Music

Indigenous Classical Music Gathering | In Person

Overview
Banff Center is excited to invite folks to the third iteration of the Indigenous Classical Music Gathering (ICMG), led by faculty members Cris Derksen and Eliot Britton. Building on the groundbreaking work previously established by the Canadian Classical Indigenous Music Gathering, Indigenous composers and performers will come together to cultivate their individual crafts through collaboration and personal development.

Participants will spend time each day to gather and discuss current classical music issues, unpack our shared history of being Indigenous within the genre, and shine a light onto where we would like to see classical music go.

Submitted on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 19:55

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Open Call for Artists

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS!

We are looking for musicians, performers and artists specialised in audiovisual installations for the third edition of Altered Images.

Altered Images is a spontaneous space for experimental film production, videoart, installations and live music. The festival aims to showcase silent or sound movies that are open to a sound reinterpretation.

Submitted on Wed, 05/18/2022 - 11:01

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Call for Speakers and Performing Artists

The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection has opened the call for artists and cultural contributers in the destinations we visit. The aim of the program is to bring talent on board to share their art and expertise with our guests. The program will engage local talent in our ports of call so that guests can gain a local perspective and gain a better understanding of the destination’s cultural landscape.

We're visiting the following destinations in the summer of 2022. If you reside in one of the following locations and have a program idea, we want to hear from you!

Submitted on Fri, 04/29/2022 - 03:53

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Call out: Dreaming with Machines

Are you interested in algorithmic technologies, music production and sampling within your music?

Join Manchester sound artist Vicky Clarke for four days of making music with machine learning to create a series of audiovisual dreamscapes ready for transmission on the internet.

Machine learning is a branch of Artificial Intelligence (AI), where neural networks detect patterns in sets of data and use them to make predictions. As an emerging field in music making, sonic AI has great potential for how we compose, generate material and collaborate with machines.

Submitted on Tue, 03/29/2022 - 16:39

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Call out: Manchester Experimental Orchestra

We’re looking for musicians aged 14-18 to take part in a project that explores the musical identity of Manchester.

Over two weekends in May and July you’ll make new music together that responds to the question:

What does Manchester sound like to you?

If you live and breathe this city and want to represent its musical identity, the Manchester Experimental Orchestra is perfect for you.

And don’t worry, it’s not that type of orchestra.

We’re looking for musicians who play any instrument or genre of music. You could be a gospel singer, a producer, a guitarist, a rapper, a spoken word artist, a drummer, a violist or anything else!

To take part you just need to be:

A musician playing any instrument or genre of music

Submitted on Tue, 03/29/2022 - 16:28