30 May, 2019
General Assembly (5 Fairmont Ave), Ottawa
doors 7:30pm, music 8pm
$20//$10//$??
Special guest TIM OLIVE from Kobe, Japan!
is joined by, from Montreal
Anne-F Jacques,
Elizabeth Millar
Craig Pedersen
with a solo set by
Day of Niagara (Ottawa)
This will be our final concert with friends Sothea and Bruno of General Assembly.
We are very grateful for their generous support over many years.
Tim Olive (JAPAN)
magnetic pickups
https://timolive.org
https://845audio.org/
The music of Tim Olive arises from collaboration with fellow musicians/sound artists, collaboration with physical and temporal setting, and collaboration with those involved in the act of listening. Using simple materials (including magnetic pickups, steel strings, tuning forks, metal strips, hand-wound motor mechanisms, magnetic tape, dental floss and analog electronics), Olive’s work is predicated on the interplay of the human with material/time/space, and the uniqueness, intensity and unrepeatability that lives in each performing and/or recording situation.
He is interested in music as a social activity, as a way of creating community, a way of countering the forces which lead to an increasing atomization of contemporary life; music as a felt experience rather than as a concept or a theory.
A Canadian residing in Kobe, Japan, Olive has released music on Japanese, European and North American labels, with Jeff Allport, Cristian Alvear, Pascal Battus, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Samuel Dunscombe, Nick Hoffman, Anne-F Jacques, Jin Sangtae, Jason Kahn, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Yukinori Kikuchi, Cal Lyall, Francisco Meirino, Katsura Mouri, Takuji Naka, Bunsho Nishikawa, Makoto Oshiro, Ben Owen, Horacio Pollard, Fritz Welch, and Yan Jun.
Elizabeth Millar
breath, machine hums, metal surfaces,
air, fans, propellers and clarinet
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.
Anne-F Jacques
rotating objects
An inventory of objects and materials with which author, sound artist, Anne-F Jacques makes sound and visual creations. Through their weight, texture and individual history, she retraces a small part of their story and immerses the reader in a microcosm of stubborn objects. She is interested in things that turn, in rough sounds, erratic movements, building precarious structures and idiosyncrasies. Sounds and other found things. She lives and works in Montreal.
Craig Pedersen
amplified trumpet
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.
Photo Credit: Megan Butcher
Day of Niagara
guitar and electronics
David Jackson plays guitar and electronics and has has conceptualized, participated and collaborated in a number of metal, punk, experimental, electronic, drone, and rock collaborations including the Fucking Machines, North, Northern Sound Electrical System, Chandeliers, 1978, Roctagon, and Red Pony. He has played and collaborated with a number of artists, both local and international, such as David Broscoe, Raymond MacDonald, Connor Bennett, Satoko Fuji, Linsey Wellman, Mark Molnar, and Instant Places.Since 2013 he has been co-programming director of IMOO (improvisedmoo.com). His latest project, Day of Niagara (https://dayofniagara.bandcamp.com), combines overlapping analog and digital synthesis and improvises noisy textures, arrhythmic pulses, and echoic dub repetitions.
Photo Credit: Megan Butcher