ANTENNAE
IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE
NEXT ANTENNAE : Monday May 12th 9pm
at NOMAD | 129 Van Horne
Flower Moon ANTENNAE | The Blooming
The Flower Moon rises as nature reaches full bloom: lush, wild, and overflowing with life. It marks a time of flourishing, of ideas taking root, of connections growing stronger. At NOMADlife.tv, we gather once more under its light for ANTENNAE, our ongoing ritual of collective creation.
This full moon invites us to blossom, to share what has been quietly growing within us. As the screen glows with antennae filmed across the world and shadows come alive, music and movement merge into a vibrant unfolding, a living transmission of joy, depth, and renewal.
With the Flower Moon, we release the next volume in our lunar archive: The Flower Moon ANTENNAE, the third album in a cycle of twelve, each tied to a full moon from the previous year. Available now on Bandcamp, and soon everywhere else you get your music, this offering, like all ANTENNAE music, is always free. Because WE ARE ALL ANTENNAE. The music flows through us; it doesn’t belong to us.
💿 Listen & Support: ANTENNAE on Bandcamp
Step behind the screen and into the unfolding film. As projections of antennas from around the world glow across our walls, our silhouettes merge into a living canvas. Musicians, dancers, and participants become one signal, one frequency, channelling the pulse of the moment, the bloom of spring, the poetry of becoming.
This May, as NOMAD celebrates 15 years at 129 Van Horne, we honour both legacy and rebirth in a special edition of ANTENNAE. Join us as we turn the studio into a garden of sound and shadow.
Join us beneath the Flower Moon.
Become ANTENNAE.
To experience ANTENNAE firsthand, simply express your interest to j@NOMADlife.tv.
ANTENNAE is about connecting to the cosmos, our place in the world, each other, and ourselves.
It's about being an antenna, channelling and reflecting what inhabits and surrounds us.
Enjoy our most recent film, the Pink Moon ANTENNAE :
ANTENNAE invites you to enter the movie of life.
Here, you are the audience and performer, the dreamer and the dream, antenna and signal.
ANTENNAE is a dynamic fusion of creativity and spontaneity, a space where a live film unfolds before your eyes. Described as a creative playground, slow disco, or immersive art experience, it invites you to become both participant and co-creator in this captivating act of live creation.
Led by creator Jason Rodi, ANTENNAE is an ensemble of musicians improvising what we've come to call "spiritual music", a transcendent sound that lifts the spirit, for which we are mere conduits.
The video installation stages Plato's allegory of the cave, immersing you in a world where
WE ARE ALL ANTENNAE.
ANTENNAE unfolds under each full moon at NOMADlife.tv.
ANTENNAE IS A WORD
ANTENNAE IS A SYMBOL
ANTENNAE IS THE SKY
ANTENNAE IS THE SIGNAL
ANTENNAE WE ARE ALL
ALWAYS FOREVER NOW
REMEMBER THE FUTURE
REMEMBER OUR SONG
WE ARE ALL ANTENNAE
Jason Rodi - Movement
Carlos Aedo – Sound
Dan Handelman – Strings
Karina Marquez Caballero – Vocals
Piki Chappell – Cello & Organ
John Juster – Winds
Quentin Noël Bourbeau – Piano
James Parker – Bass
Ezra MacKay – Guitar
Emilie Tremblay – Sax & Flute
Philippe Mastrocola – Piano
Emilie Mira Chopra – Piano
Josh Kauffman – Drums
Sharif Mirshak – Guitar
David Bednarczyk – Sound & Guitar & Bass
Andrew Kerr – Guitar
Christina Gavino – Cello
Alexis Robert – Guitar
Adam Sand – Electric Guitar
Benoît Adam – Sax
Patrice Dauphin – Vocals
Bridget Debernardi – Vocals
Stéphane Duchesneau – Horns
Matthew Zustovic – Organ
Mark Evin – Piano & Guitar
Onyx Borysewicz – Flute
and guests,
Simon Wayland – Guitar
Shayan Farahani – Soundscapes
Adam Goldfarb – Piano
Tarek El-Dana – Vocals
AliX Rodi – Guitar
Toby Read – Guitar
Nicolas Rodi – Guitar
Julius Reid – Spirit Slam
Justin Alexander Kozak – Shakers
Dominiq Hamel – Vocals
Tim de Bouville – Guitar
Zoë Despina – Vocals
Elisabete Almeida – Vocals
Emma Lee Kaï Iversen – Vocals
Tony Maigua – Mandoline
Baptiste Olivier – Vocals
Eve Sevigny – Violin
Doug Short – Accordion
Laurie Gordon – Vocals & Piano
Andy Osborne – Guitar
Lucas Rodi – Guitar
Lalaina Ravel – Congas & Guitar
Marc Abou-Antoun – Drums
Daniel Dangrz – Electric Guitar
Jules Saladzius – Piano
Priscilla Pimentel – Congas
Fabrice Rosier – Congas
Christian Pomerleau – Vocals
Game Genie Sokolov – Bass
and shadows,
Catherine Francoeur – Dance
Jane Rodi – Dance
Aaron Loveday – Dance
Marianne Derycke – Ecstatic Dance
Sin Dee – Dance
Phillip Fortin – Dance
Seif Bône – Dance
Jonathan Belisle – Dance
Lauren Falvo – Dance
and you...
Contact j@NOMADlife.tv to participate.
Join us and cast your signal into infinity.
ANTENNAE.tv
With love and bliss, your conductor of dreams, time travelling adventurer, wizard, and good friend,
Jason Rodi
ANTENNAE Moonscapes - 04 Pink Moon — Sakura (official music video)
ANTENNAE Moonscapes - 03 - Worm Moon - The Sun Also Rises (Official Music Video)
ANTENNAE Moonscapes - 02 Snow Moon — Slow Dance With the Crow
ANTENNAE Moonscapes - 01 Snow Moon — Piki Raising the Dead
ANTENNAE: A Living Narrative
ANTENNAE is not just an event; it's a living narrative, a canvas for the creation of our own mythologies in the ever-unfolding present. Each event is recorded and filmed for posterity, and available for streaming on all NOMADlife.tv apps (ROKU, FireTV, AndroidTV, AppleTV, iOS, Android, and YouTube).
Spiritual Music : A Transcendent Experience
Like 12 apostles, the core ANTENNAE ensemble is an open band of 12 musicians + guests. With piano, cello, electric, acoustic and bass guitars, harmonica, vocals, congas, steal and electric drums, flutes, saxophones, and more, we record about 90 minutes of original music each week, never playing the same thing twice. We keep our sound within the realm of neo-psychedelic, atmospheric, and cinematic aesthetics, which we've come to simply refer to as "spiritual music." We hence renounce ownership of these spontaneous creations, acting as antennas, connected to the divine, mere conduits for the music flowing through us.
The Installation: A Ballet of Shadows and Light
ANTENNAE stages Plato's allegory of the cave through an installation involving a back projection screen and a large mirror, immersing you in a mesmerizing dance of shadows and light. Participants become integral to this dance, casting their silhouettes against images of antennas shot all over the world by Rodi, a poetic expression of the message WE ARE ALL, and a celebration of the interconnectedness of all things.
The films below, created at ANTENNAE events, are echoes of the eternal present.
The music was recorded live and silhouettes filmed inside
the ANTENNAE at NOMADlife.tv.
