VOLUME 15 of the INSTITUT experiment. Every week, a different hypothesis. Underground at 620 Spadina Ave — around the back, through the lot to the steel doors, down the stairs, past the mechanical room, through the swinging wood laminate door.
5:00 PM | PANEL | Afro-Beat in Ableton with LeWolf
Three tracks. One Ableton session. Congolese-Canadian producer LeWolf opens the project files from his recent Los Angeles recordings, breaking down rhythm, arrangement, and the making of Afrobeat in real time.
LEWOLF is a Congolese-Canadian producer and DJ whose work draws on Afro-house, Afrobeat, and dance music traditions from across the African diaspora. His sets move fluidly between contemporary club sounds and global grooves, guided by rhythm, texture, and movement.
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7:00 PM | LIVE SCORE | DAVID SAIT × A Day Off (Lee Man-hee, 1968)
A Chinese guzheng. A Korean modernist masterpiece. One of the country's most celebrated lost films, reimagined through live improvisation.
DAVID SAIT is a Canadian composer and improviser whose work centers on the guzheng, a 21-string Chinese zither with more than 2,000 years of history. Through alternative playing techniques, custom tunings, and interdisciplinary collaborations, he has developed a contemporary voice for the instrument across experimental, improvised, and cross-cultural performance.
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9:00 PM | LIVE SCORE | DJ BRIGADIER SHAZBAD × The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1967)
Revolutionary cinema. Classic dub on vinyl. One of the defining films of anti-colonial resistance, reimagined through a live analog soundtrack.
DJ BRIGADIER SHAZBAD is a selector, curator, and organizer whose all-vinyl sets draw from the places he has lived, including Tkaronto, Banjul, Istanbul, Sulaymaniyah, and Kingston. Blending early Jamaican ska, roots, dub, African jazz, Anatolian rock, Arabic funk, and Qawwali, his work explores the intersections of music, place, and resistance through vinyl and cinema..
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11:00 PM | VINTAGE VINYL | LeWolf
Afro-house, highlife, soukous, disco, and rhythms that refuse to stay in one place. Congolese-Canadian producer LeWolf closes the night with a vinyl set built for movement.
LEWOLF is a Congolese-Canadian producer and DJ whose work draws on Afro-house, Afrobeat, and dance music traditions from across the African diaspora. His sets move fluidly between contemporary club sounds and global grooves, guided by rhythm, texture, and movement.