March 10 performance
by MiMo
Samuel Morgenstein, a classically trained percussionist from New York, specializes in the new, the untried, and the experimental.¬† He enjoys creating music from found objects and materials.¬† With his laptop and percussion duo MiMo, he incorporates both new and vintage electronics as part of his unique sonic arsenal. 
Matt Miller is an electro-acoustic musician, composer and¬† sound designer, whose work has beed heard on TVs around the globe. He regularly performs live improvised music using found sounds, DIY synths and laptop. An avid field recordist, Matt can almost always be found with a portable recording device close by. The sounds that he captures invariably end up as the raw material for new musical concepts. 
MiMo is a duo featuring multi-instrumentalists Matt Miller (laptop, electronics) and Samuel Morgenstein (percussion).  Their live performances combine stripped down compositions and skeletal arrangements to create wide-open soundscapes for improvisation.  This improvisation can take many forms: solos, the laying down of a spontaneous groove, or an act of inspiration whereby sounds, rhythms and phrases are captured in real-time then deconstructed, manipulated and re-organized.

March 17 performance
by Germaine Liu and Allison Cameron
Germaine Liu is a Toronto-based percussionist, performer/composer, and creative improviser. Allison Cameron is a composer/performer who improvises using Casio instruments/keyboards/ukulele/banjo/radios/miscellaneous objects and toys. Both Germaine and Allison are familiar faces in Toronto's creative music scene. They perform in c_RL (pronounced curl) with the auspicious trumpet player Nicole Ramerpsaud. c_RL has recently finished recording it’s first CD with the generous assistance of the Ontario Arts Council Popular Music program.

Allison Cameron is a composer of mostly chamber works that have been performed throughout Europe and North America; she is also active as an experimental performer. Her works have been performed at numerous festivals and by the world's leading new music ensembles and instrumentalists. She co-founded the Drystone Orchestra in 1989 and founded the Arcana Ensemble in 1992, both dedicated to the performance of experimental music in Toronto. During 2000-2005, she was the artistic director of Arraymusic where she created the Scratch! festival for experimental music. Allison is also a member of the Association of Improvising Musicians of Toronto (AIMT) and since 2000 has been performing on small amplified objects in collaboration with Eric Chenaux, Rob Clutton, Ryan Driver, Stephen Parkinson, Gert Jan Prins, Mike Hansen, Mauro Savo, Ken Aldcroft, Joe Sorbara, Wilbert de Joode, and Doug Tielli among others.

March 24 performance
by Tomasz Krakowiak
Tomasz Krakowiak is a percussionist and composer from Poland now living in Toronto. During the last few years, Krakowiak has performed and recorded with artists such as Mike Hansen, John Oswald, Ireneusz Socha, Le Quan Ninh, Kaffe Matthews, Mike Snow, Domenico Sciajno, Alessandro Bosetti, Anna Zaradny, Ute Völker, Sophie Angel, Otomo Yoshihide, Phil Minton, Paul Dutton, John Butcher, Gert-Jan Prins, Karlheinz Essl, Pau Torres and others throughout Europe and North America e.g. Musica Genera Festival, Victoriaville FIMAV, AudioArt Festival. Influenced by experimental and electroacoustic practices, Krakowiak's sounds are explorations of different sonoristic drum qualities.

March 31 performance
by Lee Pui Ming and NOiNO
Lee Pui Ming is an artist who is curious about the space where the Known meets the Unknown. Through the years, that exploration has led her to new ways of transforming and integrating Chinese material into her work; creating a live performance gestalt that includes sounding all parts of the piano, engaging her body and her voice; finding fresh ways of weaving tonalities; and diving into the wide expanse of open improvisation. And always, the intent is to communicate and connect with the listener, heart to heart.

NOiNO is an improvising trio made up of Jamie Todd (dreamSTATE, URM, SADU), James Bailey (Odradek, Six Heads, etc. etc.) and Matthew Poulakakis (Salvagesound, Automatic Fats, etc.). NOiNO was originally formed as an ad hoc replacement for a last minute cancellation of a Planet of the Loops show at Toronto's AMBiENT PiNG series. The trio had so much fun improvising and getting loopy, they decided to continue playing together, and did.

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