Artist Spotlight

 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”  

Drone Day 2024 - Call for Performers

Hi!

We're looking for people who want to play 30 minute to 1 hour sets on Drone Day 2024, May 25th 2024.

Drone music is music with long tones, think the tubes on a bagpipe that the musician doesn't control, those are drones. Drone music is like that. Here's 6 hours of examples if you need a refresher on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDFcaXzo2sM

We'll be in person at the (probably) Idylwylde Community League, 8631 81 St NW, Edmonton, AB T6C 2W1.

It'll be from 2pm to 10pm on May 25th.

On April 20th, 2024 we will look at the submissions and adjudicate who to invite to Drone Day. We reserve curatorial rights.

Here's the form if you want to try to perform: https://forms.gle/GHiSega1u5SMacABA

 

 U.K. resident, multi-instrumentalist and improvisor Paul Morris brings his act Argument Club over to this side of the pond to his old stomping grounds of Edmonton for a one-night engagement presented by the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS). Morris was a regular live performer and recording artist,  before absconding to England, where he continues to make his own brand of audio wizardry. He’s also recognized by the likes of Rochester, NY-based WAYO-FM as one of the world’s best improvisors. Also performing will be k burwash, Skrunt Skrunt, and Shawn Pinchbeck.

Art's Birthday 2024

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.