On Friday, August 26th 2022, send + receive welcomes wire + bone to Winnipeg for a special outdoor performance during the last edition of this summer’s Alleyways in the Exchange series. 

wire + bone is a modular synthesizer/trombone improvisational duo comprising Brendon Ehinger and Aaron Wilson respectively. They create improvised sonic landscapes that blur the line between tonal music and sound art by combining acoustically and electronically created sounds with field recordings and found sound. Ambient soundscapes are interspersed with rhythmic motifs, slowly unravelling melodic themes, and surreal affectations that unsettle traditional notions of what music is and could be. 

Brendon Ehinger is a Métis multi-instrumentalist and sound artist based in Brandon Manitoba. Ehinger utilizes the modular synthesizer as a medium to investigate the complex relationships between industry, technology and the natural environment. He has performed solo and collaboratively in alternative spaces, galleries and festivals in Canada and Europe including Cluster New Music and Integrated Arts Festival 2020 (online), The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Brandon, MB), Neutral Ground ARC (Regina, SK) and Warte Für Kunst (Kassel, Germany) and he has been a recipient of multiple arts grants to support his practice. Brendon Ehinger is also a father, partner, freelance graphic designer and founder of the Prairie Wires Festival of Electronic Sound in Brandon Manitoba.

Aaron Wilson is the Associate Professor of Low Brass at Brandon University in Manitoba, Canada and a trombone artist for the Willson Band Instrument Company based in Flums, Switzerland. He performs regularly as a soloist and in ensembles across Europe and North America. Wilson has appeared twice at the International Trombone Festival, first as a solo artist in 2018 and most recently as a member of the Cramer Choir in 2022. Wilson has a strong interest in performance art. In 2018, he began working with Indigenous performance artist, Peter Morin, to create works that confront colonialism from a sonic. In the summer of 2018, they were invited to perform at the SAVVY Contemporary gallery in Berlin and their works were featured in exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Owens Art Gallery later that year.