Textures is a series of deep-listening events held on the last Saturday of each month at Pharmacie Esperanza. These salon-style concerts focus mainly on live performances of ambient, noise and experimental music in a comfortable and intimate setting. Below are the details for this month when we'll have the pleasure of two Montreal debuts. The first will be the ambient stylings of Clonal Machina, who has recently relocated from San Francisco. The second performance of the evening will be the first live collaboration between I8U and Tomas Phillips, in anticipation of their upcoming release Anther on Petite Sono.
Samedi, 28 Janvier 2006 / Saturday, January 28 2006
TEXTURES_03: I8U / Tomas Phillips + Clonal Machina
La Salle D'Attente (Pharmacie Esperanza), 5490 St-Laurent
21h / 9 pm, 3$
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I8U
I8U’s audio art can be qualified as "sound-sculpture". It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet. Her web art can be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements. I8U's musical path is rather special. From classical music to the blues, it took only one chance meeting with David Kristian to get her involved in electronic music. Her work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create in new environments.
TOMAS PHILLIPS
Tomas Phillips has composed electronic and electro-acoustic music since his first solo contribution to the Shadow Tape compilation in 1994. He has since released limited edition cd-r’s under the names Sea Optic, Lisbon and Eto Ami (in collaboration with Dean King). In 2002, Eto Ami created the sound design for choreographer Steve Paxton’s Flat, under the direction of Julee Snyder, in Carborro N.C. 2003 saw the release of Tomas’ On Dit on Trente Oiseaux. Selected performances: the Feather Net gallery in Raleigh, N.C. (2002), the Société Des Arts Technologique in Montreal, Quebec (2003), the Monument National in Montreal to accompany the 2003 production of Sarah Kane’s Crave (with J. Winston Phillips), an Eto Ami playback presentation at the Overgaden Sound Art Festival in Copenhagen (2004), a Technopera, in conjunction with Tobias C. van Veen and the McGill University Opera Company (Montreal, 2004) and the Placard Headphones Festival (Montreal 2005). Current and future projects include collaborative releases with Tobias c. van Veen (If Not, Winter, and/OAR 2005), Chantale Laplante (Chair Bell Floor 2006), i8u (Anther, Petite Sono 2006) and Dean King (À Travers le Bord 2006).
CLONAL MACHINA
Originating as part of the Real Ambient Movement in San Francisco, Clonal Machina is now based in Montreal. The music started in SF, experimenting with sound, different types of instruments and the creation of a short wave radio/loop machine. His sound is makes extensive use of field recordings and sound bytes. The roots of the music are with the musical philosophies of Brian Eno and John Cage as well as Luigi Russollo and the Futurist movement.