Event

VNM Festival 2016 - Mechanical Music - Night 1

The 2016 Festival will present a varied selection of musicians and sound artists who have been focusing their efforts on developing both mechanical and algorithmic systems to generate sound works, compositions and installations.

Thursday, October 13
Adam Basanta (Montreal)
In Basantas small movements, sounds are created through the placement and hand manipulation of microphones, a collection of small speaker cones, small kinetic objects, and custom control software. The sound performance allows a meditation on the instabilities of sound production; the quiet, fragile and delicate phenomena resulting from the intertwining of sonic technologies.

Sabrina Schroeder (Canada/UK)
Schroeder builds live performance systems using tactile transducers to make heavy sound spaces that are as much about body-feel as they are about audible sound. The transducers create a kind of tectonic underbelly in a space something akin to Temple Grandin's hug machine an alone-body experience of variable fibrillation, hammer and flutter. Playing through layers that run a continuum between industrial noise and enveloping pools, this solo set digs into these visceral aspects of sound that have a permeating intensity.

Lucas Abela (Australia)
Abela debuts Bass Balls (2016), a bass orientated pinball machine / sub noise instrument that interweaves bass strings to create a mesh-like play surface. Ramps made up of individual sets of strings jut from the surface to channel the balls throughout the game. Sounds are harnessed via various pick-ups connected to effects pedals controlled by pinball targets creating a rich, responsive subsonic audio through gameplay.