Expozine

Expozine is coming up...

Saturday, November 14 and Sunday, November 15, 2009, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique (Église Saint-Enfant Jésus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Métro). Free admission.

I've been working on a couple of zines.

One is called Possible Worlds. Limited edition of 15, 4"x4", 48 pages, 3$.





The other one is called Shadows at the Mall. Edition of 20 (though I may print more if I sell out), 4 1/2" x 6", 24 pages, 5$.







I also have a few copies of last year's collaboration with Nicole Aline Legault, Empty Bottles Carrying Talking Teeth. These ones will go for a reduced price of 6$.

A few updates

1. My band, Denial Tone, is currently working on some new material. We plan to start playing shows again in November. Meanwhile, we have a tape for sale. Write to denial.tone at gmail dot com if you want copies.




2. I now have a monthly DJ night at Le Cagibi. It's on the second Wednesday of the month and will feature DJ Youth Contemporary (me) and an assortment of rotating guests. The first one is tomorrow, Wednesday, September 9. I haven't figured out a name for the series yet.

3. Still have plans brewing for my two solo projects, Racine and The Great Vowel Shift, but haven't had much time to focus on them lately. Hopefully that will change soon.

It's been a busy and amazing summer so far. More to come...

Organic Noise in the park...

I'm going to be playing a very short piece called "Concerto for voice, glockenspiel and 17 double-A batteries (in two movements)" at this mini-festival in a park, this weekend.



I'm not on the poster, because I was a late addition to the line-up, but I'll be performing as The Great Vowel Shift.

Denial Tone - first show at Friendship Cove

My new punk band, Denial Tone, is playing its first show this coming Saturday.



Play Guitar (Tape Release!)
http://www.myspace.com/playguitarplayguitar

York Redoubt (Halifax)
http://www.myspace.com/yorkredoubt

Futensil
http://www.myspace.com/futensil

Denial Tone (ex-Be Bad/ex-Gilbert Switzer)
http://www.myspace.com/denialtone


Saturday June 6
9PM/$5
Friendship Cove (215A Murray St)

(facebook event)

Poster by Nicole Aline Legault.
http://www.myspace.com/lookidrewyou

Racine: A Perfect Hand (free download)

Last August I released an album called "A Perfect Hand." It's been almost a year and I've decided to now give it away as a free download. The archive includes high-quality MP3s and all the original artwork. Enjoy.

DOWNLOAD.

NOTE: This download link goes dead once in a while. If you try downloading this and it fails, please leave a comment and I'll update the link. Thanks.

PROUD FLESH

Yo
tHIs is cool:

PROUD FLESH is an experimental western film by Jenny Graf (member of Metalux, member of Harrius, maker of music for plants, etc) and Chiara Giovando (member of Harrius, Animental I, collaborations with Nautical Almanac, Daniel Higgs, and so forth).



+ north american premier of LOST, animation by Nate Young and Alivia Zivich (AA records).

both screened on June 5 at labsynthese, supported by performances by:

HARRIUS (Giovando/Graf. Ehse Records, Baltimore).
AKISAKILA AND SHOEBOMBER (Starsky and Hutch of Ottawa vs Nim. Pasalymany, Panospria...)
AGOR
+ DJ Youth Contemporary

doors at 8:30..... --> ***MOVIES START AT 9:15 SHARP**...<----
6 bucks

trailor:



research:

http://jennygrafsheppard.com
http://labsynthese.com
http://www.ehserecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/aryanahole
http://www.myspace.com/shoebombermusic
http://www.myspace.com/akisakila
http://www.notype.com/drones/cat.e/pan_035
http://www.notype.com/drones/cat.e/pan_036

Shut the fuck up!

AGNST LNGGE PRODUCTIONS PRESENT

A two-day electro-acoustic/experimental music mini-festival

Friday March 20 @ Lab Synthèse (435 Beaubien Ouest, Loft 200)

with

You Have Two Seconds (Montreal)
A collaboration between Nicolas Dion (AKA Darcin, also from Intercom) and John Brennan (AKA Static Kitten).
http://www.myspace.com/darcinmusic
http://www.myspace.com/statickitten0

Magneticring (Vancouver)
Joshua Stevenson is in Montreal to perform a couple of shows in Sam Shalabi's Land of Kush. Magneticring is his solo project and he's just released a LP. Drone and early electronic-based music, featuring vintage synths from the 1960's.
http://www.castexotic.com
http://www.myspace.com/magnetiicring

Marko Timlin (Helsinki)
Marko Timlin is a sound artist, composer, musician and inventor of virtual and analogue instruments. Breaking boundaries of composition and improvisation, Timlin's approach focuses on intuitive interaction with new electronic media. The creation of his music in his concerts happens in real-time and, therefore, is as surprising for him as it is for the audience. He allows the audience to witness a dialog between man and machine. For his performance at Lab Synthèse, Timlin will be using flashlights and solar panels to create sounds!
http://www.timlin.de

(Additional guests at the Lab Synthèse show may be announced later...)

and

Saturday March 21 @ Le Cagibi (5490 St-Laurent)

with

Louis Dufort (Montreal)
Dufort's music ranges from a cathartic form of expressionism mostly found in his early works to organicism focusing on the inner structure of sound matter in his latest works. I'm not sure exactly what he has in store for us this time, but he never disappoints so this is sure to be amazing.
http://louisdufort.com
http://www.myspace.com/louisdufort

Marko Timlin (Helsinki)
Marko Timlin will play a second set of completely different material at Le Cagibi, this time focusing more on a meditative, deep-listening experience.

Ensemble Pamplemousse (New York City)
Featuring flute, violin, cello, keyboards, drums and electronics, this ensemble of classically trained virtuosos will cram onto the small stage at Cagibi to deliver the final clincher in this two-day series. They promise to deliver "formerly unfathomable sound landscapes"! Who could resist such a promise?
http://ensemblepamplemousse.org

Both shows start at 9 p.m.
Both are $5.
At the Lab Synthèse show you will have the option to buy a two-day pass for $8 if you want to see both shows.

Boredom Is Counter-revolutionary

BOREDOM IS COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY:
Launch of Four Minutes to Midnight Issue 10
with the bands Shortpants Romance, The American Devices,
Little Scream and The Great Vowel Shift + more…
Saturday, March 7th @ Lab.Synthese



Four Minutes to Midnight is proud to announce the publication of its tenth issue, featuring the work of over 30 visual artists, poets and writers. We invite you to join us for the launch event, "Boredom is Counter Revolutionary", Saturday, March 7th @ Lab.Synthese (435 Beaubien Ouest, loft 200) with the bands Shortpants Romance, The American Devices, Little Scream and The Great Vowel Shift. Things get kicked off at 8pm, with a $5 cover charge, or $13 with a copy of issue 10. The event is BYOB.

"Almost every heartfelt page of 23:56 revolves around issues of textuality, of words and pictures, of sense and shape, of palpable meaning-making."
- dbqp: visualizing poetics, December 2005


“….and Fugue 10… man O man as exquisite as broken glass in the yard at Pelican Bay… TOO FUCKING MUCH!!!”
- FA Nettelbeck, Sewing Memory, December 2008

Four Minutes to Midnight won the Best English-Language Zine award at the inaugural Expozine Awards is 2005, and has since independently published an issue a year, showcasing a wide range of local and international artists in an experimental, collaborative format. Based in the firm belief that the personal is political, the zine explores the possibility for small stories, bad poetry, vast dreams and private pains as a means of advancing social change. Supported by like-minded and expectation-challenging bands, this launch promises to be a special evening with featured artwork on the walls, surprise performances and an atmosphere of collective art-making.

FMTM issue 10 features writing and artwork by:
Hoda and Dima Adra, Caroline Aquin, Ilinca Balaban, Emily Kai Bock, Simon Carrasco, Marilyn de Castro, Kyla Chevrier, Grant Collins, Ian Finch, Jesse Ferguson, Jason Gillingham, Sacha Guney, Alexandra Hall, Erica Ruth Kelly, JP King, Dita Kubin, Kevin Ledo, Tony de Marco, Billy Mavreas, Maria Mavrig, Joshua Mensch, Debbie Millman, F.A. Nettelbeck, Omen, Catherine Rizzetto, Christopher David Ryan, Valerie Sanguin, Hilary Schaenfield, Clare Sheldon-Williams, Louis Sobol, Vincent Tinguely, Visualingual (Maya Drozdz & Michael Stout), Caroline Weaver, and Colin White.

Review of Issue 10 (by design critic Kenneth Fitzgerald): www.ephemeralstates.com/2009/02/four-minutes-to-midnight/

A show in February

AGNST LNGGE PRESENTS:

Metis Yeti
Monkey King
Kram Ran (from Winnipeg)
The Great Vowel Shift + Gmackrr

February 18, 2009
Doors 8 p.m.
Show 9 p.m.

$5

The Great Vowel Shift is my new solo project. I don't have any music samples online yet, but will post when I have them. For this show, I'm collaborating with the amazing Gmackrr.