2021/22 season release

NOV 1, 2021

New Art/New Media makes an exciting debut with a series of commissions featuring some of Canada’s most innovative artists


In their inaugural season, Unethered, New Art/New Media creates four independent creations that speak to the experience of being unbound - or released - from the things that confine us as humans. The season includes:

  • The world premiere of ‘sing nature alive from my insides’ a song cycle for self-accompanied soprano, piano, & live electronics, which expresses a deep love of nature in light of the tragedy and inevitability of climate change composed by Canadian composer Matthias McIntirefor Candian pianist/singer Rachel Fenlon

  • Blue, an interdisciplinary chamber commission written for soprano, clarinet, string quartet, and guitar, and visual installation. Blue is composed by Latvian composer Krists Auznieks, with libretto by Montreal-based writer Erin Lindsay, installation by Montreal-based visual artist Aaron Richmond, and co-conceived with soprano Meghan Lindsay

  • Dialecto de Árbol No.5, a digital commission for electronics, voice, and clarinet centred on the imagined voices of trees. The piece is composed by Mexican composer, Luis Fernando Amaya with the digital installation by digital artist Alex McLeod

  • Mother, a filmed adaptation of Schumann’s Fraunliebe und Leben, that revisits the piece from a feminist perspective. Performed by Meghan Lindsay and pianist Carson Becke, the video will be choreographed and danced by the choreographer of Netflix’s Tiny Pretty Things, Jennifer Nichols and will include poetry by Canadian authors Erin Lindsay and Katie Gorrie.

“New Art/New Media is really just a container for projects.” says Olivares. “This season wasn’t ‘programmed.’ It came from a series of conversations and hopes. We see New Art/New Media as a place to experiment and to build relationships through creation and are so grateful to have so many curious, generous, and exciting artists involved. We want New Art/New Media to be a place where artists can bring their unique ideas and voices. A truly artist-driven space. A space for radical new ideas.”

Untethered will premiere digitally on September 1, 2022 on the New Art/New Media website (www.newartnewmedia.com.)