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ckutmusic on 03/28/2012 at 01:48AM
Épuiseurs d'ondes
On March 23rd, 2011, Simon Brown, Emilie Mouchous, James Shidlowsky and Alexandre St Onge
(in this particular incarnation) brought a lot of conspicuous looking suitcases and timers in to the on air studio where they holed up for 2 hours building something out of electronics that was shaped by the tick -tick-tick of their timers...
The idea behind their opus entitled Les 11 épuisements was to cyle through all the possible permutations of duos and trios ending with a quartet. Each segment is of variable length, all improvised, uncut - with swiss precision timing. Here is the set list:
01. Alex + Emilie
02. James + Simon
03. Alex + Simon
04. Emilie + James
05. Emilie + Simon
06. Alex + James
07. Alex + James + Simon
08. Alex + Emilie + James
09. Alex + Emilie + Simon
10. Emilie + James + Simon
11. Alex + Emilie + James + Simon
ckutmusic on 01/06/2012 at 03:00PM
Montreal trio Aim Low on CKUT
Montreal based trio Aim Low came together as a self described happy accident and make some pretty dense wall of sound droning music with effected guitars, bass, vocals and other objects. They've been making themselves nauseous by hanging around in the brown zone of frequency spectrum since boredom brought them together in late 2010. they have self released an a few ep's and at the time there was talk about cassette releases on they live we sleep, and walnut locust in the near future.
While chatting in the studio after their set that literally gave my lungs a good vibrational massage due to the intensity of the sound pressure levels emitted through their modest amplifiers, they talked about the process of improvisation in their approach to creating and performing music. I can't remember if it was d.a or l.f that said it, but what he did say was that it's like "You know how to get home from one place, but we each take different routes to get there. There are established starting and ending points and structural conventions in place, but ultimately it's like - hey guys i'll meet you down the street in 12 minutes, some times you're early, sometimes you're late some times you just hang around there till you all meet up." I dunno - i really enjoyed this analogy to structured improvisation.