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ARTIST BIOS
Steve Bates
is an artist and musician, raised in Winnipeg and now living in Montréal.
Coming from a back ground in the noisier side of music, radio art eventually
lead 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 effects our experience of site. Time is measured,
stretched, pulled at, ignored, and extended. Bates
holds an MFA from Concordia University where he was awarded the inaugural
Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. Current projects
include ongoing collaborations with Douglas Moffat as Field Sound, including
Okta, a multi-channel, permanent, outdoor sound installation
commissioned by the City of Toronto, Lanterner, a music duo with Marc-Alexandre
Reinhardt, and solo exhibitions. Bates continues to release music, both solo
and collaboratively. His work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States
and Europe.
Aaron Dilloway (b. 1976) is an improvisor and composer originally from Brighton, Michigan who works with the manipulation of 8-track tape loops in combination with voice, tape delays and various organic and electronic sound sources. A founding member of the industrial noise group Wolf Eyes (1998 - 2005), Dilloway now resides in Oberlin, OH where he runs Hanson Records and Mailorder. Since 1994 Hanson has been releasing LP's, cassettes, and CD's from artists Wolf Eyes, Emeralds, The Haters, Twig Harper, Darksmith, and more. Later this year will see the release of Dilloway's 'Modern Jester' double LP on Hanson.
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Double Hook is Winnipeg artists Aston Coles & Irene Bindi.
Aston Coles is a sound and installation artist and is a collaborator in the artist collective Blind Squab. In his current sound work he primarily plays a zero input feedback instrument.
Irene Bindi is a collage artist and plays drums with the Blind Squab artist collective and Double Hook. She received her MA in Film Studies from York University.
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, no input, table-top/prepared guitar, pedals and home-made forms of manipulation. The focus or theme of Dusth 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.
Mattin (SP) is a Basque artist working with noise and improvisation. His work seeks to address the social and economic structures of experimental music production through live performance, recordings and writing.
Using a conceptual approach, he aims to question the nature and parameters of improvisation, specifically the relationship between the idea of ''freedom'' and constant innovation that it traditionally implies, and the established conventions of improvisation as a genre.
Mattin considers improvisation not only as an interaction between musicians and instruments, but as a situation involving all the elements that constitute a concert, including the audience and the social and architectural space. He tries to expose the stereotypical relation between active performer and passive audience, producing a sense of strangeness and alienation that disturbs this relationship.
Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and writer. His research delves into language & voice, bodies & performance, intimacy & complicity, sound & silence, rhythmics & kinetics, translation & referentiality, stillness & imperceptibility, structure & improvisation, play & pathos, pedagogy & unlearning, failure & endurance. He currently is a lecturer at the University of Toronto and the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery.
Josh Rose is an artist and musician based in Vancouver BC, with an avid and varied interest in music, sound and performance. He has performed and recorded internationally under his own name as well as the name Sick Buildings, and is a member of the performance and musical groups LEVIATHANS (with the artists Brady Cranfield, and Larissa Loyva), Blouse (with the artist Ian James Mcdonald), as well as a member of the rock band Cowards. He frequently collaborates with the artist Sam Mckinaly (The Rita) on the ongoing project BT.HN. – Le Bete Humaine, dealing with social violence and the working class in the early 20th century.
Josh founded the independent record label Rundownsun in 2004 which he continues to operate to this day. He has performed, and shown work, both solo and in collaboration at: The Western Front, The Or Gallery, The Charles H. Scott Gallery, The Helen Pitt, and The Access Gallery in Vancouver BC.
Julie Rousse (FR) is an artist, and collector of sounds; these raw sounds are for her an infinite source of rhythms and colours, which she shapes with real time sound treatment software – real time being the essential element of her spontaneous approach. Interested in regaining an organic feeling in music by means of electronic devices and improvisational acts, with a marked taste for abstract narration, turbulence of details and the inextricable disorder of life.
Around the world she has developed her very own resonant and poetic universe, and presented her work throughout Europe, and in Canada, USA, Tunisia and Chile.
Working primarily in noise and drone, Winnipeg artist White Dog explores the dark pools of psychological tension and terror that exist within the human experience. From the earliest recorded tracks in 2004 to 2011's Escape the Mystery II, White Dog continues to melt minds by taking mundane or whimsical ideas and sounds and twisting them into unsettling, wacky, & sinister soundbombs.
Zimoun, born 1977, is an installation and sound artist from Switzerland. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared repetitive systems, the sculptures and sound architectures of Zimoun incorporate commonplace industrial objects. The pieces transform constructed acoustic and electrical noises into reverberating ambient hums that resemble natural systems. The artist focuses on creating acoustic architecture with an organic feel, investigating the properties of sound, materials, resonance and generative systems.
In the past years Zimoun's work have won several prices and awards and have been exhibited or shown as live performances in numerous countries in Europe as well as in China, Singapore, Egypt, Canada and the United States.