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AUGUST 29- SEPTEMBER 6
@ CNE Bandshell Park, NFB Cinema and OISE Auditorium
TORONTO – The Twelfth Annual Toronto Urban Music
Festival, (TUMF),now re-branded as URBAN MUSIC WEEK,
will return once again to the CNE Bandshell Park. Presented by WORD
Magazine and Toronto Urban Music Festival Incorporated, a non-profit
organization dedicated to showcasing the best in Canadian and international
urban music and multidisciplinary talent in a festival setting,
this is Canada's largest urban music festival, bringing out more
than 10,000 urbanites each year. The brainchild of the publishers
of WORD Magazine, the festival provides an opportunity to showcase
the best of urban music and lifestyle in Toronto while providing
marketers with a unique vehicle to reach the urban market. Music,
film, dance, spoken word and music industry discussion panels are
all a mainstay of the Urban Music Week celebration. For more information
on events and ticket prices please visit
www.tumf.net.
Headlining this year’s music will be the LA-based, underground hip
hop sensation DILATED PEOPLES
www.myspace.com/dilatedpeoples
who will be performing Saturday Aug. 30th
at CNE Bandshell Park.
Other highlights at the Bandshell are dance performances by R.U.K.U.S
Dance Troop, Nu Limit, DLM Dance Studio, Crazy Crew, 2 Badd, O.I.P
Dance Studio, Rated E and Baddest Bratz.
This year’s Urban Arts Showcase taking place Sept. 4 – 6
will feature several emerging Canadian urban artists in various
Toronto clubs to be announced. Musical genres will include hip hop,
rap, reggae, soul/r&b and DJs. This showcase will also present innovative
dance performances as well as riveting spoken word and poetry.
The original Toronto Urban Film Festival is one of the main
components of Urban Music Week.
The spotlight will be on urban films: shorts, documentaries and
feature films plus the Special Master Class. Friday Aug. 29th
– Monday, Aug. 31st @ National Film Board Cinema, 150 John St.
An Urban Music Conference is a festival must-attend for
those who want to brush up on their knowledge of the music industry
and learn valuable information about how to better develop a career
in music. Keynote Speaker at the conference will be Paul Miller
aka DJ Spooky.
Friday, September 5th @ OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor Street West Toronto,
(St. George Subway)
ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Paul D. Miller/Dj Spooky
Sound Unbound
Sound Unbound is Paul D. Miller's follow up to his award
winning first book Rhythm Science (MIT Press, 2004). First and foremost,
Sound Unbound is an anthology - it's a collection of 36 essays that
focus on the role of the artist, composer, and writer in a world
that is becoming more interconnected every day.
In a lecture format, exploring the overall theme of sound in contemporary
art, digital media, and composition, Miller reconstructs the history
of sound and recorded media by several of the most well known artists
of their field - ranging from Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Moby, Chuck
D, and Pierre Boulez, to artists, writers and theoreticians like
Jonathan Lethem, Bruce Sterling, Manuel Delanda, and even Islamic
culture's relationship to hip hop, with essay by media activist
and artist Naeem Mohaimen. In using the essays that are in Sound
Unbound, Miller makes the lecture format a cross between a formal
exploration of the issues Sound Unbound focused on, and the remix
concept that drives much of the book. It's a rip-mix-burn-lecture.
Rhythm Science author Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal
Kid asks artists to describe their work and compositional strategies
in their own words. These are reports from the front lines on the
role of sound and digital media in an information-based society.
Miller's lecture will be an hour, and is accompanied by his use
of many historic texts, rare audio recordings and films, to demonstrate
the complex relationship between text and art in a multimedia context.
Other panel discussions will include:
- Music Publishing And Alternative Revenue Streams
- Touring Opportunities
- Indies Cutting A New Deal: How to Survive & Prosper
- Funding Agencies: How To Gain Access & Support
- Managing for Success: Self Employment & Getting the Right
Team
Please visit
www.tumf.net
for details on music events showcases, admission prices and venues.
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