Stuck on what to do with that sketch you made a few months ago?

Established in January 2019, the Furniture Music Composition Workshop was conceived as a space for musicians in which they could experiment with this boundaries of their work. Our original conception was to provide a forum for burgeoning composers to gain perspective and real life experience in the process of fleshing out a sketch, an idea or an incomplete leadsheet into a full composition.

Our monthly workshop involves a rotating panel of three experienced composers, which draw from a wide variety of streams within the improvised music community. Anyone stuck on where to take a sketch or a tune is welcome to bring a few copies in to play with the band, who will in turn offer ideas and opinions on where to take the music after playing. Each possibility is explored in real-time to give the curious composer an idea of how each possibility could play out.

The Furniture Music Composition Workshop has called the TRANZAC’s Tiki Room it’s home since inception. Meeting every fourth Sunday of the month from 2-4pm, the Workshop strives to foster a spirit of community, creativity and mutual support. Our stated goal is to provide a resource for anyone who may be experiencing a roadblock or a limitation of their experience see the breadth of possibilities in what they’ve already created, both in real-time and in a supportive environment. Our panelists are drawn from the multiplicity of backgrounds found in Toronto’s jazz and improvised music scene. From standard jazz combo to string quartets, electronics ensembles to graphic scores interpretations, our workshop aims to provide a wide breadth of perspectives to anyone who seeks us out.