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This project takes place on unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
EPIC_Tom ++ features three works of live musical improvisation and generative media from Julie Andreyev and Simon Overstall’s multispecies projects with dogs, crows, and forest communities. The pieces will be performed by Andreyev and Overstall with Adrian Avendaño, Giorgio Magnanensi, Martin Reisle, Anju Singh, and Stefan Smulovitz, alongside live visuals showcased on the LED Volume wall in the Integrated Motion Studio at Emily Carr University.
EPIC_Tom was conceived and produced with Andreyev’s late dog Tom who provided animation and vocal recordings for the performance. The musicians consider what a dog is experiencing the moment before catching a ball. Could it be proto-euphoric—eager, expectant, desirous?
Crow Stone Tone Poem is based on interspecies play using stones with a crow who inhabits the territory that includes Andreyev’s home. The work explores how stones can share meaning across species.
Biophilia recreates an experience of being in a coastal forest, weaving audio and video field recordings from the site with sonic improvisation.
This performance evening is in celebration of Tom and Sugi, the late companion dogs of Julie Andreyev who were collaborators on these projects. It coincides with the publication of Julie’s book: Lessons from a Multispecies Art Studio: Uncovering Ecological Understanding & Biophilia Through Creative Reciprocity.
I am an artist-activist, researcher and educator in Vancouver, located on the unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish people, including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. I recognize that I’m also living on the traditional territories of more-than-human life including bears, deers, raccoons, eagles, ravens, crows, hummingbirds, cedars, firs, salals and others.
My multispecies studio called Animal Lover explores more-than-human creativity to develop kinships with local lifeforms and ecologies. I have a PhD from Simon Fraser University, and am Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design where I teach New Media + Sound Arts, and Critical Studies. One of my favourite things to do is hiking with my canine companions Zorra and Heroe, paying attention to the liveliness of the animals, trees and plants, and Earth forces. I am currently working on creative co-productions with birds (Bird Park Survival Station), and sound art experiences within old-growth forest ecologies (Branching Songs). My book is Lessons from a Multispecies Art Studio: Uncovering Ecological Understanding & Biophilia Through Creative Reciprocity. Intellect Books, 2021.
Born and raised in Italy, Giorgio Magnanensi currently lives in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. His diverse artistic practice includes composition, conducting, improvisation, circuit bending, video art and sonic and spatial explorations. He is artistic director of Vancouver New Music and Laboratorio, and lecturer at the School of Music of the Vancouver Community College.
Martin Reisle is a Vancouver BC based composer, performer, improvisor, educator, artistic collaborator and calligrapher/designer. Whether with voice, cello, tenor-banjo, or guitar, Martin is consistently dedicated to the support and creation of local culture and community music making. Prior to the pandemic, they worked toward this aim primarily with Vanessa Richards and the Van Van Song Society (Woodwards Community Singers), now you are most likely to find them in their frontyard, playing detailed transcriptions of Duke Ellington’s early work with small non-vocal acoustic ensembles. Martin feels like a cloud, trying to become a tree.
Anju Singh is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, noise/sound artist and video/media artist exposing and interrogating texture using methods of deconstruction and reanimation to repurpose and contextualize materials in new compositional environments and to bring contrasting themes and dynamics into shared spaces.
Anju has presented and performed work across Canada, in Europe, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States.
Anju has curated and directed the Vancouver Noise Festival for 9 editions, curated Fake Jazz Wednesdays, and she has participated in a co-curating committee for the MAC Media Arts Committee Sound Art program since 2011.
Stefan Smulovitz is a true innovator known for his creative use of technology and mastery of sound manipulation. His craft has been honed creating nearly 100 live film scores, innumerable dance and theatre scores, and hundreds of live performances with some of the top improvising musicians in the world. Stefan’s roots as an improviser allow him to skillfully use viola, electronics, and his game-changing software Kenaxis, to create vast sonic worlds. Always open to exploring new ideas he has collaborated with film, dance, theatre, poets, writers, visual artists, theoretical particle physicists, buffoon, circus, and now most excitingly crows!
He lives in Roberts Creek, BC where he is working on his most ambitious project yet…
