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Music for Incandescent Events: Skyview, Here (version 4) 25 October – 31 October 2020

This October 20, 2020 notice from Toronto’s ArtSci Salon (received via email) features a DIY musical event for dawn and dusk from Oct. 25 – 31, 2020 and it is a Canada-wide event series,

Dear media-arts and music organizations, arts educators & adventurous
radio programmers, kindly distribute this invitation to your members,
students, audiences and colleagues.

You’re invited to a free week-long dawn & dusk audio-viewing event
at a location of your choice:

Sunday October 25 – Saturday October 31

_ Music for Incandescent Events : Skyview, Here (version 4)_
Audio for skyscapes around sunset and sunrise. Livestream &
downloadable for portable sky-viewing adventures_ (variable times).
_
_ By Sarah Peebles. _
Presented by the Canadian Music Centre Ontario Chapter.

Day 1 event page, information & schedule overview – CMC

https://on.cmccanada.org/event/music-for-incandescent-events/

CMC Calendar with day by day links to each day’s event page

https://on.cmccanada.org/events/

Special thanks to CMC – Ontario & Mattew Fava for presenting and hosting this installation.

I hope you enjoy the experience!

I found more information on the event, which clarifies how people in Ontario and how people in the rest of Canada can participate in the Canadian Music Centre’s latest Incandescent Event,

South-Western Ontario, online | We invite audiences to tune-in during scheduled audio streams on Facebook during the week of October 25 occurring roughly at dawn and dusk for those based in South-Western Ontario. Streaming will coincide with the shifting light around sunrise/sunset within a broad zone ranging approximately from Peterborough in the East, to London in the West, and Barrie in the North. Tune in as the sky begins to change colour.

Across Canada, offline | Audiences are also invited to download the dawn-dusk audio files for this work in order to listen offline at a self-directed time based on their location. We encourage you to creatively locate yourself off-line via bicycle, ferry, boat, walking, or driving with your portable listening device.

Instructions for experiencing the pieces | Place yourself with a skyscape view of your choice, indoors or outdoors. Adjust your soundscape to your liking (e.g. open windows, sit under a tree, near waves or find a reflective surface, etc.). Listen online live or via audiofile (download) during sunset and/or sunrise, using good quality loudspeakers, headphones or earbuds.

About the Piece |Music for Incandescent Events meditates our perception of time, memory and place, creating a space for contemplation, for awareness of one’s physical environment, and for exploration of consciousness in the moment.

Each iteration of Incandescent Events combines different improvised short melodies and tones performed on a slightly de-tuned shô (Japanese mouth-organ), re-recorded several octaves lower than original pitch. I recorded these melodies at very close range while sitting near a reflective wall, catching rich beat patterns and sum/difference tones. These and additional frequencies beyond the range of human hearing transform into unexpected, complex audio events at slower play-back speeds, several octaves down.

Music for Incandescent Events version 1 (2002) is published on Somethings #1 (Last Visible Dog). Version 2 (installation) was commissioned by wade Collective for wade project in June, 2004, for Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands; it showed at the McLuhan International Festival of the Future, “Scanning Nature” exhibition October, 2004 (DeLeon White Gallery rooftop deck. Version no. 3, Colour Temperature Event (for Gabriola Island, Berry Point, 2017), was curated for The QR Anthology

You can find the schedule for the streaming events (Oct. 25 -31, 2020) and a link to the music downloads at the Canadian Music Centre’s Music for Incandescent Events: Skyview, Here (version 4) event page.