Sabdagatitara – Canada Tour
April, 2024How to Inhabit These Different Temporalities?
As you wander among the MMFA’s contemporary works, you will be immersed in the soundworld of ten soloists from various backgrounds and traditions. For this bold concert-installation, the performers will spend the entire day on an archipelago of five musical islands, relaying music back and forth, each one contributing according to their own temporality, tradition, emotion, rhythm and score. All the while, they will be weaving together a captivating musical landscape, in which you can wander and listen as long as you like, taking your cues from your curious ears and eyes.
This durational performance is meant to be a sensory exploration of the idea of our relationship with the various temporalities of life on earth. It underscores how important it is for us human beings to feel, to listen and to understand the planet’s geological and biological rhythms, even when their transformations are slow and silent.
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal and SMCQ , April 20 / 21 from 10am – 5pm
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto and SMCQ, April 28 from 10am – 5pm
Sutra
The Maison de la culture Ahuntsic-Cartierville partners with the SMCQ Homage Series dedicated to composer Sandeep Bhagwati, to present this transatlantic collaboration featuring 10 performers from Berlin’s Śabdagatitāra and Montréal’s Oktoécho ensembles.
Fusing diverse instruments and styles, these ensembles offer a unique musical experience of comprovisations, blending compositions and improvisations, celebrating music as a universal language, capable of transcending borders and creating bridges between seemingly distinct universes.
Seven performers from Berlin meet up with three from Montréal to create and perform this unique concert, bringing together influences and instruments from all over the world. This collaboration highlights the importance of cultural exchange and diversity in the creative process. It shows how the diversity of the performers and their instruments can adapt to their new environment, while maintaining their own authenticity.