CALEB KLAGER

Over the course of his career, Caleb Klager has solidified his place in Toronto’s rich electronic music scene performing machine-driven techno, electro, and experimental live sets.

Upon receiving his bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto’s jazz performance program as a bassist, his deep passion for live improvisation remained at the forefront of his electronic projects and led him to become an acclaimed artist performing at many festivals and event series across Canada, such as TONE Festival (Toronto, ON), Sled Island (Calgary, AB), and MUTEK (Montréal, QC).

Caleb has released material as a solo artist and as a close collaborator. In 2021 he released “Theories”, an assortment of collected sounds from home-built synthesizers and microphones to great acclaim. The following year began his new audio-visual project ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS, featuring Chris Pruden, Luan Phung, and David Lipson. The project explores the interdependence of organic and digital improvisation and memory - where choices and consequences made by the performers are catalogued and mediated by the translation and reconfiguration of data. Various aural aspects of the performance such as volume, timbre, pitch, rhythm, or harmony is all data that can be processed to manipulate the projection output - creating an assemblage of gestural and evocative audio-visual environments.

In 2024 he released the EP “Kinetics” on Toronto techno label Nodding Heads, gaining plays from DJs domestically and internationally. Currently, he is working on material for an EP from a live-recorded concert with collaborator Niloufar Shiri (Minneapolis, MN), a cross-cultural work of Canadian and Persian electroacoustic music set to be released in the spring of 2025 on Toronto label LinkMusic.