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Thanks to everyone who came out for last weekend’s IMOO Fest. The official paid attendance was 35 on Friday and 52 on Saturday, with the latter likely representing an IMOO record. Although this was billed as the final edition of IMOO Fest I haven’t completely closed the door on doing more shows. I still hope … Read more
Spark Beer Sunday November 5 Music at 8 PM Suggested donation $20 or PWYC/NOTAFLOF Shoreline is a series of drone-core slabs created by Tom Richards. Each track is a meditation or obsession with a root. Special guests include a honeybee, a lawnmower, and renowned violinist Kip Jones. Shoreline is the frontier between solid and liquid, … Read more
Spark Beer Sunday October 29 Music at 8 PM Suggested donation $20 or PWYC/NOTAFLOF Thresher is an experimental trio from Owen Sound, Ontario. Leaning heavily on the dark art of improvisation and free jazz via found sound, field recordings, tape loops, and various instruments of sonic interest, Thresher concocts a blender half full of sublinear … Read more
Sunday October 8 Advance Tickets: https://www.liveonelgin.com/products/maria-moles-and-instant-places Live on Elgin Maria Moles Maria is an Australian drummer, composer and producer based in Narrm/Melbourne. Her solo percussion performances draw on ideas from the Kulintang music of the Philippines and contemporary electronic production to weave hypnotic webs from layers of unmetered pulse that slowly undergo subtle textural transformations. … Read more
Sunday September 17 Doors 7:30pm $20 Suggested, PWYC, NOTAFLOF 135 rue Eddy in Hull (Gatineau), the “public” entrance is through a side door. Shhhhh We are so excited to have Jessica Ackerley back at IMOO for another performance. During the past decade, Jessica Ackerley has established themselves on the Canadian and American music scenes as … Read more
This year’s IMOO Fest – running from October 13th to 15th – will present more than 30 Canadian and International musicians over three nights at Glebe-St. James United Church and Spark Beer. The cast includes both new-to-IMOO artists (the Canadian Electronic Ensemble, Jacques Demierre, Axel Dörner, Nava Dunkelman, Eve Egoyan, Erin Rogers, etc.) and many … Read more
August 6 @ The Record Centre (1099 Wellington Street West) Performance, followed by Q&A. 3PM 25 dollar suggested donation or PWYC. NOTAFLOF Stephen Grew has been playing piano and electronic keyboards for 30 years. His music is completely improvised. He creates spontaneous compositions with other musicians in the heat of the moment. He also performs … Read more
IMOO & First Crush present Sunday, July 9th, 2023 – 8:00 PM Club SAW – 67 Nicholas Street Tickets: $25 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ylangylang-and-annie-socoria-at-club-saw-tickets-666377000547?fbclid=IwAR3jC5VmOEwIPv3gNU2jgNDVtuTTBI61Xz5E5qn7-2ukZjgmQeNfYSmRCoQ No one turned away for lack of funds at the door YlangYlang (Montreal, QC) Catherine Debard has roots in Montreal’s experimental music scene, a community in which she has been actively involved for several … Read more
Sunday June 11 @ Spark Beer 9 PM Website: http://www.wyche.org/ Bandcamp: https://danielwyche.bandcamp.com/ textcurious nina jane drystek is a poet, writer and performer based in Ottawa, unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe territory. she is author of a:of:in (Gapriot Press, 2021) knewro suite (Simulacrum Press, 2019) and her poems have appeared in online and print publications, as well as in self-published chapbooks and … Read more
Suggested donation $20 or PWYC Show at 9 PM Philippe Lauzier — DX7 and modified speakers Pierre-Yves Martel — modular synthesizer Philip Zoubek— analogue synthesizer Philippe Lauzier, Philip Zoubek and Pierre-Yves Martel (PPP) have a long history of collaboration. In the past, the three have performed together on traditional instruments: reeds, piano, and viola da … Read more