Month: May 2020

Acoustic Mirror 003 : Gambletron // Patrick Breiner as Vartan Mamigonian

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Gambletron (QC/LA)

Gambletron is a queer sound/performance artist and musician based out of Montreal, Canada currently displaced in Los Angeles. Through the years they’ve been known for their noise synth performances in clubs and galleries performing sets through large piles of radios, or noise performances in unique spaces using roving transmission. More recently they’ve been adjusting and reshuffling their practice to accommodate our new normal and have been exploring ways to insert the internet back into physical space through the use of Projectors and FM pirate radio.  For Acoustic Mirror Gambletron will be using a small portable mobile synth set up, and Radios as a sound system to go out in the world and perform/ transmit an outdoor live show for living things that can not catch Covid-19.  This includes cool energetic objects like rocks and bridges.

PATRICK BREINER (PA)

Patrick Breiner is a saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and educator. He is widely sought after as a unique and energetic instrumentalist and improviser. Patrick operates Sulde Records and leads several projects including Vartan Mamigonian (solo saxophone) and Double Double (free jazz quartet featuring 2 bassists).

Other collaborations include Battle Trance (New Amsterdam / NNA Tapes), VAX (self-released collaborative new/improvised musical performance trio), Bing & Ruth (RVNG Intl. and 4AD, 2006-2015), and Ballett im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, Germany with VAX (2016) and with Sons Of Daughters (2012).

In addition to his musical undertakings, Patrick is a sometimes theater performer and maker of visual art.

Acoustic Mirror 002 : CHIENVOLER // Kelly Ruth

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chienvoler (qc)

CHIENVOLER is Jérémi Roy a multi-bassist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound engineer, and producer based in Montréal Quebec. His music is untempered architectural, chaotic, tragi-comic, visceral, complex, simple, or at other times, listened to for what it is, without looking for words. He has composed music for Film and Theatre notably for Havana from on High, a feature-length documentary by Pedro Ruiz as well as “Un si gentil garçon” by Denis Lavalou (Theatre Complices/Les Célébrants), a Quebec-Swiss co-production.

Kelly Ruth

Kelly Ruth is a Textile/New Media artist from Winnipeg, currently living in Edmonton. She has been activating her textiles and tools through using electronics, sound, and integrating microcontrollers into the foundations of her woven cloth. In performance, she uses contact microphones and effects pedals on her weaving loom and other fibre related tools. She performs solo and with an improvisational trio named Civvie. She has performed solo at the Vancouver New Music Festival, Handmade Assembly, Forthwith Festival, and as part of Civvie opened for an improvisational collaboration between Venetian Snares and Daniel Lanois.