NMC Future Resonance Festival
NMC is thrilled to launch a new and very special initiative.
Our newly-created Future Resonance Festival serves to address and sustain the discourse on curating diversity in contemporary music. As a confluence of concerts, lectures, workshops, and discussions, the Festival celebrates the limitless power of music to bring diverse groups together. The Festival also explores and addresses new directions in notational systems, rehearsal processes, contractual negotiations, and strategies for curation with the goal of questioning and providing alternatives to Eurocentric power structures in contemporary music and sound art.
This year’s Future Resonance Festival, co-presented with The Music Gallery, honours the work of German-Indian composer, creator, and director Sandeep Bhagwati. Bhagwati is NMC Guest Artist for 2021-2023 and this season is the creative facilitator of the NMC project – a collective creative process spanning several months where he is working with a diverse group of outstanding Toronto musicians to produce a forty-five-minute work titled, A Toronto Śabdagatitāra - a Sanskrit term for the crossing over (tāra) of methods of making (gati) sound (śabda) - celebrating many musical roots and containing wonderfully unexpected sound worlds. The Swara Sutras event at The Music Gallery will be complemented by other festival activities such as a world premiere for eight flutes and electronics, tiled Kinalugarán, by NMC Composer in Residence Juro Kim Feliz, an open-rehearsal workshop, and a solo lecture-performance by Bhagwati titled, Dhvanivala - A Merchant of Sounds.
We invite you to experience our inaugural Future Resonance Festival!
Future Resonance Festival Part I
Swara Sutras Open Rehearsal
Meet the musicians and get an inside look at Sandeep Bhagwati's collaborative process in preparation for the April 30 performance.
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April 27, 7pm @ The Music Gallery (918 Bathurst St.)
Future Resonance Festival Part II
Dhvanivala - A Merchant of Sounds
A Lecture Performance by Sandeep Bhagwati
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April 28, 8pm @ The Music Gallery (918 Bathurst St.)
Future Resonance Festival Part III
Swara Sutras
FIRST HALF: Kinalugarán - A new work for 8 specialized flutes and electronics composed by NMC Composer in Residence Juro Kim Feliz
SECOND HALF: A Toronto Śabdagatitāra - A New Collective Creation Initiated and Led by Sandeep Bhagwati featuring the nine musicians of the NMC Swara Sutras Ensemble.
April 30, 7:15pm Introduction, 8pm Concert @ The Music Gallery
(918 Bathurst St.)
Click HERE to purchase tickets to Swara Sutras on April 30 at the Music Gallery.
Below: The Swara Sutras Ensemble
