Nils Frahm announced for Chan Centre’s new EXP series
The internationally acclaimed musician comes to Vancouver in 2023 in partnership with Timbre Concerts; tickets go on sale June 24
Nils Frahm.
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts’ EXP Series in partnership with Timbre Concerts presents Nils Frahm on April 26, 2023 at the Chan Centre
THE CHAN CENTRE for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia has unveiled its new EXP series as part of its 25th-anniversary celebrations.
Called “the single most important artist in the world right now” by BBC radio presenter Mary Anne Hobbs, Nils Frahm, a critically acclaimed post-classical musician and composer, is the first artist to be announced for the series.
EXP was conceived of by Chan Centre curator-in-residence Jarrett Martineau and aims to bring in category-defying artists “at the vanguard of sonic creativity”.
Frahm appears at the Chan Centre in partnership with Timbre Concerts. The show is in support of his forthcoming release, Music For Animals, which is due out on September 23.
“Nils Frahm is a brilliant artist at the forefront of contemporary music,” Martineau says in a release. “He represents the defining creative spirit of the EXP Series: genre-crossing, expansive explorations into the outer reaches of sound and experience. His live concerts are mesmerizing and profound, electrifying and transformative, and I’m thrilled to unveil the EXP Series with one of the world’s foremost electronic musicians.”
The 2023 concert, one of only two Canadian stops, will be Frahm’s first since 2019.
Music For Animals will offer an immersive experience for audiences, unfolding at a meditative pace that showcases tone, timbre, and texture; most notably, there’s no piano. Frahm has said that the new album is stripped of excess, giving “an idea of what could be there but isn’t there so that the listener starts creating the composition in their mind.”
The Chan Centre EXP series will announce more artists this summer.
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