Name: Wonderment: Ruby Singh's Vox.Infold - An Immersive Live Audio-Visual Experience @ Cameron Bandshell at Beacon Hill Park - Aug 03, 2025
Start: 2025-08-03T21:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-08-03T22:30:00-06:00
Location: Cameron Bandshell at Beacon Hill Park

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Wonderment: Ruby Singh's Vox.Infold - An Immersive Live Audio-Visual Experience

2022 Juno Nominees featuring Ruby Singh, PIQSIQ, Russell Wallace, Piu and more!

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Music Classical / Baroque / Orchestral Electronic / DJ / Dance Folk / Celtic / Latin / World Choral Visual Arts Digital Art Film Sci-Fi / Fantasy Animation Cultural / Heritage Ethno-Cultural First Peoples / Inuit / Métis

Sun. August 3rd + Add to Calendar

Cameron Bandshell at Beacon Hill Park (All Ages)

9:30pm - 10:30pm Doors at: 4:00pm

Free

Artists

Ruby Singh

PIQSIQ

Inuit style throat singers from Yellowknife Yukon

Available for Shows/Gigs

Tiffany Ayalik

Inuksuk Mackay

Russell Wallace

Hussein Janmohamed

Tiffany Moses

Trip-hop, down-tempo, jazz, soul, blues from Vancouver BC

Piu

Chimerik (Visuals)

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Garden City Electronic Music Society

The Garden City Electronic Music Society (previously the Gar...

709 Yates Street Victoria BC

Open / Operational

Wonderment 2025

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Wonderment's 10th Edition is headlined by a special audio-visual immersive performance by 2022 Juno Nominees for Global Music Album of the Year, Ruby Singh's Vox.Infold. This project is a supergroup of regional artists featuring Ruby Singh, Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay of PIQSIQ, Lil'wat composer Russell Wallace, Dene singer-songwriter Tiffany Moses, Ismaili artist Hussein Janmohamed, and Piu. There will be accompanying video art by Ruby Singh and the award-winning Chimerik, projected with a high-lumen laser projector onto a 16' screen provided by Open Space Gallery.

This is a FREE, all-ages event presented by the Garden City Electronic Music Society and supported by the Government of Canada, the BC Arts Council / Province of BC, the Capital Regional District and the City of Victoria. The overall event begins at 4pm with the Lekwungen Dancers, Zügellos, Faun.a, Eva Pekárová, Elisa Thorn and Switzerland's Samuel Rohrer. Given Vox.Infold is a supergroup of sorts and the performance is an immersive live audio-visual experience (different from the other artists performing that day), we are listing it separately to give the artists involved the special focus warranted by this special event.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Ruby Singh’s Vox.Infold is a Juno nominated Vancouver supergroup elevating Indigenous, Black and South Asian voices. It’s members each on their own could be a headliner and bring their own unique story and perspective to the project…

~ RUBY SINGH ~

Ruby Singh is a multi award winning performer, composer and producer residing on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver BC.). His creativity crosses the boundaries of music, poetry, photography and film engaging with mythos, memory, justice and fantasy. In 2022 Singh received the Lieutenant Governor’s Jubilee Award for excellence in Art and Music. In 2023 he received his inaugural Juno nomination and he won both the WCMA award for best Global Music Artist of the Year and BC Touring Council’s Artist of the Year.

Singh is an artist whose work is informed by sound found all around us, from the whirling planets and stars of distant galaxies to percussion of an umbrella under coastal rains, to the perpetual moving birdsong of the dawn chorus, constantly circling the globe. The richly imaginative visual textures to his sound design have found kinship in the theatre, film and dance worlds, where he has been celebrated by multiple Jessie and Leo award nominations. His distinct approach uses traditional and emergent sonic practices to create compositions that express the vast spectrum of the human experience.

Singh’s offerings are wide ranging and expansive from ambient audio-visual worlds of the Polyphonic Garden to Jhalaak, a Sufi hip hop album made alongside Manganiyar musicians recorded in the clay huts of the Thar desert in Rajasthan India, reinterpreting 13th century Sufi poetry. RupLoops, a solo live looping project that is a highly engaging, interactive experience using vocal percussion, rhythmic rhymes and an arsenal of eclectic instruments from around the globe. The Future Ancestors a blues and soul infused live hip hop project; kraKIN a more-than-human collaboration that brings together a boom-bap menagerie of banging Westcoast flora, fauna, and fungi. Singh believes in art’s ability to reimagine futures, to repurpose aesthetic freedoms toward civil and environmental justice.

Vox.infold, an a cappella project bringing together the sounds of Inuit, Indigenous, Black and South Asian voices that has been met with critical acclaim. For this iteration of Vox.Infold, Singh will be performing with Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay of PIQSIQ, Russell Wallace, Hussein Janmohamed, Tiffany Moses and Piu. Vox.Infold was nominated for the Juno Award for Best Global Music Album in 2022.

~ TIFFANY AYALIK & INUKSUK MACKAY OF PIQSIQ ~

With roots in Nunavut’s Kitikmeot and Kivalliq Regions, Tiffany Ayalik and Inuksuk Mackay grew up in Yellowknife, where dark winters and environmental extremes shaped their aesthetic. They studied and practice katajaq, Inuit-style throat singing, blending it with modern practice to weave complex emotional landscapes.

Like traditional Inuit throat singing, PIQSIQ’s performances have a strongly improvisational aspect to them. Along with electronic beats and manipulation, the sisters also incorporate other experimental techniques into their music; for example, they worked with Coloma Guitars in Vancouver to invent a string instrument called the “death harp” made in large part from caribou antlers, whale bones, and baleen.

PIQSIQ’s music has been deeply shaped by the history of colonial suppression of throat singing and other Inuit cultural practices under Christian missionaries and the Canadian government’s Indian Act. In many circumstances, it carried a risk of fines or imprisonment, causing the practice to go nearly extinct. PIQSIQ’s music reclaims tradition while bringing it into the 21st century with a political dimension that calls out the marginalization of Inuk culture, both past and present.

PIQSIQ’s 2018 EP Altering the Timeline was nominated for Best Electronic Album at the 2019 Indigenous Music Awards. However, they withdrew the album from consideration (alongside other artists like Tanya Tagaq and Kelly Fraser) due to concerns over cultural appropriation of Inuit throat singing by non-Inuk artists. In 2021, they released the album Live from Christ Church Cathedral, recorded in Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver. They submitted the album to the best gospel album category at the Juno Awards, with the aim of prompting a discussion on the role of Christian organizations in causing harm to Indigenous peoples.

~ HUSSEIN JANMOHAMED ~

Hussein Janmohamed is a Vancouver-based choral conductor, composer, singer, and musical instigator dedicated to helping humans harmonize—across cultures, identities, and communities. Inspired by pluralism and an Ismaili worldview, he uses the magic of choral music to spark dialogue, belonging, and genuine joy.

He’s conducted everything from the queer chamber choir Cor Flammae to intercultural and community ensembles, weaving diverse voices and stories into powerful musical experiences. As a community arts instigator, he loves gathering humans to create spaces where identities and stories shine, connect, and find their voice in song.

His works, performed by groups like the Vancouver Youth Choir, Elmer Iseler Singers, and Canadian Chamber Choir, build sonic bridges and offer peaceful counter-narratives about Islam. Hussein believes music is an endless wellspring of connection, hope, and a reminder that we’re all part of one big, beautifully diverse chorus.

~ RUSSELL WALLACE ~

Russell Wallace is an award-winning artist from Lil’wat First Nation. His music can be heard on soundtracks for film, television and theatre/dance productions across Canada and the United States. Wallace received a Leo Award for best music for a documentary for his work on the “1491” TV series, and received the Lieutenant Governor’s Art and Music Award in 2022.

Wallace was the artist in residence at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival in 2019, a guest programmer for Word Vancouver and was the artistic director for the Aboriginal Electronic Music Festival for a number of years.

His album Unceded Tongues combines pop, jazz and blues with Salish musical forms and is sung in the St’át’imc language – it is not only a nod to his own personal history and his family’s history, but a way of making the St’át’imc language more accessible.

Wallace’s music has been performed internationally and was featured at Biennale Arte 2022-The 59th International Art Exhibition in Venice. He works with many choirs in Vancouver and has been the Director of Indigenous Vocal Ensemble at Vancouver Community College.

~ TIFFANY MOSES ~

Tiffany Moses is a Dene vocalist and audio engineer currently living in Vancouver, BC. Inspired by a love of music she has been singing since she was a young girl following her grandfather into the bush. Musical influences include jazz singers such as Billie Holiday and Nina Simone as well as classical composers such as Vivaldi and later trip-hop bands Portishead and Massive Attack. Tiffany is also active as a music educator, leading workshops on music production and live looping.

~ PIU ~

Priyanka Chakrabarti, who performs under her artist name ‘Piu’, is a Vancouver based vocalist, composer, and producer. Born in India, Priyanka has been a life long student of Indian classical music and started her musical journey at a young age as a vocalist. With a passion for exploratory electronic fusion, her genre bending music traverses between cultures and identities, a reflection of how she moves in the world. Using her voice, and analog sounds, Priyanka weaves Raga into her compositions as an offering.

Performing together, Vox.Infold redefine a capella performance with an immersive audio-visual experience featuring video art by Ruby Singh and the award-winning Chimerik.

Full Wonderment 10th Edition info and schedule can be found at www.wonderment.ca