Not an excuse for Deadmau5 to shoot at flying gadgets, but rather a celebration of drone music's dreamy or foreboding, nearly formless sound - think that Justin Bieber song slowed down 800%, Nadja's most ambient works, or the gentle hum of your space heater. Yes, Canada has a day entirely focused around experimental music. Maybe we're not so messed up after all.
Drone Day is an initiative from Weird Canada and Wyrd Distro's Marie Claire Flanagan, who states: "Drone music... is a re-imagining, a redefining of the ears' relationship to silence... easy to understand but broad enough to encapsulate a wide variety of experimental streams. It's a fixed-point singleton for the avant-garde; challenging, yet accessible to the layperson, with a creative path stretching onto infinite horizons."
Toronto's only 2015 event so far is the return of Ambient Ping's matinee, moving from Array Space to napper's paradise Ratio on College from 2:15-4:30pm sharp with Anomolous Distubances (Vancouver) and dreamSTATE. 2014 also featured evening events at the Tranzac with Black Walls and at May with Egyptrixx's A/B til Infinity (and napping couches).
More events around Toronto will be announced in the coming weeks. If you'd like to participate in Drone Day, email Weird Canada.
Will you take a drone selfie on Drone Day? Let us know in the comments.
Photo of Ratio by Matt Forsythe.
by Aubrey Jax via blogTO
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