We're celebrating five years of Big Joy! For 2017's edition we are again featuring many artists we have never hosted before; maintaining our commitment to continually acknowledging and supporting the ever changing landscape of Vancouver's experimental sound community while playing host to a select few of our past alumni. We're hoping to present a broad spectrum of what Vancouver's weirdo music scene has to offer casting a wide net across many genres and styles.
Ticket sales available for Dec 8/9 events at Red Cat, Audiopile & Selectors' Records or online at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3170865
(Thursday Dec 7th - limited capacity, no presales!)
Thursday December 7th - Big Joy Barber & Salon (2137 E. Hastings St.)
Early Show - Doors 7pm / Show 8:00pm Sharp
LIMITED CAPACITY // NO PRESALES!
DJ’s: Secret Pyramid / No UFO's
- 10:00pm- Steppin’ Razor
Electro-acoustic dystopia worship in dub.
- 9:20pm - SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL
Championing oblique explorations in dub and soundsystem culture, SKRS crucial selections take us to a dance from another dimension! For Big Joy Festival 2017, SKRS will be showcasing brand new, never-before-heard material for future release. Hold tight seen!
https://soundcloud.com/seekersinternational
- 8:40pm - OUTER PARTY
An audio+visual and highly textural incarnation of Annie Chiavaroli’s transdisciplinary practice. Her work is interlocutor to relationship and ideology, and as a settler to Coast Salish territories, she is deeply motivated by interdependence and decolonization.
https://vimeo.com/user57859981
- 8:00pm - Dead Weight
Industrial machine drones inspired by a long and arduous history with the electric guitar.
Friday December 8th - Remington Gallery
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm Sharp
DJ: Elisa Ferrari
- 12:10am - Greg Kelley
Greg Kelley has performed throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Argentina and Mexico with groups such as nmperign and Heathen Shame and collaborators such as Keiji Haino, Pauline Oliveros, Jandek and Anthony Braxton. He plays the trumpet and resides in Seattle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op5CXqDRsg0&authuser=0
- 11:30pm - no membership
An ongoing improvisational performance project that was started by John Brennan, Josh Zubot and JP Carter. no membership is an inclusive ensemble that can consist any number of improvisers for any performance at any time. For this edition, John Brennan (Drums) & Josh Zubot Violin (Violin) will be performing as a duo. (w/optional guest performer).
www.johnmorleybrennan.com
- 10:50pm - rrkkttss
Textural fog, long looming drones // broken amplifier feedback manipulation. Lost in time a chain drags in the wind, was it a dream?
https://rrkkttss.bandcamp.com/releases
INTERMISSION
- 10:00pm - Fracture
A harsh noise project. The Big Joy incarnation of the project will process a classical music piece played live by string musicians by breaking down the timbre and tones of the sounds into their most basic and brutal elements.
https://fractureharshnoise.bandcamp.com/releases
- 9:20pm - Psychedelic Attack
Live video feedback as musical instrument, mixer feedback. All analog. STROBE WARNING: epileptic seizure and migraine sufferers, you won’t survive this set! Tracks off the new DVD to be performed: Industrial Solvent Eye Wash Station and The War Over Meaning.
https://vimeo.com/238551828
- 8:40pm - Burrow Owl
"god please fuck my mind for good god please fuck my mind for good god please fuck my mind for good god please fuck my mind for good god please fuck my mind for good god please fuck my mind."
https://burrowowl.bandcamp.com/
- 8:00pm - Nhattik
A solo experimental project by Christopher Langer (Civil Dead, Okanagan Aural Drone Assembly). He attempts to join noise and drones with fragments of americana and post-punk in music that mixes loose structure with improvisation.
http://nhaatik.bandcamp.com/
Saturday December 9th - Remington Gallery
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm Sharp
DJ’s: Aisha Davidson and Noel Graves Maçul
- 12:10am - CROTCH
Started in a dimly lit lake bottom in the fall of 72. Forced under but ever rising. Shut your face.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUjg3u-ljGc
- 11:30pm - JS Aurelius
JS Aurelius is a multidisciplinary artist who has exhibited visual, sound, conceptual and performance art presentations both nationally and internationally. His set for Big Joy will be a live and improvised high-resolution, grotesque-concrete necro-electro-acoustic set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2d9IYdJAK8
- 10:50pm - Ian William Craig
Blending choral, ambient and noise influences together into his array of manipulated tape decks, Craig transports you over shifting tectonic plates of operatic vocal improvisations, fields of tape hiss and haunting pastoral melodies.
ianwilliamcraig.bandcamp.com
INTERMISSION
- 10:00pm - Kristen Roos: Anti-Wave
Anti-Wave examines the silent electromagnetic transmissions that are ubiquitous today. Receiving and translating these frequencies into audible sounds exposes the relationships between people and the electromagnetic devices that embody our lives (wifi router, phones, power supplies, and a microwave).
https://vimeo.com/kristenroos/antiwave
- 9:20pm - Emma Tomic
Emma Tomic is an audio and video artist employing aleatoric processes to inspire her creations. Utilizing hardware instruments, apps, modular and video synths she paints with light and sound. This performance will feature live modular synth improvisation to a prepared video piece.
emmatomic.com
- 8:40pm - Maskara
Solo squeeze from Nxc Hxghxs (SHPX, Group Vision, Isolated Now Waves)
Taunting brooding slow mechanics in simplistic rhythmic chants
The pulse of the anti-melody lays out that pink lace blanket and ask the listener to see the mirror
Electric pads, synths, keyboards, guitars and effected vox all play an essential role in the process.
https://maskara.bandcamp.com/album/hard-drip
- 8:00pm - Sasha Ford
Sasha Ford creates disarming and therapeutic listening experiences that engage with themes related to vulnerability, gendered experiences of power, and spectacular capitalism. She has performed her sound work across Canada, the United States, and New Zealand.
http://www.sashaford.com/
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