Toronto's annual X Avant New Music Festival turns 10 this year, and, as in year's past, organizers are bringing out a handful of experimenta...

Last night (October 19), Lido Pimienta performed the closing show of this year's X-Avant festival, offering a multimedia, collaborative perf...

The second night of this year's X-Avant festival brought one of its most exciting and innovative performances. Drums & Drones, the project o...

The rain was pouring down outside last night (October 16) when Laraaji took the stage. He sat down on the floor between a zither and several...

The X Avant VIII Festival closed out with an ear tuned toward the wider world as "This Is Our Music" set its sights upon the happy collision...

The X Avant VIII Festival took its genre-defying mandate outside its comfort zone of chamber music and avant-jazz to explore similar cross-p...

The opening piece of Ensemble SuperMusique's first set was an exercise in extreme restraint. A group dynamic that includes two drummers cons...

Charlemagne Palestine is the eccentric uncle we'd all like to become when we grow up. He is armed with just enough accomplishments in his lo...

Writing about Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 2 poses a daunting challenge; how does one discuss this richly rewarding work without fixa...

Quartetski's arrangement of The Rite of Spring won't inspire any riots, but it does stretch at the same boundaries that caused such a stir a...

As the last performance of this year's X Avant festival, John Kameel Farah took some time to explain to the audience the background of the w...