Beta_Lab @ La Salle D'Attente
Pharmacie Esperanza - 5490 boul St-Laurent, Montreal
Saturday, June 25th 2005 / 9pm - 1am
For our June installment, Beta_Lab will feature two incredibly talented and prolific artists all the way from Saskatoon:
Carrie Gates [Vinyl Interventions]
Jon Vaughn [No Type]
Carrie and Jon are the directors of the BricoLodge net-label as well as organizers of national events such as Digidome and Phantom Power.
They've also invited some special local guests to join them on this evening.
Check out the Phoniq website for more information on Beta_Lab: www.phoniq.net
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Press Release:
PHONIQ
Phoniq is a collective working to foster collaboration and communication between individuals and groups working in the field of electronic arts in Canada. Artists, business owners, organizers and other interested individuals are invited to join our growing community through the Phoniq website where they can participating in our mailing list, utilize and add to the link resource database and get involved in ongoing projects including our live music events and net-label.
CARRIE GATES [BricoLodge / Vinyl Interventions]
Carrie Gates is a Saskatoon-based artist who has been making slippery aural concoctions for the last decade, brewing her distinctive potion of electronic oddio, sound effects, children's record samples, instrumental hip hop, noise, ambient, plunderphonics, strange utterances, and the most obscure fruits of crate-digging into constructed experimental ambiences that leave crowds smiling. Also known to many as the Lady Gates, she has performed extensively throughout Canada over the years, and has recently been focussing on her experimental turntablism project Vinyl Interventions, with partners Esther Bourdages and Marinko Jareb, as well as building the net.label, BricoLodge, with co-Director Jon Vaughn. Often including performance artists, video projections, live vocals, contact microphones, and/or prepared records as part of her presentations, Carrie is always pushing forward new ideas about performativity and awareness in relation to live electronic sound. She has been integral to the development of the experimental electronic music scene on the Prairies, and coordinates many events, independently (TasteTest, Chaotica, hinge), and with artist-run centres (Digidome, Phantom Power, Revenge of the Nerds v.5: Nintendisco). Ms.Gates allows curiousity, absurdity, and sensuality to mingle freely with her critical art historical training to result in her own unique flavour of freakbeat soundscapes.
JON VAUGHN [BricoLodge / No Type]
Entering the world the at the same time as Bob Saget's sophomore film debut "Spaced Out" which contains one the most incredible pure electro soundtracks ever, his spirit is at one in with the time and space of the technoid-soul! Rap-dance music like Technotronic, 2 Un-ltd, Corona & Hi Tek 3 caught Vaughn's attention as prepubescent youth and from that point on his ears were tuned to the transmissions of techno beats and the poetics of the electronic culture that surrounded him. Vaughn, a naturally-inclined art historian, throughout his life, (as well in his Bachelor’s Degree for the University of Saskatchewan) time-traveled to incorporate the musics of Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre, and New Order into his teenage architecture and thus formed nu wave rock bands that eventually transformed into solo and collaborative electronic projects that concurrently furthered his studies into electronic culture and simultaneously increased the experimental and radical aspects of his sound practice.
At the turn of the 21st century, as Vaughn slipped into adulthood, his interests and practice in sound art had become a diverse yet focused, collection of extremities that saw Vaughn maniacally interchangeably intercoursing with Zen-like no-input music, free jazz, musique concrete, and an emerging affection for German minimal techno like Kompakt Records and Dutch electro like Bunker Records. Through the encouragement of collaborator and best friend Carrie Gates; a veteran raver and DJ from his hometown, Vaughn began publicly DJing techno and experimental music in 2001 at parties and local community radio, whilst keeping up his live electronic solo and collaborative performances in the context of art galleries and artist-run centres. Vaughn felt the strong desire to revive a techno-dance-enthusiasm in the milieu of post-rave melancholia and clicking microsound boredom. He also came to believe, after years of damage from harsh noise and rock n' roll, in the power of the songs, melodies, and narratives of electronic music to save drowning spirits, mend broken hearts and cleanse & revitalize the technoid-soul, giving it unparalled emotional, intellectual and psychedelic adventures!
In 2005, after a CD out on No Type Records with Max Haiven, and co-organizing multiple events around Canada (Digidome, Phantom Power), Carrie Gates and Jon Vaughn unleash BricoLodge, a net.label featuring archives from their events, and many new solo and collaborative projects by themselves and most notably other artists from across Canada and the world.
