Category: projects

project discussion and writings

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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!

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new works

in the theatre today with theatre direct,working on a new show for january of 2011—a wonderful piece of physical theatre with a great history in canada, called head a tete.  it is a tremendous gift to have some time in the theatre with the cast to help guide the sound design.

off to germany soon to (among other things) have a double espresso with my knuckleduster compatriot robert lippok.  work on our new CD is nearing completion!  in the meantime, you can read and hear our contribution to the “collaboration” issue @ vague terrain, a really excellent online journal of electronic music.

new creative process with peggy baker begins in october, and i will be sound designing a major new exhibition at the art gallery of ontario about the maharajas of india.  we have an advisory committee in place, and the ago is committed to making sure there is community involvement in the mounting of this exhibition.  check out the blog and leave your comments.

next year has me in theatre mode, with new plays by the above mentioned theatre direct, with michael healy and peggy baker (directed by daniel brooks), and with pleiades theatre.  if you want to find me between january and june in toronto, check a theatre stage.  more details as they become known of course.

until next time.

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field @ the sound symposium

back from a great time @ the sound symposium (follow the link to see some great pics from the 10 day festival).  played drums with maryem tollar but the thing i am most excited about is field, a new project by electroacoustic hurdy gurdy player ben grossman on music and myself on visuals and some digital sound.  we had our world premiere @ the festival and it went great.  some photos are here, and i will be posting video soon.

there will be much more activity in the field, so stay tuned.

for those of you in toronto, you can catch me @ dusk dances in withrow park august 3-8 @ 7pm.  i will be performing again with the inimitable peter chin/tribal crackling wind, with dancers kate holden and yves candau.

much more coming.  here are some photos from the field in st john’s, newfoundland:

video capture by greg locke

photo by greg locke
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MUTEK and beyond

on the train, on the way home from my MUTEK set.  very enjoyable evening, curated by ORAL‘s eric mattson.  no sleep, but that is a given i suppose, considering it was MUTEK/montreal.

me on the train home to toronto
here i am, trying to finish this blog post.

lots of drumming coming up, and also some up in the air projects.  watch this space, as usual.

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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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mutek 2010

very pleased to be included in eric mattson‘s curated performance series ectoplasmes 3 in MUTEK 11.  i will be performing on june 3 @ the venerable monument national on st laurent blvd in downtown montreal.  i will be performing with stéphane claude and phillippe-albert gauthier.

check the website for details and see you there!

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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]