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Slow Rise Music is proud to present Where the Eye Meets the Ear, live and live-streaming from Toronto studio space Charles Street Video. Guest-curated by Montréal-based composer Alexandra Fol and featuring the world premiere of her newly-commissioned chamber work MuSyn, this unique programme explores the overlap between chamber music, visual art, film, and poetry. See the translation of video into light, sound into video, and visual art into music in a feast for the senses crafted by some of Canada's most unique multimedia innovators. Additional creative work by Matthew Lane, Saadi Daftari, Ana Paola Santillán Alcocer, Tristan Zaba, Jessica Hiemstra, Louis Horvath, and Guy-Lin Beaudoin, with musicians Elias Doyle, Kailan Fournier, Joelle Crigger, and Emma Schmiedecke. Slow Rise Music is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the SOCAN Foundation, and private donors.


Slow Rise Music:

Slow Rise Music is a project-based musical collective exploring innovation as a path to human connection. Established in 2021 after co-founders McKenzie Warriner and Tristan Zaba noticed a marked lack of collaboration between Toronto's various experimental scenes, our goal is to bridge communities by curating concerts that highlight the full spectrum of what Toronto new music is and can be.


Alexandra Fol:

The music of Dr Alexandra Fol (DMus McGill University, MMus Eastman School of Music, BMus Boston University, CTh Princeton Theological Seminary) has been performed by ensembles including the Montréal Symphony Orchestra, the orkest de ereprijs, the New Score Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Paramirabò, El Perro Andaluz, the CYE ensemble, thingNY ensemble, and the Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra. She has composed music for documentary movies, including “Ancient Thrace – Door to Immortality”, sponsored by the NetHeritage fund of the European Union, and for various Thracian rituals. Since 2017 her music accompanies annually the restored Thracian summer solstice ritual at the Cabyle rock-cut sanctuary. Her works have appeared in CDs released by Gutenberg Publishing (Bulgaria) and Disques Benedictus (Canada). Winner of the 2021 Roberta Steven Award, Fol lives and works in Montréal as a composer, organist, pianist and conductor. She is the Music direct or and titulair organist at St James United Church and serves on the board of LAUDEM, the Association of Liturgical Musicians of Canada. In 2019 she was awarded a coat of arms by the Canadian Governor General. Her music is available through the Canadian Music Centre.


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