Becky Katz, Jessica Somers, Heather South • all various instruments, vocals
Hamilton’s own Sourpussy generate fantastic, poetic, and utterly surreal streams of consciousness. Their dadaesque (mamaesque?) performances are as befuddling as they are awe-inspiring. Variously mining invented narratives, lists of ingredients, doctor’s warnings, repetitions, hallucinatory humour, and feverish confabulation, they take you on a journey that you never knew you needed.
Tickets: $20 advance $25 door (student, senior, artworker, underwaged) $35 door (regular)
Passes:
$100 (student, senior, artworker, underwaged)
$125 (regular)
