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Graceland - Nu Sensae
Cunt - Aunty Panty
Atlanta - White Lung

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Error Benders Call for Submissions

Audio/Video Object Exhibition and Performance Series

Saskatoon/Regina March 28 - April 4 2011

Curated and performed by Give & Make

Presented by Regina-based audio art organization Holophon

The title for Error Benders refers to a technique of modifying electronic circuitry (circuit-bending) and to the acceptance/celebration of unwanted or unintentional sounds that may result. As a point of departure, this aesthetic of exploration and acceptance challenges traditional paradigms of music composition, control, and parameter, as well as the relationship between composer and performer. Error Benders engages with these ideas through exhibition and performance of, and its goals include:

To curate objects in the form of modified or rebuilt musical or visual instruments from artists across Canada, and to present these objects in performance.

To present the instruments and the artists’ methods and technologies, including a consideration of physical objects as musical score and modes of composition.

To design and deliver hands-on workshops for building simple electronic or electroacoustic musical and visual instruments.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Holophon is now accepting submissions for Error Benders: a performance-based exhibition with home-made, modified and/or rebuilt electronic audio or visual instruments. Selected artists will be paid an honorarium in exchange for the “borrowing” of their instrument, and all shipping costs will be covered. Selected artists will also receive documentation of their instrument in performance and as part of workshops and artist talks in Saskatoon and Regina, in which audiences will see and hear their work, methodology and technical approach. Unfortunately, funding for travel is not available for selected artists. To participate, artists are required to submit a digital photo or video of the instrument and a brief description of technique and practice. Please see below for submission instructions.

Give & Make tread unpredictable territory with performances and installations that encourage outside participation and exploration. They welcome glitches and other errors in their works, feeding off the irregular and not always palpable control. In the current project, Error Benders, the duo will perform with and present the work of artists across Canada who build unique and fascinating electronic media instruments.

Prairie artists Jeff Morton and Leeane Berger formed the duo Give & Make in 2009 during a collaborative exhibit in Saskatoon, as part of Z-Axis, at PAVED Arts, curated by Carrie Gates. Their installation piece was a neon twilight environment of circuit-bent electronics and generative video built from hackable consumer electronics and make-able software, a visually tangible array of sound controlled by the participation of the public. Z-Axis also featured Leeane Berger and Jeff Morton in a series of workshops on tools and techniques for live electronic media performance and collaboration.

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Submission Instructions

To submit your instrument for consideration as part of Error Benders, please provide the following items in an email:

(1) Photos and audio samples, or video of your instrument being played
(2) Short description of the technique(s) used to build the instrument
(3) Short bio including a description of artistic/creative practice.
(4) Dimensions (width, height, depth) and approx. weight of the object



Artists should consider size, durability, and feasibility of shipping the instrument, because this attribute will play a part in the selection process. Only Jeff Morton and Leeane Berger will handle the instruments, and with proper care and respect. Selected artists may also attach a sale price to their instrument, and if sold the entire fee would be forwarded to the artist.

Email submissions are due by Feb 10, 2011.

Contracts and shipping forms will be forwarded to selected artists shortly thereafter.

Please submit proposals and questions to:

Give & Make, ℅ holophon3@gmail.com

Thanksgiving Offerings

This Sunday October 10th, 2010!!!

Meat Curtains

I'm thrilled to have recently discovered Meat Curtains. Based in Halifax, N.S., this flesh-obsessed band is more riot grill than riot grrrl.

Meat Curtains - Dead Dog (mp3)
Meat Curtains - Pepperoni Ghost (mp3)
Meat Curtains - Get Rebel (mp3)

by Talaya Schmid

Ironic?

On April 16, 2010, You Say Party! We Say Die! drummer Devon Clifford (third from left) collapsed on stage at an all-ages show Friday at the Rickshaw Theatre in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He is reported to have died as a result of complications arisen from a sudden brain hemmorage. On April 18, it was announced that Devon passed away surrounded by family and friends.


Make Xxxx - You Say Party! We Say Die! (mp3)

She's Spoken For - You Say Party! We Say Die! (mp3)

Falling Out (Rick Agnew cover) - You Say Party! We Say Die! (mp3)

WWKA

Women With Kitchen Appliances

WWKA (pronounced “wicka”) formed in Montreal in 1999. The group has presented their work in bars, on television, and in kitchens, in New York, Brussels, and across Canada.


Coral Short who is originally from B.C. first came up with the idea for WWKA. Book-scouting for used books in her father's used bookstore, Coral came across a box of amazing old kitchen appliances. She brought them home and started playing with them. She thought they were attractive objects, and so she started recruiting people who didn’t know each other at Concordia University to play kitchen appliances.
That’s how it began—as a sound project.

Butch Cuts

Butch Cuts Five Dollars by T K Lasky

Name Four Places in Saskatchewan

My friend April tests Calvin Johnson's knowledge of Saskatchewan geography.

Diamond Rings

Check out his Myspace for tour dates!

Judy Lewd

Check out more of her work here.

Smug Son Of A Bitch

Check out this freaky dude from Toronto.

GAWD! Sometimes I forget that douche bags like this actually exist.

The cherry on top is 'Dimitri's' website DIMITRI THE LOVER.

I just puked in my mouth.

NOIZE!!!

I was just watching the episode in season one of Californication where they tell the story of how David Duchovny and Natascha McElhone's characters met. Basically they were hipsters from NYC. He a writer, and she in a noise band that played at CBGB's. He thought she was pretentious and she thought that he was self-serving... blah blah blah. I totally lol during that scene for realsizes, and was inspired to shut of my television, turn on some noise, and do my dishes. Then I remembered that Shearing Pinx is going to be here on Friday, and so I dedicate this here post to them and noise.

Shearing Pinx are an Experimental/Punk rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Formed in 2005, the band is made up of Nic Hughes (Vocals/Guitar), Jeremy Van Wyck (Drums) and Erin Ward aka Les Beyond (Guitar). The band has over 50 releases including vinyl records, cassettes and CDs, most of which are on singer Nic Hughes' own record label Isolated Now Waves. They will be playing in Saskatoon on Friday November 13th, 2009 @ The Free Flow Dance Studio, 224 25th St. W.

Here are some noisy sounds that I like listening to whilst washing dishes:

Shearing Pinx - Selfish Acts (mp3)

Shearing Pinx - Battery Born (mp3)

Boredoms - Greatboreful Dead (mp3)

Boredoms - Boredom With God On Noise - Boretafari (mp3)

AIDS Wolf - Gnarly Tooth (mp3)

AIDS Wolf - Cities of Glass (mp3)

Narwhalz - Rupiesjam (mp3)

Narwhalz - Slime (mp3)

Doddodo - She Sing Slime Song (mp3)

Doddodo - pictograph of crossed out note and angry furry thing (mp3)