Intersection Music & Arts

10/11/2025

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08/31/2025

Our evening tonight caps off with the definition of immersive sounds via and .vendertown ! All throughout the day not to be missed!

7pm:
8pm:
9:30: .vendertown

Temporal Waves is a new project from renowned Canadian tabla player Shawn Mativetsky, transporting the tabla into a retro-future cinematic sound world. Inspired by sounds of his childhood years growing up with Atari, Nintendo, and early PCs, along with a retro 80s dystopian sci-fi vision of the future, the music carries a message about the environment, and our need to balance our relationship with nature and technology. Tabla, bathed in the neon glow of analog synthesizers, Temporal Waves is an excursion deep into aural science fiction.

Lavender Town is a Toronto-based alternative jazz fusion group. Formed over a string of live shows in Toronto’s underground live music scene, Lavender Town was created around the idea of combining jazz fusion with a sound hailing from modern genres such as rock, underground hiphop, and EDM. Their performances highlight their individual improvisational styles while blending influences from contemporary groups such as KNOWER and Kneebody, as well as classic jazz fusion legends like Herbie Hancock and Joe Henderson.

08/30/2025

Throughout the day at we’ll feature installations from and plus ! David and Sydney’s installation “A Radio Active Community” will have a special spotlight at 8pm on our main stage, and Stephanie’s Sonic Bikes sculptures will be available for interactions throughout the day!

David Dacks is a Toronto-based advocate of creative music in all its forms. He is currently Executive Director of Labyrinth Music Workshop Ontario and was previously Artistic then Executive Director of renowned experimental venue the Music Gallery from 2011-23. Previously, David was an editor of Exclaim Magazine’s coverage of jazz, R&B, experimental music, reggae, and music from around the world. His has also written for Spinner.com, The Grid, Weird Canada, BlogTO, Paste Magazine, The African Drum and Musicworks. He was a programmer and host at CIUT-FM for 25 years, and produced four documentaries for CBC Radio. As a musician and DJ, he recorded eight albums featuring wild combinations of electronics with dub, cumbia and improvised elements, and ran his own record label. David served on the Toronto Arts Council’s Board of Directors from 2017-23, and was a juror for Polaris Music Prize (Grand Juror, 2011), and Polaris Music Heritage Prize. He currently serves on the board of New Feeling Writers Cooperative.

Sydney Dacks is a Toronto and Montreal-based student and up-and-coming video game developer, completing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Sociology at McGill University, graduating this fall. Sydney is passionate about investigating the creative potential of the computer and about using technology for storytelling, and helping artists to execute their creative vision. They have built six video games in Unity and have another two under development. They have participated in several hackathons and Game Jams, winning the best VR Game award in the 2024 McGameJam. They have designed and taught curriculum for childhood coding education, centered on fun and engagement while providing IT support. Sydney is also interested in and has conducted responsible AI research with a focus on algorithmic fairness and data privacy.

08/30/2025

The midday of our marathon today goes even deeper on the ambient experimental vibes already rolling!

4pm: Khôra
5pm:
6pm: .ambient

Khôra is the ekstatic transmission of Toronto composer and writer Matthew Ramolo. Ramolo has created sound for film, dance, and theatre, been commissioned by Maerzmusik, Thin Edge New Music Ensemble, and Bespoken, and toured and recorded with Picastro, among other collaborative work. Traversing decades and numerous assemblages of expression, Ramolo’s musical workings as Khôra are rooted in the unitive, alchemical wisdom of the hermetic tradition. Philosophical and mythical modes are found integral to harmonic, rhythmic, and symbolic form as Khôra approaches the collective overcoming of time through the induction of intensive meditative trance states, guiding witnesses to the threshold of shared illusions. Khôra has been independently releasing instrumental music since 2006, reissuing inaugural album Silent Your Body Is Endless through Constellation Records in 2010. Khôra’s most recent offering is Gestures of Perception, a double LP and book of fractal mythography, alchemical insight, and abstracted occult imagery released by the Marionette label.

Heart Map Ambient Ensemble is an ongoing collaborative project co-founded by Alex Raja Ven and Andrew Noseworthy. The collective-style project seeks to bridge the gap between classical and ambient electronic music, and has featured a number of players from both the Toronto and London, ON contemporary music scenes. Via open arrangements and varied instrumentations, the group’s approach invites experimentation, improvisation and multimedia into their dynamic and engaging live performances.

08/28/2025

is almost upon us!! Saturday’s marathon opens with some of Toronto’s best and most underrated talent in the fusion and ambient guitar realms!

The marathon begins at 2pm with some serious shredding from followed by the serene guitar landscapes of at 3pm. Show up early so you don’t miss these two gems!

Arkkose is a Toronto-based instrumental quintet fuelled by the extreme diversity of its individual’s artistic backgrounds. Its classical, jazz, and hardcore musicians make intricate, lyrical, and intensely driving music. They are Erik Ross, Rob MacDonald, Michael ‘Rosie’ Rosenthal, Torrie Seager, and Jesse Dietschi. Their experience includes such contrasting fields as modern orchestral composition, improvisatory experimentation and thrash metal drumming. The resulting sound combines angular intervallic combinations and long melodic lines with slowly evolving harmonies and driving sinuous bass lines. Elaborate musical elements like polyrhythms and precisely layered textures stand out as primary components. Arkkose’s two guitarists epitomize the ensemble’s overall nature with one centered in the realm of contemporary classical repertoire and the other in modern jazz. All of this creates the solid foundation of a distinct sound world – one of burgeoning energy and contrapuntal melodies mixed with aggressive, yet sensual harmonies. Their new album Diversion is available on all streaming platforms.

Brad Deschamps has been recording and releasing music as anthéne since 2015 and has released his music on a number of labels, including Home Normal (UK) and Past Inside the Present (US) as well as his own Polar Seas and floralia labels. He has also collaborated with like-minded artists Ian Hawgood and Avi C. Engel amongst others. Brad’s music is mainly composed using electric guitar and various acoustic instruments and field recordings to create melodic and texturally rich ambient pieces.

08/27/2025

kicks off on Friday with a special intimate show at featuring two artists whose work is no stranger to each other: and ! Both artists’ sets will serve as a preview to their MainStage features the next day at . Come catch their sounds up close first before out in the open!

Alex Raja Ven is a Lebanese-Canadian sound artist and experimental ambient musician whose work explores performance, technology, and alternative modes of perception. Drawing from personal sound archives, their practice engages with discourses of ambient, noise, improvisation, and field recording. In May 2025, she created and exhibited Threshold Ecologies, a mixed-media sound installation, during a residency at SÍM in Reykjavík, Iceland. She has collaborated on projects such as Parallel 03, a web-based instrument designed by Raven Chacon and John Dieterich for Vancouver New Music, and Heart Map Ambient Ensemble, a minimalist instrumental group she co-leads with composer and guitarist Andrew Noseworthy. She has performed and presented her work in concerts, galleries, and festivals internationally.

Bilal Nasser is a Palestinian-Canadian guitarist and composer from Windsor Ontario known for his ability to blend his classical guitar background with his passion for more experimental genres such as post-rock, shoegaze, and drone. Through his unique output he challenges assumptions as to what classical guitar music can be, resulting in a signature sound often described as “Post-Classical”. Nasser defies institutional expectations through his eclectic performances, which take place in the popular music scene, in DIY venue spaces like skateparks, dive bars, and warehouses. Bilal is the first known classical guitarist to have a mosh-pit at a show.

08/24/2025

The third and final day of this year’s Intersection Festival will feature two events at two of our favourite returning venues, and !

First, from 3-5pm and in association with .cbma , join us for a special panel discussion on “A Radio Active Community” project. The panel will be hosted by and David will be joined by further TO radio mainstays Dave DTS Clarke (Master Plan Show/Generation Next) and Phil Vassell.

From there, we’ll host a reception and ambient jam with the festival artists at from 7-9pm!

All events are free but space is limited! Check the festival website to register for the panel event and/or DM us if you’d like to participate in the CMC reception jam!

08/23/2025

Just a week away! Intersection Day 2 we return to for our trademark experimental music marathon in the square! Intersection began as this single day marathon event, and this year we return to our roots with a special focus on local and Canadian post-genre talent throughout the day on the main stage along with installations and local vendors in the square!

Featuring performances from .vendertown .ambient Khôra

Installations running from and

2-10pm
Free!

More info at Intersectionfestival.org !

08/22/2025

Intersection Music & Arts in association with the Canada Black Music Archives presents A Radio Active Community, a historical megamix by David and Sydney Dacks at 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Arts, Media and Education on Sunday, August 31, 2025 at 3:00 pm
Get your tickets online https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/55181/sots

08/21/2025

We’re so excited to kick off next week with a return to one of our favourite spots, !!! Catch two special intimate performances from and before their sets on the main stage the following day!

August 29th, 6-7:30pm
All events FREE

08/15/2025

Shout out Exclaim! for spreading the word! Y'all rule as always!

The festival will run across four different venues from August 29 to 31