Jay Tripwire

Jay Tripwire Vancouver Always sitting slightly off-centre, Jay Tripwire is an artist that walks the line as industry staple and ever changing innovator.  Tripwire has over 25 years under his belt professionally as a DJ and has toured extensively for 20 years with gigs taking him to over 200 cities worldwide.  A sometimes resident at… Continue reading Jay Tripwire

Handsome Tiger

Handsome Tiger Vancouver No stranger to the Vancouver and West Coast music community, Handsome Tiger has played countless shows and gathered numerous releases under his belt. With a love of bass music he’s been a strong advocate in supporting and contributing to many events in Vancouver’s underground Scene. Quickly becoming a west coast festival scene… Continue reading Handsome Tiger

Deadbeat & Camara

Deadbeat & Camara Berlin / Montreal Trinity Thirty is the result of a unique collaboration between Scott Monteith and Fatima Camara, both accomplished and acclaimed solo artists working in dance- and downbeat-inflected electronic idioms, and both Canadian ex-pats currently based in Berlin. After overhearing the Cowboy Junkies’ now-classic cover of “Sweet Jane” in a Brazilian… Continue reading Deadbeat & Camara

Deadbeat & Tikiman

Deadbeat & Tikiman United Kingdom / Canada Deadbeat Scott Monteith is a musician, sound artist and music technology educator best known for his work under the stage name Deadbeat. Ever since launching his production career at the turn of the century, the dub techno auteur has been nothing if not deeply prolific. The Canadian-born, Berlin-based… Continue reading Deadbeat & Tikiman

Cobblestone Jazz

Cobblestone Jazz Germany / Canada A unique trio, Cobblestone Jazz creates pared-down sounds that retain the qualities of improvisational jazz within the parameters of a minimal, dance-floor aesthetic. Through a real-time exchange of musical form, language, and ideas, Tyger Dhula, Mathew Jonson and Danuel Tate provide a continual sense of surprise and discovery for their… Continue reading Cobblestone Jazz

Claire

Claire Montreal Deep inside Montreal’s underground Claire concocts her unique sound. Deep trippy techno, disturbed by short melodic passages, oriental chords or mysterious whispers, a flow meant to wake up some goosebumps and feelings you weren’t aware of until now. A Montrealer born and raised on the west coast, you might say that her productions… Continue reading Claire

Azu Tiwaline

Azu Tiwaline Tunisia & France Azu Tiwaline : It’s a new name for a new spirit. The one of a producer willing to find a new sound in her origins which take root in the Sahara and El Djerid region in the south of Tunisia. A sound from the desert, drawing on Berberian and Saharan… Continue reading Azu Tiwaline

Phèdre

Phèdre Toronto Phèdre is an electronic duo from Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Originating in experimental-pop realms, their richly-textured compositions have grown into instrumental sets of high-bpm rhythmic soundscapes, performed live using sequencers and synthesizers. The ever-changing bass-heavy sets pay tribute to club, breakbeat, jungle and techno, while maintaining Phèdre’s own unique sense of musical beat exploration. Phèdre… Continue reading Phèdre

WINTER WONDERMENT

On February 19th at Alix Goolden Performance Hall, the Garden City Electronic Music Society and Open Space Gallery present an evening showcase of ambient electronic, electro-acoustic music and media art exploring creativity and innovation at the intersections of art and technology.

George Rahi (Sound Sculpture)

George Rahi Vancouver BC / Philadelphia PA George Rahi is a composer and sound artist based in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish territories. He uses self-created and altered instruments as a method of exploring the intersections between acoustic and digital technologies, modes of listening, and spatial and architectural thinking. His work includes installations, instrument making, compositions… Continue reading George Rahi (Sound Sculpture)