DAY 1: FRIDAY JULY 15
An evening of variations on non-traditional approaches to the electric guitar, feedback and tone with artists both international and regional working in the spaces between composition and improvisational exploration. Running the gamut from the corporeal effects of sound pressure level and frequency extremes, to pastoral, melodic euphoria, solo, duo and ensemble performances, it should be an evening of varied, nuanced and dynamic contrasts.
_ Australia’s OREN AMBARCHI, visiting the Pacific NW for the first time in 4 years, presents his brand of immersive, experimental drone-ambient music.
_ Temporary Residency LTD recording artist ELUVIUM, performs new compositions for piano and drone guitar.
_ Portland’s MARCUS FISCHER, recording artist for 12k, showcases his audiovisual works.
_ Canadian artist CRYS COLE, curator for send+receive festival (Winnipeg’s international festival of advance sound) opens the showcase.
INFOS
OREN AMBARCHI
Australia's Oren Ambarchi is an electronic guitarist and percussionist with longstanding interests in transcending conventional instrumental approaches. His work focuses mainly on the exploration of the guitar, "re-routing the instrument into a zone of alien abstraction where it’s no longer easily identifiable as itself. Instead, it’s a laboratory for extended sonic investigation". (The Wire, UK). Ambarchi's recorded work is published in over half a dozen labels around the world, most notably on Touch, Southern Lord, and Häpna.
ELUVIUM
Eluvium is a freakishly beautiful affair – it's the ambient moniker of one Matthew Cooper, an American composer and musician living in Portland, OR. Cooper's musical output includes “evocative ambient guitar work and features liberal use of loop/hold pedals to create lush/abstract guitar textures,“ which as described by All Music Guide, exist “cautiously on the lines of pure ambient and textural noise experiments” His more recent works include placid compositions for piano and strings. Cooper's work is featured in numerous films, including Matt McCormick's feature film debut "Some Days Are Better Than Others."
MARCUS FISCHER
Marcus Fischer is a multimedia artist and musician currently living in Portland, Oregon. The exploration of sight and sound has been a continual focus for Marcus, both in his personal work and in his repeated role as co-curator of vision+hearing, a series of audio/visual events with the goal of bringing musicians and filmmakers together for collaborative performances. He has also had the opportunity to score various short films and videos and enjoys experimenting with unconventional sound sources to create music. His latest work was released by renowed 12k label and currently Marcus is working on a collaborative album with label curator Taylor Deupree.
CRYS COLE
Crys Cole is based out of Winnipeg, MB and has worked and performed extensively as a solo artist and in free improvisation settings across Canada, NYC, Germany, France, Italy and Belgium. She works predominantly with contact microphones, minimal signal processing and no-input mixing board. Her approach to sound emphasizes subtlety and discretion, guided by a fascination with microsonics that test the limits of audibility and intentionality.
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