BEAMS and the CEC present… A Double Header!! CEC Jeu de temp/Times Play (JTTP) Competition winning works + BEAMS Together Apart VI…an evening of audio wonderments

 

 BEAMS and the CEC present…

A Double Header!!


CEC Jeu de temp/Times Play (JTTP) Competition winning works

+

BEAMS Together Apart VI…an evening of audio wonderments

 Date: Saturday, November 29, 2025

Times: 7:00 pm, JTTP. 9:00 pm, Together Apart.

Where: St. Mary’s Anglican Church, 11203 68 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta

Tickets: $25 Non-members/$20 BEAMS members (for both concerts)


The Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s (CEC) Jeu de temp/Times Play (JTTP) Competition features recent works by young and/or emerging electroacoustic artists from or living in Canada. This is the 25th Anniversary year of the competition where the top 5 placing compositions and 7 thematic prize winners are awarded cash and non-cash prizes. BEAMS is honoured to be presenting the world premiere of the 2025 winning works in 8 channel surround. Barry Truax Award prize winner Graeme Dyck will be in attendance.


Together Apart is a concert curated by BEAMS President Shawn Pinchbeck of Edmonton sound and electroacoustic music artists. Each piece has been specially selected for this event to tickle your ears, lubricate your listening organs and open your third eye! 

 This is the 6th year of Together Apart, previously held online during the pandemic years and presented in-person for the first time. This year’s fantastical audio voyage will include live and video works by: Graeme Dyck, Echoradia, Don Hill, Instant Places, Mutant Beatniks, James Parrot, and The Swinging Santoros.


Please join us for this brimming evening of sound and performance.


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), the Sound Studies Institute (SSI) and the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology (CCE) at the University of Alberta. BEAMS thanks them for their support.

Media Contact:

Shawn Pinchbeck shawn@beams.ca


Facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/share/1APfjkecT9/

PATIEN(T/CE) An electroacoustic event at Blakbar with Jess Keyes, Audrey Flowers, and Kelly Ruth

 

PATIEN(T/CE)
AN ELECTROACOUSTIC
EVENING AT
BLAKBAR

JESS KEYES
AUDREY FLOWERS
KELLY RUTH
+IMPROV/JAM

NOVEMBER 5
7:30 DOORS
8:00 MUSIC

Jess Keyes (Baltimore) explores chronic illness
and disability through voice, synthesizers,
and wearable handmade controllers.
Audrey Flowers hammers percussion and synthesis
Kelly Ruth spins a sonic spinning wheel.

BLAKBAR 10762 Whyte Ave
$15 PWYC 20251105T19:30

https://www.facebook.com/events/854330970371409 

 

Together Apart VI…an evening of audio wonderments: Call for live performances and videomusic works.

BEAMS presents
Together Apart VI…an evening of audio wonderments

Call for live performances and videomusic works! Deadline November 8, 2025!

We are seeking submissions for live performances and videomusic works from sound and electroacoustic music artists of all kinds, up to 20 minutes in length. This year, we will have an 8 channel sound system available for multichannel works! 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 29, 2025 at 8 pm at St. Mary’s Church in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and on our streaming channel: https://www.twitch.tv/beamsdotca

The previous five years’ events were very diverse with artists from Canada, UK, USA, Belgium, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The performance and video works 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 in a live setting!

Send your submissions by November 8th with the subject line “Together Apart VI” to:
beams-submission@googlegroups.com
 

Here’s a link to our 2024 event:
 

https://youtu.be/R1Pqfod9h_w?si=6RdrspARhMYsJaTH
 

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
shawn@beams.ca
www.beams.ca

     

BEAMS Drone Day 2025 Schedule

 

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:

Time of Day		Artist	Set
2:00pm		paula eve kirman (all lowercase because i am cool)	30 Minutes
3:00pm		Wayne Defehr	30 Minutes
4:00pm		Jared Epp	30 Minutes
5:00pm		James Parrott	45 Minutes
6:00pm		Bibby Fibb	30 Minutes
7:00pm		Nathaniel Sutton	45 Minutes
8:00pm		Garlands	45 Minutes
9:00pm		Attasecond	30 Minutes
10:00pm		Gray Hartley and lunar blue	30 Minutes

BEAMS Presents Drone Day 2025

 

Edmonton DroneDay 2025

 

May 24th, 2025 in Edmonton come to BEAMS presents droneday 2pm to probably 10:30pm or 11pm. With lots of droners in no particular order. Garlands @rolandjazzchorus69 , Jared Epp  , attasecond with Elijah Hennig and Gary James Joynes, Wayne Defehr, James Parrott  , Nathaniel Sutto, paula eve kirman  , Bibby Fib  from Lloydminster , Gray Hartley and lunar blue. Collins Studio Gallery near 118 ave in Edmonton, AB, Canada.

 

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.

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

 

 

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