April 15 - July 10th 2024 - Holophon Listening Station Spring
Thaw - Jon Vaughn - 13m04
A composition in four parts using field recordings, acoustic guitar and cymbal, Thaw is multidisciplinary artist Jon Vaughn’s contribution to Holophon and Art Gallery of Regina’s Listening Station project, Seasons. Spanning a year from Autumn 2023 to Summer 2024, Vaughn’s work was made for the Spring edition. Each part of Thaw has a subtitle of 32FA, B, C, and D. Thirty two degrees fahrenheit is the temperature at which ice begins to melt, part of the multi month process of thawing what has been frozen over the winter. Field recordings were made during the spring season in four different locations, Vaughn’s own backyard in Regina, Saskatchewan, Emma Lake, Wascana Lake and the riverbanks of the South Saskatchewan River that runs through Saskatoon; their place of birth and previous residence. Instrumental parts were written for acoustic guitar and cymbal, responding to the field recordings by illustrating what is unheard in them; from the mood and vibe of the geographical location to the personal associations with memory and place. Thaw follows the process of the first drips of melting ice, to a shattered mass of fragmented ice crystal flutes, to the gushing and flowing waters that transform the prairie landscape.
DJ Dyke Boyfriend - 009 (False Spring) - 5m45s
DJ Dyke Boyfriend makes music that delights at the frayed edges, where neon light streams in through the seams of existence. Glitchy, propulsive, and layered, her mixes radiate a fresh aliveness for dance floors, making sonic space for joy, desire and limitless dreaming.
Bio:
Jaye Kovach is a multimedia and performance artist who lives as a white Magyar/Scots settler on Treaty 4 territory (Regina, Saskatchewan). Her work, which has received local and national attention, often engages their queer and trans community, taking as its starting point his positionality as a disabled and neurodivergent, butch trans woman.
In 2019, she was featured in the spotlight section of Canadian Art’s FEMME issue. In 2020, they attended the Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency. His performance work has been presented at Queer City Cinema/Performatorium, a queer media and performance art festival based in Regina that attracts international artists and filmmakers, as well as Buddies in Bad Times' Rhubarb Festival in Toronto.
Jaye is a current participant of Tender Container’s Peer Mentorship Platform, Do Trans People Dream of Non-binary Sheep?. She also facilitated the Capacitor project, a programming channel for Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming artists with a connection to Saskatchewan, with the University of Saskatchewan (USask) Art Galleries and Collection. Most recently they have been named interim project director for Into The Streets, a Regina-based mentorship program for trans girls and youth affected by transmisogyny.
