pbf @ hugh's room on tuesday

greetings.

gratitudes and congratulations to the good folks who put together this weekend's SOUNDplay Festival (new adventures in sound art, the goethe institut, pleasure dome, and music gallery) for their excellent programming. well done.
i attended three events: TEXT OF LIGHT, in performance; TEXT OF LIGHT in conversation; and david lang's ELEVATED. fantastic. music and images: fleeting specificity and random abstraction. curiously interesting and often stirring. smart and thoughtful and totally engaging.

and on an altogether other note...
a horse of a different colour...
a whole new kettle of fish...

i'll be singing backup with porkbelly futures
tomorrow night at hugh's room.

porkbelly futures
with paul reddick
hugh's room
tuesday october 30

2261 dundas st west
show starts around 8:30
dinner from 6:00
reservations 416 531 6604

a rare toronto show, in anticipation of the february release of porkbelly futures' second, self-titled CD, and to celebrate the european release, on november 12, of 2004's way past midnight.

www.porkbellys.com
www.hughsroom.com

roughidea offshore music sunday october 21 2pm

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roughidea presents

offshore music

a grand festival of autumnal happiness

KYLE BRENDERS - saxophone(s)
NICK BULLIGAN - trumpet
JENNIFER CASTLE/Castlemusic - guitar, voice

Sunday October 21 2PM

St Andrew by the Lake Anglican Church
$10 includes pumpkin pie etc...

Toronto Island

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Kyle Brenders is a young Canadian composer and saxophonist. His compositions are boundless, containing a broad range of idiomatic allusions. As a saxophonist, Kyle is comfortable in all forms of musical experiences ranging from solo improvised works to large ensemble compositions. His current compositional output explores the interaction of intentionality and surprise, the liminality of notation and improvisation, and the experience of duration. He has studied composition and improvisation with Peter Hatch, David Mott, Malcolm Goldstein, Jean Derome, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila and Anthony Braxton. He is currently completing his Masters in Experimental Music and Composition at Wesleyan University. Kyle attended the inaugural Vancouver Creative Music Institute where he worked with George Lewis, Francois Houle, Miya Masaoka, Evan Parker, Mark Dresser, Nicole Mitchell, and Giorgio Magnanensi. He has performed with Guillermo Gregorio, The Anthony Braxton Sextet, Diamond Wall Trio and Alvin Lucier. Kyle has had pieces performed by the FLUX quartet, The BSC, sfSound and the Windsor and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. He has performed in the Vancouver Jazz Festival, the Winnipeg Jazz Festival, the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, the Guelph Jazz Festival, and with NUMUS concerts. Kyle is an active member of the Association of Improvising Musicians, Toronto (AIMT). Brenders has just released a solo saxophone album called Flows and Intensities. Copies will be available at autumnal happiness.
listen:kbrenders.web.wesleyan.edu
www.myspace.com/kylebrenders
www.thelivemusicreport.com/2007/September/GJF-Braxton-DCWtrio_sep07.html

NICK BULLIGAN  will join with Kyle in duo and solo resonance
trumpet amplifies
projects energy
sounds beauty
www.myspace.com/nickbulligan
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CASTLEMUSIC: Toronto Island resident Jennifer Castle performs as castlemusic...
The avant-blues of island soul Jennifer Castle. The strongest songs and the most beautiful sounds emerge from her cranky guitar and her silky voice. Castlemusic has released one stellar live album "Live at the Music Gallery", and will release a full length album this year. Listen for songs and look for jpgs of Jennifer on the Ward's beach June 21, 2007, at her myspace page.
www.myspace.com/jennifercastlemusic
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St Andrew by the Lake is located between the Ward's and Centre
Island ferry docks, west of the Alogonquin Island bridge,
under the Centre Island cable car turnaround.
Ferry schedule: www.toronto.ca/parks/island/winterschedule.htm

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FW: Save the Matador: Join us TODAY at 4 PM at City Hall in Meeting Room B for the Board meeting of the Toronto Pakring Authority

From: Save the Matador <matador@savethematador.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:55:44 -0400
To: <rebeccacampbell@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Save the Matador: Join us tomorrow (TODAY - TUESDAY) at 4 PM at
City Hall in Meeting Room B for the Board meeting of the Toronto Parking
Authority

Dear friends,

We have all read about the City's plan to expropriate the famed Matador club
and turn it into a parking lot.

I don't want to talk about the failings of Toronto's planning department,
nor do I wish to talk about how this City Council has failed to seize
opportunities to improve our city. I don't want to even talk about the
Matador. I want to talk about Ann Dunn, the owner of the Matador, and how
this city has singled her out and bullied her in order to steal her life's
work. All in our name, and all for the sake of a parking lot.

I want to talk about how Ann had to find out that the City was planning to
expropriate her business and home from a news reporter. No official
notification, just a call frfom a reporter.

I want to talk about how the city ignores it's own official plan to reduce
parking, and how senior city officials extol parking lots as future
development sites and then make deals with condo developers.

I want to talk about how a grandmother is fighting this injustice alone.

The local councillor tells us that the Parking Authority is an independent
agency and that he is not a bully. The rest of council say that they are not
to blame and nor are they bullies. The Mayor also tells us that he is
looking into it and that he is not a bully. Yet they voted unanimously to
allow the Parking Authority to steal Ann's life. When you support a bully
you become a bully.

Ann is standing alone against all these bullies but I ask you to stand with
her and stand up to the City and say enough is enough. That this is wrong
and we will not allow you to bully us any longer.

Please join me tomorrow (TODAY - TUESDAY) at 4 pm at City Hall in meeting
Room B for the Board meeting of the Toronto Parking Authority. Make your
voice heard to help Ann and our City.

Sincerely,

Simon Wookey
simon@wookey.ca

For further information please go to

http://www.savethematador.com