Sympathetic String Band & Friends with Andrew Timar

"Sympathetic String Band’s back at the Tranzac on Sunday, August 30th, and we’re happy to say we’ll be joined by a master of Indonesian music, Andrew Timar! Andrew is a Toronto-based composer, multi-instrumentalist and gamelan music educator. Andrew has made a name for himself as a master of the suling, having been dubbed “North America’s leading suling player” by prominent Sundanese composer Nano Suratno. He has performed with artists such as Jon Hassell and Brian Eno and produced works for film and stage productions. He co-founded the Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan in 1983, which has toured internationally, performing traditional and contemporary gamelan works. Andrew is the first Canadian to be awarded the Indonesian AKI prize for cultural contributions in Indonesia.

Andrew will be joining us on the kacapi - a traditional Sundanese zither instrument. Expect a solo set from Andrew and a group improvisation with the Sympathetic String Band.

7:30-9:30pm in the Tranzac’s Southern Cross. PWYC. "

"The Sympathetic String Band is a Toronto-based music ensemble that fuses renaissance tonality with improvisational modalities. Inter-weaving a multitude of stringed instruments such as Appalachian and hammered dulcimers, bowed and plucked psaltries, and guitars tuned and played outside the boundaries of standard technique, the group explores music through free improvisations, often within the context of a prompt, concept, or tuning.

The group has been in residence at the Tranzac on the fourth/last Sunday of the month from 7:30-9:30pm for over year now. Each month brings an opportunity to feature new artists and practices, and welcomes their collaboration in a group improvisation with the ever-changing Sympathetic String Band ensemble. "