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Silence Presents: Aidan Baker w/ Hymns57 & Modo Koagon

Doors at 7:30 PM
Show at 8:00 PM

Tickets $15 at Eventbrite or at the door

Aidan Baker 

Visiting all the way from Berlin, Germany, Aidan Baker is a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist using the electric guitar as his primary instrument. Using prepared and alternate methods of playing the guitar, along with various electronic effects, Baker creates music which generally falls within the ambient/experimental genre but draws on influences from rock, electronic, classical, and jazz. 

A highly prolific artist, Baker has released numerous recorded works, both solo and with various group projects, like Nadja, B/B/S/, and Caudal, on such independent labels as Gizeh Records, Pleasence Records, Important Records, Alien8 Recordings, and his own imprint, Broken Spine Productions. 

Baker is also the author of several books of poetry. A regular live performer, Baker has toured extensively around the world, including appearances at such international festivals as FIMAV, SXSW, Incubate, Unsound, and Mutek, among others. Baker is originally from Toronto, Canada. 

https://aidanbaker.bandcamp.com

Opening support performance duties will be in the hands of 2 of Guelph's very own experimental sound sculptors. 

Modo Koagon and Hymns57 


The pair of musicians intend to perform separate sets that overlap in the middle at some point. Creating an extra layer to each of their already improvised styles. 

Modo Koagon brings his eclectic trove of trinket-collage, field recordings, cling-clang, jazzy sax, synthery and percussive blips and rips that make the sound the land makes as you pass through it, insects in trees, blades on ice, the gutters melting, tapping typewriter, the beep of the life support machine, the clock on the wall. Offering nothing shy of a lucid dream-like experience.

https://modokoagon.bandcamp.com

Hymns57 is a soundscape venture project. Working with field recordings and samples. Tape loops, guitar and a multitude of effects create lush waves of static, rolling tones, and haunting textures that crest and wash over you. Decaying and dissolving in the mix like a glowing, faded memory. Formulated to immerse you, under a wall of sound that leads your ears astray.
https://hymns57.bandcamp.com

This promises to be an unforgettable night of soundscapes. Don't miss a rare opportunity to be sonically bathed by a line up this diverse and in such an intimate setting.

**capacity permitting cash at the door will be accepted (but don't chance it)

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John Proctor Workshop

Summer workshops coming near you!

We have some great summer workshops planned and there may be one happening near you!

If you work with children or youth at school, or at a camp, scouts or guides. If you teach children or adults or facilitate cross age gatherings our drum building workshops are for everyone!

You can go to our website to see a complete list of our upcoming workshops for content and location. EarthTonesStudio.org. If you have any questions, contact me at my email address: earthtonesstudio@gmail.com.

Here is a quick list:

Peterborough/Haliburton area:

May 26, 27, Native American Style Frame Drum, Lakefield at Celtic Connection, 25 Queen Street, outside in the gazebo

August 25, 26, Native American Style Frame Drum, Lakefield at Celtic Connection

September 22, 23, Native American Style Frame Drum, Lakefield at Celtic Connection

June 2, Junk Percussion, various instruments workshop, recycled PVC pipe, Haliburton, Visible Voices Open Art Studio, 130 Industrial Park Road, Unit 5

June 3, African Talking Drum, recycled PVC pipe, Haliburton, Visible Voices Open Art Studio,130 Industrial Park Road, Unit 5

Guelph and area:

July 14, 15, Native American Syle Frame Drum, 9th Vibration, 497 Woolwich Street, Guelph
August 11, 12, African Djembe, Guelph, 9th Vibration, Guelph

August 19, Junk Percussion, various instruments workshop, recycled PVC pipe, Guelph, Silence, 46 Essex Street, Guelph

Drumming is good for the spirit and the soul!

John

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Silence Presents: The Heillig Manoeuvre

Doors at 7:30 PM
Concert at 8:00 PM

Tickets $15 in advance at Eventbrite or the door.

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The Art of Butterflies 

11:00 AM to 5:00 PM 

Free of charge

Silence is proud to collaborate with Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory and nik harron, in partnership with Guelph Destination Animation Project, to present “The Art of Butterflies". 

Join us at Silence in Guelph for workshops, presentations, an art exhibition for adults and children, live butterflies, and a unique sensory experience created by artist nik harron, entitled, “MORPHO”. nik’s interactive project will be presented throughout the day and explores a musical world of tiny sounds that interact with digital butterflies made of light. nik harron's latest interactive project combines projected real time sound visualization with a tactile sound sculpture butterfly that enables viewers to create their own unique experience. 

Fun activities for the whole family are scheduled throughout the day on August 25. There will be arts and crafts activities including: creating butterfly mobiles at 11:30 AM; making butterfly magnets at 1:15 PM; and constructing butterfly origami at 3 PM! Further activities are scheduled including: a presentation on Monarchs at 12:30 PM; and butterfly and pollinator gardening at 2 PM. Space is limited for arts and crafts sessions and presentations. Please arrive early to make sure you get a spot! 

In conjunction with “The Art of Butterflies” event, visual artists 18 years of age and up are invited to participate in our Juried Art Exhibition. The exhibition is free of charge to enter. All artwork must contain a realistic or abstract image or element of a butterfly. Work must be 2-dimensional and no larger than 18 x 24 inches. The exhibition will be on display August 25 to 31, with an opening reception and awards ceremony for best of show on the day of the event from 4-5pm. 

For a prospectus and more information please click here or visit www.silencesounds.ca. The entry deadline is August 10. 

In addition, on August 25, we’ll feature a children’s art exhibition. Youth 18 years of age and under are invited to drop by Silence to create a work of art inspired by live, caged butterflies! Artwork may be taken home or hung in our special room. The children’s exhibition is not juried - all may enter. Drawing materials will be supplied, free of charge. 

The Art of Butterflies is a free event and street parking is available. Silence is located at 46 Essex Street in Guelph and is physically accessible. For more information, please email info@silencesounds.ca

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Creating Abundance

Worldwide Womb Blessings

Doors at 5:30 PM
Event at 6:00 PM

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Silence Presents: Roughhousing

Doors at 7:30 PM
Concert at 8:00 PM

Tickets $10 at the door

​Described 25 years ago as an "undergrounder by design," Jack Wright is a veteran saxophone improviser based mainly in Philadelphia. Since the early 80s he has been touring through the US and Europe, finding interesting partners and playing situations. 

Now at 75 he is still the "Johnny Appleseed of Free Improvisation," as he was called back in the 80s. Most partners are outside music school careerdom, unknown to the music press, and selected for their ability to interconnect with each other. 

The East Coast Free Music Festival of the 80s was his creation, and will finally appear again in 2018. His influence has extended through writings; in Jan. 2017 Wright's book was published, The Free Musics. As for his playing, he's said to have the widest vocabulary of any, an expert at leaping pitches, punchy, precise timing, sharp and intrusive multiphonics, surprising gaps of silence, and obscene animalistic growling. A reviewer for the Washington Post said, "In the rarefied, underground world of experimental free improvisation, saxophonist Jack Wright is king." 

For more info, discography and sounds go to Spring Garden Music and for writing try this: http://jackiswright.wordpress.com/ ​

See also: Cadence Magazine Interview, July 2017, p. 55-73 ​
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