6 avril, 2019
Le Sotterenea, Montreal
portes 20h30, musique 21h15 PILE!
$20 // $10 // $ ???
Gudinni Cortina (MEX) solo – self made instruments
Anne-F Jacques + Elizabeth Millar – objects rotating at different speeds
Lefebvre / Strickland – feedback, objets, guitare
Craig Pedersen – trompette
Gudinni Cortina:
Gudinni Cortina is a media artist based in México.He uses different approaches to transform space such as live sound performances, photography and installation.He has presented his work in Tsonami Festival (CHIL), CODED CULTURES Fest (AUS), Studio 8 Berlin (GER), Blurred Edges Festival, Hamburg (GER), Spektrum, Berlin (GER), No Idea Festival (USA), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (MX), Ex Teresa Arte Actual (MX), Cha´ak´ab Paaxil / Multiple Tap (MX), Museo De Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca (MX), Museo Arte Contemporáneo De Tlaxcala (MX), Centro Cultural España (MX),Museo del Chopo (MX),OPEERA(MX), Del Rex (GER), Liebig 12 Berlin (GER), Rhiz (Vienna), ZENTRALE (Vienna), NADA LOKAL (Vienna).He has presented his work with Manferd Werder, Burkahard Stangl, Angelica Castello, Andrea Neumann, Bonnie Jones, Emilio Gordoa, Duo with Cristian Alvear, Annette Krebs, Rolando Hernández, Mario De Vega, Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and Yann Leguay. Trio with Toshimaru Nakamura and Jacob Wick. Juan García and Chris Cogburn. Noid and Angelica Castello And ensembles under direction by Christian Wolf and Santiago Astaburuaga.
Anne-F Jacques / Elizabeth Millar
amplified objects rotating at different speeds
Anne-F Jacques
Un inventaire d’objets et de matières avec lesquels l’auteure, l’artiste sonore Anne-F Jacques, fabrique des assemblages sonores et cinétiques. À travers leur poids, leur texture et l’histoire particulière de leur rencontre, elle retrace une petite partie de leur biographie et plonge le lecteur dans un microcosme d’objets têtus. Elle s’intéresse aux choses qui tournent, aux sonorités rugueuses, aux mouvements erratiques, à la construction d’assemblages précaires et idiosyncratiques. Sons et autres trouvailles. Elle vit et travaille à Montréal.
Elizabeth Millar
Elizabeth Millar is a sound-artist, clarinetist and performer, based in Montreal since 2009. Engaging with experimental music, sound art, noise, free improvisation and self-made instrument building, her creative practice explores the merging of acoustic and electronic textures with amplification and extended techniques.Active locally, nationally and internationally she has performed throughout Canada and in Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore. She is a member of Sound of the Mountain, an amplified clarinet and trumpet duo with Craig Pedersen. She also performs with Montreal-based Ensemble Supermusique, interpreting graphic scores and gestural improvisations.She has collaborated with many Quebecois and Canadian artistsincluding Joane Hétu, Erick d’Orion and Anne-F Jacques; and international artists including Isabelle Duthoit, Franz Hautzinger, Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura.
Lefebvre / Strickland
Chris Strickland – Amplified acoustic guitar and filtered field recordings.
Alain Lefebvre – Contact mic, objects and pedal feedback
Alain Lefebvre:
https://kohlenstoffrecords.com/artists/alain-lefebvre/
Alain Lefebvre fait du noise expérimental abstrait/concret avec des objets amplifiés et des appareils lofi qu’il pousse au-delà de leurs fonctions normales. Il s’intéresse à l’utilisation des sons typiquement ”indésirables” comme moyen de remettre en question certaines contraintes esthétiques. Sa musique adopte les courts-circuits, les buzzes 50-60Hz, les décalages de courants continus, les interférences électromagnétiques, les interférences de transducteurs, et autres erreurs analogiques peut-être anonymes. Il fait de la musique expérimentale depuis 2001-2002. En 2011, il se concentre sur l’improvisation, jouant principalement à Montréal, et entreprenant la série de concerts “We are the Drugs” avec Chris Strickland. Son premier album contenant uniquement des morceaux live (“Objects and Electronics”) est sorti en 2012 sur l’étiquette de K.A.N.T. N.A.G.A.N.O (Encodages de l’Oubli). Son plus récent album, “Magic Eye”, assemble six études enregistré en août 2013 (K o h l e n s t o f f records).
Chris Strickland
https://noticerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/excruciating-circumstances-in-the-kingdom-of-ends
Montréal-based composer Chris Strickland searches not for minimalism, but to minimize: technique, narrative, emotion. All recorded live either at CKUT or Espace Project, both located in Montréal, the compositions on Excruciating Circumstances in the Kingdom of Ends reside on a different expressive axis, fingering the raw edges of his sonic ingredients. Field recordings with the flat haze of surveillance footage or the feeling of gazing from afar are interwoven with wobbly but painstaking drone notes, rarely with more than a handful in a single sequence. Unsentimental and even obstinate, there are hard cuts between sections, and—most intriguingly—a playing technique free of both emotional vibrato and focused flatness. Played notes are shaky but not hesitant. Governed pace-wise by strategies of “deliberate uncertainty,” Strickland’s compositions proceed at a walking pace, moved through like green spaces of remote urbanity.
Craig Pedersen joue la musique de Lo Wie
http://lo-wie.blogspot.com/
Craig Pedersen
www.craigpedersen.com
Craig Pedersen is trumpet player, and experimenting musician living in Montréal. He plays in the collaborative duos Sound of the Mountain (with Elizabeth Millar) and Provisional Mailorder (with Anne-F Jacques). He is a member of Ensemble Supermusique and the Ratchet Orchestra. He also occasionally leads the Craig Pedersen Quartet, a band featuring Linsey Wellman (fetNAT), Bennett Bedoukian (Horseman, Pass By) and Thierry Amar (GY!BE).
Since 2011, Craig has released thirteen albums, or more, ranging between composed material to improvisation. An active and avid touring artist, he has played across Canada, in Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Australia and Mexico.Recent highlights of his work includes collaborations and/or performances with Toshimaru Nakamura, Tetuzi Akiyama, Shinkan Tamaki, Zhao Cong, Yong Yandsen, Gudinni Cortina, Manfred Werder, Pauline Oliveros, Jean Derome, Joane Hetu, Ian Birse and Laura Kavanaugh (Instant Places), Vicky Mettler, Bennett Bedoukian and Mark Molnar, as well as many others.
His current interests lay in collaboration, impractical mail-order cassettes, holding long notes and the notions of developing an improvisational language as a form of composition.