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Winnipeg has no shortage of eclectic music and art expos, but only the Cluster Festival of New Music and Integrated Arts will feature dancehall music, synth improvisation and aquatic sculptures inspired by the Victorian era.

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Winnipeg has no shortage of eclectic music and art expos, but only the Cluster Festival of New Music and Integrated Arts will feature dancehall music, synth improvisation and aquatic sculptures inspired by the Victorian era.

The festival opens May 31 with Hyperfemme Galactica, by dj Konjo at The Forks in Room 201 on the market’s second floor. Self-described as Black, queer and femme, Konjo reasserts those identities into genres such as house, techno and dancehall.

At Pulse on June 6, three experimental artists unite at the West End Cultural Centre to jointly explore “the meditative, trance-inducing power of sound” through improvisation, setting and environmental response.

Toronto composer and sound researcher Debashis Sinha comes to town for a quadraphonic piece called Rückstreuung. Percussionist and producer Jason Tait (the Weakerthans, Bahamas) will première a new work of structured improvisations for modular and analog synthesizers. Compost, a new project from Julian Beutel, Eric Roberts and Justin Alcock, will debut Decomposed, a multi-movement work.

On June 7 at Video Pool Media Arts Centre, artist Michael Lucenkiw will dive into the Environmental Machine Shop, described as an interactive artwork which encourages the reimagination of our relationship to the Red River.

On June 8 in Room 201, electronic artists Meanspath (Riley Hill of Mulligrub and No Fun Club) and Domo 11 (Domo Lemoine of À La Mode) will collaborate with dance artist Zorya Arrow on Symphony of Self, a four-part structured improvisation. Afterward, Toronto saxophonist Olivia Shortt performs with Jaime Black, a Winnipeg-based Anishinaabe-Finnish artist whose focus is memory, identity and resistance.

On June 9, pianists Madeline Hildebrand and Everett Hopfner, cellist Natanielle Felicitas, and vocalist Sarah Jo Kirsch will visit the WECC for Reframe, an evening of collaborative and solo performances.

Other Cluster events include Play, a graphic scoring workshop for kids (June 8) and Movement + Sound from Weather Parade Dance Theatre (June 8).

Tickets for all events will be available at clusterfestival.com on Friday.

ben.waldman@winnipegfreepress.com

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