An experimental music spree

The month’s most inventive concerts

The genre Buster

Voices3

March 22 to 24, Berkeley Street Theatre

Canadian Stage’s interdisciplinary

spectacle pairs two ingenious Inuk artists: throat singer Tanya Tagaq and Greenlandic mask dancer Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory. The duo will weave sharp spoken-word passages, carnal vocal runs and frantic movements into an entrancing whirlwind of dance and music about Indigenous reconciliation.

The Light show

Sound and Colour

March 22 to 24, Harbourfront Centre Theatre

The fin-de-siècle Russian composer Alexander Scriabin had synesthesia, causing him to see music as spectral bursts of colour. During Art of Time Ensemble’s performance of his piano preludes, lighting designer Kevin Lamotte will bathe the Harbourfront Centre Theatre in shimmering light art in an attempt to show audiences what the composer saw.

The splash zone

Tan Dun’s Water Passion

March 9, Trinity–St. Paul’s Centre

The Chinese composer Tan Dun (Crouching Tiger,

Hidden Dragon) reinvents Bach’s liturgical masterpiece

St. Matthew Passion in this imaginative Soundstreams performance. The show employs a chamber ensemble, a choir, a pair of soloists and, intriguingly, 17 theatrically lit water bowls, used as percussion throughout the piece.