Join MOCA on July 21, at 4 pm for Solar Organ Concert. Mani Mazinani and collaborators will present a musical performance that extends the soundscape of his work, Solar Scale, to a live experience. The concert moves between improvised and composed music, featuring the Solar Organ, an electronic pentatonic instrument created by Mazinani. A variety of invented and traditional pentatonic scales will be used by the musicians, covering a spectrum of approaches to pentatonic sound generation.
Mani Mazinani, Solar Organ synthesizer
Marilyn Yogarajah, trumpet (Spectrum Soundbath, Not A Band)
Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh, accordion (RED | 700nm, Acoustic Archeologies)
Arthur Bastos, Solar Organ engineer
No tickets are required for this free performance on the ground floor.
General admission tickets are required to visit the rest of the museum.
About the Artist
Mani Mazinani (b. Tehran, Iran) is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist who makes work that connects scale and sensation, improvisation and ancient thought. His work directs attention to the physicality of his subject and medium, creating situations to exercise our frameworks of perception. Mazinani’s practice includes installation, lens-based media, sculpture, sound, and music. He has presented projects with The Bentway (Toronto), Tate Modern (London), Tehran International Electronic Music Festival, and Suzhou Industrial Park and Arts Centre, among others. Mazinani’s sound and music projects have been published on his own experimental record label, Aerophone Recordings, and through various other platforms and outlets.
GTA24 Live & Screening Programme
Greater Toronto Art 2024 (GTA24) showcases 25 intergenerational artists, duos, and collectives from or with a connection to the region. The exhibition is accompanied by a Live Programme, with newly commissioned performances, and a Screening Programme, featuring exclusive film presentations delivered at Paradise Cinema.
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