November 28–29, 2026, 10 am–5 pm
Salle Gilles-Lefebvre, Orford Musique
3165 chemin du Parc, Orford, Québec
Free admission. No registration required.

A quiet marching band makes its way from the foyer to the stage at Orford Musique. You can join the procession as it passes, then sit or lie down beneath a canopy of salvaged church organ pipes. Conceived and directed by Montréal trombonist and composer Kalun Leung, Memento Mori is a musical procession and sound installation created and performed by the ten musicians of Ambient Parade.

The processions take their cue from the keeners who once sang laments at Irish wakes. Soloists on uilleann pipes, piccolo and tuba step forward in turn, while custom-made overtone flutes, aluminum plates and friction rods give the ensemble a sound that lingers after each gesture. The musicians devise and improvise the music together.

The installation gives old materials a second life. Organ pipes that once sounded at funerals hang low over the stage, recalling the roof of one of Orford’s disused practice huts, where the project first took shape. Hingman Leung made the musicians’ costumes from vintage French table linens, some embroidered by nuns. Colours show through the cutwork, from vivid green to the dark brown of fallen leaves. In these small transformations, Memento Mori finds a gentle way to reflect on mortality and renewal.

Come at any time between 10 am and 5 pm. Sam Longbottom’s sound installation runs throughout the day, with 20-minute live processions at 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm and 4 pm each day.

Ambient Parade

• Kalun Leung — concept, artistic direction, trombone

• Sam Longbottom — sound installation, melodicas

• Émilie Fortin — movement direction, trumpet

• Yuma Uesaka — sound direction, clarinet, flute, saxophone, preparations

• Stuart Jackson — custom percussion instruments, percussion, uilleann pipes

• Naomi McCarroll-Butler — custom overtone flutes, saxophones, flutes

• Julie Houle — tuba

• Tom Jacques — percussion, glockenspiel

• Marilène Provencher-Leduc — flutes

• Thomas Li — percussion, documentation

Costumes — Hingman Leung
Poster — Stéphanie L’Italien
Short film — Camille Demers-Lambert and Jérémi Roy

About Kalun Leung

Born in Hong Kong and based in Montréal, Kalun Leung is a trombonist, performer-composer and instrument builder whose work brings together sound, movement and architecture. A Grammy laureate for his work with the Experiential Orchestra, he received the 2025 Kranichstein Music Prize at the Darmstadt Summer Course. He has collaborated with Anthony Braxton, Meredith Monk, George Lewis and Sarah Davachi, as well as the Martha Graham Dance Company. His work includes mubone, a wearable instrument developed with Travis West that uses physical gestures to move sound through space.

Created and performed by Ambient Parade in collaboration with Innovations en concert and Orford Musique, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

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We would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Conseil des arts de Montréal for their support.