send + receive v.13 WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 5 ARTIST TALK with Steve Bates (MTL) presented by aceartinc. aceartinc., 2nd Floor, 290 McDermot Ave. | 6:00 PM | FREE Steve Bates will conduct an artist talk to launch
the opening of his exhibition Dead Air
at aceartinc. Steve Bates
is an artist and musician, raised in Winnipeg and now living in Montréal. His
background in the noisier side of music & radio art eventually lead him to
installation projects, both gallery and publicly sited. The sonic is always the
starting point for his projects, which are then manifested as evocations of
communication networks and systems, or expressions of spatial and temporal
experience. Bates frequently uses
sound material that is site-specific in an attempt to uncover place and how the
sonic affects our experience of the site. Time is measured, stretched, pulled
at, ignored, and extended. FILM SCREENING & PERFORMANCE The RAW Gallery | Basement, 290 McDermot Ave. | 7:30 PM
| $8 KICK
THAT HABIT (1989) Switzerland | 45 min | colour & b+w | Peter Liechti Featuring Voice
Crack (Andy Guhl & Norbert Möslang) Kick That Habit is
neither a conventional portrait of a musician nor a psychedelic illustration of
Recycling Noise Music or video-clip tarted up with documentary frills. It is a subtle
attempt to mesh a visual and an acoustic world of expression that ends up
creating a fine-spun synthesis. The portrait of two musicians (Norbert Möslang
and Andy Guhl) who recycle discarded electronic equipment to produce innovative
sounds is the starting point of an enigmatic search for lost, destroyed,
deranged experiential worlds. Footage of the two musicians’ rehearsals and
concerts is juxtaposed with visual shards of the filmmaker’s own memory. The
sense of doom that Peter Liechti can coax out of everyday occurrences is
vitally present in the music, too. These autonomous parts are interwoven with a
“Trip to the Mountains”, to the Alpstein, and down to Lake Constance – two
magic pillars delimiting eastern Switzerland, the native region of both the
filmmaker and the musicians. (Crossing Festival Beijing 2008) performance by DUSTH (WPG) The
duo called Dusth, made up of Robert
Taite and Kelsey Braun, has been making sound works since 2008. Dusth mines
from sources including but not limited to, contact, electro-magnetic, and hydro
microphones, field recordings and found sounds, to no input, table-top/prepared
guitar, pedals and home-made forms of manipulation. The intention of Dusth has
shifted in the past year from atmospheric soundscapes that referenced
psycho-geographies to a more direct focus on the structures of improvisation,
theme-less or 'free' music and creating dynamic arcs between lower-case
minimalism, humour and noise.
