[Microsound-announce] [REMINDER] vague terrain presents september 24th 2005 toronto

[Neil Wiernik]

Hello, this is just a reminder about our event on Saturday September  24th
at the artbar.

Saturday Sept. 24th vague terrain presents...

granny'ark - vancouver / zora lanson / interdisco
naw - noise factory / vague terrain
akumu - spider records
video / patricia rodriguez - substance communications

art bar / the gladstone hotel
limited capacity
$5 / doors open @ 9pm
1214 queen st. west
toronto, canada
http://www.vagueterrain.net

Hope to see you out on the 24th!

Neil Wiernik & Greg Smith
vagueterrain.net editors/curators


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artist info

Granny'Ark is the music project of nomadic media artist Michelle Irving.
Although officially a resident of Vancouver, Granny'Ark spends the other
part of her time at Zora Lanson Label's home base in Berlin. Her first
release Resurgo (2004) garnered praise from The Wire, XLR8R, De-Bug, and
was featured on the late John Peel's legendary Radio One show.
Granny'Ark's music can be described as a blend of explorations in
electroacoustic sampling, and musical structures of rhythm and melody.
Generally, Granny'Ark attempts to transform sounds into a progressive
soundscape that evokes a sense of mood or place in the listener.
Sometimes this might mean enticing them to dance. Her music is featured
in the internationally acclaimed documentary "The Corporation" and
another award winning Canadian documentary "Scared Sacred." In the fall
Granny'Ark will be releasing her follow-up EP on Zora Lanson Label as
well as a collaborative project with Si Cut.db on Biphop. Granny'Ark's
"Three Seas and One Bottle" EP is available for download at
http://www.interdisco.net

Neil Wiernik (aka naw) has been extremely busy over the 12 months. The
last year has seen the release of two naw albums; “Green Nights, Orange
Days” on Noise Factory and “Terrain Vague” on Pertin_nce, as well as an
extensive European tour. Neil's production was recently described by The
Wire as having "the kind of sharpness and clarity usually lost amid the
murk and decay of clicks and cuts and digital delays." Neil recently
moved back to Toronto and began working with long-time collaborator Greg
Smith in the creation of Vague Terrain, an entity which will promote a
series of eclectic electronic music showcases and the website of which
will act as a digital arts journal. More information on naw is available
at http:/www.noisefactoryrecordings.com

Akumu is Toronto’s Deane Hughes, composer of atmospheric ambiance,
shadowy beats and minimal manipulations. Formed as a solo project in
2000, Akumu has released three full-length albums on his own Spider
Records imprint. His newest CD, Magmas (2005) was conceived and written
in Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico; it is the follow-up to 2004’s Fluxes,
an ambient, zero-BPM recording of unflinching minimalism that The Wire
says “raises neat hackles across the skin.” For six months, Deane
traveled throughout remote locations, making binaural recordings from
which he created the drone- and loop-based instruments that form the
spine of material on both CDs. Akumu has performed live across Ontario
and Quebec, including 2005’s Mutek festival in Montréal, featuring  visual
projections of original photography, animated collages and 2D/3D  digital
experiments. His live sets highlight and improvise on Magmas and  Fluxes
to create an immersive, flowing soundscape of micro-sonics,  ambient
drones and low-frequency pulses. More information is available  on Akumu
at http://spiderrecords.com/

Keeping with our mandate of integrating electronic music with digital
art, Vague Terrain will be welcoming back one of our earliest
collaborators, video artist Patricia Rodriguez. Formally trained in the
visual arts, Patricia is a multidisciplinary specialist, integrating
analog and digital technologies. She delights in playing with perception
and problem-solving. A keen synaesthete, Patricia enjoys the
neurological mixing of the senses. Her love for improvisation translates
into performances using movement, sound and light (including video and
film), as well as real-time collaborations with musicians and other
artists. She has shown her work alongside Richie Hawtin, Monolake, Kit
Clayton, Derrick May, Steve Bug, and Damo Suzuki of Can to name a few.
She has worked with several collectives including Clonk, Eight, Wabi,
Whipit, Die Lux, and Geekend. Patricia is currently the Art Director for
Substance Communications.

Extensive artist & event information, album reviews and artist links are
available at http://www.vagueterrain.net