Juro Kim Feliz

Na sa kanyang paglayag,
Makita ang tinatamasa.
Maningning na liwanag.

That in one’s voyage,
One will see what one desires.
A glimmering light.

Juro Kim Feliz (2011)

Past activities...

‣ MAY 2023

Music and sound design work for Would Virginia Woolf Contemplate Suicide if She Were Filipino? (Vancouver)
May 25-27, 2023

Play written by Revan Badingham III, with direction by Dennis Gupa and produced by Voices of Asia International. Featuring the single "Dark Skies" (Grumpy Kitty Boy). Presented by the rEvolver Festival.

‣ MARCH 2023

World premiere of Kina-i-ngátan (Toronto)
March 30, 2023

Presented in "Re-Sequencing Berio: A Film/Concert Spectacular" by New Music Concerts. Premiere by Guy Few (trumpet).

American premiere of Ni ici, ni là-bas in CAMPGround23 (Tampa, FL)
March 16, 2023

Premiere by Julianna Eidle (alto flute).

Kinalugarán (audio essay) in the 22nd Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art (South River, ON / online)
March 4, 2023

Presented in "Remote Connections" by New Adventures in Sound Art

‣ FEBRUARY 2023

Digital release of Kinalugarán in "Deep Wireless 17"
February 4, 2023

Compilation album released by New Adventures in Sound Art for the 22nd Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art

Digital release of Weekend Rain and Hanggang sa Paglubog ng Araw in "Tunog Lata"
February 3, 2023

Compilation album released by MusiKolektibo

‣ DECEMBER 2022

Hanggang sa Paglubog ng Araw in Listening Lounge, SONIC MATTER Festival 2022 (Zürich)
December 2-4, 2022

‣ NOVEMBER 2022

Publication of "Examining the Asian Imaginary in Philippine Contemporary Music"

Musika Jornal Vol. 13 (2021) article, published by the UP Center for Ethnomusicology (Quezon City, Philippines).

Digital world premiere of O forse, l'ho già perduta poco a poco...
November 17, 2022

Premiere by Wesley Shen (piano), presented by Freesound (Toronto/online).

‣ OCTOBER 2022

Publication of "Resequencing Resonances"

Musicworks magazine article (Fall 2022) on musical repatriation in Canadian music venues. Featuring lore man Richard Scott-Moore (Goombine), singer Marion Newman, and scholar Jeremy Strachan.

Japanese koto mentorship (New York City, NY)
October 5-November 1, 2022

Part of a year-long professional development program on studying the koto under Masayo Ishigure, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

‣ JULY 2022

World premiere of A Study in Exile, No. 3: Home is not a place on a map.
July 28-31, 2022

Premiere by Amy Hull (dancer), Rebecca Leonard (circus artist), and the Thin Edge New Music Collective. Presented in "Anthropic Traces," produced by Balancing on the Edge and A Girl in the Sky Productions (Toronto).

Digital release of Hanggang sa Takipsilim in "Mind & Machine, Vol. 4"
July 22, 2022

Compilation album released by Ravello Records

‣ JUNE 2022

Paper presentation of "Nomadic Sound Worlds: towards the transitory and the migratory" in Diasporic Solidarities
June 9, 2022

John Douglas Taylor Conference hosted by the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University.

Participation as a panel member of "Lost in Translation? When instruments and music are taken out of their cultural contexts"
June 5, 2022

Symposium hosted by Evergreen Gamelan Club and the Canadian Music Centre.

‣ APRIL 2022

World premiere of Kinalugarán
April 30, 2022

Commissioned by New Music Concerts (Toronto) in co-presentation with The Music Gallery. This new work is made possible with the financial support of the Ontario Arts Council.

Digital world premiere of Kinamulátan
April 8, 2022

Commissioned and premiered by Martin Carpentier (bass clarinet) and Joseph Petric (accordion). Co-presented by the Canadian Music Centre.

‣ FEBRUARY 2022

Digital world premiere of Weekend Rain
February 13, 2022

Presented in Shortwave Transmissions by Cities and Memory (Oxford, UK/online).

‣ AUGUST 2021

Appearance as radio host and producer of World Skip the Beat
August 16 and 23, 2021

Produced two episodes of World Skip the Beat under the name Grumpy Kitty Boy at CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal.

‣ JULY 2021

Lyric video release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's Train Tracks
July 9, 2021

Train Tracks is a track from the debut EP Show Me The Kibbles (2021).

‣ FEBRUARY 2021

Digital release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's debut EP Show Me The Kibbles
February 26, 2021

Includes the lyric video release of Dark Skies, with animations by Yuna Kim.

‣ JANUARY 2021

Digital release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's lead single Blue Eyes
January 29, 2021

Includes a lyric video release with animations by Yuna Kim.

‣ NOVEMBER 2020

Animated music video release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's Airplane Wings
November 13, 2020

Airplane Wings is Grumpy Kitty Boy's debut single. Video animation and direction by Yuna Kim.

‣ JULY 2020

Digital release of Grumpy Kitty Boy's debut single Airplane Wings
July 10, 2020

‣ MAY 2020

A Study in Exile, No. 4: Paagos in Cluster XI: Digital Edition (Winnipeg/online)
May 1-June 30, 2020

‣ APRIL 2020

Participation in the "MCL Talks, Season 1"
April-September 2020

Presented by the Manila Composers Lab, this video series includes a feature on Sa Kanyang Paglayag in Episode 4.

Publication of "Neither Here Nor There: Musical Identity in the Global Flow"

Musicworks magazine article (Spring 2020) featuring composer Lieke van der Voort and sound artist April Aliermo.

‣ OCTOBER 2019

Paper presentation of "Concentric Circular Spaces: Xenakis and Maceda on Diffusing, Translating, and Decentralizing Musical Thought in Southeast Asia" in Power in Southeast Asia
October 26, 2019

Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSAS) Conference 2019 hosted by McGill University and Longueuil-Université-de-Sherbrooke.

‣ SEPTEMBER 2019

Paper presentation of "Nomadic Sound Worlds: Towards the Transitory and the Migratory" in Transnationalism and Transculturalism in Canadian Contemporary Music (1969-2019)
September 27, 2019

Study day organized by Christopher Moore and hosted by the University of Ottawa.

Golden Balangay Awards 2019 Dinner Gala (Winnipeg)
September 7, 2019

Nomination for the "Excellence Award for Music and Entertainment."

‣ JULY 2019

Artist residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City, NE)
July 26-August 23, 2019

World premiere of Time moves, straightforward...
July 26-28, 2019

Part of the production Cries of the Earth, presented by the Art Song Collaborative Project (Toronto). Premiered by Jonathan MacArthur (tenor), Meghan Cheng (violin), Evan Bowen (percussion), Kim Feliz (live electronics).

‣ JUNE 2019

Participation in a panel for Encounters in Exile
June 3, 2019

Panel/public talk hosted by Soundstreams (Toronto). Also featuring a performance of A Study in Exile, No. 4: Paagos.

‣ APRIL 2019

World premiere of A Study in Exile, No. 4: Paagos
April 5-7, 2019

Commissioned by dancer Sarah Samaniego and presented by Tangente Danse (Montreal).

‣ OCTOBER 2018

Artist residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts (Saratoga, WY)
October 1-12, 2018

‣ SEPTEMBER 2018

Mexican premiere of Pangkur
September 7 and 22, 2018

Performed by Liminar. Presented by the Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez 2018 (September 7th) and the Palacio de Bellas Artes (September 22nd) (Mexico City).

(Live) world premiere of Hanggang sa Takipsilim
September 6, 2018

Presented by MUSLAB 2018 (Mexico City).

‣ JULY 2018

World premiere of In stars we'll lose our way...
July 14-15, 2018

Part of the production Coming Home, presented by the Art Song Collaborative Project (Toronto). Premiered by Alondra Vega-Zaldivar (soprano), Gwenna Fairchild-Taylor (soprano), Katherine Watson (flute), Alexander Smith (percussion), Caitlin Frasure (piano), Joel Tangjerd (cello).

‣ JUNE 2018

Paper presentation of "An Imaginary of 'Asia' in Philippine Contemporary Music" in Nief-Norf Summer Festival 2018 (Knoxville, TN)
June 15-17, 2018

New Asia: Research Summit hosted by Nief-Norf in conjunction with its summer music festival of 2018. Includes a quartet performance of Pangkur.

‣ APRIL 2018

Library residency at the Canadian Music Centre Ontario (Toronto)
April 2018 - December 2019

Produced the three-part article/podcast series Nomadic Sound Worlds.

American premiere of Pangkur at MATA Festival 2018 (New York City)
April 10, 2018

Premiered by Liminar.

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