March 3, 2005
Visual Music Event Creates Electro Zen Garden
Using 16 speakers and a 12-foot-high lumina, Kingston ensemble transforms space through live performance.
Kingston

The Electronic Zen Garden is a contemporary music performance combined with a multi-media visual spectacle, all of which is based on the traditional Japanese Zen garden concept. Using interactive software, four performers will project images on a 12-foot-high lumina column while music from sixteen speakers surrounds the audience. Just as in real Zen gardens, audience members will only be able to see parts of the image and hear parts of the soundscape at any one time, giving every individual a unique image and sound experience.

This event is one of CMC’s series of national performances called New Music in New Places, designed to bring Canadian contemporary music out of concert halls and into the lives of Canadians.
EVENT DETAILS

WHO: Composers include: Kristi Allik, Mike Cassells and David McCallum with multimedia artist Robert Mulder.

WHAT: The Canadian Music Centre’s New Music in New Places concert series presents the LEARK Ensemble’s Electronic Zen Garden performance.

WHEN: Saturday, March 5, 2005 8:00 pm

WHERE: The Agnes Etherington Art Centre
University Avenue at Bader Lane
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario

New Music in New Places acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Music Fund, administered by The SOCAN Foundation. All New Music in New Places events are sponsored by Bowdens Media Monitoring Limited, CNW Group Ltd. and The Communications Group Inc.