Silence Presents: Temporal Waves

March 1st, 2026
Doors: 6:30 PM
Show: 7:00 PM

Temporal Waves is the latest project from renowned Canadian tabla player Shawn Mativetsky, transporting the tabla into a rich electronic sound world, with Shawn’s tabla bathed in the neon glow of analog synthesizers. Temporal Waves is an excursion deep into aural science fiction. Montreal’s Shawn Mativetsky has long been celebrated as one of Canada’s leading ambassadors of the tabla, and next to his exceptional musicianship, it’s his unquenchable curiosity that one most frequently hears praised. Mativetsky is an accomplished practitioner of Indian classical music, but is equally embedded in the contemporary music realm, where he has established himself as both a champion of living composers and a generous collaborator to the likes of Tim Brady, Nicole Lizée, and Dinuk Wijeratne. An avid improviser, he can also be found accompanying countless other artists across and beyond the spectrum between jazz, pop, and global traditions.This may be his first foray into electronic music within recent memory, but anyone familiar with Mativetsky’s output will tell you that he’s no tourist anywhere he goes; his roots always run deep. Spending his youth steeped in the 8-bit timbres of the Atari 400, Nintendo Entertainment System, and early PCs, the 1990s saw him actively involved in the DIY electronic music scene that congregated around ‘tracker’ software, and was a key member of the online tracker collective NOiSE. In the early 2000s, he performed with Indo-electronic project, Ramasutra, and for the past several years, has been collaborating with live coder David Ogborn in their electronic music duo, very long cat.

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