CMC Presents : Game Night

with Render File and Obuxum 

This december we’ll be stretching the idea of concerts at the CMC. We’ll be transforming the CMC space into the vibe of a basement jam and dance club! Featuring the local improvising group Render File who live-score video games as they’re played in the moment in a concert experience somewhere between a free-improv jazz set and a “let’s play” video. Closing the night is Somali-Canadian producer and beat maker Obuxum, herself no stranger to video games, having scored the indie game “Bravery Network Online”. Obuxum produces music that is as social engaged as it is danceable.

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Render File is a biweekly immersive event that melds improvised music and video games. Since July 2023, every 2nd and 4th Wednesday in the basement of the Wenona Craft Beer Lodge, improvisers and friends gather to score a video game while it is being played live. Emerging musicians from Toronto’s jazz, improvised, electronic, and experimental music scenes are being invited to play each week and it has become a space for experimentation and community building. It also has connections with the vibrant indie game scene in Toronto, as Render File has hosted several showcase nights where local video game devs get to submit their games and have it scored live in front of an audience. Render File is an ever-growing celebration of our love for community, music, technology, and creativity.

 

 

 

Obuxum is an up and coming electronic musician, producer and beat maker based in Toronto.

In 2020, Obuxum’s album Rebirth received critical acclaim when it was longlisted for the 2020 Polaris music prize. In addition to performing at various events including Wavelength Festival, Luminous Fest, Kazoo Fest, Electric Eclectics, and Mutek, Obuxumproduced In Women Colour,  a song featured on Haviah Mighty’s  Polaris Prize-winning debut album 13^th Floor. their other production credits include the soundtrack for Gloam Collective’s video game, Bravery Network. In 2018 Now Magazine highlighted Obuxum as one of Toronto’s “electronic musicians to watch”.   Known for her richly textured soundscapes which weave together the sounds of hip hop, house, techno and electro R&B, Obuxum is committed to celebrating and paying homage to fellow emerging  and established BIPOC women artists who have inspired them.