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Thursdays September 9, 16, 23 & 30; 5-6pm PST
A series of guided, online sound explorations, facilitated by Vancouver Electronic Ensemble members Soressa Gardner, Janine Island and prOphecy sun.
In a series of four 1 hour weekly online sessions we will:
Through this series of workshops and creative sessions you will be invited to think in new ways about sound as music. Working both independently and collaboratively, you will generate a series of short sound works. Your participation will help determine the functions of a new website where others can play with visual-to-sound converters, remix your sound contributions and add their own material to the library.
Soressa Gardner is vocalist, laptop composer/improvisor, and sometimes songwriter. Her keen sense of mood, colour, humour and gravitas are expressed through extended vocals enhanced by electronic manipulations and sound-worlds carefully crafted from a variety of audio processing techniques. Soressa’s recent live performances include Victoria’s Neuztec Festival (2021) Wonderment Festival (2020), Vancouver New Music Festival: Resonances (2019, The Annex) and CoexistDance: Western Edition #2 (2019, ScotiaDance Centre). Her electronic compositions have garnered international recognition and airplay.
A Vancouverite by birth, Soressa holds a music degree from Vancouver Community College and currently resides in Victoria, BC, Canada.
Janine Island is a Montreal-based developer, composer and improvisor dedicated to exploring non-hierarchical systems offered through creative improvised music. Whether developing projects for indigenous sovereignty, or experimenting with acoustic phenomena, Island’s motive is to encourage individual autonomy and instigate discourse on de-colonizing artistic practices. She has worked with the Vancouver Soundwalk Collective, NOW Orchestra, Vancouver New Music, and Vancouver Electronic Ensemble. Having performed in groups of various styles including anarchist improvising quartet, Archipelago, Vancouver punk rock group Assertion, and the Montreal-based psychedelic rock band Odd Limbs, Janine is not adverse to percussing fences, local park benches, and other resonant objects of surrounding environments in guerilla-ensemble fashion.
prOphecy sun (Ph.D.) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, queer, movement, video, sound maker, and mother. Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the in-between in which art, performance, and life overlap. Her recent research has focused on ecofeminist perspectives, co-composing with voice, objects, surveillance technologies, and site-specific engagements along the Columbia Basin region and beyond. She hosts Tapes and Beyond on Kootenay Co-op Radio and is the Arts Editor for Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. She performs and exhibits regularly in local, national, and international settings, music festivals, conferences, and galleries and has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications on sound, performance, and the entanglement of domestic spheres.
