Exit Points is a monthly free-improvisation concert series, featuring two new ensembles of musicians across genres each playing a set with a 3rd set of group improvisations
Exit Points 45
Friday, January 26
Cost: $20 at the door. Cash/Card/Mobile
Advance tickets: https://linktr.ee/exitpoints
Doors open: 7:30pm
Show begins: 8pm sharp
Venue: Array Music, 155 Walnut Ave, 2nd Floor. Main entrance at top of a silver accessibility ramp. Building is accessible (ramp, elevator, washroom)
Ensemble 1: Doris Du, Behzad Danesh, Afraaz Mulji, Marlena Nova, James Hamilton Lowrie
Ensemble 2: Keisha Bell-Kovacs, Eye_Duh Kho, Gladys, Bill Gilliam, Michael Palumbo
Set 3: Switchemups! (Audience guests sit in with performers for several 5-minute pieces)
Exit Points is supported by generous funding from the Toronto Arts Council.
@Array Music - 155 Walnut Avenue
Door at 7:30 - music at 8pm sharp
$10 or PWYC - or if you have no money just say you are with Ted Phillips and walk straight on in
Audiopollination is an (non)identity affirming safe space - be who you are or who you desire to be.
4 - 20min sets of spontaneous art
Set 1
Uuxe (Jack Brock, synth)/ Collette Andrea (Bowls)/ Reza Yazdanpana
Set 2
Connor Crone (bass)/ Bicyclops (guitar + fx)/ Raymond Carruthers (trombone)
Set 3
Bill Gilliam (piano)/ Andrew Finlay Stewart (violin + fx)/ Émilie Fortin (trumpet)
Set 4
Jenna Geen (vox)/ Abby Silvera (movement)/ Mickle32 (upright bass)
Margaret Maria & Bill Gilliam Double CD Release - Guelph
Silence, 46 Essex St, Guelph
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Silence
46 Essex St
Guelph ON
N1H 3K8
$20 / PWYC
8pm
The Marbyllia duo with Margaret Maria (cello) & Bill Gilliam (piano) invite you to a double CD release event at Silence in Guelph on Wed April 10th at 8pm. They will be releasing their new CD ‘Uncountable Spheres‘ and will perform some spontaneously created music in this same improvisational style. Margaret Maria will also present her 15th album, ‘Goddess of Edges‘
In the first set Emjay Wright (percussionist, objects) and violinist Andrew Finlay Stewart will create high energy spontaneous sounds and music
UNCOUNTABLE SPHERES MEDIA QUOTES
"the masterfully meticulous Uncountable Spheres” – Mark Druery, Indie Shark
“I don’t think you’re going to hear anything like Uncountable Spheres no matter how far and wide you scan the underground section of your local record store this month.” – Trace Whittaker, Popicon
“Simply put, this is top-notch listening for experimental fans of all stripes”. Heather Savage, Top Buzz Magazine
“This duo is the real article, which isn’t easy to come by anymore on either side of the pop music universe” – Mindy McCall, Indie Pulse Music
“For those of us who demand quality that’s a cut above in our ambient beats, this is a sound arriving at the perfect moment this late winter. I love what I hear in this album, and something tells me you will too.” – Garth Thomas, Hollywood Digest
“The two improvisors push the limits of each other: Gilliam’s extensive range of sounds from his piano and Maria’s extended cello technique and unusual sound makers. The track Stratosphere in Distress is a solid representation of this dynamic team”. – Cheryl Ockrant, TheWholenote
Sunday, April 28th, 8pm
Annette Studios
566 Annette St, Toronto, ON M6S 2C2, Toronto
$20 / PWYC
Eugene Martynec (electroacoustics), Bill McBirnie (flute), Bill Gilliam (piano) are very excited to present our next Art of Improv show featuring our special guest composer and performer Gayle Young at Annette Studios.
Gayle will perform two short pieces on the Amaranth and solo improvisations. One of them will include lithophone stones. She will also play improvisations that include Eugene Martynec, Bill McBirnie and Bill Gilliam in different configurations. Her improvisations place interaction among musicians in the foreground of a listener’s experience, when sounds and textures are echoed, shared, and extended.
Sat July 6th, 12 noon
First Baptist Church
140 Laurier Ave West
Ottawa
A special SuzukiMusic Fundraiser, to benefit the SuzukiMusic cello program!
Margaret Maria, with her improvising duo pianist, Bill Gilliam, will perform on July 6, 2024, 12pm at First Baptist Church (141 Laurier Ave.) along with cello faculty members Sonya Matoussova and Emma Grant-Zypchen (with the amazing Liko Yamane as collaborative pianist). There will be a live-stream (TBA) of the concert if you are not able to make it in person.
The program will include:
David Popper’s requiem for three cellos
Marybyllia - improvised cello & piano pieces by Margaret Maria & Bill Gilliam in the style of our album “Uncountable Spheres”
Click on this page to see details of the event and for the livestream link for today’s concert and the link to purchase tickets or donate / contribute.
Suggested livestream contribution is $20 or pwyc
Thank you for your generous support of SuzukiMusic!!
Art of Improv Salon Series
Kensington Sound,
170a Baldwin St, Toronto
Sunday Sept 22nd, 3pm to 5pm
$20 / PWYC (cash only), BYOB
Featuring cellists Margaret Maria & DORA Award nominee Kye Marshall, accompanied by JUNO Award nominee Bill McBirnie (fute), Michael Palumbo (modular synths), Bill Gilliam (piano), & JUNO Award winner Eugene Martynec (electroacoustics)
This "Art of Improv" salon on Sunday Sept 22nd is at Kensington Sound, 170a Baldwin St in the afternoon from 3pm to 5pm. It's an intimate studio space up one flight of stairs with a wonderful grand piano.
Set 1:
Bill Gilliam (piano), Margaret Maria (cello), Michael Palumbo (modular synths)
Set 2
Eugene Martynec (electroacoustics), Kye Marshall (cello), Bill McBirnie (flute)
Sunday Oct 20th, 3pm to 5pm,
$20 / PWYC, cash only
There will be 3 sets (approximately 30 mins) featuring each guest artist:
Set 1
Rod Campbell (voice, trumpet) with Eugene Martynec will perform a non linear journey through Chinatown, Kensington Market and a "Lecture on Nothing" with electroacoustics, trumpet, poetry and prose. Reading from Denison Ave by Christina Wong and illustrations by Daniel Innes, a Lecture on Nothing by John Cage and LSD Leacock by Joe Rosenblatt.
Set 2
Jenna Geen (vocalist & poet) with Bill Gilliam and Eugene Martynec will improvise and perform Jenna's poems
Set 3
Penn Kemp (performer) with Bill Gilliam will improvise from Penn's sound opera, Dream Sequins, and pieces from her collection Incrementally.
The studio is up one flight of stairs and there is seating for 30 people. Please come early as the street door will be closed during each set.
Confluent Motion with Bill Gilliam, Contemporary Jazz
Emmet Ray
924 College St
6pm to 8:30pm
$10 advanced Tickets
$15 Walk-ins
Reservations: reso@erbar.ca
Josh Grossman, the TD Toronto Jazz Festival 2017 artistic director described our music as: “While their exploration of free improvisation is impressive, what hooked me was the composing – their interesting melodies always create a home base from which the soloing departs and, ultimately, returns”.
Bill Gilliam (piano), Kayla Milmine (soprano sax), Rob Clutton (bass), Joe Sorbara (drums)