v. 23 – Day One – September 9th 2021

Our twenty-third year begins with an evening of deep and meditative listening between Winnipeg’s Exchange District and the banks of the Red River. Winnipeg-based sound artist Cole Peters explores sound as material and process, composing at the threshold between technology and field. 

You’re Me, the Vancouver-based duo of Yu Su and Scott Johnson Gailey, draw from minimalism, electroacoustic sound design, and Eastern instrumentals, reinterpreting the sonic and atmospheric limits of a Neo-traditional Chinese pressure-point exercise known as Yan Bao Jian Cao. 

Brooklyn-based sound healer and multi-disciplinary artist C. Lavender creates immersive soundscapes of hypnotic clarity—timbral icons of immanent transcendence, tuning environments for an intensely physical, cathartic ritual of sound.

C. Lavender is a multi-disciplinary sound artist, sound healing practitioner and educator whose work spans through live performance, recording, installations, compositions, videos and workshops. She seeks to create an immersive aural landscape for the listener, an experience which is intensely physical, emotional and ultimately cathartic C. Lavender has performed, lectured and hosted workshops at MoMA, The Whitney, The Guggenheim, Hirshhorn Museum, The Rubin Museum, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Museum of Moving Image, Fridman Gallery, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute among other venues. C. Lavender has albums and recordings featured on the labels Editions Mego, Ecstatic Peace!, and RVNG Intl. She has been artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works, Harvestworks, and Wave Farm. C. Lavender published her debut book “Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives,” with Anthology Editions in 2020.

You’re Me is a Vancouver-based duo of composers and multi-instrumentalists Yu Su and Scott Johnson Gailey. Known for their immersive live sound performance, You’re Me introduces a sphere of electro-acoustic soundscape, blending rustling rainforests into an artificial dub of stereo spectrums that flow around percussion rattles, implacable sounds blooming and receding.

Cole Peters is a multidisciplinary artist fascinated by matter, energy, space and time, and the ways in which these elements shape our universe, our environment, and our perception. With a focus on physicality and temporality, his work emerges in compositions that emphasize material properties and processes. Cole’s work in sound builds on the techniques of musique concrète, field recording, and reductive synthesis. His recent and upcoming recordings examine texture, pressure and time as subjects unto themselves and as scaffolds in an evolving thematic framework drawing on the natural sciences and sensory experience. He is currently based in Canada.