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Aidan Baker, Sam Shalabi, naw, and I8U
Rad'a, 841 rue Gilford, Montreal
http://www.radamontreal.com/
514.522.4323
9pm Saturday March 8th, 2003
$5, tickets at the door
Rad'a Gallery presents an evening of
organic meets micro music, members of Canada's new school of
improvisers meeting head to head in an evening of improvisational
micro/glitch laptop electronics and world/jazz analogue sounds.
The analog set of the evening will feature performances by Aidan
Baker and Sam Shalabi. Aidan Baker has been a permament
fixture in the improv and electronic communities in Toronto. He is the
founder of the ARC collective and constantly perfoms throughout
Toronto, solo and with various groups. The recent ARC release on
Toronto's Piehead Records has received glowing reviews and his various
solo releases have been garnering international attention. Aidan's
music, created by mutli-layered guitar loops and drones, encompasses
ambient, jazz, electro-acoustic, and experimental sounds. Sam
Shalabi is no stanger to the Montreal scene with his solo work and
his goup, The Shalabi Effect. His meditative, thought-provoking
music shares certain similarities in musical asthetics & exploration,
if not actual sound production, to that of Aidan's work.
The electronic set will feature performances by naw (Neil
Wiernik) and I8U. Better known for his experiments in the areas
of minimal techno and micro house Neil has a long history of making
and performing improvised and experimental electronic music. His
custom-made applications using max/msp take the simplest of sounds and
re-create them into a field of sound both enveloping and complex. I8U
has been experimenting with electronics for several years and her
recent exploration of laptop electronics has taken her work to new
levels of exploration and improvisation that will leave the most open
minded listeners boggled.
Rad'a will be the ideal setting for these artists' diverse yet
compatible music, allowing the listener to full appreciate the
complexities of their respective sounds. Following the four solo sets,
the evening will culminate in a collaborative improvisational
foursome.
Biographies:
Aidan Baker
http://listen.to/aidan
Aidan Baker is a Toronto-based musician & writer. A
classically-trained multi-instrumentalist, he is currently focused on
the deconstructive possibilities of the electric guitar. Baker has
released several albums, as a solo artist & with various ensembles, on
such labels, among others, as
Piehead
(Canada),
Public Eyesore (US), &
Blade
Records (Italy). His music ranges from &/or encompasses ambient,
experimental, electronic(a), post-rock/pop, & avant-jazz. He is also
the author of two books of poetry, Fingerspelling (Penumbra
Press) & Wound Culture (Unbound Books).
I8U
http://www.i8u.com
I8U's musical path is rather special. From classical
music to the blues, it took only one chance meeting with
David Kristian
to get her involved in electronic music. I8U has participated in
various music & new technology festivals across Canada & Europe, such
as Silophone
(Montréal, 2000), Mutek (Montréal,
2001), Le Festival
de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (2002), Ver Uit de Maat
(Rotterdam, 2002). Her CDs have been released on Canadian & European
labels, (bake/staalplaat,
Oral,
Piehead
Records) including a collaborative piece with Goem
(Amsterdam). She regularly presents solo performances & often
collaborates with Martin Tétreault & David Kristian & Magali
Babin. I8U's particular interest in music, sound & Web art allowed
her to produce her first Web art project, Obstacle, which was
presented as part of Périphérique, a laboratory curated by
Nicole Gingras & created in collaboration with the Groupe
Intervention Vidéo (Montréal, 2001). A second Web art project,
I S Ü was presented at the Musée du Québec in the fall of
2002 in the context of the Web art exhibit "Ellipse".
This event was curated by Valérie Lamontagne and included 5
other Canadian artists.
naw
http://www.noisefactoryrecords.com/naw.htm
Recently transplanted from Toronto back to his Montreal
birthplace, Neil Wiernik is a media artist turned electronic
music composer who began creating electronic music in 1988. Wiernik is
known to push the boundaries of his musical form - from designing new
or manipulating existing sound making devices & software to creative
uses of production environments & sound sources. Though his
composition & production styles are diverse, he keeps a central focus
throughout all his production: experimentation. Neil has a long
history of both group & solo electronic music projects including work
with The Crystal Methodists & Phÿcus before settling
into his current project naw. In terms of solo work, Neil has released
music under his given name & under the naw pseudonym on various
national & international record labels. Neil's recent work is a
hybrid deconstruction of all music found in the vicinity of his ears.
Sam Shalabi
http://www.shalabieffect.com/
Sam Shalabi is the most active player in Montreal's
blossoming improv scene. Over the last couple of years has been
documented on releases by Shalabi Effect, Detention,
Molasses & A Silver Mt. Zion. Shalabi has played or
collaborated with the likes of Evan Parker, Alexandre St-Onge,
David Kristian, Tim Berne, Charles Papasof &
Frank Gratkowski among others.
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