Sound Travels Pride Concert

Sound Travels Pride Concert

In-Person and Online Performance presented in association with Almagiun Pride
By Barry Truax and Kat Estacio

June 6, 2026 at 6 pm Doors open at 5 pm for Café Service and a special video screening
In-Person at NAISA North Media Arts Centre, 313 Highway 124, South River, Ontario, Canada.
Online audiences register in advance for access.
Tickets $15

The Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art opens with a Pride Concert celebrating two LGBQT2S artists from different generations. Featured is a performance by Kat Estacio as well as a multi-channel screening of The Elemental Trilogy of works by Barry Truax, who recently was awarded the Order of Canada. The concert will be in-person and livestreamed with a Q&A component.

Androgyne, Mon Amour by Barry Truax will be screened in the workshop studio prior to the concert from 5 to 6 pm and played online after the concert.

Program:

I. What the Waters Told Me by Barry Truax
If we listen carefully to flowing water in all of its varied forms, we may begin to hear voices and ascribe human emotions to them. The voices may be argumentative, even angry, as at the start of our journey, but suddenly they become hushed as we enter a large cavern. A mysterious voice seems to give us commands as we await the next stage, while ethereal voices guide us along. The commands become more insistent until the waters burst forth with transcendent song in a celebration of water and life.

II. How the Winds Caressed Me by Barry Truax
The wind is a restless and devious presence in our lives, revealing itself as an invisible, tactile experience, and aurally only in what it is interacting with. It can pretend to speak to us with a voice when it passes through a narrow opening, or it can even resemble a musician when it activates a string — the Aeolian effect — or resonates a tube with its breath. And its moods can range from being a relentless, stormy foe, to the most gentle of caresses. This piece propels us through its repertoire, eventually enveloping us in an ocean of transcendence.

III. When the Earth Mourned for Me by Barry Truax
With each passing day, we see evidence of our deteriorating environment and that evokes in us a personal and collective grief. We mourn for the earth, but if we listen to its cries, does it also mourn for us, the instigators of its demise? This piece invites us to listen to the voices of the earth that may emerge even from what we have extracted from it. The journey proceeds in four overlapping sections: Choir, Lament, Anguish, and Threnody.

IV. Kulintang and Electronics Performance by Kat Estacio
Emerging from the tidal estuaries of Pasig River with taga-ilog/Tagalog ancestry, soundmaker and researcher kat estacio has since flowed towards the Great Lakes and is now based in Tsí Tkaròn:to (Toronto).  Anchoring kulintang, an Indigenous gong ensemble music tradition from Mindanao (Southern Philippines), as a site of divergence and retrieval, estacio is bridging archipelago narratives of percussive sound making and land-based tending from a diasporic perspective.

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