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Voice++ 2015
Voice ++ is Open Space's festival that focuses on the exploration of the human voice and its intersection with sound and music. This year's festival is our 10th installment and includes all the favorite elements from our past festivals: a workshop, improvised music for voice, voice and electronics, art song, contemporary vocal techniques, one-woman operas, and a performative lecture. True to Voice++ was have invited three artists who are pushing boundaries and presenting experimental work. Voice++ 2015 will feature the work of Tomomi Adachi, Janice Jackson, and Erik Bünger.
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Workshop with Tomomi Adachi: March 19, 2015, at 7 p.m.
In conjunction with his solo voice/electronic improvisatory performance, Tomomi Adachi guides participants in finding connections between the voice, visibility, tactility, acoustic space and the body. Participants are not required to have any musical skill, dancers and visual artists are welcome. No experience necessary, all are welcome.
Tomomi Adachi Sound poetry, Improvisation, Electronics: March 20, 2015 at 7 p.m.
Experimental vocalist, sound poet, improviser and instrument maker Tomomi Adachi (Japan) transforms into a technology enhanced performer with the help of his self-made instruments like the "infrared sensor shirt," which creates sounds based on what he says and how he moves. Adachi will present a mix program with sound poetry, improvisation and compositions with self-made electronics and voice. His radical take on vocal techniques will impress and amaze.
Janice Jackson: Echoes of Time: March 21, 2015 at 7 p.m.
Saturday's concert Echoes of Time is a program of Canadian contemporary vocal music written in the past 20 years. Part art song, part opera, all of the music in this program is theatrical, powerful, and engaging. The music contains bel canto singing, extended vocal techniques, improvisation, ritualistic movement, and exemplifies the music which Janice Jackson has specialized in over the past 25 years. This concert will include a performance of Sandy Moore's Echoes of Time Weeping, a mini-opera based on the Mexican myth of La Llorona.
Erik Bünger The Third Man: Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.
On Sunday afternoon, artist, composer, musician and writer Erik Bünger (Sweden) performs his internationally renown live lecture and screening, The Third Man. This performative lecture is part of a series of works on the human voice in relationship to recording technology, music and language. The Third Man includes his childhood memories of discovering a music box to watching the Sound of Music however, it is in fact an exploration of the negative power of music. Displacing and recombining familiar material, Bünger challenges the separation between authentic and simulated experiences.
"The links [Bünger] makes between Kylie Minogue and zombies between popular melodies and the Pied Piper of Hamelin are not only novel but also witty in a subtle way." Thibaut de Rugter frieze-magazin.de
This festival is made possible by support from BC Arts Council, BC Gaming Grant, the City of Victoria, the CRD, Victoria Foundation, SOCAN Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, CFUV, Western Front, and The Bedford Regency Hotel.
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510 Fort Street, 2nd Flr
Victoria, BC V8W 1E6
Canada
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