v. 23 – Day Three – September 11th 2021
Our final concert begins with an acousmatic presentation by sound artist and composer Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU. Resonant Links (2021) investigates our everyday state of aural immersion, positing an oceanic infrastructure of experience:
Within the complex sound specter of our environments and surroundings, sounds are always immersive, proximal, and constantly pushing through our bodies. There is a temporal flux with the sounds of our habitus and daily lives, which most often goes unnoticed and ignored. ‘Resonant Links’ investigates this aural-dual infrastructure of the urban and sea life, accentuating these two world’s auditory perspectives and dimensions and poses an impetus on our relationship with the sonic habitus.
KMRU
Toronto-based group Not The Wind, Not The Flag is a roving, ecstatic conversation between two stalwarts of Canadian improvisation, Colin Fisher and Brandon Valdivia. Thorny and picturesque, spanning voices and moods, NTWNTF is a constantly metamorphosing creature and landscape at once.
FYEAR bridges improvisation and composition, electronic and acoustic instrumentation, language and abstract vocalization, and combines a strident pulse with an expansive sense of freedom. The Montréal-based group includes Jason Sharp (compositions, electronics, bass and baritone saxophones), Kaie Kellough (text, voice), Tawhida Tanya Evanson (voice), Joe Grass (pedal steel), Stefan Schneider (drums), JahSun (drums), and Kevin Yuen Kit Lo (type and visual design).
Presented in collaboration with Jazz Winnipeg and the Exchange District BIZ
Sometimes posing questions and working in the interrogative mode, FYEAR moves through us as we wonder at the future we’ve inherited. It speaks in two tongues that surge to the pulse of two drummers. It is brass, earth, and it is flashing broken typography signaling to – and echoing back from – a brighter horizon.
Toronto-based “free-psych” duo Not The Wind, Not The Flag is composed of two of the city’s most accomplished musicians, Colin Fisher and Brandon Valdivia. Both have wide-ranging, diverse musical backgrounds that help inform their long running partnership in NTW, NTF. Fisher (guitar, saxophone, electronics, percussion) has played and collaborated with Anthony Braxton, Caribou, The Constantines, and Rhys Chatham. Valdivia (drums, percussion, electronics, mbira, flutes) has worked with Lido Pimienta, Michael Snow, Sook-Yin Lee, Tanya Tagaq, and performs solo as Mas Aya.
For Colin and Brandon the experience of music is a transformative tool: a conduit for gnosis and discovering the true self. Their music reflects the traditions of many cultures from around the world but refrains from being derivative and comes from a place of deep respect for the works that have lifted and guided their spirits.
