Posts filed under ‘Vancouver’
Oren Ambarchi & Crys Cole, Vancouver, July 10th 2011
Oren Ambarchi & Crys Cole – Two Solo Sets of Electronic Music
July 10th 2011, 8pm
The Western Front, 303 E 8th Ave, Vancouver
Tickets
Advance: $16 General, $12 Students/WF Members
Door: $20 General, $18 Students/WF Members
Discounted advance tickets available via PayPal or in person at the Western Front until 5PM Friday, July 8.
Western Front Box Office Hours: Wednesday-Friday, 12 noon-5PM (604 876 9343)
Buy tickets online
Oren Ambarchi – “Lost Time Not Found Again”
Mark McGuire, Vancouver, June 24th 2011
Mark Mcguire, Vancouver, June 24th 2011
Pop Drones presents:
Mark McGuire (Emeralds)
Rene Hell (Type)
Brother Raven
Eye Myths
Magneticring
Friday June 24th
Show 9pm-midnight
360 Glen Drive, Vancouver
Not Me 2011 12s Update
Volume two in the CSAF recording company‘s 2011 12s series of free MP3 EPs is now available. It features remixes of songs by Not Me courtesy of Vincent Parker, The Luminaries and connect_icut.
Here are the full details:
Not Me - dbm 2011
Vol. 2: dbm 2011 (CSAF130DL)
Featuring a new remix by award-winning beat slicer Vincent Parker plus mixes by The Luminaries and connect_icut.
Vincent Parker’s remix is packed with swagger. Or should that be stagger? In any case, every time you think this track is going to fall flat on its face, Vincent pulls everything back up into place. He even supplied his own artwork to go with the mix (see below). A class act all ’round.
dbm Vincent Parker Remix
The connect_icut mix starts off atmospheric but brings in the beats just when you need ’em. Like Vincent’s mix, this a fevered exercise in raw improvisation, with all the bloody edges left un-sanitized.
The Luminaries mix is rather more refined and contemplative. It’s based around a series of bleak time-stretched drones, which betray very little trace of the original samples. These are arranged around ominous silences that – while undeniably spacious and panoramic – do little to dispel the claustrophobic mood of the first two tracks.
Side A
1. Vincent Parker Remix (5:21)
2. connect_icut 2011 Mix (7:25)
Side B
1. The Luminaries House of Bhutan Remix (10:15)
DOWNLOAD 2011 12s VOL. 2
hmbkr in London (sort of)
The mighty hmbkr, photographed by Steve Louie*
Vancouver-based electronic music artist Constantine Katsiris – aka Scant Intone – has curating a two-hour programme of sound works and videos for London’s SoundFjord, the first gallery in the UK primarily dedicated to audio art. The works will be presented on May 3rd and will include hmbkr’s “Radio Majesty”, which is also available as a free download from the CSAF Records website.
Here are all the details…
Hlysnan
Hlysnan is SoundFjord’s monthly listening event, exploring the world of sound in all its facets, guises and surprises! Tonight is an evening of film and sound works selected by Constantine Katsiris (Scant Intone).
May 3, 2011 @ 7-9pm
SoundFjord, Unit 3b – Studio 28, 28 Lawrence Road, London N15 4ER
£2 at the door or buy advance tickets: http://wegottickets.com/event/116460
All monies are used to produce further events
((( SOUND )))
HMBKR – Radio Majesty
Crys Cole – Sand
Akumu – The Descent
John Kameel Farah – Rathenower
Shane Turner – (Squiggly Line)
Michael Trommer – Green Greyspace (Space Specters)
((( VIDEO )))
Erin Sexton – 3 x 2
Carrie Gates & Jon Vaughn – Dirty Two Minutes With You
Julia Staudach & Peter Kutin – Strob
Jan Goldfuß & Kokoro No Jojishi – Dreams of Solaris
Holzkopf – Foreign Heroin
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204590509571553
(And for more of Steve Louie’s awesome pics of hmbkr, visit his Flickr page!)
It’s Record Store Day!
Oval/Liturgy Split LP
That’s right, it’s Record Store Day! So go out and buy the awesome, limited edition Oval/Liturgy split LP!! Or something else!!!
Oh and if you’re in Vancouver, Loscil is playing at Red Cat around 5pm and Zulu is having a big sale all day.
Oval – “Kreak”
hmbkr, Fake Jazz, March 18th, Vancouver
Fake Jazz March 18th 2011
FAKE JAZZ
featuring
hmbkr
Froghat
Andrea Lukic Presents Exhausted Monologues
Friday March 18th 2011, 8.30pm
The Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver BC
Add it to your Last FM calendar.
“An evening of fearless, underground experimentation by some of the doughtiest musicians in south-western BC. Guest curated by Jeremy Van Wyck, Bill Batt and Anju Singh creators of the dynamic and storied series.
Andrea Lukic Presents Exhausted Monologues
Performed by the bassist/vocalist of Nü Sensae, Andrea Lukic’s project is an unrelenting take on sampling and soliloquy. Through extreme repetition of frequencies, tones and cut-up dialogue customized to suit a variety of emotional states, the project is a mutated version of Exposure and Response Therapy often used by therapists to treat patients with OCD anxieties.
Victoria’s Soma Morse (audio) and Gerald Hogrefe (video) bring their own brand of multi-media experimentation with an audio-visual collaboration of abstract animation in interaction with harsh, atmospheric ambient and dense frequencies.
Finishing up the evening is a brand new supergroup of some of Vancouver’s foremost electronic mavericks. Members of Coin Gutter, connect_icut, Ejaculation Death Rattle and Scant Intone have formed a refined and cultivated approach to digital improvised audio. Their sound incorporates real-time digital signal processing, primal vocals and unconventional tuning systems (just intonation). This will be their debut live performance, with visuals courtesy of Julie Gendron.”
Quiet City 7: March 11th, Vancouver
Quiet City 7
QUIET CITY
Featuring…
Diadem
Myths
No UFOs
Nurse
Tusk
Friday, March 11th 2011, 9pm
W2 Storyeum – 151 West Cordova, Vancouver BC, Canada
(Note new venue!)
No UFOs – “Evidence/Century Park”
Quiet City is a series of deep-listening concerts in Vancouver, focused on live performances of experimental, electronic and improvised music in a comfortable and intimate setting.
Presented by W2 Community Media Arts, Soundscape on CFRO Co-op Radio & Panospria
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151476771576779
And let’s not forget about the live debut of hmbkr, at the Western Front on the 18th. More on that soon.
CSAF Update
Couple of news items from the CSAF recording company. More details on these later but here are the headlines, for the time being:
1. Volume one in Not Me‘s 2011 12s series of free download EPs is now available. It features remixes by Loscil, The Luminaries and connect_icut. That’s right: LOSCIL!
2. The four-headed laptop beast known as hmbkr will be making its live debut at the Western Front in Vancouver on March 18th. You should add it to your Last FM calendar.
Ryoji Ikeda, Vancouver, February 3rd
Vancouver’s first unmissable show of 2011. Part of the PuSh Festival. Lots of PuSH reviews will be appearing over at Kris’s Blog.
Other live music highlights in Vancouver’s immediate future include Swans at the Rickshaw on February 25th and Mount Kimbie at the Biltmore on March 31st.
CSAF 10-20 2010 Vols. 14, 15 & 16
The last three entries in CSAF Records’ 10-20 2010 series…
connect_icut - Garbo Sings
VOLUME 14: connect_icut – “Garbo Sings” (CSAF127DL) 16:38
Like several of the 10-20 2010 releases, “Garbo Sings” is an outtake from Blonde Sound, a connect_icut album that, at the time of writing, is nearing completion. This one really showcases connect_icut’s increasingly structured approach and it was very, very nearly included on the album’s track-list. In the final analysis, though, it was just too damned epic to be kept within the confines of a mere long player. It had to be set free, online. Seriously, this is 17 minutes of huge!
Download in .zip format
Listen online
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Not Me - lss (Example)
VOLUME 15: Not Me – “lss (Example)” (CSAF128DL) 11:04
As 2010 comes to an end, “lss (Example)” points to the future of CSAF, generally and Not Me, specifically. It’s taken from a demos album released to provide guidance to participants in the 2011 12s project, a series of “virtual 12-inch singles” featuring new remixes of Not Me material, from an as-yet-unspecified selection of artists. In and of itself, this is probably the deepest, darkest and most accomplished Not Me track so far, mixing elements of minimal techno, dubstep and glitch.
Download in .zip format
Listen online
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Old Wyoming - Your Violent Nature
VOLUME 16: Old Wyoming – “Your Violent Nature” (CSAF134DL) 11:59
Old Wyoming is the new project from Brad Lynham of Empty Love. “Your Violent Nature” is a truly serious piece of heavyweight analogue drone. Recorded and mixed on December 20th and 21st 2010, in Montreal.
Download in .zip format
Listen online
Bubblegum Cage III 