POSTPONED: June Electro Lounge

Wednesday June 17 from 7 to 10 pm.

Free!

Video Pool Studio
300-100 Arthur St.
Winnipeg, Mb.

ph. 204.949.9134

Electrolounge is a forum for local artists to “show and tell” each other about their practice in a casual forum mediated by artist Ken Gregory. Artists are invited to show new works, works in progress, documentation, stories, experiences, examples of cool art, experiments, curatorial projects – basically anything and everything that inspires your electronic art practice. Participants are also encouraged to exchange knowledge about techniques and theoretical approaches.

This week we have presentations by artists Andrew Milne, Erika MacPherson and Mike Germain.

This event is free. Participants are encouraged to register in advance and to bring artwork, inspiration and snacks to share. Please contact vptech [at] videopool.org to register.

more Fisher River

We're home now. Last week we(the Boreality Project) spent the week in Fisher River . We visited with folks, spent some time hiking around Fisher Bay, had a moose meat and bannock lunch cooked at the Creeks on an open fire, participated in a sacred pipe ceremony, and generally looked around the area as part of our research into the Boreal forest. The folks out there were very friendly and supportive of what were are doing.

Fisher River

We've just arrived at Fisher River for another week of research for the Boreality Project . We'll be visiting folks, hiking, observing, giving presentations and such all week.

As the twilight fades the frogs and birds are striking up a symphony of sounds outside my hotel room window.

more from Montreal

Montreal

wind coil sound flow in Montreal!

I'm just getting ready to head out to Montreal to install my new work at articule in conjunction with the Elektra festival. I'm pretty excited as this is a brand new work. It's a result of 5 years and ongoing research on kite based sound instruments. Another really great part of this project is the support and help from my friends Darcy Bunio and Stephen Hanson. Stephen gave me a bunch of salvaged piano wire to play with. And Darcy , an accomplished luthier, built some custom resonators for the project.



prototype documentation from the Art's Birthday presentation on January 17 2009 here.

Kite Lab documentation here.

resource documentation here.

Here's a sound example from the prototype run through wind coil sound flow

Here's the official blurb.

title: wind coil sound flow
descripton: electro-mechanical sound installation

For his exhibition at articule, Ken Gregory will build an acoustic electro-mechanical system that poetically reproduces the processes involved in operating an Aeolian Kite Instrument in the field, a wind instrument based on an Aeolian harp. The kite's towline is acoustically coupled to a resonator. The resonator amplifies the wind induced vibrations of the towline and resonates harmonically. A large one stringed guitar played by the wind. Receiving the audio recordings from this outdoor instrument, his electro-magnetic sculpture in the gallery not only becomes a poetic and kinetic representation of a sound speaker, but also mirrors the different components of the Aeolian Kite Instrument used to capture the wind’s voice.

Electro Lounge

This is what I am up to this week amongst other things.

February 25 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Free.
Video Pool Studio.
Electrolounge is a forum for local artists to “show and tell” each other about their practice in a casual forum mediated by artist Ken Gregory. Artists are invited to show new works, works in progress, documentation, stories, experiences, examples of cool art, experiments, curatorial projects – basically anything and everything that inspires your electronic art practice. Participants are also encouraged to exchange knowledge about techniques and theoretical approaches.

This event is free. Participants are encouraged to register in advance and to bring artwork, inspiration and snacks to share. Please contact vptech [at] videopool.org to register.