Cindy Mochizuki: WAKE January 25 - 28, 2006, February 1 - 4, 4-7pm Co-producers Theatre Replacement, Video In and High Performance Rodeo
Creation and performance Anita Rochon, Marco Soriano, Paul Ternes, Cindy Mochizuki, Donna Soares and Una Memisevic
Direction Maiko Bae Yamamoto and James Long
Set construction Kofu Yamamoto
Video design Candelario Andrade
Dramaturgy Kris Nelson
BIOBOXES: Artifacting Human Experience is a collection of short one-person shows for one-person audiences that take place in a very intimate theatre: a box worn on the actorfs shoulders. Through an interview process with first generation Canadians, six artists have created tiny shows which are performed in both English and another language.
BIOBOXES is a new form of documentary performance. Part museum, part photo album, part performance, BIOBOXES seeks to artifact the human experience through language and object and the stories that fill our lives. BIOBOXES explores a heightened relationship between audience and performer, redefining the idea of the face-to-face encounter. Lives are seen and experienced in a completely new way, as if looking at them through a microscope.
Theatre Replacement builds, produces and tours unique, small-scale chamber works. The company is dedicated to continuing the evolution of collaborative theatre-making and ensemble training. Artistic directors James Long and Maiko Bae Yamamoto have been developing new work through creative collaborations between artists of different disciplines and approaches for over 10 years, redefining the performance experience. The companyfs past successes include Farther and Farther On, The Empty Orchestra, Broiler, Sexual Practices of the Japanese and Box Theatre.
FEBRUARY 2007
AUDIO CUBES WORKSHOP February 8th and 9th, 2007, 10am to 6pm www.newmusic.org
Presented by Vancouver New Music and VIVO (Video In | Video Out)
Kim Cascone (microsounsd.org) and Bert Schiettecatte (Percussa) lead a two-day community workshop on AudioCubes, an interactive platform for electronic music exploration, sound design and composition.
This workshop is now full. A performance will be held on the night of February 9th by the workshop participants.
KIM CASCONE February 10, 2007 @ 8pm
Tickets $15/$10 (students/seniors) www.newmusic.org
Presented by Vancouver New Music and VIVO (Video In | Video Out)
Kim Cascone presents Spectral Space, a new work focused on extending density in audio material; a layering of audio fields through which sounds glint, shimmer, collide and implode within the fabric of noise.
Kim Cascone, a pioneer of ambient electronic music, founder of Silent Records and co-founder of microsound.org, performs Spectral Space, a new computer music†piece focused on extending density in audio material. In our age of media-overload the public has adapted to this condition by enlarging their ability to simultaneously consume multiple streams of information. The trend of "content density" is evidenced in both visual and musical art-forms such as music-videos, television advertising, video games and sample-based musics such as hip-hop and electronica. The omnipresent din of our media culture provides a security blanket for many: when noise is present, we feel at ease; when it stops, we feel unease. In this paradoxical development of our cognitive apparatus we are now better able to assimilate more information at one time and decode its meaning. With Spectral Space Cascone builds a foreground/mid-ground/background sound-field through which sounds glint, shimmer, collide and implode within the fabric of noise.
Kim Cascone has a long history involving electronic music: he received his formal training in electronic music at the Berklee College of Music in the early 1970s, and in 1976 continued his studies with Dana McCurdy at the New School in New York City. In the 1980s, after moving to San Francisco and gaining experience as an audio technician, Cascone worked with David Lynch as Assistant Music Editor on both Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart. Cascone left the film industry in 1991 to concentrate on Silent Records, a label that he founded in 1986, transforming it into the U.S.'s premier electronic music label. At the height of Silent's success, he sold the company in early 1996 to pursue a career as a sound designer and went to work for Thomas Dolby's company Headspace as a sound designer and composer. After a two-year stint at Headspace he worked for Staccato Systems as the Director of Content where he oversaw sound design using algorithmic synthesis for video games. Since 1984, Kim has released more than 30 albums of electronic music and has recorded/performed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Tony Conrad, Scanner, John Tilbury and Pauline Oliveros among others.
Cascone was one of the co-founders of the microsound list that focuses on issues concerning digital music and laptop performance (http://www.microsound.org) and has written for Computer Music Journal (MIT Press), Artbyte Magazine, Contemporary Music Review, Soundcultures and Parachute Journal.
Single ticket prices are $15 regular and $10 for students and seniors. Tickets are available at Zulu or Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.ca or 604.280.3311; surcharges may apply). Tickets will also be available at the door.
KNITTING CIRCLE Tuesday, February 13th, 7-9pm
The Knitting Circle is a Performance Art chat group. We discuss current performance trends, issues that are affecting performance art, the work of performance artists- past and present, plus a variety of other topics. This is also a chance to connect with other artists and share your work. Events also include guest speakers, improvisation workshops, watching video documentation, and readings. Everyone is welcome to attend (students, established artists, emerging artists or anyone interested in performance art). Bring your knitting or favorite handcraft to each session.
Facilitated by Victoria Singh
CUE-UP #29 Thursday, February 22nd Special Guest: Stephen Wichuk
Stephen Wichuk is an animator, curator, and arts educator born in Edmonton, Alberta. He was first introduced to experimental filmmaking at FAVA, before moving to Vancouver to complete a bachelor of media arts in animation at the Emily Carr Institute. His animated work is informed by amusical sensibility; he has created an array of musical animations, music videos as well as drawings, musical performances and recordings. He is the co-founder/curator of Hymn Videozine, an international VHS curation and micro-distribution project that recently released its sixth issue. Working with media groups such as Arts Umbrella, Emily Carr, Reel2Real, AKI
(Netherlands), Filmarche (Berlin), and Cineworks, Wichuk has striven to enhance media literacy and accessibility. He is currently preparing for the fourth in a series of free six-week animation courses hosted by the Purple Thistle and designed/initiated by himself and collaborator Rickie Lea Owens.
Submissions 7:30pm and screenings 8:00pm
Socializing to follow.
FREE WORKSHOP: Computerized Composing with Kenaxis Wednesday, February 28nd, 7-9pm
Join singer and composer Soressa Gardner for an interactive workshop using Kenaxis, locally designed software that turns your laptop into a musical instrument.
Bring yourself, your voice and/or a musical toy or instrument. Musicianship is secondary to an interest in playing with sounds. Computer savvy is NOT a requirement, but computer geeks are also welcome.
We’ll start with an overview of Kenaxis, focusing on live sampling and real time sound manipulation, and then get you playing. Beat centered music is not the main focus of this workshop – we will be working from a sound collage perspective, but we will also address a few approaches for working with beats.
This workshop is being provided in completion of an audio residency sponsored by the CRES Media Arts Committee (MAC) at CRFO. For information about the Artist in
Residence Program, visit: www.mac-cfro.org
MARCH 2007
KNITTING CIRCLE Tuesday, March 13th, 7-9pm
The Knitting Circle is a Performance Art chat group. We discuss current performance trends, issues that are affecting performance art, the work of performance artists- past and present, plus a variety of other topics. This is also a chance to connect with other artists and share your work. Events also include guest speakers, improvisation workshops, watching video documentation, and readings. Everyone is welcome to attend (students, established artists, emerging artists or anyone interested in performance art). Bring your knitting or favorite handcraft to each session.
Facilitated by Victoria Singh
VISUAL PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP (VJ) March 20th & 21st, 6 to 10pm
VIVO (Video In | Video Out) is presenting video performance workshops. These workshops are being offered to video artists who would like to learn how to mix (edit) video live to work with musicians and/or sound artists in a performative setting.
This two-evening course covers equipment set-up, editing video to create loops, mixing with hardware (Edirol V-4) and software (Modul8, Flowmotion) using live feed, long and short form sources. A variety of scenarios are demonstrated and time for practice and experimentation is integrated into theory and history of video performance and manipulation.
Day 1: Equipment set-up (i.e. multiple display, live feed, creating feedback, connecting multiple sources), vj theory, hardware based mixing, sourcing materials and working with long form sources.
Day 2: Software mixing using Modul8, mixing with sound, vj theory involving digital and generative sources, working with short form loops and how to make a gapless loop.
