Since the advent of the radio transmitter, human beings have been unintentionally broadcasting a record of their existence into space. Gambletron has toured internationally and participated in various festivals and residencies around the world.Ĥ/ Tunguska By Christopher Stanton (with Darsha Hewitt, Hank Bull and Erin Gee) View details Close details They are known for their noise-electronic improvisation, multi-tonal “AM Radio Theremin”, roving transmitted “Field Trips”, “Noise Karaoke.” and performance based media collaborations with artist Johnny Forever Nawracaj.
Gambletron is a Queer, non-binary, interdisciplinary sound/ performance artist and musician based out of Montréal. This recording is an excerpt of the performance from February 2016 at Trinity Square Video, Toronto. This performance was transmitted live using a short-range transmitter and was accompanied by a video created by Johnny Forever Nawracaj. Gambletron interacted with the instrument by adding electronics, musical saw and their voice into the ever-morphing, interactive, massive, polyphonic chord produced by the radios. Gambletron’s multi-tonal AM RadioTheremin was created, tuned and played with during this live performance using many radios and boomboxes. Zev Asher had also produced several documentaries that covered as subjects artists from the newly-formed country of Croatia, the Nihilist Spasm Band, and the artist Jesse Powers’ killing of a cat in an artwork, as well as the incomplete documentary Zev Asher:GVH.Ģ/ B – Radio – Voyage To The Forbidden Planet by NRRF View details Close details Both Nimrod and Roughage appeared on a number of recordings released on labels in Canada, the U.S., Japan, France, Croatia, and Russia. He performed extensively in North America, Europe, and Japan with the duo Nimrod (with Tim Olive) and his improvisational project, Roughage. Zev Asher (1963-2013) was a Montreal-born filmmaker and musician.
and a lone laptop jockey coaxes out a series of androgynous landscapes.” – Zev Asher An announcer babbles incoherently in Yiddish. The curator lounges on a red sofa, and silently extols the virtues of several items in his collection. “A slow-burning visual and aural tapestry takes you inside an imaginary museum of transistor radios. Besides crooning about vultures and barbershop stabbings, she scores music for film and television and sings backup vocals in her home studio.Ĭareer highlights include receiving a JUNO Award with her folk band, featured theremin performances with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, most notably for a premiere of Bjork’s composition, Family For Strings, and contributing music for films including Academy Award nominated Frozen River by Courtney Hunt, Only Dream Things by Guy Maddin, and Shelagh Carter’s feature film, Before Anything You Say. With her alt-folk group “Leaf Rapids” and previous band “Nathan” she has toured internationally for 15 years. She has therefore been exploring the Virtual Buchla Easel and playing the theremin more, which seems to be the perfect voice for her, and requires no words to convey what she would like to express.
Keri Latimer is primarily a singer/songwriter based in Winnipeg, but it has been difficult to find inspiration to write lyrics and sing throughout the pandemic. The soundscape is a digital exploration of imagined moth transmissions and the haunting sounds of disappearing habitats. One is being displaced by human activity and the other is plentiful but considered a pest. This work was originally created for a nature dance piece which explores the Underwing Moth (found all over North America inner mainland) and the Sand Verbana Moth (an endangered species found on Vancouver Island).