Edmonton DroneDay 2025 Call for Artists

 https://forms.gle/KXjncMnAtyvUpyqM8

Hi!

We're looking for local and not-local drone music artists to play in Edmonton on May 24 , 2025  from 2pm to 10:30pm. We're looking for 30 minute to 1 hour sets.

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 Also see https://droneday.org/events.html

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.

It'll be from 2pm to 10:30pm on May 24th, 2025.

On April 2nd, 2025 we will look at the submissions and adjudicate who to invite to Drone Day. We reserve curatorial rights.

There will be a honorarium, it was $50 last year. This year's honorarium will be based on the door and venue costs.

 

If you want to play fill out this form:

 

 https://forms.gle/KXjncMnAtyvUpyqM8

Email us at beams-submission@googlegroups.com with "DroneDay2025" in the subject line if you have questions.

BEAMS Art's Birthday 2025!

 

BEAMS presents…
Art’s Birthday

 

Date: Friday, January 17, 2025
Time: 8:00 pm MST
Where: Collins Studio Gallery (11741 – 94 Street)
and https://www.twitch.tv/beamsdotca

 

One of the world’s most unusual celebrations of art is slated to take centre stage in the Alberta capital. Art’s Birthday Edmonton 2025, facilitated by the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society, holds court Friday, Jan. 17 at 8 p.m. at Collins Studio Gallery (11741-94 Street).

 

The show will feature a wide range of Edmonton sound artists and experimental musician, many of whom have garnered international reputations for their work. Scheduled to play the event are Don Hill, Brothers of Sisters, James Parrott, Stephen Sereda, Kaunsel and II F Argon.

 

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.

 

Admission to Art’s Birthday Edmonton 2025 is $10 for BEAMS members and $20 for non-members, although a BEAMS membership is included in the latter price.

 

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 support!

 

Media Contact:
Shawn Pinchbeck
President, BEAMS
info@beams.ca