Venue: Centre d’artistes daphne (5425 Casgrain Ave Unit #103, Montreal, Quebec H2T 1X6) Date: October 5, 2025 Doors: 7:30 PM Music: 8:00 PM
Tickets: $15 plus fees in advance / $20.00 at the door NOTAFLOF
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Co-presented with Canadian New Music Network, Centre d’artistes daphne, EAF, Innovations en Concert, International Institute for the Critical Studies in Improvisation, Interzone, Le Vivier, Mardi Spaghetti, McGill University’s Laboratory of Urban Culture and Québec Musiques Parallèles.
BIO: Tanner Menard: A vessel for consciousness, carrying sound, vision, and breath as living currents of presence. Here in relation, a transparent ray of lineage, flowing beyond self. THIS open pathway for imaginal becoming—beyond name, beyond nation—with what is shared, resonant, alive. The living path.
Tanner Menard is a multifaceted artist – a poet, composer, and Kundalini Yoga instructor. He is the visionary behind UBU Yogic Tech, an innovative online coaching platform that collaborates with artists to bolster creativity and further human evolution. With a prolific output, Tanner has released eleven albums of experimental music, a chapbook, and is on the verge of unveiling his contrapuntal visual and sound poetry project, ‘the poet’, under the banner of Post Asemic Press and Full Spectrum Records.
Currently pursuing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Tanner is also deeply immersed in the realm of cultural futurity. As a former tribal council member for the Atakapa Ishak Nation, he has actively contributed to language restoration initiatives and remains a custodian of traditional teachings. His academic pursuits aim to bridge the wisdom of ancient sentience and relationality with contemporary philosophical discourses. Self-identifying as a futurist and radical syncretist, Tanner is profoundly committed to a life of post-polarity-unity.
https://fullspectrumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-poet
As a transmission and sound artist, Martín Rodríguez’s work emerges from his Xicanx upbringing along the Arizona-Mexico border. He employs performance, intervention, and installation as a process for deciphering aural histories and entangled identities.
After recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumor, a chance encounter with a radio transmission caught in the pickup coils of his guitar reoriented Rodríguez. Developing his practice from crisis, he examines radio as a transformative medium. Rooting his relationship with radio in healing, his artworks consider transmission as a material through which sound intertwines with affect, acting as a vessel for ulterior forms of communication.
Elements of care and speculative thinking create rhizomes throughout his artwork. Utilizing these broader methods, Rodriguez approaches his work from the Xicanx concept of rasquachismo; this methodology utilizes pragmatic ways of remaking and hacking material and objects to reimagine their function. This is a process born from adapting, merging, and creating something practical and new from scarcity.
Notably, his work has been presented by the Musée d’art contemporain Montréal (CA), Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MX), Darling Foundry (CA), Walking Festival for Sound (UK/PL), Spektrum (DE), as well as various festivals and performance venues across Canada, and the US.