Wet Sounds Series presents: Pantayo

Photo: Felice Trinidad

Pantayo conversation + performance in Guelph

Presented by Wet Sounds: feminist + queer music practices in the polycrisis

Saturday, January 25, 2025
ImprovLab, Room 108, MacKinnon Building
University of Guelph
87 Trent Lane, Guelph, ON N1G 1Y4

6:30pm doors open
7:00pm talk
8:00pm refreshments + cash bar
8:30pm performance

On Saturday, January 25, 2025, Wet Sounds: feminist + queer music practices in the polycrisis presents a performance and conversation with PANTAYO. The second guest in the series hosted by Musagetes in Guelph, Pantayo are queer Filipinx kulintang gong punks based in Tkaronto, Canada. The ensemble combines traditional Kulintang music from the Philippines with contemporary influences and experimental sounds derived from their experiences as queer diasporic Filipinxs on Turtle Island.

Wet Sounds is a quarterly arts series that presents conversations and performances centering the intersections of feminist and queer musicians’ academic work, artistic practice, and collaborations in the polycrisis. This series will examine notions of grief, ritual, queerness, pleasure, land, embodiment, colonialisms, decay, noise, and sound. Wet Sounds will ask how artists see their practice as impacted by or responding to the interconnected crises unfolding around us—climate chaos, genocide, fascism, an erosion of democracy, and multiple sites of oppression and resistance.

Photo: Green Yang

Suggested PWYC tickets of $15 will be donated to Filipinos United for Palestine, a coalition of Filipino individuals, organizations, and businesses in Canada working together for a free Palestine. No one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Masks will be available; guests are encouraged to stay home if they’re not feeling well and to reduce the use of scented products (e.g. perfume, cologne) for this event.

Save the Date – Sunday, March 30, 7:00pm

Wet Sounds presents Turntable Trio: Maria Chávez, Mariam Rezaei, and Evicshen (Victoria Shen) in conversation and performance
Co-presented with the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI)

The trio, pioneers of new turntablism, brings together elements of musique concrète, free improvisation, noise, techno and hip-hop with instrument building and modification. Each artist has a wildly different approach to turntablism. Among the techniques deployed will be skratching, beatjuggling, sampling and looping, while the technologies will include double needle head shells and acrylic needle nails. The trio’s compositional aesthetics weave through sound sculpture, maximalism/minimalism and sonic destruction. Together, they will show that New Turntablism is beyond technique, genre or compositional theory; it’s about the unknown.

The third event in the Wet Sounds series presented by Musagetes, Turntable Trio is co-presented with IICSI and launches with a conversation with the artists around queer and feminist performance and practice in the polycrisis.

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Guelph, Ontario N1H 4L5

Image descriptions:
1. The five members of Kulintang gong group Pantayo stare into the camera and rest their chins on a geometrically designed mirror-inlay coffee table, and their faces are reflected back.
2. Kulintang gong group Pantayo play gongs, electric guitar, and drum kit in a tight venue with projections and murals. Side view of the stage in pink and greens. Band members wear button down cream-coloured shirts.
3. Maria Chávez, Mariam Rezaei and Evicshen perform onstage each at a table in a dark venue lit with purple lights.