The series that has brought you the likes of Brian Eno, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the Kronos Quartet returns. Pushing the Perimeter showcases international calibre artists exploring the boundaries of music, media, art, and performance. Featuring inventive thought leaders employing both audio and visual technologies, these cutting-edge performances invite us to examine our understanding of art at a foundational level. Events are imbued with a spirit of vitality, providing a stimulating environment of new ideas and thoughtful interactions. Cultural and bistro events are ancillary activities made possible through paid ticketing, private donors and sponsorships. Event details appear below. | | MATMOS
with Ben Grossman and Hugh Marsh
May 18, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas
at Perimeter Institute
Matmos
San Francisco's brainy, de-centred electronic duo, Matmos are known principally for their work with Björk. Notorious for their idiosyncratic experimentalism and attention to small sonic details, they have been known to use samples including "freshly cut hair," "the amplified neural activity of crayfish," and an entire album of sounds taken from recordings of surgical proceedings. Using samplers, analogue keyboards, field recordings, and guitars, their songs are sometimes built up into elaborate rhythmic sequences, tweaking the by-now familiar subgenera of trip-hop, drum&bass, and electro; sometimes the sound sources are kept free and sculpted into frighteningly noisy atmospheres, or shot through with eerie silent pauses and gaps.
Ben Grossman and Hugh Marsh
Ben Grossman is a hurdy-gurdy player, composer and improviser based in Guelph, Ontario. A featured speaker at the 2011 TEDx Waterloo event, Ben is accomplished in the ancient music of Europe (where the hurdy-gurdy was born) and has also explored the use of the instrument with extended techniques, live-looping, and processing. Montreal born improvising electric violinist Hugh Marsh has collaborated with numerous well known musicians, including Bruce Cockburn, Jon Hassell, Don Byron, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson Williams, Robert Palmer, Daniel Lanois, Bonnie Raitt, Sonny Greenwich and Dave Douglas and NEXUS. Ticket Prices:
Adult: $40.00
Student (with valid ID): $25.00 Click here to purchase tickets. | 
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RYOJI IKEDA
with Herman Kolgen
June 2, 2012 at 8 pm
Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas
at Perimeter Institute
As Japan's leading audio-visual artist, Ryoji Ikeda is internationally renowned for his immersive environments. His work orchestrates sound, images, physical phenomena, and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations characterized by razor-sharp technique and aesthetics. His work has been featured at major venues throughout the world. For this, his first visit to Ontario, Ikeda will present his Datamatics v2.0, a project that explores the potential to perceive the invisible multi-substance of data that permeates our world.
Herman Kolgen's Dust explores changes in the state of matter. At the edge of the imperceptible, pigments are suspended around a magnetic field.
Random fibrous networks take shape and then form composite objects, hypnotic in their complexity while sound particles exist on a scale that cancels out all points of reference.
Ticket Prices:
Adult: $40.00
Student (with valid ID): $25.00 Tickets on sale Monday, April 30.
Click here to purchase tickets. | Past Events | | | ANOTHER DAY IN AMERICA
Laurie Anderson
January 19, 2012 at 8:00 pm
After a uniquely multi-faceted career and more than 30 years as one of the world’s definitive voices of experimental performance art, Laurie Anderson brings her considerable talents to the intimate environs of Perimeter Institute. Another Day in America shows a nation laid bare. It is an artistic treatment of contemporary America that is simultaneously and unapologetically political.
Building on Homeland, her acclaimed 2010 album, Anderson will present a solo show that blends spoken word, electric violin, keyboards, and electronic experimentation. She will explore her country’s current landscape through stories of cities and people that are sure to resonate with anyone well acquainted with today’s United States of America.
Anderson is a pioneer and an iconoclast. She’s presented her visual work in major museums worldwide, done ground-breaking work with voice filters, and seamlessly integrated cutting-edge technologies into her art. She even served as NASA’s only artist-in-residence. And now she’s coming to Perimeter. Do you really want to risk missing that? | | | |
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