Now Hear This Festival June 6-15, 2024
NOW HEAR THIS!! The Now Hear This Festival is here, June 6 through 15th!
There is no other festival quite like it in Edmonton: world premiere classical compositions, free improvisation, quadraphonic audio-visual soundscapes, performance art, and more! Featuring over three dozen artists from our community, plus a few guests, this is a unique opportunity to experience some of the most explosively innovative performers and composers around.
Many of the artists this year will be making their New Music Edmonton début, but we also have some old friends performing with us, live, for the first time in a long time. There is no other festival quite like Now Hear This, bringing together cutting edge, world premiere classical works, spectacular electronic music, dance, video, durational performance art, and more!
Festival passes $60/$75. Single tickets $20/$25 (ticket links in listings)
Thursday, June 6, noon, City Hall Atrium – City Hall players – Temple of Electryone, by Will Northlich-Redmond. Ensemble of c. 15 roving saxophones, brass, woodwinds, plus live electronics and visual art installation. Free event. Watch on Vimeo.
Friday, June 7, 7 pm, Muttart Hall – Double Bill – Nathaniel Sutton, live electronics and Luciane Cardassi, solo piano and live electronics. Tickets $20/$25. Watch on Vimeo.
Saturday, June 8, 7 pm, Mile Zero Dance Space – Triple Bill – Sol Viator – free improvisation trio with drums, saxophone, and bass/vocals electronics | Sir Kadian (Mika Haykowsky) and Laughter Lily (Shayda Yazdanmehr) are uniting their practices in this improvised soundscape of song, breath, and sound. | Selections from Mari Alice Conrad’s Six Arctic Experiments with experimental ensemble XiME. Tickets $20/$25. Cash bar featuring Polyrhythm Brewing. Watch on Vimeo.
Friday, June 14, 7 pm, Muttart Hall – Double Bill – Edmonton Saxophone Quartet and Roger Admiral. Watch on Vimeo.
Saturday, June 15, 7 pm, Mile Zero Dance Space – Quadruple Bill – DJ Noodle Soup and Jia Jia Yong – live electronics and guqin; Mustafa Rafiq – guitar/voice; Jacob Audrey Taves – live electronics and video; Shawn Pinchbeck – live electroacoustics and live video. Tickets $20/$25. Cash bar featuring Polyrhythm Brewing. Watch on Vimeo.
Accessibility
City Hall (1 Sir Winston Churchill Square): accessible building with gendered, multi-stall washrooms. Please note -City Hall has reopened to the public and can be accessed through the southwest and southeast entrances only. Enhanced security processes including a security screening and bag check, are in place. Please allow extra time for screening. The City Hall Parkade remains closed.
Muttart Hall (10050 Macdonald Drive, Edmonton): accessible building with gendered, multi-stall washrooms.
Mile Zero Dance Space (9931 – 78 Avenue NW, Edmonton): accessible building with multiple all-gender washrooms.
