Last night saw the final concert in this year’s West End Micro Music Festival.  Once more the venue was the intimate and acoustically very good Redeemer Lutheran on Bloor West.  The first half of the programme was the latest iteration of Nahre Sol (keyboards) and Brad Cherwin’s (clarinets) PAPER.  Joined by Louis Pino on electronics, they improved on what paper is, sounds like, looks like and can be used for.  There were electronic paper noises, crumpled paper, torn paper, piano prepared with paper and Brad creating a painting on paper and using it as an instrument.  I suppose this is more “performance art” than music but it was pretty interesting.

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