Blackball doesn't just 'like' our donors. We LOVE them.

This little sweetheart was donated to the Blackball project by one of our biggest and best supporters, the super-talented, multi-instrumental Heidi Chan. The brilliant Blackball kids at Brant Avenue Public will be putting it to good use almost immediately.

That goes double for our new, super-secret Blackball site 

which we can't tell you about because, like, it's a secret.

Blackball Speaks.

Our new video gets up close and personal with Blackball clients at TKBGC's TP Loblaw site in Toronto Trinity-Bellwoods.

Hear what they have to say.

Thanks go to Ella, Lucas, Rachel, Nevaeh, Stella, Allison and Madelyn for taking the words right out of our mouths.

Blackball Is Back.

Blackball is putting down roots in Western Ontario. Our innovative electronic music teaching project has launched at Brant Avenue Public School thanks to a generous financial contribution from the Musagetes organization.

Musical Chairs. Not.

One week from today, the Blackball performance group will debut new music on a new kind of instrument.

Meet the blackballophon, a MIDI controller we built out of spare robot parts, disused electric guitars and a blue chair.
 
We've used Arduino and Makey-Makey technology to create a musical control surface that provides beat-making and a good sit-down. Simultaneously.

Blackball.
You know.
Electronica.
For kids.

Blackball performs at 6:00 PM Wednesday 20 June at the Toronto Kiwanis Boys & Girls Clubs' annual general meeting at 20 Portugal Square.

No More Sheet Music. Ever.

Johnny say All Notes Off when you listen and learn to the No More Sheet Music demo: Click me, already.

In October, we're taking control.

With less than a month to go before Blackball shatters the peace and quiet of Regent Park and Trinity-Bellwoods, Blackball kids are raring to take their places and get synthesized.
 
Who's the lucky Blackballista that gets to make medicine with this newly-acquired M-Audio Axiom 25 control surface? The one with semi-weighted keys and a real-time velocity display?

We'll talk.

In the meantime, you can watch this this live Blackball performance footage.

Second Sight.

Thanks to the very generous support of the Ontario Arts Council, Blackball's long-awaited second site goes operational in the New Year.

With this much-needed contribution of a significant amount of moolah, Blackball will deliver its transformational electronic music performance and production program to not one, but two Toronto Kiwanis Boys And Girls Clubs locations, Regent Park and Trinity Bellwoods.

Is there space in your community for innovative electronic music programming? Blackball would love to partner with you.

It takes two, baby.