Sound Jars: Explore the Musicality of Found and Computer Generated Sounds

Jars of colourful liquid

Sound Jars – Listening Party + Chat – Nov. 4, 2021

Online Listening Party + Chat

Thursday, November 4, 2021; 5:30 – 7PM PST

FREE – Registration required

For Sound Jars, participants explored the musicality of found and computer generated sounds, experimenting with a combination of digital and analog tools to create audio, visual, and audio-visual pieces. Creators from an amazing variety of backgrounds created and built on audio and visual “sketches” created using Sun Prints, found objects, the PhonoPaper app, and a variety of digital and analog recording techniques. The results are a wonderfully varied collection of short sound and audio-visual pieces.

For this Listening Party, we invite you to join the workshop leaders and participants to listen to some final works together, find out more about the tools, processes, and online collaborative spaces that were used, and to hear where the project will be going next. Perhaps you’ll walk away with some inspiration and new ideas to experiment and for creating your own sound works!

 

Sound Jars Participants include: Pierre Castro, Graham Brown, Claudia Ferretti, Carmen Hung, Saskia Jetten, Helena Krobath, Diego Lozano, John Mabbot, Mark Marinic, Josephine Watson, Walker Williams and others.

Facilitators:

Soressa Gardner is vocalist, laptop composer/improvisor, and sometimes songwriter. Her keen sense of mood, colour, humour and gravitas are expressed through extended vocals enhanced by electronic manipulations and sound-worlds carefully crafted from a variety of audio processing techniques. She performs with VEE (Vancouver Electronic Ensemble) and is a member of Frame Drag Trio (with Ross Birdwise and Joe Rzemieniak) and DB Boyko’s Voice Over Mind improvising choir.

Soressa’s recent live performances include Victoria’s Wonderment Festival (2020), Vancouver New Music Festival: Resonances (2019, The Annex) and CoexistDance: Western Edition #2 (2019, ScotiaDance Centre). Her electronic compositions have garnered international recognition and airplay. Commissions include Co-op Radio’s Media Arts Committee annual Audio Art CD and the video poem Little Black Strap, featuring Canada’s first poet laureate George Bowering.

A  Vancouverite by birth, Soressa holds a music degree from Vancouver Community College and currently resides in Victoria, BC, Canada.

http://soressa.com

 

Janine Island
Janine Island is a Montreal-based developer, composer and improvisor dedicated to exploring non-hierarchical systems offered through creative improvised music. Whether developing projects for indigenous sovereignty, or experimenting with acoustic phenomena, Island’s motive is to encourage individual autonomy and instigate discourse on de-colonizing artistic practices. She has worked with the Vancouver Soundwalk Collective, NOW Orchestra, Vancouver New Music, and Vancouver Electronic Ensemble. Having performed in groups of various styles including anarchist improvising quartet, Archipelago, Vancouver punk rock group Assertion, and the Montreal-based psychedelic rock band Odd Limbs, Janine is not adverse to percussing fences, local park benches, and other resonant objects of surrounding environments in guerilla-ensemble fashion.

 

Dr. prOphecy sun is an interdisciplinary performance artist; queer, movement, video, and sound maker; mother; and current Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University. Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the in-between in which art, performance, and life overlap. Her recent research has focused on ecofeminist perspectives, co-composing with voice, objects, surveillance technologies, and site-specific engagements along the Columbia Basin region and beyond. sun hosts Tapes and Beyond on Kootenay Co-op Radio and is the Arts Editor for Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. She performs and exhibits regularly in local, national, and international settings, music festivals, conferences, and galleries and has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications.

http://prophecysun.com

Free 4-day Online Workshop took place Thursdays September 9, 16, 23 & 30; 5-6pm PST

A series of guided, online sound explorations, facilitated by Vancouver Electronic Ensemble members Soressa Gardner, Janine Island and prOphecy sun.

In a series of four 1 hour weekly online sessions we will:

  • collect/record sounds from our environments
  • create visual “scores” from found objects and simple materials
  • explore ways of converting visual information into sonic material
  • contribute to a new on-line library of sounds
  • play with online visual-to-sound converters
  • explore basic sound editing techniques

Through this series of workshops and creative sessions you will be invited to think in new ways about sound as music. Working both independently and collaboratively, you will generate a series of short sound works. Your participation will help determine the functions of a new website where others can play with visual-to-sound converters, remix your sound contributions and add their own material to the library.