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[theam-cjsw]

The AM: February 5, 2024

(Laura Anzola's Voices; photo by Caitlind Brown)

Calgary-based media artist Laura Anzola joins in hour three to discuss her new installation Voices (go see it at EMMEDIA!). That plus your usual mix of neo-classical bliss, laid-back electronics, instrumental beats, psychedelic grooves, and other sounds selected to ease you into a new week.

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Hour One

When Winds Blow Osmanthus • Between Seasons

Écoute Au Loin Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu, Marta Sofia Honer • The Closest Thing to Silence

Cosmic Vertigo Karl Hirzer • Relaxer Distractor

Everything Is Okay Green-House • A Host for All Kinds of Life

Minasoko Moshimoss • Land

Walking in New York Bradley Thomas Turner • Single

Ladybugs Nalepa • The Flowers

Get Off On Tragina Lunar Lemur • Theme Songs From Imagined TV Shows

Blue Patrick Holland • Infra

Denial Jahmal Padmore • The Wooz

Mi Sala Pachyman • Switched-On

Ratty Cemetery Easy Idiot • Stock Music II

Hour Two

After Sunrise Circles Around The Sun, Mikaela Davis • After Sunrise

Sunset Stroll Floral Portrait • Floral Portrait

Melodia Paulo Edson • Pluma

Now You Know ROY • Spoons for the World

The Movie of Your Life Fortunato Durutti Marinetti • Eight Waves in Search of An Ocean

Strength from Within Rae Spoon • superioryouareinferior

My Heart is a Piece of Garbage. Fight Seagulls! Fight! Rae Spoon • superioryouareinferior

Returning Minhwi Lee • 미​래​의 고향 Hometown to Come

Fire Kofi Flexxx • Flowers In The Dark

Flight of the Manumitter Stelar Door • The Ritual

Hour Three

Take What’s Given BADBADNOTGOOD • Single

Highway High Klaus Johann Grobe • Io tu il loro

Son para Gozarlas La Sonora Mazuren • Bailando con Extraños

Luna Modular Empanadas Ilegales • Creepy Mambo

Green Villa ddwy • Sprig Songs

Suzanne Tripping Balls and Seeing God untrained animals • UT8

My Mind Is An Oven sunking • Single

Heaven’s Found Adrian Younge • Adrian Younge Presents: Voices of Gemma

Cascade Niecy Blues • Exit Simulation

You Be Free ANOHNI and the Johnsons • My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross

[jackhuskisson]

“Discharge” for the fifth installation @totheawe at @emmediayyc Combination of animation, performance, and projection. This is the first project that I’ve done with composing my own sound. I’d like to do more performances like this, I find it quite liberating. I’m still figuring out what I want from it though, but quite happy with this piece. Check out my website, link in bio, for the full video. Special thanks to all those who came out and To the Awe for asking me to participate! 📸Bon Adrienne Aseniero www.bonadriel.com #contemporaryart #projectionart #projection #performance #sound #drawing #drawingasperformance #eye #animation #calgary #emmedia #totheawe #jackiehuskisson #sublime #soundart #yyccalgary #calgary #mediaart (at EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwQaNlRBA3o/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jfztft714emz

[orbookstore]

New Arrival: Rita McKeough: Works

This critical monograph documents Rita McKeough’s collaborative artistic process and pedagogy from the late 1970s on; her interactions with visual and media arts communities in Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary, particularly alternative music and performance scenes; and the audio, installation and performance work that is her ongoing contribution to the contemporary Canadian art community.

EDITOR: Diana Sherlock

AUTHORS: Anthea Black, Eli D. Campanaro, Elizabeth Diggon, Johanna Householder, Areum Kim, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Deidre Logue, Jude Major, Rita McKeough, Jeanne Randolph, Mary Scott

PUBLISHERS: EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society, M:ST Performative Art Festival, TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary

Includes vinyl record with five audio works from installations and performances—Shiver (1995), Opponent and My Heart Beats too Fast from In bocca al lupo/ In the Mouth of the Wolf (1991), Lament from Dancing on a Plate (1991), Veins(2016) and one new composition, Ashes (2017).

A limited number of the publications include an artist multiple by Rita McKeough that references The Lion’s Share (2012), an exhibition which incorporated kinetics, performance, and sound, and used a humorous and dream-like scenario to raise questions about the complexities of our relationship to eating animals.

This project has been generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development and the City of Calgary, EMMEDIA, M:ST and TRUCK; institutional sponsor, the Alberta College of Art + Design; and community contributors, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville University and NSCAD University.

$75, Slipcase, Hardcover Publication, 12” Vinyl

$280, Boxset, Hardcover Publication, 12” Vinyl, Limited Edition Carrot and Text Multiple.

Photos by Marc Hutchinson

[jaddatsui]

YOU ARE HERE is a live audio/visual performance, occupying a middle ground between digital puppet show, short film, and multimedia play. Audience members are invited to take their photographs in a booth before the show, their faces then placed like masks onto blank characters. Via modelled figures possessing their likenesses, viewers are introduced into an alternate dimension — quiet, flat, empty, unsettling disassociation constructed from the backdrops of dreams. A live narrative constructs several short stories, loosely paralleling visuals on the screen. The show features a mix of predefined content, improvisation, and opportunities for subversion.

YOU ARE HERE was performed as part of the 2017 Particle + Wave, a media arts festival put on by EMMEDIA at Festival Hall.

All documentation photos courtesy of Aran and EMMEDIA

[cvltofsound]

Tatsuya Nakatani solo & w guests // Pink Room Trio @ Emmedia

[clairecouttsart]

Claire Coutts, 15 Stairs (installation view), 2019, video projection.

Part of Emmedia’s Spectral Illuminations 2019

[hypermusic2019-blog]

My Birthday...really! I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you. I mean you, reading this. God has pulled us through a lot of challenges in life and when a day like this comes once in a year it is of joy, great joy and celebrations. All glory to Almighty God that giveth the gift of life... Thanks to you all for your prayers and best wishes... So, I've also come to encourage you in this song "Head Up" and hoped that you accept it as a gift from me to you...and anytime you listen remember Psalm 121... "I can't describe the sound yet and when I hear your testimony as you dance through the hallway acknowledging your help in God to your next open door with its courageous melodies...knowing that we don't dwell in past glory..." Are you ready for exploits...? Keep your head up! https://www.declareworld.com.ng/2019/01/download-femi-tujoye-headup-femitujoye.html https://youtu.be/057M1_4-Ry0 Credits: Photography : DDaniel Musa Design: @emmedia Bass guitar @Gowin_scat Talking drum: PPaul Haryormide Harkorede Rhythm guitar: BBanji Oluwakomiyor Voiced by me... Prod. M&M by me...lol MasterVoiceStudio (at Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtBTvo4las6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16wijy00xpovq

[kestonmusic]

Thank you, let stay doing things. • @10at10showcase @emmediayyc @refusedbylightofficial @nadidowns @vvlouis @jmaj7music @dj.amante #yyc #kestonmusic #lovesick #doingthingsmusicevent #yycliving #singersongwriter #liplove #performance #ladiesman #lovesick #realliferomeo #musicvideoscreening #love #knowtheyself #kaizen #identity #individual #music #id #human #blessup #findingself #moremyself #vocalist #hiphop #canadianmusic #mensfashion #artist #vans (at EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqGeCr7Bcew/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11pjs0u42fjyf

[latestcanadaposts]

5 facts about Particle + Wave

Montreal artist Martin Rodriguez performs and hosts a workshop at Emmedia’s media arts festival Particle + Wave. Annie-France Noel

Emmedia’s media arts festival features workshops + screenings + installations + performances.

What’s in a nameMedia Arts is a broad term, which leads to Particle + Wave being an eclectic festival. “We just say it’s an artform that uses some…

[intersiteva]

INTERSITE VISUAL ARTS: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

INTERSITE VISUAL ARTS: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Deadline: October 1st, 2017

Intersite Visual Arts advocates for contemporary art practices through the decentralized presentation of exhibitions, happenings, and performances outside of the traditional gallery setting. By actively engaging unsuspecting audiences in the public sphere, Intersite seeks to create a supportive and receptive climate to foster the development and innovative presentation of contemporary art.

A Calgary-based initiative, Intersite is a collaborative program presented by six local contemporary art centres:  EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society, M:ST Performative Art Festival, Stride Gallery, The New Gallery, TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, and Untitled Art Society.

Intersite is currently seeking proposals to produce a site-specific project to be presented in April / May / June of 2018. Through this opportunity, the selected artist, collective and/or curator will be commissioned to create and present a project that activates the cultural landscape of Calgary and considers alternative spaces, engages diverse publics, and challenges traditional forms of contemporary art presentation.

The following materials should be included in your application:

1. Proposal: Describe your project. Provide complete details of your geographic and material requirements, including any special equipment and technical needs (maximum 1 page)

2. Budget: Provide a detailed budget of expenses including production, artist fees, travel, and accommodation (if applicable) to a maximum of $3,000.00.

3. Support: Please include up to ten pieces of additional support material, including digital images, videos, text excerpts, or audio clips alongside a corresponding numbered inventory list detailing all necessary descriptive information. We will review up to a maximum of five minutes of time-based work.

4. Curriculum vitae: Describe your artistic background and include all relevant contact information (maximum 3 pages)

Submissions are only accepted via email. Please format all written materials as a single .pdf document. Images must be labeled with the applicant’s lastname_firstname and numbered chronologically as .jpg files no larger than 1 MB in size. We accept links to video and audio work hosted online. Emailed applications must be submitted in a single .zip folder containing both documents and images.

Send completed submission packages by October 1, 2017 to:

ATTN: Programming Committee

intersitevisualartsfestival@gmail.com

[jackhuskisson]

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Testing and more testing. Piece for #spectralillumination and #beakerheadyyc #beakerhead still learning 😜#projectmapping #emmedia #trippyart #jackiehuskisson #trippy (at Calgary Southwest)

[small-stage]

BENT SPOON TRIO at EMMEDIA

[jaddatsui]

Refresh is a web browser located at a single computer station that cycles through content randomly every time F5 is pressed on the keyboard. Here are a few examples!  It was made by faxingmyfriends, a collaboration between Teresa Tam, Sandrine Weltzin, and Jadda Tsui. 

[cvltofsound]

Cody Oliver/Dark Knees

YYC 2016

[grainworship]

Container @ emmedia

Calgary

2016

Nikon Sporttouch

[columngallant-blog]

Back in September, Calgary’s EMMEDIA and Beakerhead came together to teach people about circuitry and music. The Atari Punk Synth workshop drew everyone from teens to seniors to teach them how to build their own synthesizer in just an afternoon. This was one of the first stories that gave me the chance to use reporting to show readers the awesome things you can do in Calgary if you’re willing to get your hands a little bit dirty. All materials by me.