Sounds Like: An Audio Festival

06/04/2026

Installations, Music, Drinks, Magazines!
Launch our spring issue at studio c on Friday, June 12, 7–10 pm.

🌟 Installations:
• Phomohobes
• Erica Stocking, Amanda Boulos, and Ella Dawn McGeough

🎧 DJs:
• STIva .burner
• Conny Clank

$20 Admission includes 2 drinks and a magazine of your choice. Or pay what you can and celebrate with us 🥂

Thank you and for sponsoring this event.

Image: Annie MacDonell, Ego Death Trip, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.

06/04/2026

06/03/2026

05/28/2026

Coming up in just a coupla days! Join us for some great sounds. 3 events in 2 days. SK Free Radical show is at the wonderful Bar

05/19/2026

🧂🦐🌈 Another addition to the eclectic lineup for Saturday afternoon at , we’re so delighted to welcome 敬兒 to Manitou Beach! We have no doubt their unique performance and gorgeous layers of sound will help us soak in the serenity of the lake and its healing waters.

🎵 Hear more at https://respectfulchild.com

🎟 Sorry folks, wristbands to get into Mike's on Saturday afternoon are sold out!! (But, you can always listen in from a towel on the main beach) 🏖️

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respectfulchild 敬兒 is a solo violin project based on Treaty 6 Territory. Their performances build ambient soundscapes through slow progressions of meticulous improvisation, bringing quiet to even the noisiest of rooms. Their 2nd album 更新 re:new was independently released in 2023. A new video from them is due out later this year.

05/19/2026

🧂🦐🌈 Lo-fi, experimental, ambient - whatever monikers you like, count on to help the chill vibes abound at our Saturday afternoon beach party at !

🎵 Hear more at https://openwindow95.bandcamp.com

🎟Sorry folks, wristbands to get into Mike's on Saturday afternoon are sold out!! (But, you can always listen in from a towel on the main beach) 🏖️

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Open Window is the experimental ambient project started by Peter Grier in 2016. Tape loops and samples are made from chance improvisations of Peter’s home recordings resulting in soothing ambience, drone and beat driven experimental music. Sometimes vocals are present, sometimes not. You never know what will blow in from an open window.

02/24/2026

Éliane Radigue (1932-2026)

C’est avec une immense tristesse que nous apprenons le décès d’Éliane Radigue, survenu à l’âge de 94 ans. Collaboratrice des premières heures de la musique concrète, auprès de Pierre Schaeffer puis de Pierre Henry, Éliane Radigue prit ensuite son envol, avec une liberté et une vision sans pareil. Elle poursuivit un vie musicale passionnante, passant des feedbacks électroacoustiques à la musique électronique (à l’aide de son indissociable ARP 2500) pour enfin se réinventer à travers des collaborations fertiles, nouées avec de nombreux instrumentistes, notamment autour du cycle OCCAM OCEAN. C’est une figure majeure de la création musicale qui nous quitte. Toutes nos pensées vont à sa famille, ses amis et ses collaborateurs.

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It is with immense sadness that we learn of the passing of Éliane Radigue at the age of 94. An early collaborator in the field of musique concrète, working first with Pierre Schaeffer and then Pierre Henry, Éliane Radigue went on to carve out her own path with unparalleled freedom and vision. She pursued an exciting musical life, moving from electroacoustic feedback to electronic music (with the help of her inseparable ARP 2500) and finally reinventing herself through fruitful collaborations with numerous instrumentalists, notably around the OCCAM OCEAN cycle. A major figure in musical creation has left us. Our thoughts are with her family, friends, and collaborators.

02/21/2026

Due to popular demand we’ve released a limited number of advance tickets for ‘Wampum’ by Elisa Harkins. Pick them up in person at The Midnight Oil during business hours: 204 3rd Avenue South

Huge thanks to everyone in the community supporting this special event! Please spread the word to your friends and we’ll see you on February 28th at PAVED Arts. Doors open at 9pm!

02/02/2026

ARTIST SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN FOR NBYXE 2026!

Become a featured artist in our 13th annual event on Saturday, September 19, 2026. Showcase your work to over 12,000 NBYXE attendees! Application deadline is March 15.

https://www.nuitblanchesaskatoon.ca/call-2026

Theme: Future

In 2026, Nuit Blanche Saskatoon invites artists to imagine and create from the perspective of the future. We welcome visual art, performance, interactive installations, community engagement, sound, and film that explore what lies ahead through your unique lens.

Consider how today’s choices shape tomorrow. Speak from the future: What would you change now to build a brighter world?

We encourage bold, diverse visions—including traditional sci‑fi—embracing Asian Futurism, Afro‑Futurism, Indigenous Futurism, LGBTQ2S+ Futures, and more. Engage with themes such as environment, agriculture, culture, economy, engineering, and artificial intelligence.


Strong applications should encourage public interaction, engage viewers, transform public spaces, be fun, and/or share unique perspectives. Projects should incorporate light, sound, and spectacle as this is a night-time event.

Learn more about this year's call, submission guidelines, and review our application form by visiting NBYXE.ca.

https://www.nuitblanchesaskatoon.ca/call-2026

01/20/2026

An act of Indigenous Futurism, Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ is the electronic music project of Elisa Harkins. Singing in Cherokee, Muscogee, and English, Harkins becomes a language guardian, fighting extinction whilst crafting a head-bouncing beat. Combining disco and phonological preservation, Harkins strives to decolonize expectations of how pop music should look and sound, while bringing Indigenous representation to the field. In Harkins’ cosmos, pressed vinyl and radio play become radical tools of language conservation and transmission.

This performance of Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ refers to wampum belts and Indigenous peacekeeping, as well as the Cherokee use of wampum beads as currency. ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ, pronounced a-de-la di-ga-gu-di, can be translated to “money on a string.” The intention of this Wampum / ᎠᏕᎳ ᏗᎦᎫᏗ performance is to create a metaphorical peacekeeping agreement between the spectators of the piece, regardless of tribe or race.

Presented by Unheard Sound collective in collaboration with the Remai Modern Art Gallery and supported by PAVED Arts, PR Productions, and Nokomis Craft Ales. Poster design by Parker Thiessen, photograph by Ian Byers-Gamber.