A collaboration between composer and guitarist Tim Brady and videographer Martin Messier, 24 Frames will see its world premiere at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur in Montréal on October 17 2008. Free!

The second day began with Montréal-based guitarist and composer Tim Brady with the video artist Martin Messier and the Bradyworks ensemble. Brady opened with a piece for solo guitar with video. The guitar part was a Frippish quick-strumming work with a video of orange clouds and lines of words at the bottom of the screen. Interesting, it reminded me of some early space-rock. The second piece was called Switch and was in five parts. Some sections reminded me of Nick Didkovsky’s prog/rock guitar sound with some slowed down bent-string weirdness elsewhere. 57 Ways of Playing Guitar displayed some constantly shifting ways to play the guitar with electronic sounds and beats inserted at certain points. The best piece was last, a Shoshtakovich tribute with (a sort-of) double quartet featuring guitar, piano, sax, percussion and a sampled string quartet. The writing recalled some Zappa-like complexities and layers of images of old St. Petersberg with current images of the same city worked very well with the music. […]

On 16 mai 2008 at Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville:

• Tim Brady, Martin Messier, Bradyworks: Switch at Cinéma Laurier, 1 pm;
• Fred Frith: Cosa Brava at Cinéma Laurier, 8pm.