Events Calendar - December 19, 2009 |
| Cool Fest 9 Sound, Light Event [ Static Link : iCal ] |
| City: | Canada, Quebec, Montreal |
| Time: | Sat Dec 19, 2009 @ 8:00pm till Sun Dec 20, 2009 @ 1:30am |
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| Description: | 10$ Fluorescent Friends present an experience in sound and light A benefit concert Exploring synesthesia COOL FEST 9 The best in new music from Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Detroit, and New York City Artists in Sound, Light and Movement at the third installation of Montreal's favourite fest From New York City: Lori Napoleon an artist who makes music with light, a true pioneer, artistic innovator and excavator. Lori uses the energy in your typical plasma globe with green/pink lightning bolts inside and other such devices, guiding and channeling it into a light/sound interface which pushes the limits of concrete, analog synesthesia [ www.subk.net ] Bill Nace undisputed master of the prepared guitar, Thurston Moore bandmate. [ www.youtube.com ] Mother Earth Brother/sister duo who turn fluorescent light ring into heavy beat jams Clyde (sister) solo: [ www.vimeo.com ] From Detroit: Sick Llama [ www.youtube.com ] Cotton Museum [ tastysoil.com ] [ www.youtube.com ] [ www.youtube.com ] (two of the best tabletop soundscape creators working today) From Toronto: Yamantaka//Sonictitan an exciting reunition of these masters of music, art and theatre, a no-wave opera, a powerful sonic experience. [ www.youtube.com ] From Ottawa: Total Crush (member of Wax Attic w Self Surgery) 'psych' for the new millenium From Montreal: Monday Morning Erection David LaFrance and Ghislain Roy, one a celebrated Montreal painter, the other an underground modern folk art/music phenomenon, come together with the most unusual collection of home made and appropriated instruments you have ever seen, not to be missed. [ www.youtube.com ] Cat Pontoon Cat pontoon defies all expectations with music, audience engagement, movement, soliloquy, and features a Juno award winner. This artist is best described as unforgettable. "I just want to bring a feeling of release to people" [ www.youtube.com ] + short performances scattered throughout the eve... and the Mountain Girl Tribute... an LSD flight simulator installation of light and sound effects ________________________________________ Winter has arrived, and it's time to tell you about another cool festival of music. In its third installment, Montreal's perennial Cool Fest explores the interfacing of music and light, in an unprecedented assembly of artists from Canada and the United States. "The French have always been leaders in Son et Lumiere;" explains festival organizers Fluorescent Friends, the record label/collective art node/Montreal scene promoters extrordinaire, "so Cool Fest 9 is honouring the scene with an infusion of fresh blood from outside Quebec." This year's festival follows the success of the very snowy 2007 and 2008 Cool Fest 7 and 8, which together brought 60+ performances of rare and exciting underground sounds to La Brique, a loft in Mile End run by the famous Ample Collective, with resplendent results. This year's fest moves further north, as the scene tends to do in Montreal, to Eastern Bloc, which is the primary show sapce turning Jean-Talon into the new underground cultural centre of the city. Festival co-organizer Blake Hargreaves insists the Fest's spirit hasn't changed one bit. "Coolness continues on with fortitude and determination, carrying with dignity the mantle of being the most sought-after state of mind and attitude out there" he says. The festival is the first of it's kind ever in the world anywhere, a forum for underground artists in the music/light genre to exchange and explore the limits of synesthesia in a setting that emphazises the concrete and direct physics in their electrons, photons, pressure, and kinetic energy. Montreal once again takes the lead on the cultural world stage by having something akin to an avant-garde block party with it's nearest metropole neighbours that everyone in the world would love to attend. "If it's cool, it's in the fest" admits co-organizer Fred Savard, a longtime promoter of shows that surprise the ear as much as they please it. "People may have forgotten what it means to do something different in this town, and we are gonna remind 'em." Contact: Blake Hargreaves: blakehargreaves@gmail.com Tel. (613) 995-1666 For Cool Fest 9, Eastern Bloc will be a non-smoking hang-compatible environment; they will be offering standing areas and seating, and serving alcoholic beverages at affordable prices. This event is also a tribute to Mountain Girl, aka Carolyn Adams, the 60s installation artist who made the Fillmore West the psychedelic experience it was in the 1960s. The onetime wife of late Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia used tape delay, octaphonic sound systems and light effects to produce the intense sensory experience that hippies of that era remember as an LSD trip. Cool Fest 9 will offer a large variety of work from Montréal's rich collection of micro record labels. CDs, cassettes, pro-press and home-cut LPs carrying the work of fine musicians and other artworks, designed, decorated, packaged and promoted by these intrepid do-it-yourselfers will be on display and for sale. Cool Fest is a benefit event for the Fluorescent Friends Music Community Outreach Initiative, a program to bring music to disadvantaged youth. PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH CKUT AND CHOQ FM About Fluorescent Friends: Fluorescent Friends have been hosting concerts in Montréal for seven years. Before 2007's Cool Fest started the cool trend, their last major event brought together the best in new Canadian and American under-ground artists in a two day outdoor concert of music and performance arts, Earthunder. It featured Brooklyn jazz greats Mouthus, Rhode Island drum and bass rock masters Lightning Bolt, New York's USAISAMONSTER, Rhode Island's Mindflayer and Baltimore avant-gardists Nautical Almanac, as well as a healthy collection of local stars. As a record label Fluorescent Friends have released the work of great musicians in many styles on every type of format, always with their unique hands-on, arts-and-crafts stylings; an archive is available at [ fluorescentfriends.org ] Their work has received accolades from the likes of Byron Coley, Thurston Moore, John Peel, David Keenan, John Olson, David Cantin, and T'Cha Dunlevy. EASTERN BLOC 7240 CLARK Unit Level 2 MONTREAL, QC H2R 2Y3 tel.: 514-284-2106 email: info@easternbloc.ca web: [ www.easternbloc.ca ] Contact: Blake Hargreaves: blakehargreaves@gmail.com Tel. (613) 995-1666 |
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