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opens at Granville Island Stage Tuesday.

Portland-based Liminal performance art
group creates what could be described as
art installations with live actors, and
when witnessing the productions, one
usually isn't certain who are the performers and who are the audience members.
Dynamo Gallery presents their latest
show, Objects for the Emancipated Consumer, which resembles interactive murder-mystery theatre, as part of the continuing LIVE Biennial of Performance Art.
A sellout at the Seattle Fringe Festival, the
Stranger newspaper said the show is
"honest, funny and poetic," the actors
"superb."

SATURDAY 27

No surprise that the song Geoff Berner
wrote for the Be Good Tanyas, Make It
Light Enough to Travel, has been chosen
as the first single from trio's Blue Horse
CD. You can bliss out to more gems by
the sensitive and intuitive local singersongwriter at the Railway Club tonight.

FRIDAY 26
Expect extremes of physical comedy, from
flying to tumbling, in Flying Blind, the
mystical play that features Australian
company Legs on the Wall — famous for
doing daring works involving plenty of
acrobatics - and Vancouver's physical
theatre troupe Axis. The play deals with
eight characters in a dilapidated house,
and the magic that happens when a
chunk of the sky falls into their backyard.
Previews begin Friday and the show

Like the flower of its namesake, Orchid
Ensemble's sound is a delicacy for the
senses, a dreamy merge of traditional Chinese music and pensive contemporary
compositions. The trio uses a unique
blend of instruments - from China, the
erhu violin and zither-like zheng, and the
marimba from Africa - to create their
exquisite sound, which can be enjoyed at
Capilano College.
Former Pavement guitarist Scott Kannberg
brings his new project Preston School of
Industry to Richard's on Richards. Songs
on the new album All This Sounds Like
Gas run the gamut from Dinosaur Jr.-style
poppiness to Buffalo Springfield-esque
ballads. The Standard and SubPop peppy popsters the Shins open.

SUNDAY 28
When staff at Scratch Records compare a
songwriter to such giants as Brian Wilson
and Nick Drake, it's time to pay attention.
Ex-Scud Mountain Boy Joe Pernice is subject of their praise; his band Pernice
Brothers' latest record is The World Won't
End, bittersweet songs from which the
Massachusetts band performs at the
Starfish Room.

it can keep uncanny timing to the movie
in the listeners' mind — may reveal itself
at NOW Orchestra's weekly workshops in
improvised music, which continue at the
Western Front. Participate or watch players explore structures for improvisation
in a supportive environment.

TUESDAY 30
Parisian DJ Kid Loco allows a warm '60s
mood to rub against beats and bass and
therein lies the secret that elevates his
brand of down-tempo above background
noodle status. Groove to the soundtrack
of an imaginary romantic movie when the
self-confessed stoner drops in at Sonar.

WEDNESDAY 31
The name's spooky and they are playing
Halloween night but And You Will Know
Us By The Trail Of Dead are no dreaded
concept band. The Texas quartet packs
an exuberantly passionate punch in their
pop punk, which has been compared to a
darker version of early Who or even Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth. Solid rockers Nasty On and Grade open the show
at Starfish Room.

Lots of Halloween options this week,
from a screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Vogue to the surreal
spectacle that is Parade of the Lost Souls
at Grandview Park. Check family and club
listings for the scoop.
The mystery of improvised music - how
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MONDAY 29