A couple Victo spinoffs in Toronto

[Nate Dorward]

The new schedule from the now-disembodied Music Gallery in Toronto lists a couple acts from Victo also performing here:


Thursday May 15

BLONK-DUTTON-MAKIGAMI-MINTON-MOSS

(VOICES QUINTET)

VTO festival

8PM $20/STUDENTS 2-FOR-1

The Toronto extension of the annual Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) offers an extra-special vocal improv quintet featuring Japp Blonk (Netherlands, member of Braaxtaal), Paul Dutton (Toronto, member of CCMC), Koichi Makigami (Japan, Tzadik recording artist), Phil Minton (UK, member of 4 Walls), and David Moss (US/Germany, Intakt recording artist). This concert brings together five masters in avant-garde vocal art for the first time. For the last 30 years, these singers, vocalists and sound poets have been reinventing from A to Z the vocabulary of vocal cords, and everything standing above them. Not to be missed. www.fimav.qc.ca.



Tuesday May 20

Annette Krebs + Andrea Neumann

with THE DRAPERIES FEATURING MARTIN ARNOLD

VTO festival

8PM $10/$5

German duo Annette Krebs (guitar, mixing desk) and Andrea Neumann (inside piano, mixing desk) began collaborating in the fall of 1996, and a specific form of playing free improvised music soon crystallized. Both musicians are concerned with the use of well-defined sounds that can stand by themselves and allow the joint composition of structures. These may be radical with regard to the use of silence, the density of events, and the dynamic range, which reaches from hardly audible to jarring industrial noise. Their disc Rotophormen is currently available on Charhizma. Opened by Torontonian guests The Draperies (Eric Chenaux, electric guitar; Ryan Driver, synth + thumb-reeds; Doug Tielli, trombone + trumpet), who play slack-jawed, harmony-laden improvisations with the help of psychedelic folk-lounge composer Martin Arnold (wammied-melodica + CD player). www.charhizma.com/rotophormen/.

[Nate Dorward]

Forgot to add this info:

All presentations take place in St. George the Martyr Church, located at 197 John St. (north of Queen at Stephanie). Box office: 416-204-1080. www.musicgallery.org