send + receive is excited to co-present an instalment of the Virtual Encounters series by London Ontario Media Arts Associations (LOMAA), featuring new contributions to an ongoing project by Endlings (Raven Chacon & John Dieterich) and a new work by Ellen Moffat.

On Thursday May 18, at 6:30pm CDT/7:30pm EDT, Raven Chacon & John Dieterich will host a performance of Parallel 03 with collaborators from London ON and Winnipeg MB. To follow, Raven Chacon and John Dieterich will come together in virtual conversation with Ellen Moffat. Both the works and talk will be available to view online for the remainder of the month.

Find information about their projects and how to access them, how to sign-up for their talk, accessibility information, and Virtual Encounters at http://lomaa.ca.

Accessibility: Please contact [email protected] for access possibilities.

The web instrument, Parallel 03, designed by Endlings (John Dieterich and Raven Chacon) and six Vancouver musicians and sound artists utilizes a variety of cross-platform and anonymous methods for composition and improvisation. Composed, recorded, and arranged over four months of isolation in 2020, the eight collaborators became generators, translators, mistranslators and filters for inputted contributions in an incalculable feedback loop of expansive processes. The instrument is designed to receive new content from other contributors, allowing for a constant stream of unique, ephemeral music.

Original Parallel 03 collaborators: Raven Chacon and John Dieterich (Endlings), with Parmela Attariwala, Adrian Avendaño, John Brennan, Elisa Ferrari, Marina Hasselberg and Alanna Ho. Website design by Joel Schuman. Parallel 03 was originally commissioned by Vancouver New Music.

Ellen Moffat, seeds strings and sounding things

2023

Available for on-demand viewing on Vimeo starting May 1 on https://vimeo.com/lomaa

Accessibility: Experimental sound transcription by Jeff Morton

seeds strings and sounding things is a stop-frame animation that uses organic materials and cultural objects, analogue and digital processes, and improvisational methods for production. An ad-hoc light table is a stage for performative acts by objects and materials, documented as still images by a cell phone placed beneath the table’s surface. Arranged into sequences, the objects fluctuate in their orientations, tempo, intensities and densities, and relations. The sound is created through actions and interactions with the same materials using extended techniques to play their tonality. The image and sound elements intersect by chance. The fluctuating relations of visual and sonic elements explore materials and materiality using methods that dodge control.

Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, Chacon has exhibited, performed, or had works performed at LACMA, The Renaissance Society, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, REDCAT, Vancouver Art Gallery, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Borealis Festival, SITE Santa Fe, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, and The Kennedy Center. As a member of Postcommodity from 2009-2018, he co-created artworks presented at the Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, Carnegie International 57, as well as the 2-mile long land art installation Repellent Fence. In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for his composition Voiceless Mass.

John Dieterich is a guitarist, composer and producer based in Minneapolis, MN. He plays in the band Deerhoof and collaborates on a variety of musical and artistic projects.

Ellen Moffat is a sound artist whose installation and performative works have been presented in artist-run centres, public galleries, festivals, conferences, and residencies as solo, collaborative, and interdisciplinary projects. Her exhibitions include the Remai Modern (Saskatoon), Sonorities Festival (Belfast), Gallery 12-14 (Vienna), ICMC (Copenhagen), NAISA (Toronto), Kentler International Drawing Centre (Brooklyn), Dalhousie Art Gallery (Halifax), and Surrey Art Gallery. Her collaborations range from projects with media, performance, and visual artists to computer scientists and engineers and to community groups. From Toronto, she has lived throughout Canada and is currently based in London, Ontario. www.ellenmoffat.ca