Friday, December 13, 2024 | 7:30 PM
Soft Time
The Orange Light, Centennial United Church, 612 Davie Street, Victoria BC
Soft time is a Victoria-based ensemble of musicians and composers, including Kristy Farkas, Anna Höstman, Cathy Fern Lewis and Mitch Renaud.
Soft Time
The Orange Light, Centennial United Church, 612 Davie Street, Victoria BC
Soft time is a Victoria-based ensemble of musicians and composers, including Kristy Farkas, Anna Höstman, Cathy Fern Lewis and Mitch Renaud.
Saturday, November 26, 2024
NeuzTec9
A Place to Listen Duo
Kristy Farkas & Daniel Brandes, electronics, amplified instruments and voice
Wood Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music, Victoria, BC
NeuzTec! Festival celebrates the growing symbiosis of technology and multimedia including experimental sound design, theatrical arts, electroacoustic, video, noise, drone, ambient, electronica, post-rock, improvisational jazz, cinematic interpretations, and modular synthesis.
NeuzTec9
A Place to Listen Duo
Kristy Farkas & Daniel Brandes, electronics, amplified instruments and voice
Wood Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music, Victoria, BC
NeuzTec! Festival celebrates the growing symbiosis of technology and multimedia including experimental sound design, theatrical arts, electroacoustic, video, noise, drone, ambient, electronica, post-rock, improvisational jazz, cinematic interpretations, and modular synthesis.
Saturday, April 27, 2024 | 3 PM
Soft Time presents: Under Cover
Church of Truth, 111 Superior Street, Victoria BC
Soft time is a Victoria-based ensemble of musicians and composers, including Kristy Farkas, Anna Höstman, Cathy Fern Lewis and Mitch Renaud. Join us for a concert of unconventional cover songs, playful and curious recreations, and improvisations.
Soft Time presents: Under Cover
Church of Truth, 111 Superior Street, Victoria BC
Soft time is a Victoria-based ensemble of musicians and composers, including Kristy Farkas, Anna Höstman, Cathy Fern Lewis and Mitch Renaud. Join us for a concert of unconventional cover songs, playful and curious recreations, and improvisations.
Friday, February 9, 2024 | 7:30 PM
A Place to Listen Duo
Kristy Farkas & Daniel Brandes, electronics, amplified instruments and voice
Opening for Francois Houle (clarinet) and Daniel Janke (piano)
The Orange Light, Centennial United Church, 612 Davie Street, Victoria BC
Longform, ambient electroacoustic improvisation....dense blooms of sine tones, field recordings, melodic fragments, and live sampling to create an expansive and immersive space.
A Place to Listen Duo
Kristy Farkas & Daniel Brandes, electronics, amplified instruments and voice
Opening for Francois Houle (clarinet) and Daniel Janke (piano)
The Orange Light, Centennial United Church, 612 Davie Street, Victoria BC
Longform, ambient electroacoustic improvisation....dense blooms of sine tones, field recordings, melodic fragments, and live sampling to create an expansive and immersive space.
Sunday, January 28, 2024 | 2:30 PM
Soft Time presents: Companions
Church of Truth, 111 Superior Street, Victoria BC
Soft time is a Victoria-based ensemble of musicians and composers — Kristy Farkas, Anna Höstman, Cathy Fern Lewis and Mitch Renaud — who enjoy making things together. In their first program entitled Companions, they explore an ecology of composed works in the midst of improvisation, forming relationships between sounds and friendship. Works will include Paraphrase for voice and electronics by Mitch Renaud, a new solo piano piece by Kristy Farkas entitled A constellation of companions, selections from Le Poème Invisible for voice and piano by Anna Höstman, as well as improvisations.
Soft Time presents: Companions
Church of Truth, 111 Superior Street, Victoria BC
Soft time is a Victoria-based ensemble of musicians and composers — Kristy Farkas, Anna Höstman, Cathy Fern Lewis and Mitch Renaud — who enjoy making things together. In their first program entitled Companions, they explore an ecology of composed works in the midst of improvisation, forming relationships between sounds and friendship. Works will include Paraphrase for voice and electronics by Mitch Renaud, a new solo piano piece by Kristy Farkas entitled A constellation of companions, selections from Le Poème Invisible for voice and piano by Anna Höstman, as well as improvisations.
November 25, 2023
NeuzTec8
A Place to Listen Duo
Kristy Farkas & Daniel Brandes, electronics, amplified instruments and voice
Wood Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music, Victoria, BC
NeuzTec! Festival celebrates the growing symbiosis of technology and multimedia including experimental sound design, theatrical arts, electroacoustic, video, noise, drone, ambient, electronica, post-rock, improvisational jazz, cinematic interpretations, and modular synthesis.
NeuzTec8
A Place to Listen Duo
Kristy Farkas & Daniel Brandes, electronics, amplified instruments and voice
Wood Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music, Victoria, BC
NeuzTec! Festival celebrates the growing symbiosis of technology and multimedia including experimental sound design, theatrical arts, electroacoustic, video, noise, drone, ambient, electronica, post-rock, improvisational jazz, cinematic interpretations, and modular synthesis.
Songs for Tree
Songs for Tree is an ode to our planet's endangered old-growth forests, specifically the last standing old-growth trees on Vancouver Island, Canada. The project aims to draw attention to the interconnectedness between humans and the environment, to foster a sense of responsibility and reciprocity with the more-than-human world. Mostly, it is a reflection on my deep love of nature and being in the outdoors and the many gifts that spending time in nature provides. The project includes a collection of 10 scores which suggest ways in which we might find, rediscover, or deepen our connectedness with the natural world through deep listening, play, imagination, and reflection.
PERFORMANCES:
Sunday, May 28, 2023 | 3:45 - 5:00 PM
As part of the Sound Genres symposium at the University of Victoria, Songs for Tree will be included in the soundwalk, Go out and listen.
Songs for Tree is an ode to our planet's endangered old-growth forests, specifically the last standing old-growth trees on Vancouver Island, Canada. The project aims to draw attention to the interconnectedness between humans and the environment, to foster a sense of responsibility and reciprocity with the more-than-human world. Mostly, it is a reflection on my deep love of nature and being in the outdoors and the many gifts that spending time in nature provides. The project includes a collection of 10 scores which suggest ways in which we might find, rediscover, or deepen our connectedness with the natural world through deep listening, play, imagination, and reflection.
PERFORMANCES:
Sunday, May 28, 2023 | 3:45 - 5:00 PM
As part of the Sound Genres symposium at the University of Victoria, Songs for Tree will be included in the soundwalk, Go out and listen.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 | 7:30 pm (doors at 7 pm)
Sofa Sessions Vol. 3: Double Bill
Kristy Farkas objects, instruments, electronics
Goodchild Grady Duo clarinet & percussion
Victoria, BC
Using a variety of small instruments and found objects combined with field recordings and electronics, Kristy Farkas creates quiet, delicate soundscapes as a means to express, explore and deepen our connection with nature and place.
With Kevin Grady's array of portable "suitcase percussion" and Melissa Goodchild on clarinet, you can expect to hear combinations of sounds not typical of classical chamber music. Melissa and Kevin will often use extended techniques and mimic each other's sound to inspire the direction of their performance.
Sofa Sessions Vol. 3: Double Bill
Kristy Farkas objects, instruments, electronics
Goodchild Grady Duo clarinet & percussion
Victoria, BC
Using a variety of small instruments and found objects combined with field recordings and electronics, Kristy Farkas creates quiet, delicate soundscapes as a means to express, explore and deepen our connection with nature and place.
With Kevin Grady's array of portable "suitcase percussion" and Melissa Goodchild on clarinet, you can expect to hear combinations of sounds not typical of classical chamber music. Melissa and Kevin will often use extended techniques and mimic each other's sound to inspire the direction of their performance.
October 17, 2018
Sounds of belonging
A Place to Listen
James Bay United, Victoria, BC
A Place to Listen's 2018/2019 season kicks off with a performance by APTL Ensemble member Kristy Farkas. Her research, performances, and recordings from a month-long stay in Japan in May 2018 have culminated in a new work for live electronics, field recordings, and acoustic instruments to be premiered at A Place to Listen.
This concert is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.
Sounds of belonging
A Place to Listen
James Bay United, Victoria, BC
A Place to Listen's 2018/2019 season kicks off with a performance by APTL Ensemble member Kristy Farkas. Her research, performances, and recordings from a month-long stay in Japan in May 2018 have culminated in a new work for live electronics, field recordings, and acoustic instruments to be premiered at A Place to Listen.
This concert is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.
June 20, 2018
A Place to Listen
James Bay United, Victoria, BC
In the final concert of the 2017/2018 season, the full APTL Ensemble will perform works written by members of the APTL Ensemble.
A Place to Listen
James Bay United, Victoria, BC
In the final concert of the 2017/2018 season, the full APTL Ensemble will perform works written by members of the APTL Ensemble.
Japan Tour
May 2018
May 9 | 7:30 p.m. Live at Galerie Tzigane, Osaka
Kristy Farkas (piano, etc.); 荻野やすよしYasuyoshi Ogino (guitar); Christopher Fryman (trumpet); 仲曽根有里 Yuri Nakasone (voice,electronics); 宮本 隆 Takashi Miyamoto (electric bass); 原口裕司 Yuji Haraguchi (drums)
door 2000yen + drink order
May 10 | Recording Session, Osaka Municipal Center for Art Innovation
Kristy Farkas (piano), Naoyo Yakushi 薬子 尚代 (piano), Shin'ichi Isohata 磯端 伸一 (guitar)
May 11 | 7:30 p.m. Live at Big Apple, Kobe
green and breeze
Kristy Farkas (piano); Naoyo Yakushi 薬子 尚代 (piano); Takumi Seino 清野 拓巳 (guitar); Shin'ichi Isohata 磯端 伸一 (guitar)
adv前売 2000yen + order
door当日 2300yen + order
May 16 | Workshop (2:30 p.m.) & Live (4 p.m.) at Tsukubo Katayama House Nō Stage, Kurashiki
Kristy Farkas (piano, melodica); Naoyo Yakushi 薬子 尚代 (piano); Lonesome Hope 三木 希美 (vocals, guitar); Shin'ichi Isohata 磯端 伸一 (guitar); Yuji Haraguchi 原口 裕司 (percussion)
May 18 | Session at Amigo, Iruma, Saitama
Kristy Farkas (piano), Naoto Yamagishi (percussion), Maya Yamao (shamisen), Makoto Kawashima (saxophone)
May 20 | 6 p.m. Miniatures at MIIT House, Vol. 69, Osaka
Kristy Farkas (sound), Mitsuaki Matsumoto (sound), Jerry Gordon (sound)
Junko Gohan & Jet Vel (performance)
door 1000yen
Kristy acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.
May 2018
May 9 | 7:30 p.m. Live at Galerie Tzigane, Osaka
Kristy Farkas (piano, etc.); 荻野やすよしYasuyoshi Ogino (guitar); Christopher Fryman (trumpet); 仲曽根有里 Yuri Nakasone (voice,electronics); 宮本 隆 Takashi Miyamoto (electric bass); 原口裕司 Yuji Haraguchi (drums)
door 2000yen + drink order
May 10 | Recording Session, Osaka Municipal Center for Art Innovation
Kristy Farkas (piano), Naoyo Yakushi 薬子 尚代 (piano), Shin'ichi Isohata 磯端 伸一 (guitar)
May 11 | 7:30 p.m. Live at Big Apple, Kobe
green and breeze
Kristy Farkas (piano); Naoyo Yakushi 薬子 尚代 (piano); Takumi Seino 清野 拓巳 (guitar); Shin'ichi Isohata 磯端 伸一 (guitar)
adv前売 2000yen + order
door当日 2300yen + order
May 16 | Workshop (2:30 p.m.) & Live (4 p.m.) at Tsukubo Katayama House Nō Stage, Kurashiki
Kristy Farkas (piano, melodica); Naoyo Yakushi 薬子 尚代 (piano); Lonesome Hope 三木 希美 (vocals, guitar); Shin'ichi Isohata 磯端 伸一 (guitar); Yuji Haraguchi 原口 裕司 (percussion)
May 18 | Session at Amigo, Iruma, Saitama
Kristy Farkas (piano), Naoto Yamagishi (percussion), Maya Yamao (shamisen), Makoto Kawashima (saxophone)
May 20 | 6 p.m. Miniatures at MIIT House, Vol. 69, Osaka
Kristy Farkas (sound), Mitsuaki Matsumoto (sound), Jerry Gordon (sound)
Junko Gohan & Jet Vel (performance)
door 1000yen
Kristy acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.
2018 Sonic Boom Festival: Featured Artist Concert
March 24, 2018
Pyatt Hall, Vancouver, BC
Pianist Michael Park performs The continuum of something–nothing plus works by Róisín Adams, Angelique Po, Nolan Krell and
Goushi H.K.
March 24, 2018
Pyatt Hall, Vancouver, BC
Pianist Michael Park performs The continuum of something–nothing plus works by Róisín Adams, Angelique Po, Nolan Krell and
Goushi H.K.
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A Place to Listen: Gentle Traces Festival
March 22-24, 2018 James Bay United, Victoria, BC A festival celebrating A Place to Listen’s 50th concert milestone, featuring special guest artist Antoine Beuger (Germany) and the APTL Ensemble. Thurs. Mar. 22, 7 p.m. A concert featuring the world premiere of a new work by Kristy Farkas, alongside works by Antoine Beuger and other members of the Wandelweiser community, performed by the APTL Ensemble and Beuger. Fri. Mar. 23, 7 p.m. A solo concert and artist talk by Antoine Beuger. Sat. Mar. 24, 2:30 p.m. Text/poetry are featured in works by Daniel Brandes and Beuger, performed by Beuger, Brandes, Laura Brandes, and Kristy Farkas. |
Faculty Chamber Music Series
Made in Victoria: Celebrating our own
Saturday, February 3, 2018 | 8 pm
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall., University of Victoria, BC
UVic faculty will perform my piece memory or ghost along with works by School of Music faculty composers John Celona, Christopher Butterfield, Dániel Péter Biró, Michael Longton, and alumnus Liova Bueno (MMus ’12).
Made in Victoria: Celebrating our own
Saturday, February 3, 2018 | 8 pm
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall., University of Victoria, BC
UVic faculty will perform my piece memory or ghost along with works by School of Music faculty composers John Celona, Christopher Butterfield, Dániel Péter Biró, Michael Longton, and alumnus Liova Bueno (MMus ’12).
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A Place to Listen: Saturna Island Weekend of Experimental Music
May 28, 2017 Saturna Island Community Hall, BC APTL Ensemble performs my new composition memory or ghost, as well as joyful and anonymous by Alex Jang and places of refuge…of healing… by Daniel Brandes. |
Wilfrid Laurier New Music Festival
January 2016
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Waterloo, ON
Of things returned, from The moments inside the moments inside the moments inside the moments — composed in collaboration with Jennifer Butler and Marci Rabe — performed by Ensemble Paramirabo and the Thin Edge New Music Collective for the 40th Anniversary of the Faculty of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University
January 2016
Maureen Forrester Recital Hall, Waterloo, ON
Of things returned, from The moments inside the moments inside the moments inside the moments — composed in collaboration with Jennifer Butler and Marci Rabe — performed by Ensemble Paramirabo and the Thin Edge New Music Collective for the 40th Anniversary of the Faculty of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University
Sonic Boom Festival
March 2016
Orpheum Annex, Vancouver, BC
Of things returned, from The moments inside the moments inside the moments inside the moments — composed in collaboration with Jennifer Butler and Marci Rabe — performed by Standing Wave.
March 2016
Orpheum Annex, Vancouver, BC
Of things returned, from The moments inside the moments inside the moments inside the moments — composed in collaboration with Jennifer Butler and Marci Rabe — performed by Standing Wave.
A Place to Listen
February 18, 2015
James Bay United Church, 517 Michigan St., Victoria, BC
Performing solo piano works by my dear friends and collaborators, Jennifer Butler and Marci Rabe, as well as pieces by Linda Catlin Smith and Morton Feldman, two composers whose music has deeply influenced my work. I will also perform my piece Floating Point as well as a new composition written especially for this concert.
February 18, 2015
James Bay United Church, 517 Michigan St., Victoria, BC
Performing solo piano works by my dear friends and collaborators, Jennifer Butler and Marci Rabe, as well as pieces by Linda Catlin Smith and Morton Feldman, two composers whose music has deeply influenced my work. I will also perform my piece Floating Point as well as a new composition written especially for this concert.
November 28-29, 2014
Craft Cartel
The DaVinci Centre, 195 Bay St., Victoria, BC
An excellent crafters market to get your Christmas shopping done! My collection of crochet baskets, bowls and rugs from the warble & plink stitchery will be available here.
Craft Cartel
The DaVinci Centre, 195 Bay St., Victoria, BC
An excellent crafters market to get your Christmas shopping done! My collection of crochet baskets, bowls and rugs from the warble & plink stitchery will be available here.
November 25, 2014
UVic Winter Artisans Market
University Centre Lobby, University of Victoria, BC
Artisans from the UVic and Greater Victoria Communities. Proceeds from raffle tickets go towards United Way. My collection of crochet baskets, bowls and rugs from the warble & plink stitchery will be available here as well as some handprinted tea towels.
UVic Winter Artisans Market
University Centre Lobby, University of Victoria, BC
Artisans from the UVic and Greater Victoria Communities. Proceeds from raffle tickets go towards United Way. My collection of crochet baskets, bowls and rugs from the warble & plink stitchery will be available here as well as some handprinted tea towels.
October 25, 2014
Fleece & Fibre Festival
Cobble Hill Community Hall & Fairgrounds (map) , Cobble Hill, BC
Free admission
My collection of crochet baskets, bowls and rugs from the warble & plink stitchery will be available at this festival which showcases fibre arts on Vancouver Island.
Fleece & Fibre Festival
Cobble Hill Community Hall & Fairgrounds (map) , Cobble Hill, BC
Free admission
My collection of crochet baskets, bowls and rugs from the warble & plink stitchery will be available at this festival which showcases fibre arts on Vancouver Island.
August 17, 2014
Fibrations
Orchard at St. Ann’s Academy (map) , Victoria BC
My collection of crochet baskets, bowls and rugs from the warble & plink stitchery will be available at this festival which showcases fibre arts on Vancouver Island.
Fibrations
Orchard at St. Ann’s Academy (map) , Victoria BC
My collection of crochet baskets, bowls and rugs from the warble & plink stitchery will be available at this festival which showcases fibre arts on Vancouver Island.