July 27, 2025 7:00 to 9:30 Factory Media Centre
Open Public Event
Your Winters Are Like Summers Here
Your Winters Are Like Summers Here is the solo music project of Hamilton-based musician and academic, Mike Baker. Moving across genres including ambient, experimental, shoegaze, drone and doom, compositional elements emerge from structured improvisations as layers of sound build to a point of saturation and occasionally collapse. Lo-fi sensibility meets expansive atmospherics.
Cymatiste
Cymatiste (Sarah Imrisek) is an independent artist based in Tkaronto. She performs live coding, creates interactive media art installations, and paints murals, as well as engaging the public in community art projects and workshops. Her art draws inspiration from wind, waves, and the complex interconnected patterns of nature. Her public art practice uses creative play to bring people together in imagining new possibilities for ourselves, our communities and our relation to the land.
Pirarán
Pirarán (Iván López, Diego Villaseñor, Alejandro Franco Briones)is a networked ensemble that combines the sound of analogue and digital synthesizers with live coded soundscapes and dance vectors. They provide (audio)visions of a world beyond the post-end of times. The band is influenced by just-intonation research and poly-temporal music forums, Latin-American popular modernism (Pérez Prado, Cumbia chichadélica, and MicoRex), and music genres like vaporwave, hippie synth music, techno, glitch, industrial, ambient and noise.
Luis Navarro Del Angel
Luis Navarro Del Angel (he/him) is a new media artist from Mexico City, currently based in Hamilton, Ontario. My practice revolves around electronic Latin dance music by means of software and code. I currently perform with a web-based interactive application of my authorship called Seis8s, which revolves around Spanish-language commands related to Latin dance music. I explore the rhythms of Cumbia, Guaguancó, and Salsa in their electronic form.
Eyeduh
Eyeduh (Aida Khorsandi) is a composer-performer, sound synthesist, researcher and educator. Aida’s philosophy to musicking is based on experimentation, welcoming chaos and randomness, unlearning and decolonizing hierarchies and ear training in musical practices and sounds. In her sonic workflow, Aida uses displaced sound objects, repetitive, erratic, and granular sonic and physical gestures to create an ever-shifting sonic scene of ambient noise.