[Microsound-announce] Vague Terrain, Sat. Oct. 29th - Toronto

[Neil Wiernik]

saturday october 29th / vague terrain presents...

kero - detroit / det.und / bpitch / shitkatapult
naw - noise factory / naw.phoniq.net / vague terrain
des cailloux et du carbone - montreal / natacha's records / mutek 2005
video / tasman richardson - famefame
video / liav koren

toronto / canada
art bar / the gladstone hotel
limited capacity
$5 / doors open @ 9pm
1214 queen st. west
http://www.vagueterrain.net

Join us for the official launch of vagueterrain.net - our new digital
arts quarterly. The first issue of vague terrain, an exploration of
digital detritus will be launching within the next few weeks. To
celebrate the beginning of our e-publication we have invited a number of
artists involved with the first issue of vague terrain to show/perform
work at our monthly at the artbar.

Hope to see you out on the 29th! Well be making a formal announcement
once vagueterrain.net goes live.

Greg Smith & Neil Wiernik
vagueterrain.net
editors/curators

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Artist Information

kero - detroit / det.und / bpitch / shitkatapult / http://www.djkero.com

With over 13 releases on some of electronic music's most celebrated and
innovative labels such as Bpitch, Ghostly International, Shitkatapult,
and Downwards, as well as his own critically acclaimed Detroit
Underground Records, Kero (nee Sohail Azad) has established a reputation
for his unrepentantly brash, yet cultivated compositions and
unforgettable live performances. Kero has established himself as a  leader
within the growing pack of electronic music producers
successfully infiltrating contemporary art circles world wide and has
recently shared the stage with Speedy J, Ken Ishii and Funkstorung. His
innovative approach to music, graphic design and video production feeds
on the detritus of popular electronic culture, creating a montage of
fleeting musical and visual experiences that are paradoxically critical
and enamored with contemporary culture. Drawing on his experiences as a
dual citizen of both Canada and the United States, Kero conducts visual
and aural investigations that are concerned with ideas of the diametric
and intermediary. Subsequently, the ephemeral nature of electronic
culture, the "rave" experience and aesthetic offers a microcosm to
explore similar elements in popular culture. The result is music that
blurs genres from hip-hop to the most rarified of techno experiments,
video art which stirs faint recollections of print and televised media,
and a design language that has ingrained itself upon the most celebrated
electro-cultural market in the world.

naw - noise factory / vague terrain / http://www.naw.phoniq.net

Montreal native Neil Wiernik currently living in Toronto, began his
explorations in electronic music making as early as 1988. Known to push
the boundaries of his musical form from designing new or manipulating
existing sound making devices and software to creative uses of
production environments and sound sources, naw's music is a blend of
sound manipulation/design, experimental musics and dub-tech rhythms,
which on the surface sound quite simple, but incorporate a number of
touches that steer this artist away from being simply another minimal
techno or experimental laptop artist. He combines post-house, dubby
minimal techno, microsound and thick ambience, to create his own version
of deep techno, house and other electronic laptop orineted musics. Neil
has released music on various national and international record labels,
including releases on Noise Factory, Complot, Clevermusic, Piehead and
Pertin_nce. As naw, Neil has performed extensively along side a variety
of national and international artists both in and outside of Canada. In
2004 and 2005 naw will released his follow up noise factory record full
length called: "green nights orange days", as well as a full length
outting with Pertin_nce Records called: "terrain vague". These two
records find Neil at his deepest, dubbiest and most experimental
sounding yet. The release of these records will coincide with a series  of
North American and European tour dates through out 2005.

des cailloux et du carbone - montreal / natacha's records / mutek 2005

This solo project from Marcello Marandola, a Montreal-based musician and
one-half of data-folk duo Cian Ethrie, subscribes to a niche of
experimentations and playful escapades associated with Natachas
Recordings. So, when Marandola claims that his music is of the house
variety, do not misinterpret him! Actual household field recordings are
incorporated into his sound; its an bedroom brand of music that he
concocts in the comforts of his own abode. His compositions are
undeniably intimate, infused by sounds that we may hear everyday.  Powered
by melancholic tones and subtle jolts, with a layering of  accidental
fractures that fittingly disrupt the sonorous continuum, the  compositions
from des cailloux et du carbone are unfaltering in their  quest to invade
your memory with dissected and detailed repetitions,  simultaneously
evoking nostalgic images. On stage, the traditional house  music
influences may increasingly appear as the overall sound oscillates
between the scattered and the rhythmic.

tasman richardson - famefame / http://www.famefame.com

Tasman Richardson is a videomaker , electronic composer, designer,
curator, and organizer. His work has shown in Argentina, Austria,
Bulgaria, Canada, Egypt, England, France, Finland, Holland, Iceland,
Peru, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, and The United States. His time is
slowly whittled away by making art and cultivating a refined knowledge  of
all things geek. He does not live in his parents basement but does  enjoy
winning Jubal's money on Bosconian and the odd D&D game. He has  performed
and collaborated under the aliases M.O.I., JAWA, Pox,
FAMEFAME, theblameshifter, IBM, OHVOV, Anvil, Polygon Noose, and
Noise-Op. His artworks are available through Vtape, Artcore, Microcinema
International, Hymen, and famefame.

liav koren

Liav Koren studies architecture, urbanism, cities, people, digital
techniques, gossip, the trajectories of dust motes in sun-light, art and
design at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Architecture, Landscape
and Design. In a different life he pretended to be a math student at
York, while sneaking into urban studies and fine arts classes. He is
particularly interested in the ways in which tools and systems of
representation quietly infiltrate and shape the way we think and design.
He spends too much time pecking instructions into computers and waiting
patiently to see what will happen. Recently, animated grids have been  the
result.

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