At the Registry Theatre in Kitchener, a performance by pianist Eve Egoyan, one of Canada's leading new music artists (and, coincidentally, the sister of filmmaker Atom Egoyan.) She performed the world premiere of "Surface Tension": a collaboration with artist (and husband) David Rokeby, in which her disklavier piano triggered a series of trippy video projections. Crystal-like structures grew and morphed; snow danced in a winter streetscape. The music was modern and composed: Egoyan played off a flatscreen, and it wasn't immediately clear if she was reading a score or some kind of computer imagery. No mention of who the composer was, for once.
(Postcript: Egoyan wrote in to inform me that she improvised the music, and that the flatscreen showed only the projections.)
