Sound Palace

Sound Palace is an exciting sonic and visual exploration of ambience, electronica, grooves, video installation/ projections

This launches the first of six immersive events of the next two years at and around the VCC KEC Auditorium. A fantastic new series!!

Our first Sound Palace guest curator is Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi (b. 1997 Tehran, Iran), one of Canada’s most exciting young composers, writing for instrumental, electronic, and electroacoustic-visual works. Kimia is currently engaged in the Doctor of Musical Arts program in Composition at Stanford University.

Incredible line-up of artists:

Parsa Nazeri, visuals

Kimit Sekhon, visuals

Aysha Dulong, electronics

Kittie Cooper, electronics

Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, electronics

Stefan Smulovitz, electronics

Pouian Delfan, accordion

Elisa Thorn, harp

Atley King, vibraphone

Matthew Ariaratnam, guitar

James Meger, bass

Jamie Lee, drums

Elliot Doyle, drums

Sound Palace evolved out of Mixtophonics, the popular monthly workshop series at LanaLous from 2018 to 2020 that featured musicians from wildly different backgrounds and musical genres.

By combining electronics, projection artists, grooves, noise artists, drummers, and world-class improvisers, Sound Palace creates a unique, exciting ambient sound world.

Upcoming guest curators: Ezi’u Loverin, Nancy Tam

If the New York Times calls it “…an incredible evening of sonic and visual delight…”, you know it HAS to be good.