Destroy Vancouver XVI
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Featuring
■ Alex Moskos
■ Alexandra Spence
■ Anne-F Jacques
■ Emma Hendrix + Julie Gendron
■ Martin Messier
■ Víctor Mazón Gardoqui
● Selectors’ Records DJ
Admission: $15 advance | $20 door
(Advance tickets will be available till Friday April 22, 11:59pm)
DV is an experimental music and sound art series curated by John Brennan and Elisa Ferrari. Coalescing around improvised forms of music and sound art, DV combines a broad range of experimental music genres and sound art aesthetics and brings together international improvisers with local and national sound artists and avant-garde musicians.
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ARTIST TALK | Alex Moskos + Anne-F Jacques
Sunday April 24 at 1pm
Free Admission
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ALEX MOSKOS is a long-standing participant in Montreal’s experimental music community. He has performed and recorded his own songs under the name Drainolith, with the noise rock band AIDS Wolf and with Dan’L Boone. Moskos has toured constantly over the past few years, released countless recordings on labels like NNA, American Tapes, and Drag City. He is also a writer, painter and skateboard.
ALEXANDRA SPENCE is a sound artist/musician from Sydney, Australia, currently based in Vancouver, Canada. She works within the fields of improvised music, clarinet performance, electroacoustic composition and audiovisual installation. Spence is interested in the relationship between humans and their sonic environments, in the connection between sound and its context, and its relationship to experience, feeling, memory and place. Spence has performed and presented her work in concerts, festivals, symposiums and galleries in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy and France. Spence is currently a MFA candidate at Simon Fraser University.
https://afivepence.wordpress.com
ANNE-F JACQUES is a Montréal-based sound artist. She is interested in amplification, erratic sound reproduction devices and construction of various contraptions and idiosyncratic systems. She often performs, alone and in various collectives (including Minibloc and Fünf), creates sound installations and makes soundtracks for Julie Doucet's animated films. The use of low technology, trivial objects and rough sounds is particularly appreciated. Anne-F is also involved with Crustacés Tapes, a postal sound distribution project.
http://anne-fff.tumblr.com
EMMA HENDRIX + JULIE GENDRON
EMMA HENDRIX is a composer, sound designer and media artist. He is interested in creating environments through sound, and investigating the inherent sonic qualities of purposeful and incidental sounds. He uses this investigation to make new work. He has performed internationally as 1/2 of the duo Coin Gutter and received international awards for the interactive installation 'don't, stop' with Julie Gendron.He has worked with performance artists, dancers, theatre companies, film/video artists, animators etc, creating experimental sound design for their work.
http://www.emmahendrix.com
JULIE GENDRON is an digital strategic, interaction designer, and artist. She has a special interest in creating platforms, experiences and events that allow people to explore and create their own point of view, culture and communities.
Julie completed her graduate work in the department of Art, Design and Technology at Concordia University specializing in Participatory Design. She has received awards and grants from the Japan Media Art Festival, Canariasmediafest (Spain), Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Creative BC, Centre interuniversitaire des arts mediatiques, Dora and Avi Morrow Award for Excellence in Visual Arts and BC Film. She has shared her work at various conferences and exhibitions in Canada, Sweden, Spain, Japan, Australia and the US.
http://desiringproductions.com
Emma and Julie have workes on various interactive installation projects as the collaborative duo called “Manufacturing Entertainment”. For DV XVI, they will present a new collaborative work.
MARTIN MESSIER is a composer, performer and videomaker. Most of his work is concerned with the relationship between sound and material (objects or bodies). Messier constantly redefines the boundaries of concrete music by creating sounds with everyday objects, such as alarm clocks, pens, self-conceived machines and sewing machines. At the core of Messier’s work is a dialogue between sounds and objects and the desire to push the everyday imaginary a little further, to magnify these entities by giving them a voice and by reinventing their function. Martin Messier presented his work in various national festivals and events (Mutek, FTA and Mois Multi, ISEA) as well as in international ones (Berlin’s Transmediale, Sonar in Barcelona, Nemo in Paris, Scopitone in Nantes and Today’s Art in The Hague). La chambre des machines also received a distinction at the prestigious Ars Electronica (Austria). In 2010, Messier founded 14 lieux, a sound production company for performing arts.
http://www.mmessier.com
VÍCTOR MAZÓN GARDOQUI
Through actions, objects and electronic devices - between - sound materiality and dislocated information, Mazon Gardoqui´s work questions perception, altered state and vulnerability through un/stable arrangements. His work materializes in three main fields: - actions or site-specific performances through experimental processes, - exhibitions in response to previous actions and collaborative processe, or - seminars in universities and cultural centres. Since 1999 Gardoqui has adopted experimental tactics and techniques of media agitation/intercession in his performances and mass media interventions that make use of sound, light and custom electronics. He graduated in Fine Arts (Lithography and Engraving) at the University of Basque Country (UPV-EHU) in 2008. His work has been performed and exhibited in museums, galleries, billboards, urban screens and public TV/radio stations in Africa, Russia, Nepal, North America, Canada Mexico and numerous other locations across Europe.
http://victormazon.com
