Concert 2 (curated by Jay Taylor):

RESONANCE | featuring: Midbrain Surfers

Spontaneous interpretations across music, words, and images

        • Wednesday 14 October 2026, 7:30pm • SIDESTAGE, 700 Osborne Street •
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          Special guests:
                    • Margaret Sweatman, author and spoken word performer
                    • Murray Toews, spoken word performer and video artist
                    • Glenn Buhr, composer/musician

Midbrain Surfers creates improvisational music for concert and mixed media. Combining overtone/throat singing plus extended vocal techniques, jaw harps, melodica, slide-didgeridoo, electric oud, fretless bass, electro-acoustic percussion and electronics, their eclectic sound baths blend elements of jazz, neo-classical, world fusion, trip-hop, ambient, avant-garde and experimental music into dynamic, genre-defying, groove-driven spontaneous compositions.

Margaret Sweatman (novelist and spoken word artist), and Murray Toews (a visual artist who is also a spoken word artist) join Midbrain Surfers to create a new body of work right before your eyes and ears. Glenn Buhr (composer/performer) joins the band for a performance of his epic anti-war piece, GOD OF WAR.

                             MIDBRAIN SURFERS:
                                    • Kiva Simova, vocals/electronics
                                    • Jay Taylor, bass/oud/electronics
                                    • Mike Thompson, didgeridoo/vocal
                                    • Chris Mama-Bauer, drums

Here's some music by Midbrain Surfers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXG0yg5NIyc

Here's some spoken word with music by Margaret Sweatman:
https://dreamplay.ca/node/149

Here's some video art by Murray Toews:
https://vimeo.com/214728761

Here's GOD OF WAR by Glenn Buhr:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXw_P-p6B9o&list=RDBXw_P-p6B9o&start_rad...

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All concerts are one hour long.

Questions?
Email us at info@dreamplay.ca

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• ADVANCED TICKET SALES ARE NOW CLOSED • We accept cash or card at the door (pay what you wish).