O !U(Es-r~

p:utura

Celebrating
3

Syearso

Great Canadian

E
0

u
0

-e
.......
'--

::::,
::::,

Cl)

(I)

...::,e,
'--

0

2012 - 2013
Season
noworchestra .com

Thisis NOW's 35th
season and I'm
.incredibly excited
about it.
It features what
we always have
presented - great
improvised music!
Participate in our
annual Music
Improvisation
Workshops or
experience
Orkestra Futura:
Pan-Global Imprint
& our three-day Hear It NOW: Time Travel series.
Come and share the sounds!
Coat Cooke

ArtisticDirector

NOW BELIEVES
IN THEORALTRADITIONOF IMPROVISEDMUSIC

Improvised music is a largely oral tradition. We teach others
about improvised music through free workshops, intensive
workshops, school outreach and community outreach. We
help musicians learn and build a complex vocabulary of
improvisational language, techniques, compositional
structures to work within and a variety of influences from a
number of traditions and cultures, enabling them to develop
their own voice as an improviser, playing together in small
and large ensembles, and engaging in collaborations with
other artistic traditions like dance, visual media and spoken word.

ABOUTORKESTRA
FUTURA
Evolved from the internationally renowned NOW Orchestra,
our new ensemble Orkestra Futura follows the NOW mandate
- to create structures and develop the values that allow
improvisers to express themselves in a coherent and
powerful way.

September 14, 2012 8 pm

November 22 - 24, 2012

The Western Front
303 E. 8th Ave. in Vancouver

Scotia Bank Dance Centre
677 Davie St. @Granville in Vancouver

Our first concert of the new season on September 14th
is Orkestra Futura: Pan-Global Imprint, featuring Curtis
Andrews/percussion, Ali Razmi/tar, Mei Han/zheng, Bic
Hoang/danbau, Clyde Reed/bass, Lee Hutzulak/electronics
and Coat Cooke/reeds. Thisshow features an exciting new
program of compositions by Coat Cooke with this highly
unusual instrumentation of electronics, percussion, western
instruments and ancient world traditional instruments.

Thursday November 22 - 8pm

Dance and spoken word,
Electronic music (mash-ups, noise) and
Visual Media (video mixing, film loops or live improvised
sound tracks to films).

Friday November 23 - 8pm
Orkestra Futura

Saturday November 24 - 8pm
NOW Workshops Ensemble Concert
(admission by donation to our education program)

Through our musical concerts and recordings, we aim to be
collaborative, changeable, mutable and dynamic. In
addition to our musical exploration, Orkestra Futura also
collaborates with improvisational traditions of:
•
•
•

Jett Younger's Unsupervised
Tony Wilson's Long Hand Trio

photo credits www.chrisrandlephotogrophy.com

The Hear It NOW: Time Travel series will feature three
unforgettable concerts. Firstup, a pair of small
improvising groups - one led by Jett Younger and the
second by Tony Wilson. Next we present Orkestra Futura
featuring two special guests - legendary composer/
improvisor/instrumentalist George E. Lewis and composer/
electronics artist Giorgio Magnanensi - each with a new
composition! And our last night brings to the stage over 30
musicians who are participating in our NOW Improvisation
Series of music-making at the Western Front.

Workshops

Membership

NOW Improvisation Series @ the Western Front

Join New Orchestra Workshop Society!

Mondays, September - November
4 - 6PM and 7:30 - 9:30PM
303 East 8th A venue
Vancouver, BC

To become a member and receive our free email
notifications of upcoming events, just go to our
website and sign up for our newsletter.
Make sure to check the box for free membership!

NOW'sFree Workshopsin collaboration with the
Western Front is an annual 10-week workshop series
of musical improvisation. Thisyear's workshops
from September 17 to November 24, and will
include visiting artists Jaap Blonk (spoken work/
Netherlands) and Cleo Palacio-Quentin (Montreal/
flute-electronics), Hugh Fraser (trombone), LisaMiller
(piano), Coat Cooke (winds), Liam MacDonald
(percussion), Kedrick James (spoken word), Peter
Hurst (voice). The workshop serieswinds up with a
free public performance as part of our
Hear It NOW:TimeTravelseries.

In addition to our newsletter, all of our members
can attend our events at discounted prices.
If you want more information about NOW or
Orkestra Futura, you can reach us at
now@noworchestra.com.

REGISTER
To register, contact

now@noworchestra.com

(registration limited to 15 for each workshop)
• All workshops are free and open to all players
and observers.

• Workshops are not instrument specific.

NEW MUSIC
Check out our newest recordings @
noworchestrarecords.com

WORSKHOPDATESAND FACILITATORS

Tickets

• Bring your instrument.

Tickets can be purchased:
September 17 I Coat Cooke
September 24 I Lisa Miller
October 1 I Liam MacDonald
October 8 I Hugh Fraser
October 15 I Jaap Blonk (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
October 22 I Peter Hurst
November 5 I Cleo Palacio-Quentin (Montreal, Quebec)
November 12 I Kedrick James
November 19 I Rehearsal Workshop
November 24 I Concert at Scotia bank Dance Centre

$20 Adults
$15 Members
$5 Students

At the door
Calling 604.636.7033
Online at noworchestra.com

Sponsors
Ble, Canada Council Conseil des Arts
©
for the Arts
du Canada

~'

•!~[to~7:~

II WESTERN FRONT

81
A

~CITY

'Cll

OF

VANCOUVER