Boreal Electro Acoustic Music Society
DroneDay 2025 in Edmonton on Saturday May 24th 2025 from 2pm to 10:30pm. We'll be in person at the the Collins Studio Gallery 11741 94 St NW, Edmonton, AB T5G 1J1, just off 118 Ave surrounded by restaurants, galleries, grocery stores, and convenience stores.
$5 PWYC for BEAMS MEMBERS
$10 for BEAMS MEMBERSHIP
$10 for membership + $5 PWYC for non members.
Here's the schedule for May 24th, 2025:
https://forms.gle/KXjncMnAtyvUpyqM8
BEAMS Art’s Birthday 2025
Call for live performances!
Submission Deadline: January 6, 2025!
We are seeking submissions of live performances for the BEAMS Art’s Birthday celebration happening on January 17, 2025 at the Collins Studio Gallery at 11741-94 St, Edmonton.
Performances should be no longer than 20 min and represent the genres of electroacoustic music, experimental music, electronic music, sound art, noise, improvisation, sound experimentation or soundy performance art.
Send your proposals by January 6th with the subject line “Art’s Bday 2025” to:
beams-submission@googlegroups.com
Art’s Birthday originated in 1963 when French surreal artist Robert Filliou declared that art didn’t exist until a million years ago when someone dropped a dry sponge into a pail of water. Choosing his own birthday of Jan. 17 to celebrate the event, Filliou proposed a public holiday, which has since been adopted by arts organizations and collectives in more than 20 nations worldwide. BEAMS has been hosting it yearly since 2010.
The Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS) is a non-profit society dedicated to the promotion and production of sound art, experimental music and new media. Its membership consists of professional musicians, composers and performance artists from diverse backgrounds driven to create a voice for sound orientated art in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
This event is sponsored by the Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society (AMAAS). BEAMS thanks them for their continued support!
Contact:
info@beams.ca
What: OSPAC Openhouse!
When: Sept 27,28,29 but BEAMS is on Sept 29, 2024 at 1pm
Where: 8426 Gateway Blvd NW, Edmonton
AGM June 24 Monday at 12 noon.
Come to this page just before noon to see a zoom or a jitsi.com link for the video conference AGM.
https://meet.jit.si/moderated/4afbb495020bcc1f1ccaa38b1e3ec7dd87b13464a0e7b649861d1e53e9cc7fb1
On August 17th 2024 Edmonton noisefest will happen again at the Aviary!
Checkout https://noisefest.ca/ for more details.
Saturday May 25th, 2024, Idylwylde Community League, 3pm to midnight.
$10 for BEAMS members, and $10 for BEAMS memberships. Free for Idylwylde Community League members.
For immediate release
April 28, 2024
BEAMS celebrates a decade of drone
EDMONTON—The Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society will commemorate National Drone Day, taking place Saturday, May 25, with an extensive live concert at Idylwylde Community Hall (8631-81 St.) starting at 3 pm. The event is expected to run until midnight.
Twelve artists from Edmonton and the surrounding region will perform sets varying in length from 30 minutes to an hour, performing drone music, often described as the taking the form of sustained sounds with a minimalist delivery. The repertoire of the acts playing that day (Brick Road, Wayne DeFehr, Dinosaur Dragondrone, Jared Epp, Ghost Cars, Gray Hartley, Gary James Joynes, Matt McKenzie, Microenvironment, m.o.a.i.n., James Parrott, and K.M. Toepfer) are slated to play a wide range of sounds from melodic tones to found-sound noise, which all fall under the requisites of what is considered drone.
The show takes place 10 years to the month of the first National Drone Day festivities, which first took place May 10, 2014. The event, first dreamed up by Marie LeBlanc Flanagan, co-founder of alternative music distributor Weird Canada, has become a national and annual occurrence ever since.
“Drone Day is a reclamation of the idea of a holiday, of a community celebration with no purpose beyond a shared interest in drone music, a community and a marked moment in time,” said LeBlanc Flanagan to Grid City Magazine in 2015.
Tickets to the Edmonton festivities of National Drone Day are $20, $10 for BEAMS members. The show is free to members of the Idylwylde Community League.
Media Contact:
Abram Hindle
info@beams.ca
Hi BEAMERS!
Every Friday we are going to be doing an artist spot light to help promote all the artists in our community. If you want us to share your music/videos on our social media. Send us a short bio and link to what you want shared. This is going to be on going so there is no limit to how much you submit. The more the merrier! Make a list of all you would like to share along with the short bio and email your submissions to:
beams-submission@googlegroups.com
With the subject “Weekly Spotlight”
Here's the form if you want to try to perform: https://forms.gle/GHiSega1u5SMacABA
Jan 20th 8pm and Jan 20th 2pm for Open Mic
Edmonton to join the world for a weird arts celebration
The Boreal Electroaoustic Music Society (BEAMS) will celebrate Art’s Birthday, one of the world’s most unusual celebrations of art. The event, Art’s Birthday Edmonton 2024, takes place Saturday, Jan. 20 at 8 p.m. at Idylwylde Community League (8631-81 Street).
The show will feature a wide range of Edmonton sound artists and experimental musicians, many of whom have garnered international reputations for their work. Slated to play are James Parrott, Wayne DeFehr, Cave To Hades, Shawn Pinchbeck, Skrunt Skrunt, XiME, and The Alt-Wrong Orchestra.
BEAMS has hosted this annual event in Edmonton since 2010, as part of a global tribute to art, an idea conceived by French surrealist Robert Filliou in 1963. He believed that a million years ago, art did not exist until a sponge was dropped into a pail of water, and picked his own birthday, Jan. 17, to celebrate the occasion. Charmed by the absurdity of the notion, artists, predominantly in Europe, have been celebrating Art’s Birthday ever since. A comprehensive background of the event and international listings are available on artsbirthday.net .
A free open mic event hosted by the Idylwylde Community League also takes place that day at 2 p.m. Admission to Art’s Birthday is free to Idylwylde Community League members, $10 to BEAMS members, $20 to non-members, with a BEAMS membership to newcomers built into the price.
Call for live performances!
Submission deadline: Saturday, January 6 2024
Hi BEAMERS!
Art's Birthday is just around the corner and we are looking for live performers. This year's art's birthday will be held in person live at the Idylwyle community league hall (8631 81 St NW, Edmonton, AB).
It is going to be a full day of live music. The first half of the day will be an open mic for Idylwylde community members. The second half will be BEAMS experimental music performances. There are no specifics for the performances we are looking for. Just your creative selves doing what you love in the name of art! Performances will be scheduled for 20 minutes. This event is sponsored by AMAAS and BEAMS performers will be compensated.
PLEASE SUBMIT TO:
beams-submission@googlegroups.com
With the subject "Art's Bday 2024"
BEAMS presents
Together Apart IV…an evening of audio wonderments
Call for video works or streamed performances! Deadline November 18, 2023!
We are seeking submissions of video or Twitch live streamed performances from sound and electroacoustic music artists of all kinds. A modest artist fee will be paid for the accepted submissions.
Together Apart is an evening of sound and electroacoustic music artists from around the world to be presented by the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS) on November 24, 2023 at 8 pm on our streaming channel: https://www.twitch.tv/beamsdotca
The previous three years’ events were very diverse with artists from Canada, UK, USA, Lithuania and Estonia. The performances explored various facets of improvisation, modular synths, found sound objects, and location specific works. Their accompanying videos featured computer generated images, analogue video synthesizers, manipulated video, documentary style footage, 16 mm experimental film and documentation of the performance itself. We are again looking for diverse “audio wonderments” to share with our audience this year!
Send your submissions by Nov 18th with the subject line “Together Apart IV” to:
beams-submission@googlegroups.com
The Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS) is a non-profit society dedicated to the promotion and production of sound art, experimental music and new media. Its membership consists of professional musicians, composers and performance artists from diverse backgrounds driven to create a voice for sound orientated art in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
This event is sponsored by the Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society (AMAAS). BEAMS thanks them for their continued support!
Contact:
Shawn Pinchbeck
www.beams.ca
