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Phoniq Presents Akumu Sept 25th 2004
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saturday september 25 2004 phoniq brings you an evening of deep listening featuring from toronto akumu - live - [ www.spiderrecords.com ] and the local stylings of naw - live - [ www.noisefactoryrecords.com ] scant intone vs. various - live - [ www.panospria.com ] / [ www.phoniq.net ] cyan - dj - [ www.traktion.com ] where: la salle d'attente (esperanza) 5490 st-laurent, montreal time: 9pm SHARP first live artist is on at 1030pm. how much: $5 for more info visit: [ www.phoniq.net ] ---------------------------------------------------- PRESS RELEASE the PHONIQ collective brings you the third in our ongoing series of live electronic music events. each of these events are designed to act as an exploration into the different intersections between technology and music/art making. this time around phoniq will feature an assembly of artists all working to create an immersive deep listening experience. the evening will feature: the first ever appearance of toronto's very own AKUMU, whose recently released 'fluxes' cd on the akumu imprint spider records, shows us a deeper, lush, dark ambient side to this artist as opposed to his self titled debut from 2000, which exhibited his more dub ambient side. for this montreal performance akumu will play a cross section of his slow-beat dub found on his earlier release and the pure deep ambience of his most recent 'fluxes' release. akumu's performance will also feature some of the artists own video work projected during his performance. rounding out this evening of deep listening will be phoniq co-founder and noise factory recording artist NAW, who will be presenting a very rare live presentation of his microsound/idm experimental musings. panospria label head and phoniq collective members SCANT INTONE and VARIOUS will be performing a tag team live pa of glitchy/experimental shapeshifting music. opening and closing the evenings activities will be modular systems host and phoniq co-founder CYAN djing the less dance floor oriented idm/quirky electro and other found rareties that find their way into her vast music collection. BIOS/INFO PHONIQ [ www.phoniq.net ] phoniq is a collective of individuals dedicated to promoting bleeding edge electronic music/art in interesting variable environments, with an emphasis on exposing aural and visual talent that has not yet been exposed to the electronic arts communities of montreal and canada. we aim to showcase upstart music producers, djs, and emerging visual artists all working in electronic realms. our foremost goal is to showcase off the wall and raw genres of music and visual electronic arts- not just those that are currently "en vogue" or will be shortly. the concept for phoniq came together through the chance meeting of 2 active members of the montreal/canadian electronic music and digital arts community: ckut-fm dj/host cyan and dub glitch techno producer naw. phoniq has grown out of the combined histories of these 2 individuals. naw brings the clonk legacy that he created 6 years ago in toronto, which hosted such artists as: monolake, kit clayton and sutekh. cyan brings her ongoing involvement in community radio, event coordinating and dj talents. since then the collective has grown to include 5 core members responsible for keeping things running. after a short 6 months phoniq has grown from an idea of "how can we create a viable promotional vehicle for canadian electronic artists", into a music series, an active community mailing list/community forum, and in the coming months phoniq will relaunch its site designed to act as a portal resource for the canadian electronic music community which will include a net-label. AKUMU [ www.spiderrecords.com ] somewhere between the spacey soundscapes of dark ambient lounge music and the scratchy breakbeats of downtempo drum n' bass lies the wonderful world of akumu. the brainchild of deane hughes, founder of the independent spider records label, who has previously recorded under the names thrive and alchemy, akumu ranges from languid liquid synths that feel like a drowsy summer afternoon, to hypnotic ringing and cascading full-speed-ahead bass-plus-beats, to spooky synths and muffled electronic planet-blips. "akumu" means "bad dream" in Japanese, and a lot of his music has a dreamlike quality to it. dark ambiences, shadowy beats, haunting microscapes, from electronic artist and film composer deane hughes, akumu is an exploration of atmospheres, moods and rhythms. deane is celebrating the release of his latest akumu cd, entitled fluxes. this minimalist cd was written and created in guatemala, honduras & mexico over a 6-month time span using binaural field recordings to construct drone-based and loop-based instruments. deane will be performing and improvising on material from fluxes and other material with visuals projected from some of his abstract video-work at this first ever montreal performance for this artist. NAW [ www.noisefactoryrecords.com ] montreal native neil wiernik began his explorations in electronic music making as early as 1988. known to push the boundaries of his musical form, naws music is a blend of sound manipulation/design, experimental music 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 oriented musics. neil has released music on various national and international record labels, including up coming releases in 2004 on clever-music, worthy records and his follow up full length to his 2002 noise factory release called green nights orange days due out october 2004 and will include tours to co-enside with this release in canada and europe in october/november and through out 2005. SCANT INTONE [ www.panospria.com ] constantine katsiris was born and raised in a strange little place called saskatoon in the canadian prairies. after traveling and living abroad for various lengths of time he has now settled temporarily in montreal. He has been active in the electronic arts since the mid-90s as an artist, designer, dj and producer of unusual musics. current projects include operating the panospria label and recording experimental electronic works as scant intone. VARIOUS [ www.phoniq.net ] a new addition to phoniq, various works mostly at the broken edge of feedback and digital distortion. ranging from ultra minimal drones and glitch loops, all the way to dramatic bursts of textured noise and angry everything. various' music can only be described as not really music at all. or it could be described as music after all. it's probably something, anyway. CYAN [ www.traktion.com ] cyan has been a regular of montreal's independent airwaves since 1996 and currently co-hosts modular systems on ckut 90.3 fm. one of the founding members of the phoniq collective, her dj sets can vary from minimal, dub and glitch sounds to deep detroit inspired techno rhythms. |
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