Our Saturday concert at the Forks features the Canadian debut of Senile Felines, a trio composed of Carl Stone, Ned Rothenberg, and Soo Yeon Lyuh; Australian percussionist and composer Maria Moles; and Winnipeg-based sound artist Yoyu. Senile Felines was formed in 2023 at the behest of the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville Tennessee, on the occasion of Carl Stone’s 70th birthday. Instruments from Asia and the West in the hands of master musicians commingle via live sampling to create a world of suffused beauty: a rarefied and dreamy soundscape rippled by a persuasive melancholic ecstatic song. Tickets available now.
Carl Stone is one of the pioneers of live computer music and has been hailed by the Village Voice as “the king of sampling.” and “one of the best composers living in (the USA) today.” He has used computers in live performance since 1986. Stone was born in Los Angeles and now divides his time between Los Angeles and Japan. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Morton Subotnick and James Tenney and has composed electro-acoustic music almost exclusively since 1972. His works have been performed in the U.S. Canada Europe Asia Australia South America and the Near East. In addition to his schedule of performance composition and touring he served is on the faculty of the Department of Media Engineering at Chukyo University in Japan for 22 years, retiring in 2023.
Composer/Performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music presented for the past 40 years on 5 continents. He performs primarily on alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, and the shakuhachi. He has released a number of albums on John Zorn’s Tzadik label as well as Live at Roulette with Evan Parker, The Fell Clutch and Are You Be on Rothenberg’s Animul label.
Soo Yeon Lyuh is a composer, improviser, and master of the haegeum, a two-stringed Korean bowed instrument. Lyuh’s work strikes a balance between originality and tradition, borrowing and recontextualizing familiar gestures from Korean music. Her soundscape follows a logic of texture, pacing, feeling, and unexpected turns. Originally from Korea, she now lives in the US where she has had numerous collaborations with artists such as Kronos Quartet, Wadada Leo Smith, Myra Melford and Roscoe Mitchell. Now based at Princeton University, previously Lyuh earned her D.M.A. in Korean Traditional Music from Seoul National University and has served as a visiting scholar at Mills College (2017-2018) and UC Berkeley (2015-2016).
Maria Moles is a drummer, composer and producer based in Narrm/Melbourne. Her solo percussion performances draw on ideas from the Kulintang music of the Philippines and contemporary electronic production to weave hypnotic webs from layers of unmetered pulse that slowly undergo subtle textural transformations. In collaborative contexts ranging from free improvisation, jazz and contemporary composition to experimental pop, Maria contributes an acute sense of touch, placement and timbre, unashamed virtuosity and a powerful rhythmic drive.
Maria has performed and collaborated with The Australian Art Orchestra, Anthony Pateras, Jim Denley, Amos Roach, Lucas Abela, Krakatau, Andrea Keller, Dave Brown, Jenny Barnes, Carolyn Connors, Scott Tinkler, James Rushford, Julia Reidy, Ernie Althoff, Tenzin Choegyal, and The Splinter Orchestra. Maria’s debut EP ‘Mondo Flockard’ was released in 2016 through Perth label Tonelist, and was listed on Avant Music News under Best Albums of the Year. In 2017, she composed and performed a percussion and electronics score for Ben Christensen’s 1922 film ‘Haxan’ at Dark Mofo festival in Hobart, Tasmania. Performing on solo drums, Maria has opened for Claire Rousay, MY DISCO, Clever Austin (Hiatus Kaiyote), Chris Corsano (Bjork, Thurston Moore, Evan Parker), Oren Ambarchi, and Alex Zhang Hungtai (Dirty Beaches). Her solo LP ‘Opening’ was released through Nice Music in January 2019. Maria was a recipient of the Art Music Fund in 2020 and released her second album ‘For Leolanda’ via Room4o in 2022. Her latest album, ‘A spark, a reminder’, was released via Longform Editions in 2023. Maria is currently the drummer for bands/artists Jaala, Ajak Kwai, and Jonnine (HTRK), and has previously drummed for Mildlife, Jess Ribeiro, Francis Plagne, Evelyn Morris, Doroth, On Diamond, Horatio Luna, and JK Group. She has also worked as a session drummer for Sui Zhen, Gena Rose Bruce, Jess Cornelius, Harry Angus, Chitra, Max Sharam, Ryan Downey, Grace Turner, Low Talk, Taylah Carroll, Darren Hanlen, Jade Imagine, and The General Assembly. Throughout a decade of diverse experience, she has emerged as one of Australia’s finest improvisers, bringing her unique yet versatile percussive sense to countless musical situations.
Canadian musical artist Yoyu exists in the space between ambient, drone and sound bath. Yoyu’s performances are improvised, using live capture, asynchronous looping techniques, field recordings, and generations of sound design. He uses digital sound design to create music that inspires wonder, delight and well-being that is rife with positive intention and meaning. Yoyu’s music travels endlessly towards meditation, well-being and universal connectedness through the mystery and solitude of nature.
ACCESSIBILITY
Room 201 at the Forks is on the second floor of the Forks Market, in the northwest corner of the market. There are two elevators on the main floor; one located beneath the viewing tower in the centre court of the Forks Market, and another near the accessible washrooms on the main floor, directly beneath the venue space. The second floor has a smooth concrete floor on the walkways and the venue has exposed hardwood flooring. There is a single entrance to the room through a 32-inch door frame.
There are gender neutral washrooms with private stalls on the second floor as well as a wheelchair accessible washroom.