Fieldhead

Fieldhead is P Elam (formerly a resident of Leeds, UK, currently a resident of Vancouver, BC). He produces ambient/electronic music that delights in tape hiss, geography, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He will be performing two recently composed pieces in a semi-improvised manner.

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Secret Pyramid & Scant Intone

Swirling washes, layers of howling feedback and cosmic buzz, soft whispers giving way to deep, dark ambiance. Creepy drones hover like grey mist, feedback swells echoing like flutes or distant birds, all building up to a gorgeous fuzz-drenched climax, beautifully whirling sound walls akin to the cryptic tones of Kevin Drumm's 'Imperial Horizon', but less industrial. Secret Pyramid offers up something mystical, serene and ephemeral.

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Secret Pyramid

Kristen Roos

Kristen Roos' sound art is based on sound waves. Whether working with DIY radio-based projects, massive arrays of low frequencies, or sampled and sequenced rhythmic construction, Roos demonstrates that there is more to sound than just audibility. His ongoing work with his micro radio project introduces a sense of reorientation and reconstruction of objects from their usual state into objects with multiple possible meanings. Roos draws on history, urban and rural sound ecology, and the capabilities of his means of transmission to suggest new or hidden realities in relation to the subjects he investigates.

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Under the Sun (Prophecy and Jenny Jones)

In this structured improvised 20 minute set, Under the Sun will encounter a space queen and have a conversation with her.

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Ross Birdwise, Soressa Gardner and Victor Ballesteros

The trio will present audiovisual work that is at times playful, disturbing, fragmentary and contemplative; work that attempts to blur distinctions between stillness and movement, memory and present time, sound and image, digital and organic, conceptual and visceral.

Christopher Rooney

Chris Williamson Rooney describes himself as an "outsider artist." His music has gone from traditional folk and blues and instrumental guitar which he has been playing for fifteen years to experimental creations involving synthesizers and tape recorders, an avenue he has been exploring since 2003. Presently he is composing vignettes inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy using a Buchla 200e modular synthesizer. Chris also does live electronic street performance.

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MagneticRing

Vancouver. Working primarily with vintage synthesizers & analog equipment. Incorporating influences ranging from Javanese Gamelan, esoteric rock, early new age, and 60's electronic music. A longstanding figure in Vancouver's underground music scene, Joshua has performed, collaborated and toured with numerous artists/groups from Vancouver, New York City, Montreal, Portland & Finland. Currently he performs in Vancouver with group "Von Bingen," Solo under the name "Magneticring" and appears on the Finnish group Kemialliset Ystavat's new record released in September.

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Cast Exotic

VEE

The Vancouver Electronic Ensemble (VEE) is a community based electronics ensemble that performs improvised and scored music.

The Harvestman
(Seattle based modular synth manufacturer)

The cutting edge of digital modular synthesis

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Mark Sims
(Synthesizers.com Modular)

Mark is a local synthesist presenting his Dot Com set up

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Christopher Rooney
(Buchla Modular)

Local synthesist presenting his Buchla system

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Danjel of Intellijel
(Vancouver modular synth manufacturer)

Local modular manufacturer, who will hopefully be unveiling his newest modules

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Andrew Short
(MacBeth modular)

Local synthesist demonstrating 3X modules

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Dave Leith
(Serge Modular)

Local synthesist and synth builder will demonstrate his Serge system

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Frederick Brummer
(Electroacoustic drum kit)

Local synthesist/drummer will demonstrate his electroacoustic drum kit

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Flight of Harmony
(Seattle based modular synth manufacturer)

Manufacturer of the legendary Plague Bearer

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Josh Stevenson
(EMS Synthi)

Local synthesist demonstrates his Synthi

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Push and Pull:
prOphecy sun, Luciana D'Anunciacao & Jeanette Ageson

In this intense performance dancers will turn inward, outward and play lateral and horizontal games-fixated on connection and relational dynamics. prOphecy sun will fold over a liquid soundscape full of swoons, heavy breathing and dissonant melody. During Push and Pull there will be moments of all sound with no movement, as well as all movement with no sound. In this 10 minute performance live sound and visual accoutrements, such as video and costumes will be utilized.

Dance Troupe Practice

Christopher Rooney and Merlyn Chipman

Merlyn Chipman's artwork spans live improvisational audio/video, print and installation art but he identifies himself as a "video feedback artist". Video feedback is the phenomena that occurs when a video signal is passed from a video camera to a monitor while the camera and monitor are pointed at each other.

For Christopher's description see the Friday night event.

Hutzulak

For SquareWaves Lee Hutzulak will improvise a rare solo set incorporating a variety of synthesizers, a drum machine, FX pedals, field recordings, amplified objects and voice. With a keen ear for texture, tone, melody and space, Hutzulak creates warmly organic electronic music.

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Barricades: Jeremy Todd, Harold Donnelly and Andrew Short

"Barricades" involves electronics, digital film projection and live performance. A three-part sound collage arrangement is derived from samples of the record "Murder at Kent State University" (Flying Dutchman Records, FDS-127). Album narration (written by Pete Hamill and performed by Rosko) is recontextualized to examine relations between Cold War era mores and politics with the conditions of a seemingly endless neo-liberal present.

The audio of "Barricades" accompanies a visual montage informed by avant-garde anti-aesthetics. Appropriated b-film and still photography conflate post-war alienation with contemporary lifestyle marketing, forming a suggestive portrait of 21st Century life.

The Fantastic Dream Cabinet of Dr. Thanatos

Opening the portal to tangible imaginal realities, Dr. Thantos leaves his body in a lab and gets blown backwards through the collective unconscious on waves of sound, image and metaphor. An epic psycho-acoustic alchemico-hypnotic dip into the depths of the collective unconscious, a mythic journey in a few short minutes of objective time, a consciousness altering exploration of the post-modern ritual space.

Scott Aitken and David Leith

Using the electronic music of Edgard Varese's piece "Octandre" as a jumping off point we wanted to see what could possibly happen in the realms of synthesis and dissonance within the framework of free improvisation an the concept of having a framework that is an "open" score. Scott Aitken uses his guitar with live processing. David Lieth builds and uses his own modular electronics/ synthesiers. Maybe we should write more but we really want you to listen.

Modular Soundscape

An improvised soundscape by participants from the Modular Synthesis Symposium.

Jesse Zubot:
solo violin & electronics

Jesse Zubot is one of those exceptional musicians whose praxis spans multiple genres and transcends contextualization into an idiom. Between moments of impassioned, visceral outbursts and quiet emotive sensitivities, Zubot exposes the full range of affects through a pristine sonic architecture.

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Archipelago
w/ visual projectionist Victor Ballesteros

Archipelago is a Chilean, an Island a Surrealist and a Dadaist in pursuit of the marvelous. The Vancouver-based improv quartet consists of two percussionists, Jesse Gentes and Javier Marin (Nothofagus), multi-instrumentalist Destanne Lundquist, and violinist Janine Island. The collective navigates - with protean liquidity - the uncharted sonic territories on the periphery of the spatio-temporal abyss. Think autonomous bodies influenced by the convergences and divergences within the sonic genome that swirl around the cochlea like an intimate silverfish.

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Victor Ballesteros