DADABUS || An Evening of Live Experimental Music + Live Art
Friday, February 27th, 2009. 6:30pm-12am.
We are presenting a unique night of live music and visuals. This night is a fundraiser for the WISH Drop-In Centre Society. All of our profits will be donated to WISH - please come by and help us support those in need.
For DADABUS we have teamed up a sound/music artist with a visual artist. Each team will be performing a 50 minute set. Jerry Ocol will be kicking off the night with a special 2 hour DJ set from 6:30-8:30pm. During that time you can come in, eat dinner, have some drinks and enjoy a set of ambient/glitch music. The teams get started at 8:30pm.
The location for this event is Rhizome Cafe - for those who have never been, it is a great cafe that holds up to 75 people. They serve fantastic food (meals + snacks) and great drinks (coffee + beer ++).
The cover charge to get in is $5-10 (sliding scale). Pay what you can to help support the cause.
Here's the line up (BIOS BELOW):
6:30-8:30pm:
JERRY OCOL (dj | glitch.ambient)
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8:30-9:20pm:
SARA GOLD (sound artist | repetition.loops.distortion)
FAZAIL LUTFI (visual artist)
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9:30-10:20pm:
IF THEN DO (Ross Birdwise) (sound artist | electroacoustic.dub.glitch.ambient)
VICTOR BALLESTEROS (visual artist)
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10:30-11:30pm:
THE AUTOMATIC MESSAGE (Trevor Jacobson + Tanya Goehring) (sound + visual art team | experimental.minimal.techno)
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Who are these people you ask? Here's your answer, in no particular order:
SARA GOLD: Sara Gold suffers from a torrid and erratic past of an eclectic collection of analogue minimalist performances, loop based digital stimulus, and other varied services for such organizations and institutions as Vancouver New Music, New Forms Festival Media Society, CBC radio, Her Jazz Noise collective and the Dance Awkward collective as well as organizing and curating independent events since 2005. My hobbies include collecting sounds and wallpaper, playing with magnetic tape and finding the resonant frequency of buildings.
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FAZAIL LUTFI: Fazail spends much of his creative energy working in lens based art. Fazail use the medium of video and sculptural elements to create his installations. Currently his work revolves around issues of place, memory, and imagination. www.genieworx.com
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JERRY OCOL: Jerry Ocol is a DJ/Producer/Director with the Jyotih Network, a registered charity which raises funds for the Downtown Eastside through dance and music events. This group of DJs and organizers has successfully raised much needed funds for charities such as DEYAS, WISH, and the Carnegie Community Action Project through the monthly dance and music event, Nourish, at Radha. Jerry plays techno, tech house, trance, IDM, and downtempo for Nourish events.
Jerry has been a musician since the age of 8. He plays piano, guitar, bass, and percussion. He played bass for Hydrogen Dog, a grunge-metal band which played the club circuit in the lower mainland. Acoustically, he has done solo work and played in festivals in Asia. As a DJ and electronic artist, he has played at many venues in Vancouver and holds a residency at Subeez/Wazubee. He has also played at music festivals such as Intention and Pollination. Jerry is honoured to play at Dadabus with such talented and socially conscious individuals.
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IF THEN DO: Born in 2001, originally from Ottawa, if then do began lo-fi, with early shows manifesting as analog maelstroms of keyboards, bass, tapes, pedals and a karaoke machine, with a sound influenced as much by glitch music as it was by shoegaze, musique concrete and noise. However, the group quickly grew frustrated with the compositional and sonic limitations of their gear, and increasingly enamoured with the electronic sounds coming out labels such as Mego, Touch and Mille Plateaux, they went digital. Today, if then do is still influenced by its past, but looks forward to the future, mixing and mutating elements of dub, pop, electroacoustic, hip hop and other musical genres into an increasingly diverse musical stew, crafting complex arrangements and improvised sections packed with sonic detail and full of many parts.
With a dynamic that is by turns brutal and tender, if then do teeter on the borderlines between genres, attempting to marry noise to melodicism, lo-fi detritus to hi-fi production, "experimental music" to some semblance of pop. It's their own logic; one that has landed an array of performing slots alongside disparate acts such as Mitchell Akiyama, Tim Hecker, Mono, Do Make Say Think, Xiu Xiu, The Acorn and Iszoloscope.
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VICTOR BALLESTEROS: Chilean, living in Vancouver. I am interested in a diverse range of media but I work primarily in video. I have a strong interest in private interior spaces, landscape and sound. I am currently finishing a masters degree at Emily Carr.
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THE AUTOMATIC MESSAGE: The Automatic Message is an audiovisual artist comprised of two people. Those two people are Tanya and Trevor. Trevor is a techno producer and Tanya is a photographer/non-linear filmmaker. The Automatic Message combines film, photography and techno as part of their live performances.