NOW Society

06/08/2026

Trading Places: Trueque: Un Échange
Radio UNAM Broadcasts
June 8, 10, 13 and 14

Vancouver - Tune in today or Wednesday at 10pm!
Saturday and Sunday at 4am.
Podcast available week of the June 15th.
Links below

Radio UNAM - Radio UNAM Experiencia sonora.
Series radiofónicas con una gran diversidad de temas.
Transmisión vía streaming. Eventos. Cursos.

From Radio UNAM:

Dear music-loving audience, we invite you to listen to the recording of the Trading Places: Trueque: Un Échange Residency Program on Testimonio de Oídas.

Residency Artists: From Montreal: James Goddard (alto sax and mbira with electronics); JahSun (drums). From Vancouver: Anju Singh (violin and electronics); Lisa Cay Miller (piano and festival organizer); and Adrián Avendaño (drums). And from Mexico: Alex Motta (double bass) and Aleida Pérez (violin).

This performance was part of
Trueque: Trading Places: Un Échange in Mexico City, 2026.

Montreal Broadcast times:
June 9 & 11 at 1am

Mexico City Broadcast times:
11pm

https://www.radio.unam.mx/streaming/RadioUNAM_FM.html

https://www.radiopodcast.unam.mx/podcast/verserie/66

04/15/2026

April 18th!

10/14/2025

Improvisation Workshop!
Saturday October 18, 2025
2:00pm -3:30pm
at 8EAST

Facilitated by Mauricio Pauly

For up to 25 participants, Free with a NOW Membership (register on our site)
Workshops are drop-in, please bring your instrument (and/or amps) and be ready to play!

Donations gratefully accepted

More about our facilitator:

Mauricio Pauly is a Costa Rican composer, performer, and improviser known for his hybrid instrumental/electronic chamber music. He is an Associate Professor of Music & Sound at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. His workshop will explore silence, longitudinal listening and dynamic recontextualization.

10/14/2025

Tomorrow night!

Songlines Recording Release Event
Robin Holcomb / Peggy Lee: Reno
October 15, 2025
8pm, Doors at 7:30 pm
At 8EAST, 8 East Pender Street
By Donation $10/$20/FREE
Pay what you can so others can attend for free

Robin Holcomb - piano and voice
Peggy Lee - cello

Opening sets:
Cat Toren and Lisa Cay Miller, solo piano

“Robin Holcomb is a true original. Her music goes to the heart, to the bone and touches the soul.” – Meredith Monk

“The music of Peggy Lee is a mystery. The cellist’s melodic offerings are never fully revealed—it’s as if they’re cloaked in shadows—yet they always find the most direct path to the listener’s heart.” – Dave Sumner, daily.bandcamp.com

SGL1637-2: CD and downloads (24/96 from HDtracks, ProStudioMasters, Qobuz, Highresaudio, NativeDSD)

For more information please visit:
https://songlines.com/release/reno/

10/09/2025

Improvisation Workshop!
Saturday October 11, 2025
2:00pm -3:30pm
at 8EAST

Facilitated by James Meger (slight change!)

For up to 25 participants, Free with a NOW Membership (register on our site)
Workshops are drop-in, please bring your instrument (and/or amps) and be ready to play!

Donations gratefully accepted

More about our facilitator:

James Meger is a bassist and composer whose work spans jazz, free improvisation, and rock, performing internationally with artists such as Darius Jones (fLuXkit Vancouver), Frazey Ford, Wayne Horvitz, Chris Speed, and Kris Davis. He is an active sideman and collaborator in diverse projects—including Sick Boss, Josh Zubot’s Strings, The Bruno Hubert Trio, La Syrie Libre, NOW Society and Strange Worlds—that showcase his versatility as a player.

10/01/2025

Next week!
The Producer's Lab: Mix 001 with One Leg One Eye

October 7, 2025 at 8EAST
8 East Pender Street

Session will start at 7:00PM sharp
Session will end by 8:30pm
$10/$20/XX
Please sign up on eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-producers-lab-mix-001-with-one-leg-one-eye-tickets-1703905530309

The Producer's Lab is a production focused series facilitated by sound artist Anju Singh with a featured guest Producer working in sound and music in the areas of experimental, electronic, sound art, improv, and noise contexts in each session. Sessions will include a demonstration of production techniques followed by discussion and analysis of submitted segments provided by selected participants.

To submit a segment of a track for playback, analysis, feedback, and discussion during the session, please send a wav file to [email protected] and please include the timestamp for 2-3 minutes to playback during the session. A note that number of segments shared during the session will be dependent on session time.

Mix 001 will feature One Leg One Eye, the project of Ian Lynch (founding member of Irish group Lankum). One Leg One Eye explores submerged leylines of music and song, drawing on the raw aesthetics of black metal, noise and drone, while also being deeply embued with a sense of history and myth. In live performances he is joined by score composer and veteran noise-monger George Brennan (BB84, Melodica Deathship, Cholera House).
Their Debut album …And Take The Black Worm With Me (released on Nyahh Records in 2022) is a slow burning suite of five expansive songscapes that has found its audience largely by word of mouth. Partly recorded in an abandoned Dublin factory where his father worked when he was a child, Lynch’s harrowing vocals are underpinned by vast pillars of uileann pipe drones, overlaid with effects and field recordings to conjure up a sound that is at once dark, mysterious and ultimately transcendental.

For this session, One Leg One Eye will be sharing production techniques explored in their yet-to-be-released upcoming record. This session will provide a sneak peak into the album.

Please note that this event will NOT be a live performance of One Leg One Eye's material, but we invite you to please join us for their concert the next night at KW Studios: https://www.showpass.com/vancouver-noise-fest-presents.../.

07/20/2025

Part of Vancouver’s rich history of improvised music!

Sunship Ensemble played for the opening of the Granville Mall in 1975. The Western Front poster was for our first concert. Hear the group at https://conditionwestrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sunship-jazz-ensemble-blue-minor-records-and-cbc-transcriptions

04/29/2025

Saturday in Robert's Creek!

Spring Free: Taipei Vancouver Roberts Creek
春遊 臺北、溫哥華、陽光海岸

May 2 | 7pm | Performances at xwesam- Creek Community Hall (1309 Roberts Creek)

Featuring:
Lan Tung 董籃– Erhu, Voice 二胡&人聲
Fan-Qi Wu 吳凡棋 - p**a 琵琶
Hsiao-Feng Lin 林小楓 - Dizi 笛子
Shih-Yang Lee 李世揚 - Piano 鋼琴
Li Tung 董籬 - Projections

Sunshine Coast Musicians:
James Meger - Bass
Graham Ord - Saxophone
Anna Lumiere - Piano
Stefan Smulovitz - Viola, Electronics

Co-Presented by NOW Society & Sound of Dragon Society

Tickets linked below

(https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/spring-free-taipei-vancouver-roberts-creek-tickets-1316658283369)

04/28/2025

This week!

Spring Free: Taipei Vancouver Roberts Creek

春遊 臺北、溫哥華、陽光海岸

May 2 | 7pm | Performances at xwesam-Roberts Creek Hall (1309 Roberts Creek)
May 3 | 2pm | Improvisation workshop at 8EAST
May 3 | 8pm | Taiwan meets 8EAST
May 4 | 7-10pm | Spring Free Marathon at 8EAST

Featuring:
Fan-Qi Wu 吳凡棋 - p**a 琵琶
Hsiao-Feng Lin 林小楓 - Dizi 笛子
Shih-Yang Lee 李世揚 - Piano 鋼琴
Li Tung 董籬 - Projections

Co-Presented by NOW Society & Sound of Dragon Society

Tickets for May 2nd show in bio and in comments below