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Open Space presents Susanna Hood and Scott Thomson performing The Muted Note in concert.  Advance tickets available at MutedNoteOS.bpt.me

Unaccompanied trombone and voice boldly interpret the poems of the late P.K. Page through song and dance. The Muted Note is a suite of eleven songs, a hybrid of jazz and artsong, written by Scott Thomson. This intimate duet was created for vocalist/dancer Susanna Hood who choreographed and performs the work. Through the words of P. K. Page, the suite creates a contemplative mood owing to the inextricable link between Hood’s voice and movement and Thomson’s often-sparse trombone. Newcomers to new music, as well as seasoned veterans, will be taken with this night of movement and sound.

“what emerges is a kind of dance between voice and trombone, between word and sound, a subtle counterpoint between conjoined melodies and ideas of voice, always in close connection to the gestural power of Page’s phrases,”

Stuart Broomer, Music Works, 2013.

Susanna Hood is a compelling and virtuosic performer in dance and music. She began her career as a member of the Toronto Dance Theatre from 1991 through 1995. Independently, she has performed the works of various Toronto choreographers; created singing/dancing roles with Autumn Leaf Productions; acted on film for filmmaker Philip Barker; created music for the dance works of Louis Laberge Coté, Rebecca Todd, and Eryn Dace Trudell; collaborated extensively with composers John Oswald and Nilan Perera; and performed widely as an improvisor both in dance and music. In the fall of 1998, she was one of two recipients of the K. M. Hunter Emerging Artists Awards in Dance.

Scott Thomson is a trombonist and composer working in Montreal and Toronto. He has studied with Roswell Rudd, Jean Derome, Eddie Prévost, and John Oswald. Thomson helped to found the Association of Improvising Musicians Toronto (AIMToronto), where he served as a director until 2009, and co-directs the AIMToronto Orchestra, which was formed for a project with Anthony Braxton in September 2007. Until 2010, Thomson was the artistic director of Somewhere There, a performance space for live creative music in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood that he founded in 2007. www.scottthomson.ca/muted-note/

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