Silence CALendar

Join us from 7pm - 9pm for a celebration of Mike Salisbury's new exhibition here at Silence.
Artist Talk @ 7:30 PM  

Mike Salisbury
Web: www.mikesalisbury.ca
Instagram: @mikesalisbury.ca

MIKE SALISBURY studied at the Toronto School of Art in the late 1980’s and was founder of the Toronto
Student Art Gallery in the Annex neighbourhood of Toronto. A graduate of University of Guelph and
OALA Landscape Architect, he specializes in the design of playable sculpture and children’s playscapes.
Mike creates multimedia artwork with a drawing style consisting of one continuous unbroken line to
create rich and complex images that communicate a surprising degree of emotional expression.
The intensity of his style relies on the ability of the viewer to integrate their own biases and emotional
predispositions into the abstract‐realism of the image. At different viewing distances the subject matter
is emphasized, discovered, rediscovered or vanishes completely. Up close we consume the image with
an almost analytical focus on the detail, then transition to the larger context which brings us back to the
gestural quality of the whole.
Mike has been a part of group events, solo exhibitions as well as several juried shows including The Wall
of Art: Guelph Pride at Guelph Museums, and Fusion Art 3rd Annual Landscapes International Juried Art
Exhibition. He was awarded Ontario Arts Council ‐ Conseil des arts de l'Ontario Exhibition Assistance
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Doors at 7:30pm
Show at 8:00pm
$10 tickets at the door or Eventbrite

PipeDown! provides an accessible venue for emerging artists to perform indie and/or rock music to audiences with similar tastes.

King Dice
George Lacatus has been playing keyboards for a zillion years. Zach Vernon has been playing drums for a zillion minus 3 years. In the interest of pushing boundaries and having fun, it was decided that a kickass electropunk duo would be formed.
https://soundcloud.com/kingdiceband

With special guests
Seawater + Rose is an indie alt/punk band consisting of two gals who play bass and drums.
https://seawaterandrose.bandcamp.com/releases

THE FAILED SEEKERS are a post-punk and experimental group from Guelph, Ontario. Formed in the summer of 2019, the band's music serves as a soundtrack for today's global descent into reactionary politics. They are anti-fascist and seek to inspire hope.
https://thefailedseekers.bandcamp.com
https://instagram.com/thefailedseekers

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Doors at 1:30 PM
Show at 2:00 PM

Tickets: $10

Born and raised in Montreal, 23-year-old artist Olivia Khoury will be touring
Toronto with her quartet for the first weekend of September. The tour will kick off
the 5th at the Emmet Ray bar in downtown Toronto, a highlight being the free
outdoor performance at Mel Lastman Square the 6th. The Toronto
Undergraduate Jazz Festival has selected young budding musicians across
Toronto and Canada to showcase national talent and support undergraduate
students. The vocalist challenges jazz by melding folk and latin with her unique vocal
tone through honestly rendered standards and original songs.

Tickets: $25  https://donrossguelph.brownpapertickets.com/
Don Ross began playing guitar virtually by accident.

There was always a lot of music around the house. Don’s dad is an operatically-trained singer. So, the Ross kids heard plenty of voice exercises around their Montreal home as well as classical music on the record player growing up (not to mention the occasional blast of the bagpipes when Don’s dad felt like waking up the neighbours with another musical skill he acquired growing up in Scotland!).

Don eventually studied Music at Toronto’s York University. Strangely enough, he didn’t focus on guitar but rather on composition, electronic music, and sound recording. Upon graduating, he had visions of being a composer of orchestral and electronic music or film scores..certainly not any delusions of playing solo guitar for a living. What changed his mind was seeing the success of musicians like Michael Hedges, Steve Reich and Keith Jarrett, player/composers who followed their musical intuitions wherever they led and who fell more into the category of “artist” rather than “guitarist” or “pianist.”

In 1988, Don became the first Canadian to win the U.S. National Fingerpick Guitar Championship. He won again in 1996, still the only two-time winner of the competition. He signed a recording deal with Toronto-based Duke Street Records and released three CDs for them between 1989 and 1993. He then recorded three CDs for Sony/Columbia between 1994 and 1997, and then three more for Milwaukee-based Narada Records between 1999 and 2003.

With the collapse of the conventional recording industry in the early 21st century, Don entered into a new venture with Milwaukee-based CandyRat Records and its founder, Rob Poland. The move to a completely internet-based model of releasing recordings resulted in the first ever CandyRat CD, 2005’s Music for Vacuuming. Don has released numerous CDs and DVDs for the new label, including his new album, A Million Brazilian Civilians, on CD and see-through orange vinyl.

Don has toured regularly since 1989, across Canada, the USA, a dozen European countries, Japan, Taiwan, China, Australia, Russia and India. He has played with symphony orchestras in Canada and Germany, and collaborated live and on recording with U.S. guitarist Andy McKee, Canadian singer/guitarist Brooke Miller, Canadian guitarist Calum Graham, & Toronto bassist Jordan O’Connor. He also composes scores for television, radio and film, and does production and recording engineering for a variety of other musicians. In addition to acoustic guitar, Don also plays electric guitar, slide dobro and lapsteel guitar, harp guitar, voice, piano, keyboards, bass guitar and drums. He has just started learning to play the Kelstone, a 9-string guitar developed by Belgian musician/inventor Jan Van Kelst. At this point, Don admits that learning a new instrument from scratch at this point in his career is “humbling. I’m a rank amateur Kelstone player, and I still completely suck at it!”

Don Ross grew up in Montreal, has lived at various times in Ontario, Nova Scotia, the USA, China and Quebec, and now resides in Halifax.

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9:30am, Demonstration and Lecture
“Different Drums: Unorthodox and Unusual Percussion Instruments”
Jesse Stewart (School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University)
Silence, 46 Essex Street

10:45am, Artist Talk
“Instr/Augmented Bodies: A Performative Artist Talk About Hybrid Bodies, Modes of Communication, and Modified Behaviours”
Lee Blalock (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Silence, 46 Essex Street

12:00pm, Concert
David Rothenberg
Silence, 46 Essex Street

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Brampton-born and Berlin-based composer-improviser John Kameel Farah is a singular exponent of keyboard-based instruments, including piano, harpsichord, and various synthesisers. His extraordinary musical scope combines elements of Renaissance, Baroque, and Contemporary Classical repertoires, Middle-Eastern musical traditions, and forms of electronic music, and his solo performances – often involving several acoustic or electronic keyboards as well as a laptop – are orchestral in magnitude and structural elaboration while being based, fundamentally, in open improvisation. It will be a particular treat, then, to hear John’s magisterial musical vision in two contexts: A combination of electronics and the splendid Cassavant pipe organ at St. George’s Church, one of the finest organs in Southern Ontario, part of a ‘pipe-themed’ double-bill with the Breton bagpipe virtuoso, Erwan Keravec, as well as an intimate harpsichord solo.

Thursday, 12 September, 3pm, Silence (harpsichord solo), $15/$10

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Guelph Jazz Festival: Karuna: Hamid Drake & Adam Rudolph Duo (USA)

Friday, 13 September, 5:30pm, Silence, $20/$15
Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph met as 14-year-olds in a downtown Chicago drum shop. For the past 40 years, their shared love for rhythms and musics of the world have see them travel globally to perform together with Fred Anderson, Don Cherry, Yusef Lateef, Pharaoh Sanders, Hassan Hakmoun, Hu: Vibrational, Mandingo Griot Society, and Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures. As Drake reflected upon their mutual influence, “I have been developing a hand drum concept on the drum set while Adam says he is developing a drum set concept on his hand drums. We understand one another.” Karuna delves deeply into the world of rhythm by two master percussionists in total sympathy with each other.

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8:00 doors
8:30 show 

Tickets

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Sunday, September 15
Doors at 4:30pm
5pm-9pm
Silence
$15.00

As a part of the Guelph Jazz Fest Around Town programming, Silence is happy to present The Vertical Squirrels with special guests Douglas Ewart and Kathryn Ladano

Called an “an unclassifiable blast of fresh air” by the Montreal Mirror, with their album Hold True (Accroche-toi) chosen as one of the top ten offerings in 2010, the music of the Vertical Squirrels is group-improvised, live in the moment, and draws on a potent mixture of free jazz and post rock sensibilities with nods to Indian ragas, jazz-inflected minimalism, Zappa-esque bouts of sonic anarchy, and German rock music from the 1970s.

Douglas Ewart: A composer, improviser, sculptor and maker of masks and instruments, Douglas R. Ewart is also an educator, lecturer, arts organization consultant and all around visionary. In projects done in diverse media throughout an award-winning and widely-acclaimed 40-year career, Mr. Ewart has woven his remarkably broad gifts into a single sensibility that encourages and celebrates–as an antidote to the divisions and compartmentalization afflicting modern life-the wholeness of individuals in culturally active communities.

Kathryn is heavily involved in both educational and creative work. She is currently the Artistic Director of NUMUS concerts, the Director of ICE (Improvisation Concerts Ensemble) and instructor of improvisation studio at Wilfrid Laurier University, and the bass clarinet instructor at the University of Waterloo. As an enthusiast of improvisation in the classroom and bass clarinet repertoire, she has guest lectured in university classes and conducted workshops across Canada for both teachers and students. Additionally, Kathryn has been a guest speaker and performer at various conferences such as the 2004 World Bass Clarinet Convention, 2013 Summit on Improvisation Pedagogy and Community Impact in Guelph, the 2014 McGill University Music Graduate Symposium, the 2014 International Society for Improvised Music Conference in New York City, and the 2015 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium.

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