Music Gallery
918 Bathurst St
Toronto

10th Anniversary of Track Could Bend improv series.

Audiopollination
Array Space
!55 Walnut Ave
Toronto

Improvised mayhem :>)

doors - 7:30 music at 8pm - usually finished by 10pm
$10 cash or card
4 x 20min sets

This is also livestreamed:
https://www.youtube.com/live/Bg6-aW54Y7M?si=aOLTmwBPxfb5iut7

Set 1
Zack Goldstein (woodwinds)
Dave Nelson (electro acoustic percussion)
Janel Jones (trumpet, voice)

Set 2
Jamie Eriksen (sax/clarinet)
Mike Filippov (percussion)
Saba Saneinejad (flute)

Set 3
Bill Gilliam (piano)
Jonnie Bakan (sax)
Zoe Alexis-Abrams, cello and voice

Set 4
Turtle Pleasure: Nicholas Cooper, Danny Sheahan and Samiul Samin

Tranzac, Southern Cross
292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto
Mon May 26th, 9:30 – 11:30pm

Bill Gilliam (keyboard) performing new jazz / electronic music arrangements with Kayla Milmine (soprano sax), Rob Clutton (bass) and Joe Sorbara (drums) at the Tranzac, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, Mon May 26th from 9:30pm to 11:30pm.

PWYC

Art of Improv - June 2025 Edition, is excited to present:
- Germaine Liu & Mark Zurawinski
- future proof: Bea Labikova & Raphael Roter

Sunday June 15th, 8pm
Annette Studios
566 Annette St, Toronto,
$20 / PWYC

Doors open 7:30pm

Set 1
future proof - Bea Labikova (woodwinds + electronics) and Raphael Roter (percussion + electronics).

Set 2
Part 1) Germaine Liu (sound artist, percussionist, improvisor, and explorer of found objects) and Mark Zurawinski (percussion) will play a few percussion pieces and also work with prompts / scenarios to inspire music-making.

Part 2) Germaine and Mark will improvise music with Bill Gilliam (piano), Eugene Martynec (electroacoustics) and Bill McBirnie (flute).

Germaine Liu (germaine.she.her.hers) and Mark Zurawinski (he/him) are long-term loving partners, life and art collaborators and makers. Together, and with the support of their friends and arts organizers, they have been fortunate to dream and create many joyous projects like And With (supported by The Bentway) - a sound walk inviting participants to experience sounds and textures of The Bentway and We Made This With Love (supported by Music Gallery), a candy-inspired two-part sharing (1. sonic and visual exploratory film 2. sound/movement performance, with Fahmid Nibesh and Raphael Roter, where performers become “NERDS/Nerds” a symbiosis of candy+state-of-being.)

Germaine and Mark, along with their friend Joe Sorbara, are co-founders of Imaginary Percussion Ensemble where they play works like Water Music (sonic/physical/touch exploration with water + objects), CeramiX (sonic/physical/touch exploration with ceramic objects made by Chiho Tokita) and most recently Suite May Sixteen (a collection of pieces for idiophones, drums, cymbals, objects and images). Germaine and Mark also love to garden and cook food. They are grateful to share art, life, food, nourishment, joys and grief with communities that they are fortunate to be in relationship with.

future proof is the improv-avant-groove amalgam of Bea Labikova (woodwinds + electronics) and Raphael Roter (percussion + electronics). In the age of fast fashion, faster obsolescence and fastest disembodiment, all that remains for ‘future proof’ is human creation and connection in the present tense. Bea and Raphael exist here, grazing on feelings, circumstances, happenstances and humanstances to make immersively large and driving music of the moment.