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Dear New Music Fans,
Welcome to the 22nd season of NUMUS, Kitchener-Waterloo’s pre-eminent presenter of new and exploratory musics.
The 2007-2008 season begins with a world premiere collaboration between legendary British percussionist Eddie Prevost and CCMC, Canada’s longest running ensemble dedicated to free improvisation. In November, we will celebrate the music and memory of composer/pianist/theorist/educator, James Tenney, one of the past century’s most original musical voices. Then in January, virtuoso Austrian theremin player Dorit Chrysler will present a solo concert in conjunction with a screening of the extraordinary documentary film Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey.
Building on the tremendous success of last year’s mini-festival of musical improvisation, we will present another three-day festival this season that will explore the turntable as a musical instrument. Featured performers will include Montreal turntablist Martin Tetreault, New York’s DJ Olive, and the hugely accomplished turntablist/conceptual artist/writer DJ Spooky performing with K-W’s own Penderecki String Quartet. The season concludes with the very special premiere of Reaching for Nothing: Water’s Thirst, a full evening interdisciplinary work collaboratively conceived by celebrated local composer Peter Hatch and acclaimed visual artist/architect Dereck Revington. Three years in the making, Reaching for Nothing will be a landmark work in Canadian music and culture that is not to be missed.
The 2007-2008 NUMUS season promises to stimulate, complicate, expand, enrich, and enable new understandings of new music, while continuing to foster a locally-grounded contemporary Canadian music identity and community. We invite you to be a part of that community this season.
Jesse Stewart
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