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Performing at Glebe-St. James United Church, Saturday October 14th 2023 8:00pm
- John Oswald – Alto Saxophone
- Lina Allemano – Trumpet
- Eve Egoyan – Augmented Piano
- Ben Grossman – Hurdy-Gurdy
- Jesse Stewart – Percussion
John Oswald has performed throughout Canada and in the USA as an alto saxophonist, playing in both solo and group improvisational settings. Oswald, whose style is generally free of jazz references and often fiercely expressive, has performed or recorded with CCMC, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser, Toshinori Kondo, Jim O’Rourke, and Paul Plimley, among many others.
Oswald is best known as the the creator of the music genre “plunderphonics“, an appropriative form of recording studio creation which he began to develop in the late sixties, and has been recently revisiting in video. In 1980 Oswald established the Mystery Tape Laboratory, preparing and distributing music/sound collages on cassettes packaged with neither sources noted nor explanations given.
Lina Allemano is a Canadian trumpeter, improviser, prolific composer, and bandleader with an active international career, performing and recording cutting-edge contemporary music primarily in experimental, conceptual, improvised and jazz settings, but also working in a wide array of other genres. She is educated in both classical and jazz trumpet and specializes in extended technique on her instrument. Allemano now splits her time between the music scenes in Toronto and Berlin, and runs her own internationally-acclaimed record label Lumo Records.
Eve Egoyan is an internationally celebrated Armenian-Canadian artist whose medium is the piano. She continually re-invents her relationship with her instrument through the creation and commissioning of new works, which she has performed around the world. Her performances encompass extremely contrasting sensibilities: from Alvin Curran’s five-hour long Inner Cities to Erik Satie’s miniatures; from minimalist Simple Lines of Enquiry by Ann Southam to maximalist new complexity works by Michael Finnissy; from the barely audible to roaring overtone-filled resonances; from the rigorous interpretation of a score to free improvisation. Egoyan’s artistic curiosity also includes collaborating with artists from a variety of disciplines including the exploration of technologies in relation to the piano.
Ben Grossman is a very active musician: improviser, studio musician, composer, sound artist and curator. Specialist of hurdy-gurdy, he collaborates on many projects, ranging from early medieval music to experimental electronic music. He has collaborated on numerous studio recordings, soundtracks for film and television, sound designs for theatre, sound installations and works designed for radio transmission.
Jesse Stewart is a Juno award-winning percussionist, composer, improviser, artist, instrument builder, educator, and writer. A dynamic and inventive performer, Stewart has a remarkable ability to coax music from virtually any resonating object or material. He has performed and/or recorded with many internationally acclaimed musicians including George Lewis, Hamid Drake, Roswell Rudd, Bill Dixon, William Parker, Evan Parker, Pauline Oliveros, and many others. In a 2002 review, Frank Rubolino described him as “one of the finest young drummers and percussionists on the scene today” (One Final Note Summer/Fall 2002). He is a professor of music at Carleton University in Ottawa.