Monday Roundup #259

Concert announcements:

Diane Roblin's Life Force [Diane Roblin/George Koller/Tim Shia/Colleen Allen/John Johnson/Kevin Turcotte] / The Rex 2026-01-24 (Saturday – 5 p.m). $pwyc. [more info]

Liquid Architecture presents Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [live silent movie score] (feat. ARRC [Ambrose Pottie/Rod Campbell/Ryan Kinney/Colin James Gibson]) / St. Matthew’s Clubhouse 2026-01-24 (Saturday). $10 (cash or e-transfer). [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Colin Fisher/George Koller/Jeff Luciani/Diane Roblin / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-29 (Monday) [more info]

Lipliners Residency (feat. Ronley Teper & The Lipliners) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-30 (Tuesday – early) [FB event]

More Noise Please! Presents: A Magical Evening of Solstice Celebration (feat. Grief Debt / J. Vulgare / Inchoate / Colin Cudmore / Panties / Rampancy / Shameful) / BSMT 254 2025-12-30 (Tuesday). $15/pwyc. [more info]

Boxing Week Special (feat. Lavender Town / High Alpine Hut Network / Colin Fisher) / The Garrison 2025-12-30 (Tuesday). $9.99, 19+. [tickets + more info]

Tranzac New Years Eve (feat. Eucalyptus / Alex “Bad Baby” Lukashevsky & Cocoa Corner [Aidan McConnell/Jack Johnston/Evan Cartwright/Charliecello/Alex Lukashevsky] / Bag) / The Tranzac 2025-12-31 (Wednesday). $33.64 adv / $32 door. [tickets/more info]

The Silt [Marcus Quin/Ryan Driver/Doug Tielli] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-01-02 (Friday) [FB event]

Ministry of Phonic Services presents (feat. NF Gang [Colin Cudmore & Mark Ballyk] & Friends) / Wenona Lodge 2026-01-04 (Sunday). $pwyc/notaflof

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It happened this week...

• ...on December 30, 2012 at The Drake Underground (What's in the Box – Night 5).

The Skeletones Four - Trap Door

• ...on December 31, 2012 at The Tranzac.

The Bicycles - BBBicycles + Australia

[Do remember that you can click on the tags below to go back and find the original posts (and often, more stuff) from these artists.]

Recording: Fossils

Artist: Fossils

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #110), November 4, 2025.

Fossils - [excerpt]

Continuing their re-embrace of Toronto, this longstanding Hamilton unit brought some noise collage generated from David Payne and Daniel Farr's table of surly electronics, grumbly cassettes and other tools. The origins of some of the sounds were unclear, but there were static glurps, cable noise, guitar wrangling and mysterious static-burst-generating cubes all in play.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

[Track Could Bend will be back at Wenona on Tuesday, January 6th with a set from Duo BEAK (Bea Labikova & Kayla Milmine) plus one set TBA. Get your year of community + show-going off to a good start!]

Recording: anthéne

Artist: anthéne

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #110), November 4, 2025.

anthéne - unknown

Chatting before the set, guitarist Brad Deschamps mentioned that his recent return to live performance has lead to some stretching out of his anthéne material, and leaving a bit more room for improvisation, as opposed to the more meticulous crafting the pieces might get in the "studio" at home. This piece here has several cool elements on display, including some subtle slide work and and gurgling granular undercurrents.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

[Track Could Bend will be back at Wenona on Tuesday, January 6th with a set from Duo BEAK (Bea Labikova & Kayla Milmine) plus one set TBA. Get your year of community + show-going off to a good start!]

^* Does anyone know the title to this one? Please leave a comment!

Monday Roundup #258

Concert announcements:

Colin Fisher/George Koller/Jeff Luciani/Diane Roblin / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-29 (Monday) [more info]

Boxing Week Special (feat. Lavender Town / High Alpine Hut Network / Colin Fisher) / The Garrison 2025-12-30 (Tuesday). $9.99, 19+. [tickets + more info]

Ministry of Phonic Services presents (feat. NF Gang [Colin Cudmore & Mark Ballyk] & Friends) / Wenona Lodge 2026-01-04 (Sunday). $pwyc/notaflof

The Next Set (feat. Ruby Roussain/Aidan McConnell/Michael Davidson/Dan Fortin) / The Emmet Ray 2026-01-07 (Wednesday – 6:30 p.m.). $12. [more info]

Titanium Riot [Lina Allemano/Ryan Driver/Rob Clutton/Nick Fraser] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-01-07 (Wednesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Sonomadic Improv Presents: Singing with Freedom (Ayelet Rose Gottlieb [workshop] / K2 [Jonathan Kay & Kayla Milmine] / "Open Jam") / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2026-01-18 (Sunday). $PWYC, snacks included. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Mifune Moods with Yoshi Maclear Wall [Yoshi Maclear Wall/Keon Narinesingh/Ezra Schell/Annie Elgie/Sarah Laur/Lee Rosensweet/Jake Burke-Kleinman/Luke Nickel/Ali Rashid/Ben Rositsan/Mika Maclear Wall/Arie Verheul van de Ven] / The Emmet Ray 2025-12-22 (Monday – 6:30 p.m.). $12. [FB event]

Karen Ng presents (feat. Mark Ballyk/Brandon Davis/Kayla Elrod/Will Hunt/Karen Ng) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-23 (Tuesday – early). [more info]

The Ryan Driver Quintet [Ryan Driver/Brodie West/Thom Gill/Rob Clutton/Blake Howard] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2026-12-23 (Tuesday). $pwyw. [more info]

Not Dead Yet presents: S.H.I.T.mas 2025 (feat. S.H.I.T. / Slash Need / Faze / Friction / Terminator / Pest / Charade) / East End United Church 2025-12-27 (Saturday). $22.49, all ages. [FB event]

Boxing Week Special (feat. Biblical / Scooter Jay / Flake) / The Baby G 2025-12-27 (Saturday). $9.99, 19+. [tickets + more info]

people | places | records presents (feat. Yang Chen / David Zucchi) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-27 (Saturday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Boxing Week Special (feat. Blunt Chunks / Poolblood / Eliza Niemi) / The Garrison 2025-12-28 (Sunday). $9.99, 19+. [tickets + more info]

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It happened this week...

• ...on December 22, 2009 at the Dakota Tavern (Jason Collett's Basement Revue).

Alex Lukashevsky - Downhill is Downtown

• ...on December 25, 2009 at Lithuanian Hall.

Mahmoud Ahmed - unknown

[Do remember that you can click on the tags below to go back and find the original posts (and often, more stuff) from these artists.]

Recording: Jaap Blonk

Artist: Jaap Blonk / Jaap Blonk & Mike Gennaro

Songs: Muzikaret / [excerpt]

Recorded at The Jama (Ministry of Phonic Services presents), October 18, 2025.

Jaap Blonk - Muzikaret

Jaap Blonk & Mike Gennaro - [excerpt]

Moving inside after their month-long outdoor "Back to School" festival, Ministry of Phonic Services pulled together this night of sound poetry (and other noises) mixing international guests and local talent at The Jama (a new operation taking over the former Smiling Buddha). Pre-eminent sound-poet Jaap Blonk brought some deadpan Dutch humour and an endless capacity for noise-invention to two sets demonstrating quite different approaches to his work. His solo set was a more meticulous affair, a recital of various pieces moving from a histrorical nod to Hugo Ball to Blonk's own investigations into "encrypted proposals", fake Dutch, and rubberized gamelan sounds. The duo set with local percussionist Mike Gennaro leaned into Blonk's improvisatory skills, adding some synthbursts to the babblelogue for some pleasingly-energized back-and-forth.

Recording: T.D.

Artist: T.D.

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at The Jama (Ministry of Phonic Services presents), October 18, 2025.

T.D. - [excerpt]

Moving inside after their month-long outdoor "Back to School" festival, Ministry of Phonic Services pulled together this night of sound poetry (and other noises) mixing international guests and local talent at The Jama (a new operation taking over the former Smiling Buddha). Philadelphian Thomas DeAngelo was apparently using his time in Toronto to do some research on the recenty-departed local legend Paul Dutton, although the sonic world he was investigating here pushed in another direction, with a visually-satisfying side-stage set up with extended tape loops and other bricabrac. Like the night's other acts, though, this did indeed play with and deconstruct language, with talkbursts emerging from static and melting into phonemic abstractness.

Recording: qeTTe fossa

Artist: qeTTe fossa

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at The Jama (Ministry of Phonic Services presents), October 18, 2025.

qeTTe fossa - [excerpt]

Moving inside after their month-long outdoor "Back to School" festival, Ministry of Phonic Services pulled together this night of sound poetry (and other noises) mixing international guests and local talent at The Jama (a new operation taking over the former Smiling Buddha). qeTTe fossa, a recent nom de guerre from the mysterious/multitalented Lenny opened things up, here in duo formation with drummer Mateos Labbé-Phelan in support. Moving from rising drones to impassioned soul shouts (and moving from the stage into the crowd), this showed off more of Lenny's boundless ssense of unfettered invention.

Monday Roundup #257

Concert announcements:

More Noise Please! Presents: A Magical Evening of Solstice Celebration (feat. Grief Debt / J. Vulgare / Inchoate / Colin Cudmore / Panties / Rampancy / Shameful) / BSMT 254 2025-12-30 (Tuesday). $15/pwyc. [more info]

The Cluttertones [Rob Clutton/Lina Allemano/Tim Posgate/Ryan Driver] / Sellers & Newel 2025-01-06 (Tuesday). $20 minimum donation. [FB event]

Track Could Bend #112 (feat. Duo BEAK [Bea Labikova & Kayla Milmine] / Jody Chan & Yang Chen) / Wenona Lodge 2026-01-06 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Fuses (Roy / Fortunato Durutti Marinetti) / Monarch Tavern 2026-01-10 (Saturday). $17.50, 19+. [tickets + more info]

ur audio visual presents (feat. Heraclitus Akimbo [concert and lecture celebrating the release of I know what I have experienced and I know what it has meant to me, an album of music for solo lap steel guitar] / Charter of the Forest [Isla Craig/Karsten Stryker/Kurt Newman/Pete Johnston/Blake Howard]) / The Sun Room @ 918 Bathurst 2026-01-18 (Sunday – 4 p.m.). $pwyc. [FB event]

Winter's Delight: Musical Merriment with Good Company (feat. The Musicians of the Egg) / St. Thomas's Anglican Church 2026-01-24 (Saturday). $30 (General Admission), $20 (Students, Arts Worker), $10 Children. [FB event]

The Action Committee Orchestra [Maggie Keogh/Sara May/Maxwell Stover/Ben Rositsan/Keon Narinesingh/Max Donaldson/Regan Mowery] / Sellers & Newel 2025-01-24 (Saturday). $20 minimum donation. [FB event]

Josh Cole + Strings [featuring the premiere of "Concerto for Bass Drum"] / Sellers & Newel 2025-01-30 (Friday). $20 minimum donation. [FB event]

The Eric West Quintet [Eric West/Kae Murphy/Leland Whitty/Julian Anderson-Bowes/Chris Pruden] / Sellers & Newel 2025-02-06 (Friday). $25 minimum donation. [FB event]

Max Donaldson [solo piano record launch] / Sellers & Newel 2025-02-13 (Friday). $15 minimum donation. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

BLOOP [Lina Allemano & Mike Smith] / Sellers & Newel 2024-12-15 (Monday). $20 minimum donation. [FB event]

THE AMBiENT PiNG and Imaginary North Present (feat. Gollden / Ken Little / Hozerz) / Handlebar 2025-12-15 (Monday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Music Hosted by Karen Ng (feat. The Adjacence [Lina Allemano/Ryan Driver/Nick Fraser/Karen Ng]) / Wenona Lodge 2025-12-16 (Tuesday) [more info]

Agnes [Rob Clutton/Bea Labikova/Mira Martin-Gray/Doug Tielli/Kevin Turcotte/Mark Zurawinski] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-16 (Tuesday) [more info]

Tireless Foliage [Jiaqing Wilson-Yang/Germaine Liu/Karen Ng] (Jordaan Mason / Eli Howey) / Three Dollar Bill 2025-12-17 (Wednesday) [more info]

Output 1:1:1 (Tigatron) / Ted's Collision 2025-12-17 (Wednesday). $10/pwyc. [more info]

Playscape Emporium: Theatrics (feat. Duo Cichorium / Hee-Soo Yoon / Toronto Saxophone Collective / Trevor Flemings / Domenic Clarke) / Array Space 2025-12-18 (Thursday). $25 (or Pay What You Want), livestream: $12.00 (or Pay What You Want). [more info]

Makam Nights (feat. George Sawa & Suzanne Meyers Sawa) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2025-12-18 (Thursday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Beams (Dusted) / The Baby G 2025-12-18 (Thursday). $23.87, 19+. [FB event]

coexisDance #112 (feat. Pulga Muchochoma/Waleed Abdulhamid/Nidhi Baadkar/Xicada/Tyler J Sloan/Amiel Ang/Steph Chua) / Trinity-St/ Paul's Centre (Gymnasium) 2025-12-19 (Friday). $15 (pwyc). [more info]

Mehdi Rostami / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-19 (Friday – early) [more info]

Ministry of Phonic Services presents BPM (Big Percussion Meeting) (feat. Bobby Gadda/Brandon Valdivia/Brian Fog/Jaz Tsui/Louis Pino/qeTTe fossa) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-19 (Friday)

Today Versions presents Del Stephen's New Panettone ["improvvisazione radicale & art excavations"] (feat. Del Stephen/Patrick O'Reilly/Mira Martin-Gray/Rod Campbell/Kieran Maraj/James Bailey/Andrew Finlay Stewart) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-20 (Saturday – 5 p.m.). [FB event]

Batuki Music Society presents (feat. Rhythm Section Band [Dally Dominic/Kofi Ackah/Quandoe Harrison/George Kobby/Gabriel Amankwah/Daniel Boateng]) / It’s Ok* Studios 2025-12-20 (Saturday). $20. [FB event]

Not Dead Yet presents (feat. Career Suicide) / The Baby G 2025-12-20&21 (Saturday & Sunday). $27.27, 19+. [FB event]

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Video hits:

• A real gift to all of us in the form of an excellent-sounding/excellent-looking full-concert document of The Weather Station's local show earlier this year.

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It happened this week...

• ...on December 18, 2019 at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (No Octopus Dancing Holiday Bash).

No Octopus Dancing Holiday Bash Orchestra - [set 1, excerpt 2]

• ...on December 18, 2019 at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge).

Lina Allemano/Rob Clutton/Blake Howard/Brodie West - [set 1 excerpt]

[Do remember that you can click on the tags below to go back and find the original posts (and often, more stuff) from these artists.]

Recording: McConnell/Ng/Russouw

Artist: Aidan McConnell/Karen Ng/Adrian Russouw

Song: [2nd set, 1st section]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Karen Ng presents), October 14, 2025.

Aidan McConnell/Karen Ng/Adrian Russouw - [2nd set, 1st section]

Called together to share some music as well as some post-Thanksgiving pie, this trio saw Karen Ng (alto sax) joined by Aidan McConnell (percussion) and Adrian Russouw (double bass). Launching into a warbling groove, the trio went on some tasty-as-pie excursions over a couple sets.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

Monday Roundup #256

Concert announcements:

Music Hosted by Karen Ng (feat. The Adjacence [Lina Allemano/Ryan Driver/Nick Fraser/Karen Ng]) / Wenona Lodge 2025-12-16 (Tuesday) [more info]

Agnes [Rob Clutton/Bea Labikova/Mira Martin-Gray/Doug Tielli/Kevin Turcotte/Mark Zurawinski] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-16 (Tuesday) [more info]

Tireless Foliage [Jiaqing Wilson-Yang/Germaine Liu/Karen Ng] (Jordaan Mason / Eli Howey) / Three Dollar Bill 2025-12-17 (Wednesday) [more info]

Output 1:1:1 (Tigatron) / Ted's Collision 2025-12-17 (Wednesday). $10/pwyc. [more info]

Makam Nights (feat. George Sawa & Suzanne Meyers Sawa) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2025-12-18 (Thursday). $pwyc. [FB event]

coexisDance #112 (feat. Pulga Muchochoma/Waleed Abdulhamid/Nidhi Baadkar/Xicada/Tyler J Sloan/Amiel Ang/Steph Chua) / Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre 2025-12-19 (Friday). $15 (pwyc). [more info]

Ministry of Phonic Services presents BPM (Big Percussion Meeting) (feat. Bobby Gadda/Brandon Valdivia/Brian Fog/Jaz Tsui/Louis Pino/qeTTe fossa) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-19 (Friday)

Today Versions presents Del Stephen's New Panettone ["improvvisazione radicale & art excavations"] (feat. Del Stephen/Patrick O'Reilly/Mira Martin-Gray/Rod Campbell/Kieran Maraj/James Bailey/Andrew Finlay Stewart) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-20 (Saturday – 5 p.m.). [FB event]

people | places | records presents (feat. Yang Chen / David Zucchi) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-27 (Saturday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Tranzac New Years Eve (feat. Eucalyptus / Alex “Bad Baby” Lukashevsky & Cocoa Corner [Aidan McConnell/Jack Johnston/Evan Cartwright/Charliecello/Alex Lukashevsky] / Bag) / The Tranzac 2025-12-31 (Wednesday). $33.64 adv / $32 door. [tickets/more info]

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Shows this week:

Florian Hoefner Trio [Florian Hoefner/Andrew Downing/Nick Fraser] / The Rex 2025-12-07&08 (Sunday & Monday). $21. [more info]

The United Jewish People’s Order's Big, Beautiful Winter Fundraiser (feat. Black Ox Orkestar / Marching Disorder / Judy Rebick / Elvira Kurt) / Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre 2025-12-08 (Monday). $20-$60 suggested, no one is ever turned away. [tickets + more info]

Brodie West presents (feat. Brodie West's Double Double Basses Quintet [Brodie West/Rob Clutton/Josh Cole/Patrick O'Reilly/Blake Howard]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-10 (Wednesday – early)

10 Year Anniversary / Reunion party (feat. Bill Gilliam/Kayla Milmine/Ambrose Pottie) / Annette Studios 2025-12-10 (Wednesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

mdbm [Michael White/Maggie Keogh/Don Rooke/Blake Howard] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-10 (Wednesday). [more info]

Triio [Alex Fournier/Bea Labikova/Naomi McCarroll-Butler/Tom Fleming/Racha Moukalled/Stefan Hegerat] / Sellers & Newel 2025-12-11 (Thursday). $20 minimum donation. [FB event]

Ariane Morin Residency, Concert #3: Balkan Brass Band (feat. Ariane Morin/Max Forster/Nathan Dell-Vandenberg/Ian Tulloch/Jaash Singh) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-11 (Thursday). $pwyc, suggested $20. [more info]

Jane Inc. [A Rupture, A Canyon, A Birth album release celebration] (Aisha Sasha John) / The Baby G 2025-12-12 (Friday). $23.87, 19+. [FB event]

not a band [Modern Rot EP release] (Bag / Ether Girls) / Handlebar 2025-12-12 (Friday). $15/pwyc. [FB event]

Musica Universalis (feat. I Have Eaten the City [Colin Fisher/Brandon Valdivia/Nick Storring]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-12 (Friday). [more info]

The Mike Milligan Trio [Mike Milligan/Nick Fraser/Brodie West] / Sellers & Newel 2025-12-13 (Saturday). $20 minimum donation. [FB event]

Burn Down the Capital, Venus Fest and The Music Gallery present (feat. Beverly Glenn-Copeland with special guest Elizabeth Copeland / Kamra / Topanga Trio) / East End United Church 2025-12-13 (Saturday). $35-$40 PWYCA. [more info]

Le Monde Holiday Show (feat. Colin Fisher Quartet [Colin Fisher/Ben Dwyer/Spencer Cole/William Hunt] / Maxwell Stover [solo]) / Le Monde 2025-12-13 (Saturday). $20. [more info]

Toronto Improvisers Orchestra / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-14 (Sunday – noon) [more info]

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Senior & Newman / Sympathetic String Band / Nick Flanagan / Finnbogiorn Orn) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-14 (Sunday – 2:30 p.m.) [FB event]

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Video hits:

• If you've been itching for a chance to spot local fave Lina Allemano playing as part of Mats Gustafsson's Fire! Orchestra, this archived livestream from the past weekend might be right up your alley:

Recording: BLACK GALAXIE

Artist: BLACK GALAXIE

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #109), October 7, 2025.

BLACK GALAXIE - [excerpt]

Last spotted in the recital hall with an eight-channel diffusion system, this set saw Nolan Hildebrand bringing the noise with a table full of gear including mixer, laptop, snare drum, synth, pedals, and a mouth-deployed contact mic wrapped in a plastic bag. Garbled speech samples and fragmented X Files regranulations crept in around the noisebursts, all while Hildebrand looked to be having a blast while enjoying the squall.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

Recording: O'Reilly/Strutt/Pitt

Artist: Patrick O'Reilly/Joe Strutt/Dan Pitt

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #109), October 7, 2025.

Patrick O'Reilly/Joe Strutt/Dan Pitt - [excerpt]

There's an informal rule at TCB that the host doesn't also perform, but on request of guitarist Dan Pitt, that rule was bent enough to reconvene this trio that had played together informally at Patrick O'Reilly's birthday jam. I brought out the Kaossilator, and the ukulele as well to make it a full-on string band. The results seems quite satisfying, blurps and bloops and some nice textured bits.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

Recording: Brandon Auger & Deniz Tafaghodi

Artist: Brandon Auger & Deniz Tafaghodi

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #109), October 7, 2025.

Brandon Auger & Deniz Tafaghodi - [excerpt]

Brandon Auger was back in town and proposed this game-like piece with local artist Deniz Tafaghodi, a lean-in-to-hear-it conversation of egg timers and small vibrating noisemakers. Face to face across a table, this proceeded like a sort of cooperative chess match, each taking turns adding and moving pieces, then pausing to consider.

The audio documentation here is a field recording of quiet sounds in a room, but the footage gives a better notion of what was going on:

Monday Roundup #255

Concert announcements:

Florian Hoefner Trio [Florian Hoefner/Andrew Downing/Nick Fraser] / The Rex 2025-12-07&08 (Sunday & Monday). $21. [more info]

The United Jewish People’s Order's Big, Beautiful Winter Fundraiser (feat. Black Ox Orkestar / Marching Disorder / Judy Rebick / Elvira Kurt) / Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre 2025-12-08 (Monday). $20-$60 suggested, no one is ever turned away. [tickets + more info]

mdbm [Michael White/Maggie Keogh/Don Rooke/Blake Howard] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-10 (Wednesday). [more info]

BLOOP [Lina Allemano & Mike Smith] / Sellers & Newel 2024-12-15 (Monday). $20 minimum donation. [FB event]

THE AMBiENT PiNG and Imaginary North Present (feat. Gollden / Ken Little / Hozerz) / Handlebar 2025-12-15 (Monday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Cate Le Bon (Frances Chang) / The Concert Hall 2026-01-20 (Tuesday). $49.32. [FB event]

CMC Presents: Imagined Spaces (feat. Dame Cook / Sergei Kofman) / Canadian Music Centre 2026-01-22 (Thursday). $15 Advance / $20 at the door (General Admission), $12 Advance / $15 at the door (CMC Members and Arts Workers), $10 (students). [more info]

CMC Presents: Solo Works (feat. Wesley Shen / Roan Ma) / Canadian Music Centre 2026-02-19 (Thursday). $15 Advance / $20 at the door (General Admission), $12 Advance / $15 at the door (CMC Members and Arts Workers), $10 (students). [more info]

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Shows this week:

Justin Orok Presents (feat. Lia Pappas Kemps) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-02 (Tuesday – early) [more info]

Not Dead Yet presents (feat. claire rousay) / Standard Time 2025-12-02 (Tuesday). $14.85, 19+. [tickets + more info]

Track Could Bend #111 (feat. Sarah and Rob [Sarah Peebles & Rob Cruickshank] / Michael Palumbo) / Wenona Lodge 2025-12-02 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Peripheral Vision (Mike DeiCont Trio [Mike DeiCont/Eric West/Leland Whitty]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-02 (Tuesday) [more info]

Holy Oak Family Singers Xmas Show + Thom's Bday (feat. Thom Gill / Ryan Driver / Caitlin Woelfe-O'Brien / Luka Kuplowsky / Stefana Fratila / Carlyn Bezic / Ivy Mairi / Fez Gielen / Tiffany Wu / Heather Saumer / Fan Wu / Charles James / Joseph Shabason / Maggie Keogh / Dorothea Pars / Edwin De Goeij / Ben Gunning / Doug Tielli) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-03 (Wednesday – early). [more info]

Equinox and Solstice Residency (feat. Ghostlight) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-03 (Wednesday). $10 suggested. [FB event]

Performances & words in honour of Paul Dutton (Celebration of Life and Tribute Performance) (feat. Steve McCaffery/Rafael Barreto-Rivera/Lillian Allen/bill bissett/Brian Dedora/Gary Barwin/Gregory Betts/Beatriz Hausner/Joe Sorbara) / Supermarket 2025-12-04 (Thursday) [more info]

More Noise Please! Presents: An Evening of Unconventional Sounds (feat. High Grove / Magnetic Coroner / Reaching Needles / Babies R Stupid / Death Kneel / Deniz Tafaghodi) / BSMT 254 2025-12-04 (Thursday). $15/pwyc. [FB event]

CMC Presents: Game Night (feat. Render File / Obuxum) / Canadian Music Centre 2025-12-04 (Thursday). $15 Advance / $20 at the door (General Admission), $12 Advance / $15 at the door (CMC Members and Arts Workers), $10 (students). [more info]

Tania Gill Quartet [Tania Gill/Brodie West/Rob Clutton/Nico Dann] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-05 (Friday – early)

Military Genius (Context, NA) / The Baby G 2025-12-05 (Friday). $21.53, 19+. [FB event]

Doug Tielli and... (feat. Doug Tielli/Rob Clutton/Bea Labikova/Raphael Roter/Heather Saumer) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-12-05 (Friday)

Pine Trees and Blue Sky [featuring Marcos Balter's Violin Concerto and works by Jessica Ackerley, Toshio Hosokawa, Anna Höstman, and Haotian Yu] (feat. Continuum Contemporary Music) / St. George's Grange Park 2024-12-06 (Saturday). $22.63 (general admission), $19.44 (senior / arts worker), $11.98 (student). [FB event]

Theo Vandenhoff (Fresh Snow) / The Baby G 2025-12-06 (Saturday). $19/94, 19+. [FB event]

Long Winter 14.2 (feat. Indian Giver / STELLA / Wanda / Toronto Experimental Translation Collective) / St. Stephen-In-The-Fields 2025-12-06 (Saturday). $PWYC / $20 advance tickets (skip the line), all ages. [more info]

Amrita [Kayla Milmine & Anita Katakkar wsg Jonathan Kay] / The Rex 2025-12-07 (Sunday – 2 p.m.). $pwyc. [more info]

Bitchin Bajas (Fortunato Durutti Marinetti) / Monarch Tavern 2025-12-07 (Sunday). $27.96, 19+. [tickets + more info]

Florian Hoefner Trio [Florian Hoefner/Andrew Downing/Nick Fraser] / The Rex 2025-12-07&08 (Sunday & Monday). $21. [more info]

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Bandcamp corner:

• Don't forget that the last Bandcamp Friday of teh year is coming up this week! But some music + support the musicians you adore! Here's a couple things on my list:

Monday Roundup #254

Community notes:

• As evidenced by the it-happened-10-years-ago documentation of the 10th anniversary party (as reproduced below), as far as I can tell this week is the 20th anniversary of the release of The Diableros' debut album You Can't Break the Strings in Our Olympic Hearts, a stone classic and a huge deal for Toronto's indie rock scene. Our community remembers the works and the spirit of songwriter/frontman Pete Carmichael, who passed away in 2020.

• This falls outside of MFS's usual geographic radius, but if you're in the mood for a bit of a road trip this weekend (Friday the 28th and Saturday the 29th) there will be some familiar faces and strangers-worth-investigating playing as part of this year's Improvisation Festival (IF2025) out in Guelph. The U of G's ImprovLab is a nice listening room, and participants include: Em Wright and Wounded Dog, Matt Rogalsky and Dimitri Georgaras, Sarah Pagé, Roger Tellier-Craig and Karl Lemieux, A Taste of Audiopollination Guelph (with Claire Whitehead/Richard Benedict/Nico and Connor Kurtz/Nicole Marchesseau), David Mott/Ben Finley/Jesse Stewart, Kristina Guison with Colby Richardson and Colin Cudmore, coexisDance (with Vee J. Sparvier-Wells/Chantelle Mostacho, Susanne Chui/Heather Saumer, and Vee J. Sparvier-Wells/Chantelle Mostacho/Susanne Chui/Heather Saumer), Nicole Rampersaud/Joel LeBlanc, and Erica Pomerance (with Joe Sorbara, Germaine Liu, and Dan Loughrin). This event is free and open to all! More info here.

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Concert announcements:

Performances & words in honour of Paul Dutton (Celebration of Life and Tribute Performance) (feat. Steve McCaffery/Rafael Barreto-Rivera/Lillian Allen/bill bissett/Brian Dedora/Gary Barwin/Gregory Betts/Beatriz Hausner/Joe Sorbara) / Supermarket 2025-12-04 (Thursday) [more info]

Batuki Music Society presents (feat. Rhythm Section Band [Dally Dominic/Kofi Ackah/Quandoe Harrison/George Kobby/Gabriel Amankwah/Daniel Boateng]) / It’s Ok* Studios 2025-12-20 (Saturday). $20. [FB event]

Not Dead Yet presents (feat. Career Suicide) / The Baby G 2025-12-20 (Saturday). $27.27, 19+. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Lipliners Residency (feat. Ronley Teper & The Lipliners) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-11-25 (Tuesday – early) [FB event]

Nick Fraser presents (feat. Nick Fraser's Special Topics [Nick Fraser/Josh Cole/Max Stover/Kae Murphy]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-11-25 (Tuesday) [more info]

Bijuriya ["...an exuberant medley of drag and humour, as well as an eclectic array of musical genres... code-switches between drag, song, and sound as it navigates its creator’s dual personas."] (feat. Gabriel Dharmoo) / Buddies in Bad Times 2025-11-26–2025-11-29 (Wednesday–Saturday). $13–$78. [more info]

Brandon Davis's Stations Quartet [Brandon Davis/Luan Phung/Nick Fraser/Patrick O'Reilly] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-11-26 (Wednesday). [more info]

CCMC [Allison Cameron/Christine Duncan/Cheryl O/Rick Sacks/Mani Manzinani/Casey Sokol/John Oswald)] / Array Space 2025-11-27 (Thursday). livestream available

Karen Ng presents (feat. saucering [Tilman Lewis/Laura Swankey/Nilan Perera]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-11-27 (Thursday) [FB event]

Live in the Library: Jambo Hakuna Matata (feat. Adam Solomon) / Toronto Public Library – Parkdale Branch 2025-11-28 (Friday). $free, all-ages, no ticket or registration required. [FB event]

All-Set! presents (feat. Molehill) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-11-28 (Friday – early)

Burn Down The Capital presents (feat. V.Vecker / Khôra & Colin Fisher / Caleb Klager) / Le Monde 2025-11-28 (Friday). $20/pwyc, all ages. [FB event]

The Ryan Driver Sextet / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-11-28 (Friday) [more info]

Music Gallery presents (feat. Markus Floats with members of the Egyptian Cotton Arkestra / HOMEBODIES) / Friends House 2025-11-29 (Saturday). $20-$30 PWYCA. [more info]

Project Nowhere presents: BÉING Fest 2 – Night 1 (feat. Badge Époque Ensemble / Jack Name / Mandy Christ) / The Baby G 2025-11-29 (Saturday). $30.55 (weekend pass $48.01), 19+. [FB event]

Stef.in [album release party] (Anh Phung / Spectrum Soundbath) / 1RG 2025-11-29 (Saturday). $22.63. [tickets + more info]

Edgar Breau & Band / Lola 2025-11-29 (Saturday) [FB event]

Cosmic Homeostasis XXX / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-11-30 (Sunday – 2:30 p.m.). $pwyc, all-ages/family-friendly. [FB event]

Project Nowhere presents: BÉING Fest 2 – Night 2 (feat. Badge Époque Ensemble / Zach Phillips / Man Made Hill) / The Baby G 2025-11-30 (Sunday). $30.55 (weekend pass $48.01), 19+. [FB event]

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It happened this week...

• ...on November 28, 2015 at Toronto Public Library – Yorkville Branch (Make Some Noise).

Jennifer Castle - Walkin' Down The Line

• ...on November 28, 2015 at The Garrison.

The Diableros - Olympic Island

[Do remember that you can click on the tags below to go back and find the original posts (and often, more stuff) from these artists.]