Inceptional Collaboration presented by Brooke Erin - Visual Artist, Wayne DeFehr - Sessional Instructor in English and Film Studies, and Theodore Brockman - Computing Science Student at U of A, Abram Hindle - Associate Professor of Computing Science. An example of a “Deep Belief” system, where a computer processes data from human movement, in their case that of a painter, and then creates soundscapes based on that movement.
Ben Gorodetsky introduces us and is probably more entertaining than we are :(
POINT OF DEPARTURE is a live music series dedicated to providing a space for all forms of improvised, spontaneous, and experimental music. Edmonton\u2019s experimental music scene is multi-faceted yet fractured; part of this series\u2019 mandate will be to bring together artists from different backgrounds and genres to facilitate new connections and collaborations, and to allow the scene to grow and expand in new directions.
Vol. 5 will feature:
SYLVIA HINZ (Germany)
Sylvia Hinz is in town as part of New Music Edmonton’s Now Hear This festival, and we are thrilled to have her take the Point of Departure stage.
Praised for her equally fierce and bold dramatic performance style, Sylvia Hinz is one of the leading recorder players worldwide, specialised in contemporary music and improvisation. Hinz plays solo recitals and concerts with ensembles and orchestras, holds special interest in contemporary music and improvisation, also in unusual instrumental combinations and cooperations with other arts (e.g. painting, literature, sculpture), fosters international collaborations with other musicians, composers, and artists in general.
“For me, the sound of the recorder reflects very much breath, wind, neature, storm, water, ocean, mountains - strong and untamed aspects of (human) nature.”
Sylvia will perform a solo set, and then will be joined by Abram Hindle for some spontaneous collaboration.
ABRAM HINDLE
Local tech wizard Abram Hindle will bring his uniqe brand of interactive electronics to the Point of Departure stage, providing live audio and video in a laptop/recorder duet with Sylvia Hinz.
Hindle is a pillar in Edmonton’s experimental music community. He has performed extensively with BEAMS, Ramshackle Day Parade, and has toured to noise festivals around North America. In 2015 he co-created Connectivity, an interactive, 9 hour performance of experimental sound featured at Edmonton’s first Nuit Blanche festival.
ROSS NICOLL & FRIENDS
Ross Nicoll is going places. This young piano player has quickly proven himself to have some of the most dexterous fingers in the city, as well as being able to adapt to a wide variety of musical styles and situations. He plays with an ever growning number of bands and artists, including N3K, Didgin' for Rainbows, and Mitchmatic.
For this show, Ross will be putting together a posse of talented musicians to play a set of improvised free jazz.
Thursday, March 16th, 2016
Ortona Room @ Ortona Armoury
102 St NW, Edmonton, AB
Doors: 8:30, Music: 9:00
$10
***Please note: Due to a scheduling error, this edition of Point of Departure WILL NOT be held in the FAVA exhibition room. Instead, it will take place in the Ortona Room, on the main floor of the Armoury.
Gene Kosowan & Marymotto; Himiko & Hari Maia; SkruntSkrunt & Nobodisoundz; Harshmellow & Mental Escape Pod; Mike Ross & Tamiyurakurage; Dave Wall & James Shearman; Allison Balcetis & Dai Fujikura.
Videos by Christine Miller and Jon Osborne
Filmed by Vadim Bulitko and Abram Hindle
EDMONTON—The Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society will commemorate 10 years of Art’s Birthday Edmonton with a special show taking place Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Ortona Armoury (9722-102 Street). The event, Art’s Birthday 2017, pairs seven local acts with works by seven international composers and soundscape artists, some of whom created works specifically for this occasion.
Women will comprise the majority of local performers gracing the stage, with pianist Himiko, saxophonist Allison Balcetis, noise duo Harshmellow and Chapman stick player Dale Ladouceur slated to play. Rounding out the live lineup will be keyboardist and music journalist Mike Ross, software sound designer SkruntSkrunt and guitarist Dave Wall.
Works will be by Dai Fujikura and Tamayurakurage (Japan) Hari Maia (Brazil), Mental Escape Pod (Austria), Nobodisoundz (France), James Shearman (England), and Marymotto (Spain). Videos will be courtesy John Osborne and Christine Miller.
Art’s Birthday originated in 1963 when French surreal artist Robert Filliou declared that art didn’t exist until a million years ago when someone dropped a dry sponge into a pail of water. Choosing his own birthday of Jan. 17 to celebrate the event, Filliou proposed a public holiday, which has since been adopted by arts organizations and collectives in more than 20 nations worldwide. Edmonton first held such an event in 2008, presented by the Film and Video Arts Society at the now-defunct ARTery. The Edmonton Arts Council staged Art’s Birthday at Scona Pool the following year. Since 2010, BEAMS has facilitated the event annually.
Doors for Art’s Birthday open at 7 p.m., with the show starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 at the door. BEAMS members get in for half-price.
BEAMS presents “Lords of Misrule!”. An experimental showcase of sounds featuring: Acid Attack, K.M. Toepfer, Don Ross w/ Cam Neufeld, SkruntSkrunt, Trevor DePagie, and a noise battle between Damno Te and Stephen Sereda.
Free Show (donate $ for our Calgary guest)
Ortona (9722 102nd Street)
Space filling curves are curves that given a space will go through every point in that space. You have probably drawn many space filling curves before. The Hilbert curve is a pretty fun recursive u-shaped curve. One neat aspect of the Hilbert curve is that it can exist in multiple dimensions and it is easy to calculate how far along you are. So I take a 2D Hilbert curve and map it to a single value then I remap that value onto an N-dimensional hilbert curve. That value is communicated to supercollider who feeds it into a synthesizer effectively letting me explore synth space through a simple 2D input. Here’s a video of mucking around on a Hilbert curve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM_Ne4YWx04&feature=youtu.be
Mark Meloche presents “The Screaming Skull!” With performances by Himiko, Stephen Sereda, SkruntSkrunt, Gene Kosowan, and Mark Meloche. Free outdoor show so no need for earplugs folks. Tunes start at 1pm.
Poster by Gene.
New Music Edmonton’s See You or something in September 2
Not everything could be recorded due to battery and space.
Featuring many artists:
Chenoa Anderson
Scott Smallwood
Gary James Joynes
Alicia Proudfoot
Allison Balcetis
BlipVert
Philip Jagger
Trevor DePaige
David Stuart Bruce
Abram Hindle
Daryl Posnett
Shawn Pinchbeck
Mark Meloche
Emily Schultz
Gavin Goodwin
Laura Kerslake
BongSample
greffes du commonwealth consists of Daryl Posnett playing from his studio in Sacramento and Abram Hindle performing with a kinect camera based instrument on stage.
Mark Meloche presents “The Screaming Skull!” With performances by Himiko, Stephen Sereda, SkruntSkrunt, Gene Kosowan, and Mark Meloche. Free outdoor show so no need for earplugs folks. Tunes start at 1pm.
Poster by Gene.
Mapping kinect to space to midi. Basically the spiral goes from low midi notes to high midi notes. Then if you are close enough to the kinect it will trigger that sound.
