SPECTRASONIC INTERSECTIONS
PWM Finalé
SAT. Sept 20
DOORS AT 6:00PM – SHOW AT 6:30pm
BRANDON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
The final concert of PWM2025 begins with a pre-concert haptic prelude in the Kinsmen Rehearsal Studio. Soft Verges, a performance and interactive installation of human activated sound stations that act as “modules” on a conceptual scale. The feature concert will begin at 7:00PM in the Lorne Watson Recital Hall bringing you on a sensory journey of sound and moving images that simultaneously redefine the familiar role of the guitar.
PROGRAM:
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arc
Arc creates dream-like meditative soundscapes with melodic layers, unique timbres and driving rhythms. The trio comprised of Indo-Canadian musician Stephen (The Venk) Venkatarangam (modular/semi-modular synths, plucked strings and effected flute and voice), Annabelle Brault (modular/semi-modular analog synths), and Adrian Aitken (digital drums) came together in 2018. The musicians’ diverse worlds merge in arc, a deep…
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Jeremy Young
Jeremy Young is a maker of concrète electronic tape music from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Québec. Making use of a sine and square wave oscillator system, analog 1/4″ tape and open reel loops, filtered radio and EMF signal, and foley-inspired sound treatments from amplified surfaces and objects, Young’s improvisational and compositional techniques are influenced by Cagean aleatoricism as well…
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greenhouse
Greenhouse is the moniker of St. Andrews, MB guitarist Curran Faris. Since 2009, Faris’s work is concerned with pushing, disguising, and erasing the sonic trademarks and tendencies of the electric guitar (and the guitarist) by utilizing an array of outboard effects and processing techniques commonly used in dub and electronic music. The results are akin…
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soft verges
Soft Verges is a newly conceived performative sound-art installation by cellists Leanne Zacharias and Ariadna Ortega Torres, both of Brandon. This modular adjacent installation involves a series of sonic and visual stations that act as modules in a grand structure: a Count to Five pedal connected to a vocal mic, a prepared cello lying on…
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