The second concert of our twenty-fourth edition is a multi-sensory program of audio-visual works encompassing expanded cinema, algorithmic systems, and performance art; experimental Arabic music, modular synthesis, and storying song; featuring performances by Jerusalem In My Heart, Olivia Shortt, and Minced Oath.
Presented in collaboration with WNDX.
Jerusalem In My Heart (JIMH) is a live audio-visual performance project with: Lebanese producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, and Montréal based filmmaker Erin Weisgerber. JIMH is an immersive sonic and visual live experience, with an evolving effort to forge a modern experimental Arabic music wed to hand-made visuals using analog 16mm film at site-specific screen installations. Musically, JIMH is guided by Moumneh’s melding of ‘traditional’ melismatic singing (in Arabic) and buzuk playing, with modern deployments of modular synthesis, filter banks, electronics, field recordings, etc. Weisgerber manipulates the photographic, chemical, and material properties of 16mm film to transform the world framed through her camera; rendering rhythmic images that exist between figuration and abstraction, external vision and internal landscape.
Minced Oath is a project of Dunk Murphy. Dunk Murphy records and performs as Sunken Foal, Minced Oath, Press Charges and as a member of Ambulance and The Natural History Museum. He started performing live electronics as half of Ambulance at different club nights around Dublin City in the late 90’s playing alongside a who’s who list of IDM luminaries. He has had releases on the seminal Planet-Mu, Black Acre, Acroplane, Front End Synthetics, D1, The Fear and Countersunk.org. Championed by BBC1/XFM DJ Mary Anne Hobbs, Today FM’s Donal Dineen, Lyric FM’s John Kelly and the late John Peel, Dunk’s music covers a large area showcasing his deep knowledge of synthesis, software processes, composition and traditional instrumentation. He often employs algorithmic / generative systems with melody & rhythm resulting in a cascading, kinetic energy in his music. Dunk has performed on many international stages and has collaborated, arranging instrumentation for songwriters Glen Hansard, David Kitt and Carol Keogh. He currently runs the Countersunk label.
Olivia Shortt (They/Them: Anishinaabe, Nipissing First Nation with settler ancestry – canadian & irish) is a noisemaker, improviser, composer, video artist, theatremaker, curator, trouble-maker and professional disrupter. Highlights include performing Raven Chacon’s ‘For Olivia Shortt’ at The Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC) as part of Chacon’s series of solo works ‘For Zitkála-Šá’ during the 2022 Whitney Biennial; playing at the Lincoln Center (NYC) with the International Contemporary Ensemble; performing in their film debut in Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s 2019 film ‘Guest of Honour’; as well as recording an album of Robert Lemay’s music two kilometres underground in the SnoLAB (Neutrino Lab in Sudbury, Canada). Recent projects include a new opera in partnership with Loose Tea Music Theatre (Toronto), a commission for Blueridge Chamber Festival (Vancouver), and thirtyminutes (Canada/England). Works created over the last two years include commissions from Long Beach Opera (California), the JACK Quartet (NYC), and Din of Shadows (Toronto). Shortt was a finalist for the 2021 Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award as well as awarded and named one of the 2020 Buddies in Bad Times’ Emerging Queer Artists. Shortt was featured in the 2020 Winter edition of Musicworks Magazine.