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One last beautiful day in the forest with some beautiful sounds, caviidae, othoptera, sinewaves, pinknoise and with some friends playing together. A wonderful ending, hoping to be back in the forest very soon. Trees within trees, resonating trees… a really wonderful time breathing in and resounding within. We need to remember – every single moment – how this kind of beautiful lives really are...
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MIXTOPHONICS come celebrate sonic imagination and lovely people! mixtophonics has returned, after 17 years in June 2018. VNM started mixtophonics in 2001 at the Havana Theatre on Commercial Drive, to offer a space to present sound and music explorations by a variety of young and upcoming artists living in Vancouver. It run for 3 years and it was a great monthly gathering fostering the beautiful energy...
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MAGIK is a new Vancouver-based project that brings together Giorgio Magnanensi’s resonant woods with two of Vancouver’s most respected musicians, Marina Hasselberg cello, Kenton Loewen drums and Ucluelet based video artists Nicolas Teichrob. MAGIK plays within a multi-layered, live electro acoustic surround sound-space among flat audio panels of hand cut West Coast Red Cedar, Sitka Spruce and Pacific Maple. The panels serve both as...
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Friday, August 25th 7PM Spacedock 8PM Dylan Rhymer 8:30PM Devil in the Wood Shack 9:30PM Buckman Coe Saturday, August 26th 11AM Doug Koyama/The Imprints/Spacedock *Collective Set* Noon Matthew Lovegrove 1PM Kitty & The Rooster/Steve Weave and Giorgio Magnanensi *Collective Set* 3PM The Imprints 4PM Devil in the Wood Shack/Dirty Mountain *Collective Set* 5:30PM Kitty & The Rooster 6:30PM Scenic Route to Alaska 7:35PM...
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Rough mix, recorded live at The Lido, Vancouver • November 16, 2016 Giorgio Magnanensi: upright piano / laptop | Kenton Loewen: drums | J.P. Carter: trumpet & electronics | Lee Hutzulak: DSI Tempest / recording / mix / artwork Click images below for bandcamp links Frequent Seizure After Later Space Heather Thank you Lee for the recordings and the...
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BENT: A Showcase of Circuit Bending at VIVO Saturday, November 7th . Doors at 7pm. Featuring over 15 artists/hackers and musicians, this evening is a showcase of Vancouver artists and makers exploring the art of circuit bending. There will be a circuit playground, a “Show and Tell” of different projects, and performances throughout the evening. …a nice reunion, ten year later… Shawn Cashin, Kedrick James,...
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an Ambient Sound Event with: Elisa Ferrari • voice, books, zither and singing bowls Andrew Bate & John Brennan • resonant percussions Giorgio Magnanensi • sinewaves and cedar flat audiopanels The Gumboot Cafe, Roberts Creek – October 10, 2015 • 8PM Some info about and images of the Cedar Flat Audiopanels: CEDAR PANELS...
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Thank you Lee for the great video! Noise in the Key of D On a beautiful summer evening members of VEE (Vancouver Electronic Ensemble) gathered in the spaciousness of the VCC Atrium to make noise in the key of D, at the suggestion of Matt O’Donnell. Players arranged themselves throughout the space, utilizing multiple balconies over 3 levels and a large main...
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Another fun plot* of circles and squares (spheres & cubes) plus some noisy characters, on the Tektronix. This is for David Henderson-Hean, and hopefully he’ll see it live in action soon. Audio is directly from the room, so not really great. *) Two separate stereo channels overlapping on the CRT of a Tektronix 564 ...
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I’m playing with Kenton Loewen at the Emerald on July 29. It’s always great making music with him. When I play with Kenton I am always enjoying the energy and the ephemeral beauty of our musical encounters, plus Kenton’s ability to dialogue and commit with me to wander into unpredictable sonic paths. Beyond that I simply aspire to be speechless, without...
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I’m very happy I’ll be playing with Hayato Kubo at DESTROY VANCOUVER XI also featuring ✖ STEFAN SMULOVITZ & SAMMY CHIEN ✖ ROOT & BRANCH ✖ BUBBY ✖ NERVOUS OPERATOR ✖ BRIAN BEAUDRY + DJ SILK DESTROY VANCOUVER XI 2625 KASLO Street FRIDAY NOV 21 | DOORS 〓 8.30PM CONCERT 〓 9.30PM-1AM ADMISSION: $10 https://vimeo.com/122672324 ...
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Tapegerm is a group of recording artists who share sounds and create new sonic experiences with them. We are a close-knit community and we welcome evolving ideas which explore new ways to collaborate. Tapegerm was formed in May 2000 and after fourteen years of online collaboration, resulting in over 100 albums of music we decided to start fresh July 4, 2014. It was...
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noise in the key of D • live recording NOISE IN THE KEY OF D MIX [Download] Thank you Dave Leith and Andrew Scott for the live recordings. And thank you Matt O’Donnell for the wonderful Sitar playing and all VEE for the great drony 2 hours and 14 minutes at the grand space of the VCC Atrium. The recording though is very...
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…scratching a tape head on a bunch of old discarded tapes, a broken HD, CD player and transformers. Remix ad libitum using the first file (tapehead Amix) as the main track, or as you like… 🙂 tapehead Amix [Download] tapehead Bmix [Download] tapehead Cmix [Download] tapehead D CDmix [Download] tapehead E statics mix [Download] ...
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for 4 sax, 4 trumpet, 4 trombones, violin, electric guitar, piano, bass, drums and percussion dedicated to the Hard Rubber Orchestra and John Korsrud TDU/HRO • le feu et l’artifice While writing for or conducting the Hard Rubber Orchestra I have always had a lot of fun and deeply enjoyed the energy and sounds of all the great musicians of this band. Therefore I have...
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a great session with Kenton Lowen, drums/VCC New Music Ensemble, Giorgio Magnanensi conduction. vcc nme with kenton X-3-012 [Download] In the short vieo clip the very end of the session with Kenton Loewen and the VCC New Music Ensemble. This very well exemplifies the power of “forming” energy: sound shots, concentrated infusion of charging sonic energy, that’s why I love Kenton too ; )...
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Noise not Noise Western Front, March 27, 2010 Kedrick James voice & electronics, Chad MacQuarrie electric guitar, Giorgio Magnanensi fyrall & live electronics mp3 [Download] [INSPIRATION 1] “European music is based on the artificial sound of the note and the (tone) scale; it opposes the brutal and objective sonority of the world. As a result of an unbreakable convention European music is obliged from the...
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…like thinking late years the “style” of late years: mine, yours, of a decadent society, of amneriKa as Zappa would say. Thinking “experimental” as a state of mind rather than as a”style” as my friend Marc Couroux put it. Yes Marc, I’m with you. What does it mean though? How does it play out? The world will be unreconciled, like in the late years...
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Yagi-san calligraphy class The music in the video contains samples of koto played by Miki Maruta, Andrew Czink’s crazy piano and G’s live electronics. ******* While in Japan, in May 1998, I was invited to a callygraphy class held in the beautiful city of Kamakura by master callygrapher Yagi Chikushu, mother of my friend Takako Yagi. It was a great afternoon,...
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LABORATORIO LABORATORIO Arts Society is a non-profit arts organization based on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. LABORATORIO’s mandate is to foster art works in which actual dialogical experiences (i.e., dialogues of various kinds) take place. By acknowledging the importance of dialogic modalities of art, LABORATORIO wishes to promote new aesthetic values such as creative improvisation, interactivity and real-time remote interaction. LABORATORIO springs from...
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minz & maunz mp3 [Download] Giorgio Magnanensi • sampler, electric guitar & live electronics Marco Ruggeri • voice and paranoid vocals Walter Zanetti • acoustic, electric and spanish guitar all tracks recorded live at the Castello di Capannole (Tuscany) and at the Abbazia Santa Maria di Agnano (X century) from 26:00 to 39:00… between May and October 1996 All instruments by minz...
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The Banff Centre for The Arts • February 2010 Winter Residency Ensemble Giorgio Magnanensi, conduction & live electronics Chris Rolfe, multi channel diffusion & live electronics TDU XII live [Download] teatro dell’udito XII • program notes Leah Abramson , voice & electronics * Kari Anderson, oboe Minna Choi, violin Katelyn Clark, harpsichord Kevin Hanlon, electric guitar Terri Hron, recorders...
