Category: audio art

sketches and finished works

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the known world wrap up / hny

a short document of the ice field and cloudfield installations from the known world are below.  thanks to everyone who came out to the show—my first but hopefully not my last.  it was a great experience to mount a solo show and i am very excited about 2011.  besides working with peggy baker/michael healy/daniel brooks, minor empire, theatre direct, pleiades theatre, and a host of others besides, i have a number of new projects just itching to get out of the starting block.

happy new year to everyone, and keep it locked for new info.

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so much! so many!

too busy–here are the links!

SOLO SHOW: THE KNOWN WORLD (november 4, 7pm.  link has an essay by darren copeland and new sound works on the page as well).

HARMONIUM: LIVE CINEMA PERFORMANCE (november 5 @ the gladstone, part of the latin-afro-south asian festival)

THE BODHI TREE: NEW LIVE CINEMA WORK (november 12 in hamilton, november 13 in toronto @ wychwood barns)

MAHARAJA: THE SPLENDOR OF INDIA’S ROYAL COURTS (opens november 20 @ the art gallery of ontario–i’m doing the sound design for this show in association with the AGO)

phew.

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studio

i’m very pleased to announce (if i haven’t already before) that i will be doing my first solo show of sound art and video installation, opening november 4 @ toronto free gallery as part of savac‘s studio series, wherein they program a member to put on a solo exhibition.

i will be presenting 3 works—2 sound sculptures and a multichannel video installation.

hope to see you there—party on november 4 @ 7pm!

d

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more radio / upcoming

it has been a while.

more radio stuffs: a new mix of kailash is featured on the deep wireless CD, distributed annually by new adventures in sound art.  the conference is on now, so if you find yourself in the toronto area, do register.  as usual it is a great lineup of artists and thinkers.

also, a number of shows are coming up with ensemble polaris, june 6 in toronto and june 13 @ sharon temple.  the mutek show i mentioned earlier down the page is on track, and i am thrilled to be playing such a great festival with some other collaborators.  also playing the same program is the awesome herman kolgen.  i’ll be playing with sultans of string at the end of the month of june as well.

waiting on a few other things….as usual….art, music and recording.  stay tuned.

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so much!

well.

the peggy baker show went great.  6 channel mix.  no waiting.  and i got a raging fever right after opening night.  perfect.

many new projects in the mix, some of which i can’t talk about.  but one i can talk about is the fact that i posted new live excerpts from the shruti project on vimeo.  you can see excerpts from the show @ the music gallery in toronto on march 11.  thanks to jonny dovercourt (for inviting me to open for david caniell and tortoise’s douglas mccombs) and sandor ajzenstat (for fixing my framing on the video camera recording the proceedings).

musicworks‘ feature interview on my process creating the CDMC commission kailash will be coming out soon.  you can see a scan of it @ my press page and of course you can listen to the commission and a feature program (in spanish) from links on that page as well.

now it’s applications time, so there are lots of packages to be mailed and presenters to contact.  there are some exciting things on tap for 2010/11, so keep it locked to find out what’s what in the upcoming DEB.

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/10221562]

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listen in spanish

a big thank you to miguel alvarez fernandez for making a radio feature on me to introduce listeners to my work before the broadcast of “kailash”.

i met miguel while in alicante to present  “kailash”, which was commissioned by Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporanea /Radio Clasicá/RNE (Spanish National Radio)—the prize i wrote about a few posts back.  everyone there was really wonderful and excited about making my work sound the best it could.

please enjoy.

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a good time was had by all

back from belfast, and what a trip!  the friendliness of the irish is by no means exaggerated.

had a great set @ an excellent venue, the black box, highly recommended if you are looking for a place to play.  the ISEA conference was quite an experience—never been to an academic conference before, and some of the seminars were of a different focus than the performative or process-oriented kind of explorations i usually seem to expose myself to.  however, i did see some good performances, even though the focus was on academia everyone made it out to the shows at night.  in particular i am very pleased to have finally met my now good friend yasuhiro morinaga, who had a great performance during the day the first day i got there.  we are on track for a performance in toronto for the new adventures in sound art festival soundplay.

there are pics of the set on my site thanks to colin, who was the volunteer in charge of the night.  only a few though—it was, after all pretty dark.

hitting the ground running, now.  kailash comes up at the end of the year, and the nuit blanche project with peggy baker is on tap as well—more on that later, and see previous posts here for links.

good night, and see you at a show soon….

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belfast kommt

a few more sleeps until i go to ISEA 2009.  i will, as i have mentioned, be presenting a new video, the white dog, and will be performing my shruti audiovisual project on aug 27 around 9pm.  please drop by if you get a chance—coincidentally my friends from autorickshaw will be in belfast at the same time.  expect a big toronto reunion at the nearest pub afterwards—i haven’t seen any of them in over a year.

soon after returning, i will be doing the harmonium audiovisual project at the toronto portion of the international indian electronica festival.  september 4 is the date, and rolly’s garage is the place.  9pm start, cover tba (check the website).  i look forward to doing this project here in toronto.  some new surprises are in store for this performance, including the excellent reading of text i wrote, courtesy of berlin electronica star robert lippok, who incidentally has a great voice.

sept 19 has my visual work as part of the next bird project concert.  this ensemble of flutes, voice, piano, poetry, electroacoustic sound and video is still going strong, and we are well into our season.  unfortunately i won’t be there to do live visuals, as i will be on a plane to spain to present my new work kailash, the winner of the CDMC/Ars Sonora prize.  the piece will be premiered at the International Festival of Contemporary Music in Alicante, and i am really thrilled to be going there to present.

finally, peggy baker and i will be presenting the dance/audiovisual installation project move @ nuit blanche toronto on october 3rd (7pm to sunrise).  24 dancers and a great band—myself, ben grossman, and phil strong.

hope to see you there.  somewhere.