HARD RUBBER NEW MUSIC

and Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad present

CODE Live Performance

Drum & Light Festival

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Emily Carr – Great Northern Way Campus

577 Great Northern Way

(walking distance from VCC Skytrain Station)

Doors 9pm • Show 10pm

Tickets $20

www.tickets.com • 1.800.TICKETS

and at Zulu, Beat Street and Vinyl Records

Info: www.hardrubber.com • 604.683.8240

Mark February 11^th on your calendar!  Come out and dance!  The Drum & Light Festival is an evening of high-energy sonic and visual extravagance featuring percussion, improvised and jazz music, electronica, dance and visual projections by some of Vancouver’s best and brightest artists. In 2008 and 2009, Vancouver’s Hard Rubber Orchestra introduced the Drum & Light Festival, a series of sold-out multimedia dance events featuring a 14-piece groove orchestra and eye-popping visuals.  The dance party continues in 2010.

The Drum & Light Festival combines the most cutting-edge music, movement and visuals into one breathtaking evening.  This high-energy dance event features a 14-piece groove big band, five drummers, electronic music, intense visual projections and innovative choreography.  Music by an all-star collection of Vancouver artists — Ray Garroway (K-OS), Randall Stoll (Soulstream), Alvin Cornista (Sekoya), DJ Timothy Wisdom and  keyboardist Chris Gestrin (to name just a few) — is fused with incredible visuals by Brian Johnson and Jason Whyte and  movement choreographed and performed by the Tomorrow Collective.

Hard Rubber New Music has presented concerts of original music by some of Canada’s most exciting composers, performed by some of Vancouver’s finest musicians. Under the artistic direction of composer, conductor, musician John Korsrud, previous large-scale works include Alcan Award-winning Enter/Exit, a multi-media extravaganza featuring the premiere of compositions by Giorgio Magnanensi, Brad Turner and John Korsrud as well as visual projections by jamie griffiths, Brian Johnson, Rena del Pieve Gobbi, Riel Roussopoulos and HoneyBee Visuals. Other projects include The Ice Age: The World’s First New Music Ice Show, performed at Kerrisdale Arena and featuring the talents of hockey players, curlers and figure skaters; White Hot Core, a collaboration with Kokoro Dance; and The Elvis Cantata, which took an irreverent look at pop icons. The all-star Hard Rubber Orchestra features the finest of Vancouver’s jazz community and performs music that is influenced by jazz, pop, world, contemporary classical and improvised music. Since its debut in 1990 the Orchestra has toured to Europe and across Canada including concerts in Amsterdam and at FIMAV in Quebec.

“HARD RUBBER IS, NO QUESTION, CONSISTENTLY THE BEST VANCOUVER BAND EVENT YOU CAN SEE” (Discorder Magazine)

Drum and Light 2009

Drum and Light 2009 – 3-minute documentary for Vancouver’s Knowledge Network