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July 08-14, 2005 WarBike For my residency at artengine I've prepared a speakere-equipped backpack carrying a PDa. The PDa will convert computer wireless networks and activity to a personal musical soundtrack. You may sign out the backpack and a bike at the artengine space and explore Ottawa's hidden WiFi topography. Friday, July 08, 2005 Your
Network is Mine Artengine has recently aqcuired a gorgeous space in the Byward Market of downtown Ottawa. I will be performing at their opening show, broadcasting my set from unencrypted networks elsewhere in the city, using the environmental sounds as source for the music. Monday, April 04, 2005 A
Farewell concert Alex Berman, Hampus Petterson, and I in a farewell concert to myself. Was supposed to be another potato performance but I, uh, lost the electronics. <shrug> Saturday, March 26, 2005 A
study of the sonic capabilities of genetically modified potatoes Alex Berman, Sue Huang, and myself, will finally answer the age-old question: which makes better music, genetically modified potatoes, or regular ones? Saturday, February 19, 2005 Hugs The Hugs collective will be playing alongside My Enemy. Who will be the ultimate champion as laptop pop takes on sonic destruction? You find out! Also, um, some hip hop group that didn't want to play with us. Friday, December 3, 2004 Hugs Members of the Hugs group will be doing an improviganza for the ManiFEST festival. ManiFEST is also full of lots of other great acts that will definitely be worth checking out. Wednesday, December 1, 2004 Hugs:
Miss Jacobs' Neighbourhood The second incarnation of the Hugs series at Big Love. The theme of this show is based on Hampus Petterson's suggestion of using neighbourhood sound. I'm opening up that idea to focus on the idea of the space of area, within and without the gallery. So the motivation should in some way tie into exploring these spaces that we frequently take for granted. Saturday, November 27, 2004 nim
med sinθ nim and I with our regular mashing in this 2-day festival. I'll be performing on the Rubik's Cube again. Wednesday, November 10, 2004 Hugs Calling all knob twiddlers, sound mashers, and
people of open musical mindsets. Wednesday, July 28, 2004 David
McCallum with mn-l
and Kara from Falconhawk The Globe and Mail's entertainment columnist Carl
Wilson's Tin
Tin Tin is a I'll be playing with Toronto's own mn-l and Kara of Falconhawk. Our set's dubbed "real-time improv meets new-wave-synth-pop-prov". Tuesday, July 6, 2004 Drinking
Box An entire evening of myself and Mike Cassells (also from LEARK) with our renegade side project, Drinking Box. Saturday, June 5, 2004 Art
and Techonolgy Final Show Art and Technology final showing involving installations, performances, you name it! I will be playing with Flexing Swine and... hacky sacking! Friday May 14, 2004 nim
med sinθ Kollage the DIY club again. This time with the theme of "destruction". Alex and I will be "destroying" singer/songwriters. CANCELLED Sunday May 9, 2004 nim
med sinθ The first in what hopes to be a regular Sunday afternoon music event at Big Love. Come chill out and see what weird sounds get created. Probably similar stuff to what will have been played at Pustervik previously. Wednesday May 4, 2004 nim
med sinθ With Alex Berman. It is the release party for two compilations, I believe (neither of which we're on). There will be rock shows upstairs in Pustervik, and Alex and I will be playing in the bar/cafe/lounge between sets. Our aim is to use old electronics as sound sources, this will probably include a b/w TV set, antique radio, and a reel-to-reel machine. And maybe more! Sunday, March 28, 2004 Re
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Distro is a monthly club for self-promotion and DIY constructions. I will be playing with Alex Berman (nim). We will be taking live audio from Kungsgatan (most likely a microphone hanging outside the window) right outside the venue, and processing it live into some sort of coherent music. Doing video are Annie Wan and Gabor Papp. Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Re
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Sirén Festivalen is an annual festival of student composers in Gothenburg. Alex Berman and I will be doing something similar to what we will be doing at Distro later this month. Read below for a description. Also involved are Annie Wan and Gabor Papp. Saturday, January 24, 2004 Artengine This is a followup to the previous lecture but will be approximately an hour long performance.
Friday, January 23, 2004 Artengine A broadcast from here in Sweden to Canada. This is a lecture on Pd for a media technology class. Wednesday,
December 17 - Playground Wednesday, November 12, 2003 Flexing Swine ManiFEST is a culture-of-all-kinds festival being held atalante in Göteborg. Flexing Swine will be accompanying a painter (no idea what his name is) doing some live painting. Two sets. Friday, October 10, 2003 Flexing
Swine Flexing
Swine This is a broadcast from Göteborg to an event in New York City. The official brief says: "Bringing Berlin to Brooklyn's Burg…For the first time, the Berlin-based artist collaborative Stadtblind presents its work in New York. Through photography, architecture and graphic design Stadtblind uncovers Berlin's particularities, making visible the places that disappear from the city's perception, the »blind spots« on the mental maps of Berlin." Thursday, October 9, 2003 Flexing Swine Just an open house for the public by the IT University. A bunch of us will be doing a jam for all who care to watch. Tuesday, August 26, 2003 The
Ambient Ping Also playing are Aiden Baker, Thomasz Krakowiak, DJ Blameshifter, and Mike Hansen. I will be playing the first set. CANCELLED Saturday, August 16, 2003 United
Empire Loyalist Orchestra The UELO is a collective project run by Jeremy Latta. Previous events have been the Three Hour O Canada, The Requiem for Cam Neely 24 hour drone show, and Profile of Single Women. In other UELO news, I've recently been appointed Champion of Post Production! Tuesday, August 5, 2003 LEARK LEARK's playing (Kristi Allik, Mike Cassells, Robert Mulder, and me!). For the second set we are joined by special guest Cheryl O. Friday, July 4, 2003 Acidusa de Mornay presents:
Circus Circus Circus Solo set. I think this is going to be a local showcase of musicians and DJs. I will be the third set of the night. Friday, May 23, 2003 Pd-party I will be broadcasting my set remotely to the party from Toronto. Aren't we geeks. Saturday, May 3, 2003 I will not be playing this show. I've had to cancel due to illness. But the show is still happening, so check it out! Profiles
of Single Women The UELO is a collective project run by Jeremy Latta. Previous events have been the Three Hour O Canada and The Requiem for Cam Neely 24 hour drone show. This is a less time-intensive event. A one-hour set using samples and photos of... single women! Guaranteed to be stimulating. Also performing is Cow Paws from Toronto. Wednesday, April 2, 2003 Mosaic I will be premiering (what a word) my thesis composition for solo violin and computer, One Hand Clapping. Danielle Lennon on violin. Tuesday, March 18, 2003 Experimental
Music at the Grad Club. Thursday, March 13, 2003 Tone Warp I'm playing bird parts with my didgeridoo for a section of Eight Songs for a Mad King by Peter Maxwell Davies. Monday, March 10, 2003 Mosaic Concert Series The group LEARK will be performing in this all-electronic show. Saturday, March 8, 2003 Sundaze
Film Festival The film Bench, from the Focus Film Festival, is being shown. I did the soundtrack. Friday, March 7, 2003 Shipper and Ripper Watch me subject the student populace to my noise. They're going to love it. Tuesday, March 4, 2003 Experimental
Music at the Grad Club. Saturday, March 1st, 2003 Scallop Potato Productions' 3rd Bi-Annual
World Video Premiere Release Party Screening of local shorts. Bench will be played. (this entry was added retroactively to the events listing) Tuesday, February 4, 2003 Experimental
Music at the Grad Club. Friday, January, 24, 2003 Focus Film Festival screening Contestants are given three days to produce a short film. Under the guidance of Erik Martinson, David Missio, and others, I did a soundtrack for the film Bench. This is the screening for all submitted films. And ours will win. Tuesday, January 21, 2003 Experimental
Music at the Grad Club. Friday, November 1, 2002 The Canadian Electronic Ensemble This show is a concert put on by the Canadian Electroacoustic Ensemble, they are graciously letting us jam with them for the last piece of the show. LEARK (Live ElectroAcoustic Research Kitchen) is a live electronic group comprising of Dr. Kristi Allik, Mike Cassells, Aglaia Lessard, Myself, Robert Mulder, and Adam Tindale. It was originally put together as a group to promote live electronic music in Kingston and Queen's and to present electronic compositions. It is now mainly an improvisational group. Friday and Saturday, October 4 and 5, 2002 A Moneky and His Dog My set is 2000h on Saturday the 5th. But you should check out the whole event (starting Friday at 2000h), especially Knurl at 2300h Friday. I'm playing with Brandon Fodden (the Lumber Dog of the Lumber Dog Trio, but we will be the Duo, as jeph is in Oregon for the rest of his life). Note that even though it says "sin theta" We'll probably be playing as A Monkey and His Dog. Maybe. Who knows. The "official" release says: "kingston's first festival of noise--the tone deaf fest--will be a two-night affair at the princess court theatre, once a grand cinema that has recently re-opened for special events. performers include knurl, their gods were flesh (jason bellchamber/peter thompson), patrick gregory, matthew boughner [original release had a typo for his name, it is corrected here], the city that fun forgot, sin theta, clive robertson and ctrl f. June 1 and 2, 2002 United Empire Loyalist Orchestra A 24 hour drone of the note D. No other notes allowed! |
Now and then, 2004/2005 Hugs Calling all knob twiddlers, sound mashers, and
people of open musical mindsets. Sunday, February 20, 2005 Attack
of the PANTs workshop We built Portable Art Noise Things, contacts mics connected to self-powered speakers. Take them with you and amplify anything, annoy the public! Winter 2003 Experimental
Music at the Grad Club With Craig Leonard, the man behind the original Tone Deaf. Spring 2002 suh
¤ xlf I will be returning to Kingston in the spring and hope to continue a concert series of some sort. suh ¤ xlf is a series of happenings in collaboration with Kathryn Wehrle that explore interactions between visual art and music that began on February 1st, 2002 (with surprising success). The name is a play on the Fluxus happenings in the 1960s. The idea originates in exploring different methods of guiding musical improv. I've found that unless there's some sort of rough framework in an improv it can tend to be a little aimless. The event works in sets. In each set there are two media: music, and visual art. One medium is chosen to be the leader and the other the follower. The leader must create something on the spot. The follower's job is to improvise based on how they interpret what's being created by the other medium. I don't want to limit the event to these two media. I want it to be open to people of all creative media. I'm particularly interested in role-reversal interactions such as having a dancer be the leader while the music follows. Unfortunately I don't know any dancers who are also into progressive artistic thought. So if you're interested in participating you should contact me! suh ¤ xlf is open to all people of a creative mindset. Although I may renege that. September 2001 - April 2002 Mosaic Mosaics will now be run by X-tian Allan, as I'm no longer the studio manager at Queen's for this year. |
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is a big hole in my performing experience before this date because I just
didn't start keeping records. So anything below this is either added retroactively
as I come across documentation, or really just a best guess.
April 8, 2002 suh ¤ xlf suh ¤ xlf in conjunction with the UV CD Release Party. (date?) March 2002 Kingston
Canadian Film Festival With Brandon Fodden (before we were A Monkey and His Dog) 2000-2002 Mosaic You know, I did a few of these. Maybe I've still got some of the programmes around. (date?) April 2000 MUSC255 Year End Concert My performance was with Jeff McKay, Rami Abul-Husn, and Brad (something or other) |
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