May 10 – September 13, 2008
TJeff Morton
“Who Are Glitches”
Saturday, May 10, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Neutral Ground, 1856 Scarth Street
Admission: $5.00 at the door
Reception to follow
Chiyoko Szlavnics
“Neural Activity II: Saskatchewan
Tunings”
Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Neutral Ground, 1856 Scarth Street
Admission: $5.00 at the door
Reception to follow
Battery Operated
Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 8:00
pm
Nouveau Gallery, 2146 Albert St.
Admission: $5.00 at the
Jeff Morton
Jeff Morton describes his work as “music from a collection of twelve musical toys, circuit-boards, and other sound objects. The composer/performer improvises within the framework of nine different pieces, each with specific parameters framing the improvisation. Every sound source has an idiosyncratic sound – a musical character with its own voice. And, just like equal- tempered pitches within an octave, these recognizable characters constitute melody in the order of their appearance and harmony through variety of combination. This metaphor highlights the timescale of the performance, as do the 45rpm vinyl LPs that are heard between each piece in the performance”.
Jeff Morton is a composer/audio-artist, jazz musician/improviser, and graduate student in music composition at the University of Victoria. He is an active jazz pianist and band leader, electronic and electro-acoustic musician, DJ, sound-designer/engineer, and performance artist, prolifically producing solo works and collaborating with other audio and visual artists.
This performance will be streamed live at http://nglive.ca
Battery Operated
Battery Operated is a collaboration of artists that have been producing sound, video and Internet projects since 2000. Their first project Chases Through Non-Place used music in public places as its source and since then they have researched and developed projects around the social uses of functional sound and video, from Muzak to surveillance cameras. The latest Battery Operated project – S.P.I.R.A.W.L. (Sound Proofed Institute Researching Acoustic Weapons Logistics) is a documentary about the sonic landscape and the pioneering use of sound weapons within it.
Chiyoko Szlavnics
Sound sources in the work of Chiyoko Szlavnics include recordings made at the Heating and Cooling Physical Plant in Regina, field recordings of birds at Buffalo Pound Park and from other locations in Regina. Szlavnics states, “The electronics will relate to these soundscapes in terms of pitch/duration, contextualizing, re-contextualizing, or reframing the content of the recorded material through superimposition and/or juxtaposition. As a live work, superimposition might take the form of a single sine tone moving through the recorded material (like a line across a photograph or painting), or be very dense chordal material that masks the original recording. There will be an interplay between electronics and field recordings with changing degrees of importance/predominance of the two throughout the work.”
Chiyoko Szlavnics is a composer and saxophonist working both in Europe and in Canada. Since 1989, she has composed and performed for dance, theatre, and new music groups. Chiyoko has recently made connections with the Japanese Canadian community through her music. She feels she has been enriched growing up with two culturally different heritages. Both her maternal and paternal families have been important to her. Through experiences shared with her maternal grandfather, she has developed a respect for nature.
This performance will be streamed live at http://nglive.ca
