A festival of Architecture and Music in Toronto
In June 2006, New Music Arts Projects presents soundaXis, a city-wide festival celebrating architecture, music and acoustics that will transform Toronto into a playground of sound and space exploration. For two weeks, the city will be alive with concerts, interdisciplinary installations, symposia, screenings and site-specific musical events. Events will be held across the city, presented and hosted by many of Toronto’s most innovative arts organizations.
June 1-11, 2006
Link: SoundaXis
Link: Iannis Xenakis
The non-profit New Music Arts Projects (NMAP) is the organizing group behing SoundaXis. NMAP's inspiration for SoundaXis is architect, musician and digital artist Iannis Xenakis. A philosopher of sound and space, Xenakis created works that reduced materials to fundamental principles and emphasized the intimacies and mutual definitions between music, acoustics and architecture. His seminal work in both music and architecture helped change approaches to composition, modern art, and design.
