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audio pollination 73 featuring Sonya Holowell

Saturday July 20th: Audiopollination 73 Featuring Sonya Holowell

Come out and enjoy great summer infused improvised collaborations featuring visiting Artist Sonya Holowell (vocal)
$10 – doors at 7:30 – music at 8:00

Set 1: Tiina Kiik (accordian), Paul Newman (sax), Laura Swankey(vocal and effects) and Sonya Holowell
Set 2: Alison Keery (movement) and Sonya Holowell
Set 3: Tomasz Krakowiak (percussion or cello), Brian Abbott (microtonal guitar) and Sonya Holowell
Set 4: Elizabeth Lima (vocal/clarinet), Patrick O’Reilley (guitar and effects) and Sonya Holowell

Sonya Holowell is a vocalist, improviser and writer working across new and experimental genres. She is descended from the Wodi Wodi people of the Dharawal nation, on the south-east coast of NSW, Australia. The contexts for her work are diverse, and she is particularly drawn to interdisciplinary collaboration, placing the voice in unusual positions to create new hybrid forms.
Sonya has performed at numerous festivals for new and experimental music including Sydney Festival, Resonant Bodies Festival, soundSCAPE and Liveworks and has collaborated with
ensembles such as the Song Company, Ensemble Offspring and Australian Art Orchestra. Her work has been shown at venues including the Sydney Opera House, Art Gallery of NSW, Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Gallery of Australia. In addition to performing, Sonya is also co-editor and writer for online arts publication ADSR Zine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=Fdbk57P1Nyo
https://soundcloud.com/acknowledgingcountry/softtone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8PjQDLgFZ8

Audiopollination 70.3 The Fifth Wheel

For the 5th Tuesday in April – Audiopollination presents a great night of music at Wenona Lodge (near Dufferin and Bloor. Doors at 8 and music starts at 9 on the dot. (should be finished by 11)
$10
1. Heraclitus Akimbo and MKL32
2. Bea Labikova, Raphael Roter, Chris Adriaanse
3. Brian Abbott (guitar) Leslie Ting (violin)

All recording kindly by Joe Strutt.

Audiopollination 64.1 featuring Paolo Gàiba Riva and Francesco Zedde

Visiting italian musicians Paolo Gaiba Riva and Francesco Zedde are playing 3 sets with Toronto local and the final set as a noise duo (event art by Jamie Thompson)
$10
set 1:Paolo Gàiba Riva/ Mira Martin-gray/ William Davison
set 2: Francesco Zedde / James Beardmore (electronics) / David Jones
set 3:Paolo Gàiba Riva / Francesco Zedde/ Brian Abbot (guitar) / MJ Wright (percussion)
set 4 Paolo Gàiba Riva and Francesco Zedde


A combo made up of two mentally deviated italians.
Francesco Zedde (aka Tonto and Tacet Tacet Tacet) and Paolo Gàiba Riva (aka PGR).
their sound combine both the digital big, heavy and sometimes uncontrollable sound of a home made circuit bended no input device and the dynamic and rawer one of contact mic-ing his own arse and other more or less clear places.

Paolo Gaiba Riva: https://zoominnight.bandcamp.com/album/harvesting-pumpkins-before-winter
Francesco Zedde on Percussion:

on electronics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGH_YY1Bfk