SlowPitchSound is an award-winning Toronto-based composer, mentor, and explorer of sound & visuals with over two decades of experience. He has collaborated with brilliant creators from a wide range of disciplines including opera, jazz, classical, electronic music, theatre and dance. His unique style of music production, self proclaimed as “scifi-turntablism”, has been featured on stages around the world including Canada, Australia, USA, United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Germany and Taiwan. With a passion for depth and detail in his work, SlowPitchSound is heavily inspired by nature, outer space, and dystopian sci-fi. His approach to making and presenting musicincludes turntablism, live sampling and field recordings.

(photo: Kevin Jones)

Bana Haffar is an electronic music composer living in Montreal, Canada. She works with patterns, sound design, and sample based sequencing, attempting to relate sound worlds and patterns to various non-musical systems. In 2014 Bana, together with Eric Cheslak, founded Modular on the Spot in Los Angeles and in 2021 she co-founded the Beirut Synthesizer Center in Lebanon.

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Co-presented with Arts in the Margins, Mardi Spaghetti, CNMN/RCN, CJLO and CKUT

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Innovations en concert would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, and the SOCAN Foundation for their support.