Audio by Artists Festival

For the fifth consecutive year Eye Level Gallery and the Centre for Arts and Tapes have collaborated to present an Audio by Artists Festival. The Festival is conceived as an opportunity for visual artists, composers and performers to explore and demonstrate the creative use of sound or, as it is otherwise known, audio. The Festival provides a forum for different artistic disciplines to share their sensibilities. It also attempts to point to the important relationship between audio and visual media. Paul Miller - “Before the first Snow” is a multi-media performance featuring film, video, music, and dance. It deals with themes of personal relationships, identity, and the environment of urban life. Gordon Monahan - “Speaker Swinging” is a piece for two loudspeakers to be swung in circles by two performers, with a third person controlling the electronic sounds emitted from the speakers. The circular motion of the speakers results in a distortion of the electronic sound known as the Doppler Effect. Clive Robertson - “In a Drunken Stupor” – using pre-recorded and live sound Robertson presented a cabaret type of performance. Steven Tittle, Richard Gibson, Jim Faraday - Steven Tittle is interested in improvisation and finding new forms for his past works. He will be integrating Jack Kerouac’s poem, “Mexico City Blues” into a work composed for the trio. Jim Farady will also be performing a solo piece and Richard Gibson will be performing an original composition for instruments and tapes. Clancy Dennehy, Dan Lander - These artists resented a performance using hand percussion, instruments, tapes, and voice. They are involved in combining traditional and new technological forms to investigate the function of performed sound. Mark Clifford, Beth Bartley - Voice was a strong part of this presentation which also included pretaped and live sound treated with echoes and other effects. Their instruments included acoustic / electric violin and other effects. They were interested in tone rather than chord structure which gave their performances an ethereal quality. Ihor Holobizky, Walter Yarwood, George Higton - The palace at 4 a.m. is not a band! They presented a performance entitled “Speak and Spell” based on performance, collaged music and sound that the trio had been exploring (exploiting?), in recent years. It is identified by the utilization of certain basic technology, technological byproducts and ‘low technology’. Tools for this performance included: Yamaha DX9 digital synthesizer, Texas Instruments ‘Speak and Spell’, MXR and Roland digital delays. Tascam porta-studio, bass, and mechanical toys. “Speak and Spell” was a selected and directed look at the language and music of the twenty years previous. “It’s like listening to the radio twenty years ago. It was a lot more fun then.”