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Quasar Lab
Saturday, March 18, 2017 | Doors/Show: 7:30/8:00pm Rachel Browne Theatre, 211 Bannatyne Ave. co-presented by GroundSwell
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 | 12:30pm Eva Clare Hall, U of M, 65 Dafoe Rd.
Hello / This is Quasar Saxophone Quartet / Quasar will play many saxophones very loudly / There will be noise (!) / There will be flashing lights (warning!) / There will be manymany things on video screens / and there will be no (!) relenting (!!) Featuring: Quasar Saxophone Quartet playing Alexander Schubert and David Adamcyk and premieres by Z-Machine (Carmen Vanderveken, Matthew Schoen, and Nathalie Vanderveken), Jennifer Walshe, Patrick Hart, Myriam Bleau, Eliot Britton*, Gordon Hyland, Shaun Bellamy, Calum Jensen*, and Kristen Wachniak*.
Quasar Saxophone Quartet presents sketches of new works by some of Manitoba’s most talented emerging voices. Free admission.
Public Lectures Wednesday + Friday, March 15 + 17, 2017 | 2:30pm Desautels Faculty of Music, U of M, 136 Dafoe Rd. Lectures by composers Carmen Vanderveken and David Adamcyk in collaboration with the U of M Desautels Faculty of Music. Free admission.
Lightning Talks
We welcome you to stay after the show for a special post-concert talkback with the artists involved.
Friday, March 17, 2017 | 7:00pm West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave.
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Guest artists from the 2017 Cluster Festival discuss what inspires them to create, including David Adamcyk, Shaun Bellamy, Carmen Vanderveken and Veronica Charnley.
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FOREWORD Cluster bursts into its eighth edition with a program of fresh sound and performance. Located in venues around Winnipeg’s downtown, Cluster 2017 delivers deeply personal A E S T H E T I C experiences. Highlights of Cluster 2017 include an excerpt from Freya Björg Olafson’s newest multimedia dance work CPA (Consistent Partial Attention), a solo piano show by Everett Hopfner in which each piece is a personal testament by a living composer (Air Loom), Montreal’s Plumes Ensemble dissecting and tessellating Grimes’ entire Visions album (Many Visions), and Quasar saxophone quartet blowing the roof off in a melée of saxophone, noise, video and light (HELLO!). This year, Cluster takes you inside our memories : pre and post-internet, digital and analogue, partial and reconstructed, individual and collective… we promise it will be unforgettable. — Cluster co-directors Eliot Britton, Heidi Ouellette, and Luke Nickel (This year’s Cluster design features a speciallycommissioned digital artwork by Matthew Schoen)
Consistent Partial Attention
Air Loom
Many Visions
Single Events $15 / $10 Student Festival Pass $65 / $40 Student
Friday, March 10, 2017 | Doors/Show: 7:30/8:00pm Rachel Browne Theatre, 211 Bannatyne Ave.
Sunday, March 12, 2017 | Doors/Show: 7:30/8:00pm Forth, 171 McDermot Ave.
Friday, March 17, 2017 Pre-concert Lighting Talks 7:00pm / Show 8:00pm West End Cultural Centre, 586 Ellice Ave
Online clusterfestival.com/tickets
Two powerful examinations of contemporary culture:
A piano, alone.
In Training is the Opposite, a singer performs a virtuosic boxing routine on stage, accompanied by a string quartet (Quatuor Bozzini). This short opera by Irish composer Jennifer Walshe features mezzo-soprano Laura Bowler, who was trained and choreographed specially for the role by Cathy “The Bitch” Brown, the former number three World Boxing Champion. CPA (Consistent Partial Attention) is Freya Björg Olafson’s newest ensemble dance piece. It is a paradoxical meditation on what it means to be present in our contemporary screen-obsessed existence, featuring performers guided by found footage videos of dancers dancing in their homes.
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Everett Hopfner plays pieces that are personal testaments by living composers. These new works by Manitoban composers Heidi Ouellette, Luke Nickel, Diana McIntosh and Kristen Wachniak explore the acoustic manifestation of memories: physical items handed down generations, smoky jazz from a favourite novel, a wild climb... Finally, Hopfner plays Hallstudie by Jörg Widmann, during which the piano becomes an extension of the player’s body. Every angle of the piano is considered, every surface struck, every string plucked, hammered, brushed and beaten... this is a tour-de-force.
Montreal’s Plumes Ensemble returns to Winnipeg to re-imagine the music of Canadian electronic heavyweight Grimes.
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In this cross-Canada tour, 13 of Canada’s most exciting composers each respond to one song from Grimes’ iconic third release Visions (2012). The result is a glitchy post-classical cabaret that will take you beyond the edges of familiarity into a dazzling musical unknown. Featuring composers: Jennifer Bachynsky*, Eliot Britton*, Isaiah Ceccarelli, Veronica Charnley, Fjóla Evans, Marielle Groven, Emilie LeBel, Nicole Lizée*, Giorgio Magnanensi, Stephanie Moore, Monica Pearce, Tawnie Olson, and Carmen Vanderveken. Opener: Pipe & Hat’s Sc Mira* *Manitoban
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