Here is the link for the livestream: https://youtu.be/MK-_0Jp3xnw 7pm - Saskatchewan-Manitoba / 8pm Montreal-Toronto / 5pm Vancouver
Holophon audio arts is pleased to present Prairie Electronics, A streaming concert with some of the most talented electronic music/sound artists from the Prairies: including (Jon Vaughn (Regina), respectfulchild (Saskatoon), Doreen Girard (Winnipeg) and WL Altman (Saskatoon). We are grateful to the Canadian New Music Network for supporting this event. This online streaming concert will be happening November 17 at 7pm CST.
Performers
Jon Vaughn is a visual artist and experimental musician living in Regina, Saskatchewan. Their sonic work fuses strategies from composition and improvisation, blending electronics with acoustic sounds and instruments with an equal love for the traditions of minimalism, art rock and free jazz. Their releases can be found on such labels as No Type, Panospria, Oral, Flish, Krakilsk and Slapart, their own label Pop Quiz Records and more recently Magnetic Domain.
respectfulchild 敬兒 is an interdisciplinary artist born, raised, and living as an uninvited guest on Treaty 6 Territory. Rooted primarily in sound and composition with their violin, their practice openly engages with any medium that best serves their creative expression. Their work explores the quiet tensions and chaotic beauty of being a queer Chinese settler on the prairies, opening up space for intimate reflection and community dialogue.
The name respectfulchild is the literal translation of their Mandarin name 敬兒[jìng er]. This name was given to them by their grandmother when they were born, a name and a culture they’ve been estranged from having lived their whole life in the predominantly white world of the Canadian Prairies. respectfulchild is their space to seek meaning in 敬兒 again.
(Jon Vaughn and respectfulchild will be performing together for a unique one of a kind improvisation)
Doreen Girard is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist working with sound, installation, and expanded cinema, and was a cofounder of the Negative Space artist collective. She performs solo, and with the electro-acoustic piano duo Burden, as well as in a number of experimental and minimal sludge projects. Girard’s approach focuses on experimentation of the resonant and refractive properties of glass, wood, string and metal, aiming to activate the participant’s awareness of their perceptual field. Her interests include early music, funereal doom, trauma theory, and the physics of sound and light.
WL Altman is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in music composition, electronic music, and performance. He collaborates with artists in many genres and styles. He lives in Saskatoon with his wife, singer/creator/performer Helen Pridmore, with whom he performs in the duo Sbot N Wo. Both also work with the online improvisation group, The Remotions, who have presented several performances during the pandemic, and continue to develop a spacialized online performance environment.
