Music for the Hydroörganon

Date: Friday, November 6th, 7:30pm.

Venue: All Saints Anglican Church

Sounds of whales, waves, thunder, birds and organ harmonize together to give audible voice to André Forget’s short story, "The Lower Registers."*  Imagining what music would sound like for his fictional underwater organ. 

This concert consists of music entirely composed by Earth World Collaborative creators, Adrian Foster & Joel Peters, enmeshing organ, electronics, atmosphere and poetry to create a one-of-a-kind experience. Performing compositions from the inaugural performance in Montreal, 2017, along with music created for this specific occasion of the All Saints Anglican’s centenary year.

Pay what you can, suggested $20

521 Broadway at Osborne

Parking available at Canada Life

Background:

In April 2017, Joel Peters and André Forget collaborated on a literary piece inspired by "Organ Ocean: waves of sound", an organ recital given by Peters at St. Joseph's Oratory. The result: "The Lower Registers," a magical-realist account of an organ builder, theorist, and composer, Kenji Saito, whose theories lead him to the conclusion that the purest form of music, and the most appropriate place to meet the Divine, is in the depths of the ocean. Saito begins to build organs underwater and give concerts on these peculiar instruments. Audiences have mixed reactions. Some claim to be transported into spiritual places, and others hear absolutely nothing. 

*The Lower Registers was later developed further into a novel by André Forget entitled In the City of Pigs which was long-listed for the 2022 ScotiaBank Giller Prize.