Mission

Based in Toronto since 1972, Arraymusic plays a leading role in Canada's diverse and creative contemporary music scene–acting as a laboratory for innovative work from artists from every corner of our community. Our 1,200 sq ft rehearsal and performance venue, The Array Space, is a welcoming creative hub supporting emerging and established curators, composers, musicians and multi-media artists fromToronto, across Canada, and globally.

Values

Exploration

Arraymusic creates profound and meaningful artistic journeys through a playful, respectful attitude – free of expectations, open to new ideas, and confident in discovering new horizons. We embrace daring choices, speculative investigations and ever-evolving collaborations for explorations and presentations across artistic disciplines and media.

Connection

Arraymusic’s programs bring diverse participants together to strengthen community and foster cross-pollination. We embrace, welcome, and encourage participants from all traditions, cultures, styles,disciplines, incomes, genders, and ages.

Playground

Arraymusic provides the community a safe, affordable, well outfitted, accessible performance space witha toolkit of instruments and technology, supported by talented practitioners, to enable creation, presentation, documentation, distribution and collaboration.

Programs

Arraymusic’s core programming includes three annual series of Array Productions, curated by practicing artists who are leaders in their respective fields, in creative disciplines ranging from contemporary concert music to improvisation, multimedia practices, and beyond.Our outreach programming includes the Array Composer’s Workshop – our one-of-a-kind professional development program for early career composers – and monthly hands-on workshops for adults and youth.The Array Space enables Arraymusic to support creative work from artists beyond our own productions, including a Resident Artist Program, regular workshops and salons, and multiple co-presentation events annually. Ongoing support from our funders allows us to make the Array Space available to Toronto’s broader artistic community at below-market rental rates for rehearsals, recordings, and performances–making Arraymusic and the Array Space vital player operating at the nexus of Toronto’s busy performing arts sector.