Out like a lamb: Sarah Peebles, Michael Lynn, and more
An afternoon of experimental and improvised music with friends!
From Toronto, Sarah Peebles & Rob Cruickshank!
From Kingston, Michael Lynn, Kahraba (Michael Boulos), TYΦA, and James Mulvale!
This is event is FREE.
*Sarah Peebles* is a Toronto-based composer, improviser and installation artist. Much of her work over the past three decades has explored unconventional methods of amplification, manipulated found sound, and distinctive approaches to improvising and composing with the Japanese mouth-organ, shō (笙). Her umbrella of projects, “Resonating Bodies” addresses native bees, ecology and biodiversity, and includes habitat installations, gallery exhibits and online works. Peebles’ activities over the past 4 decades have encompassed collaborations with musicians, visual artists, data visualizers and scientists; music for dance, multi-channel sound, radio, video/film, performance art, integrated media, sound installation, earth works, and improvised performance. Recordings & details: https://sarahpeebles.net
*Rob Cruickshank* is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist. His work in various media including electronic, kinetic, and robotic installations, sound art, electroacoustic music, and photography have been exhibited in Toronto, and internationally. He performs electronic improvisation, often with self-built devices, both as a solo performer and in group settings.
*Michael Lynn* is a free improvising upright bass player. They have actively been involved in the creative music scene in Toronto for the past 16yrs, running the monthly improvising music series “Audiopollination” for 13yrs. They have had album releases as part of the “Coin Operated Duo”, “The Doomsday Glitter Posse” and “The Side Eye”. Currently they are residing in Kingston and the bassist for the normcore Toronto band “Output 1:1:1”.
Under the *Kahraba* moniker (meaning “electricity” in Arabic) *Michael Boulos* focuses on using the mixing board itself as an instrument. Feedback loops, effects, gain and clipping come together in a performance that ebbs, hums, shrieks, pulses, and blares.
*James Mulvale* is an experimental microtonal composer from the UK, who’s been settled in Kingston for nearly a decade. He explores new harmonic modulations not found in conventional western recordings. Expect some room twisting weirdness so don’t forget your vertigo pills!
All sounds produced by the duo *TYΦA* are created with handmade cattail cordage, plucked and bowed. Sonic Geographer *LJ Cameron* began experimenting with cattail fibres from nearby marshes of Ontario in 2023, and found they had tensile strength as musical strings, made audible with contact microphones. Working with longtime partner, sound artist *Matt Rogalsky*, the pair are performing as an improvisational duo with live electronic processing and responsive video, evoking a murky environment shot through with flashes of brilliance, like red-winged blackbirds seen through the marsh.
