Live Music: Michael Cloud Duguay

In June, 2024, Canadian composer Michael Cloud Duguay and collaborators travelled over 1,500km across Newfoundland in a self-built, solar-powered mobile studio, recording seven historic church organs in seven remote communities, resulting in one of the most unique and imaginative albums ever produced in Canada.

Duguay and his collaborators (Andrew MacKelvie, Markus Lake, Dave Grenon) will be touring and performing this material across Canada in Fall, 2026, putting to use the digital organ emulators that were designed and constructed by the team’s engineers. Thus, the live performance does not require an actual pipe organ. Interpretations of the album material will be reproduced on digital instruments that precisely replicate the sound of the various organs and churches heard on the album, accompanied by saxophone, photo, and live sound design and processing.