Music Event

We invite artists and sound-makers of all kinds to join us in celebrating this international day of drone!

Drone Day is an annual global celebration of drone, community and experimental sounds. This year, Debaser and Carleton University Art Gallery are co-presenting a special edition of Ottawa Drone Day at Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (CDCC), a heritage building in Centretown, not far from Parliament Hill. It reflects on the question, “what is our relationship to this land?”

Taking place in CDCC’s vaulted performance hall, Drone Day is a participatory program that invites experienced and beginner sound-makers to add their voices to a heterogenous yet unified hum. It requests listening as much as inviting sounding.

We’ll take our cues from Pauline Oliveros’ ideas of deep listening as activism and Dylan Robinson’s concept of hungry listening. This decentralized program of organized sound elevates group consciousness while honouring individual contributions on their own terms. Conceived together, drone is a healing and socializing agent.

LINEUP (in alphabetical order):
16:9 ratio
Andy Slater
Anjeline de Dios
Anne Bourne
crhunchy! by Dasha
ignoble marmalade
LSD Trio
Nick Veltmeyer
Olivia Shortt
Patrick Lacasse
Se Garer
The Unmann'd Craft
ZOMA

Accessibility: The main accessible entrance and ramp is at 290 Lisgar Street on the north side of the building. A second emergency exit and accessible ramp is located at 355 Cooper Street on the south side of the building.

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