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BEHOLD, THE SOLAR ORGAN 🎷

Created by @manimazinani, your next chance to see this bad boy in action happens to be TONIGHT.

Swipe to read about the project, and don’t wait to get your tickets! This is our last night of X Avant, and we are officially 75% SOLD OUT!!! 💥🔊✨❤️‍🔥

For our third and last night of X Avant, Mani Mazinani presents his Solar Organ with the Solar Organ Ensemble.

Mani Mazinani (b.1984, Tehran) is a Toronto-based artist making installation, video, film, sculpture, photographs, multiples, sound and music. His practice evolved from an early interest in sound recording, now working with the process of translating thoughts into recordings in various media. His visual work thinks about scale and perception, often combining subject matter and medium. Mazinani has been researching origins of ancient thought, perceptual limitations of humans, and improvisation.

He developed the Solar Organ in the Connected Minds artist residency at York University. Exhibition and performance history includes Evergreen Brick Works (2024), MOCA Toronto (2024), Tate Modern (2019), The Bentway, Toronto (2018), Tehran International Electronic Music Festival (2017), SIP Culture Centre, Suzhou (2016).

Solar Organ is a polyphonic sound generation machine, designed to produce tuned sound fields and playable as a pentatonic musical instrument by anyone regardless of training. Its inventor, Mani Mazinani is joined by Amahl Arulanandam (cello), Vic O (synth), Brandon Valdivia (percussion), Marilyn Yogarajah (trumpet), and Steve Kado (video synth projection) to form the Solar Organ Ensemble.

Solar Organ Ensemble performs music built on pentatonic music ideas, using traditional and invented scales, moving through composed and improvised forms. Pentatonic music practice is a universal phenomenon in human experience, globally ubiquitous geographically and historically. Solar Organ collects research that connects music to our biology, to engage in what is universal between us all.

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ANCIENT CIRCUITRY | X AVANT XXI: Memory Mannnnn 🔊

For our third and last night of X Avant, two artist’s projects in concert form, Mani Mazinani’s Solar Organ and Alexis Nanibush-Pamajewong’s For The Youth: Reilluminated, connects with ancestral knowledge today.

Solar Organ Ensemble moves between improvised and composed music using traditional and invented pentatonic scales covering a spectrum of approaches to pentatonic sound generation. Solar Organ, an electronic pentatonic instrument created by Mani Mazinani, connects neurobiology with the geographic and historic ubiquity of pentatonic practice, a universal human phenomenon. The Solar Organ Ensemble will be accompanied by live video synth projection by Steve Kado.

Curated by Mani Mazinani

Event 🎫 at 🔗 in bio!

Video: Kristal Jax (@kristeljax)
Footage: Vlad Lunin (@vladlunin)
Audio: Arthur Bastos (@artu.mp3)

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ANCIENT CIRCUITRY | X AVANT XXI: Memory Mannnnn 🔊

For our third and last night of X Avant, gathering two artist’s projects in concert form, Ancient Circuitry combines Mani Mazinani’s Solar Organ and Alexis Nanibush-Pamajewong’s For The Youth: Reilluminated, connecting with ancestral knowledge today.

Solar Organ Ensemble moves between improvised and composed music using traditional and invented pentatonic scales covering a spectrum of approaches to pentatonic sound generation. Solar Organ, an electronic pentatonic instrument created by Mani Mazinani, connects neurobiology with the geographic and historic ubiquity of pentatonic practice, a universal human phenomenon.

For The Youth: Reilluminated by Alexis Nanibush-Pamajewong, is a re-creation of a light and sound installation with local Indigenous youth performances — to honour the life, kinship, and the spirit of generations past, present, and future.

The performance will feature drumming from Liam Myran (Gull Bay First Nation) and Kaelen Pelletier (Serpent River First Nation), alongside Daniella Whitehead (Cree/Mi’kmaq), and champion hoop dancer Emilee Ann Pitawanakwat from Wiikwemikoong Unceded Territory.

Curated by Mani Mazinani

INSTALLATION 🚲
Outside of performances, attendees can interact with sound sculptures from Night 2 artist Stephanie Orlando.

Inspired by everyday sounds from her time working as a bike mechanic, Stephanie Orlando’s Sonic Bikes installation invites attendees to interact with the spectrum of noises and musical textures of recycled bike parts.

Event 🎫 at 🔗 in bio!

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ANCIENT CIRCUITRY | X AVANT XXI: Memory Mannnnn 🔊

For our third and last night of X Avant, Mani Mazinani presents his Solar Organ with the Solar Organ Ensemble.

Mani Mazinani (b.1984, Tehran) is a Toronto-based artist making installation, video, film, sculpture, photographs, multiples, sound and music. His practice evolved from an early interest in sound recording, now working with the process of translating thoughts into recordings in various media. His visual work thinks about scale and perception, often combining subject matter and medium. Mazinani has been researching origins of ancient thought, perceptual limitations of humans, and improvisation.

He developed the Solar Organ in the Connected Minds artist residency at York University. Exhibition and performance history includes Evergreen Brick Works (2024), MOCA Toronto (2024), Tate Modern (2019), The Bentway, Toronto (2018), Tehran International Electronic Music Festival (2017), SIP Culture Centre, Suzhou (2016).

Solar Organ is a polyphonic sound generation machine, designed to produce tuned sound fields and playable as a pentatonic musical instrument by anyone regardless of training. Its inventor, Mani Mazinani is joined by Amahl Arulanandam (cello), Steve Kado (visuals), Brandon Valdivia (percussion), Marilyn Yogarajah (trumpet) to form the Solar Organ Ensemble.

Solar Organ Ensemble performs music built on pentatonic music ideas, using traditional and invented scales, moving through composed and improvised forms. Pentatonic music practice is a universal phenomenon in human experience, globally ubiquitous geographically and historically. Solar Organ collects research that connects music to our biology, to engage in what is universal between us all.

Event 🎫 at 🔗 in bio!

marilyn yogarajah is a toronto poet and musician, curates audiopollination and spectrum soundbath, plays in multiple bands in the city, and has a background in teaching music.

Brandon Miguel Valdivia is a drummer, percussionist, composer and producer living in London, Ontario. Known for performing and recording with Lido Pimienta, improvisatory work with Not the Wind Not the Flag, and recording with artists such as U.S.Girls, Th

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Who else is excited for X AVANT XXI: MEMORY MANNNNN? 🔌

Join us OCT 14-16 for 3 days of ANALOGUE, NEW INSTRUMENTS, & DAISY CHAIN EXPERIMENTS

Get your tickets and fest passes at the link in bio! 🎫

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Kicking off the final week of Back to School Field Trip, we’re honoured to present the debut of ‘Otherwise’, an experimental documentary film by Mike Filippov. Having carefully and diligently captured our local scene of experimental artists over the past few years, his improvised film on free improvisation comes to life on our DIY screen at Bickford Park, featuring live accompaniment from Heraclitus Akimbo and fossa séu.

We’ll be stationed in the field along the West side of the park, with audience seated in the grass and along the hill. Come early to create your own sounds with Spectrum Soundbath at 7:30pm, with the film beginning at 8:30. PWYC via cash or card, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Some words from director Mike Filippov…

“”Otherwise” represents all the emergent possibilities that everywhere lie in wait. Documenting them over a year in Toronto’s free improvised music scene began a process which will culminate in a performative exhibition featuring insights from Colin Cudmore, Dee Dee Decay, Karen Ng and Marilyn Yogarajah and a ton of music speaking for itself. Like the music it represents, no exhibition of Otherwise will ever be the same.”

Public Transit: Short walk from Christie station

Closest Address: 323 Harbord St

Accessibility: Along the West side grassy hill, paved and unpaved paths through the park

Washrooms: Bickford Park public washrooms until 8:30pm, various businesses along Bloor St

Poster by @pagestamp

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As our ode to the raw sonics of live processing, we’re excited to announce that X Avant XXI: Memory Mannnnn is coming Oct 14th to 16th!

For 3 nights at the First Unitarian Church, we’ll be deep diving into the world of pedal daisy chains and analogue instrument experiments. Memory Mannnnn is all about tactility and pedal play, bringing things back to the hands, body, and memory. In this rawness and adventure, delay, distortion, reverb, and filtering extend beyond effects and become tools that recreate and transform past, present, future, and memory.

Get your 🎫 at 🔗 in bio!

Audio & Video: Kristel Jax (@kristeljax)

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X AVANT XXI: MEMORY MANNNNN is LIVE 💥

This is our ode to mechanical play and the raw sonics of live processing. Memory Mannnnn is about delay, filters, reverb, phase, distortion and how they can coalesce into a play of past, present, future where memory and sound recurs, degrades, and transforms.

JOIN OUR 3 NIGHTS OF ANALOGUE DAISY CHAINING

OCTOBER 14 - 16

Tickets at 🔗 in bio 🔌

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Meet our incredible community members who will be activating the space with some exciting programming during the Barns Eco Market - bringing you a sound bath and a free clay workshop on the @doors_opento weekend

Spectrum Soundbath - Sonic Activation on May 24, 10AM - 4PM

@spectrumsoundbath is a collaborative soundbath practice facilitated by Marilyn Yogarajah that often takes place monthly at various spaces across the city. Various percussive instruments are available for community members to play and take part and play. Participants are encouraged to also rest on a bed of sound until they hear a sound and then look to an instrument to make that sound! They will be set up on the elevated stage in Christie Courtyard.

Clay Workshop - led by Francesca Conforti on May 24, 10AM - 2PM

@francescaconforticeramics is a Toronto-based ceramic artist creating intuitive, handbuilt pieces that explore form, texture, and the relationship between function and sculpture. Her practice is rooted in slow making, inviting both play and intention through clay. Alongside her studio work, she facilitates small-group workshops that encourage people to reconnect with their creativity in an approachable and tactile way. This free clay handbuilding workshop will be happening in the Christie Courtyard. Spots are limited, please register via the Eventbrite link in bio!

#doorsopen2026 #barnsecomarket #clayworkshop #soundbath

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I was invited to be the educator-in-residence at @dmg_utsc this fall to create programming that engages with @rajniperera's Futures.

For the first event, I collaborated with a dear friend, the legendary @yogayrajah from @spectrumsoundbath, to create a sound bath in the gallery. (October 2025)

The sounds reverberated through the paintings, and we had a soundtrack for the travellers in Rajni's paintings. It was such an enriching experience. I am so grateful to have been a small part of it. Thank you, Erin Peck, Marilyn, @enoki_heals, and several others who helped make this a core memory.

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2025 gave us a lot to look back on! 👀

We presented work from more than 75 musicians and artists, collaborated with seven organizations, including outreach initiatives like our open decks and open HDMI activities copresented with @notabbq and @interaccessto, and welcomed more than a thousand guests. 🧮

Between holiday naps and seasonal socialising, we’re working hard behind the scenes and dreaming up plans for the rest of Year 14, resuming January 16 at It’s OK* Studios (@itsok.world). Details on that and more coming soon — stay tuned! 🪚

Until then, here’s a review of some of the moments that made Long Winter’s 2025 unforgettable. 👁

If you feel like giving something back, please consider making a donation to the Long Winter Sustainability Fund (link in bio). ♺

Thank you for helping us Do-It-Together. 🤝

Stay cozy. We’ll see you all in 2026! 🔭

📸 Photos by Joshua Best (@joshuabest), Alexander Lyon (@alexlyonvideo), and Jibril Yassin (@uhhhwhy).

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All the shows you surely must see in chronological order.

#tour

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