** this page is due for a edit. current active collaborations in 2023 include Oro Azul with Ultima Esuna, live shows and an album very close to completion with Tsimka, a jungle project with Donna Dada, LA FE (another release on ISLA incoming), Randy Raine-Reasch (full length album is already off to the pressing plant). stay tuned! ..semi recent collab with SCRATCHA DVA not yet properly listed as well. and a recent remix for SPRLUA came out a bit ago too.

LIVE REMIX/DUB

The majority of live collaborations focus on improvised remixing, or live "dubbing", of the performers being worked with. This is when the other performer’s live material (vocals, instruments, or other audio) are feed into a wide variety of special fx and manipulated in a spontaneous fashion, with over 100 play-able parameters. In some cases this treatment is the central, or even singular, element of the performance. Delays fed into other delays, filtered, re-pitched and sent to reverbs, distorted and then sent back to the initial delay, ..and so on.

Notable collaborations using this approach include: Tanya Tagaq, Shanbehzadeh, Loscil, Mei Han, Randy Raine-Reusch, Rachel Iwaasa, Kenton Loewen, Giorgio Magnanensi, Lee Hutzulak, Scant.Intone, Mahmood Schricker, Scorcerers.

TANYA TAGAQ

Though they don't work regularly anymore, Tanya has been Michael's longest running collaboration. Friends since the 90's in Halifax, they started musical work together around the year 2000 with the track 'Breather', which ended up on Tanya's first album 'Sinaa'. Since then they have performed around the world and canada together, alongside other collaborators like Jesse Zubot, Kenton Loewen, Cris Derksen and Kinnie Starr. Performances are largely improvised, with live manipulated vocal fx, over a wide range of moods and emotions. Michael also contributed sounds to Tanya's Juno and Polaris Prize winning album 'Animism', and has a credit on her latest "Retribution' album.

 
 

CHAMBERS

Chambers is a collaboration between Gabriel Saloman and Michael Red, who loosely describe the project as “experimental dub,” initially inspired by rhythm & sound. "Their tracks are gently driven by heaving rhythms and thundering basslines, sounds which subsist in a gaseous atmosphere somewhere in the hinterlands between ambient and straightforward dub music." - andrew ryce (resident advisor / pitchfork)

Since their debut performance opening for Shackleton in 2012 they have performed on bills including Kuedo, The Bug, Kangding Ray and Kode9. Live their sound creates a space of mood, resonance and energy, expansiveness and raw expression. Two vinyl releases on Debacle Records and a cassette for Beacon Sound have been released, with a remix double-cassette out in due time.

 
 

LA FE

Evolving collaboration between Daniel Rincon, aka NAP, and Michael Red. No Rules. Vinyl releases on ISLA and xpq?

Meandering between the back streets of nowhere there was little signposting which might act as a guide for escape. He had been trying for as long as he could remember to leave this town but it always found a way of pulling him back in when he least expected it. Out here in the midst of the woodand there was little but for the falling snow and the little huts which huddled together beneath dense green trees. This was his village, where he was born and where he would die. Only in snow it seemed he would live. La Fe is a collaboration between Daniel Rincon of Ambien Baby/ NAP and Michael Red of Souns. Together they have collaborated to produce an EP with dub leaning tendencies. Weirdo electronics and hazy soundscapes weave atop reggaeton percussion and the rumble of drums.


EARLY RAP STUFF

More of an outsider than a real part of any rap scene (but still informing his overall musical genetic make-up), Michael has made beats and recorded raps with various mc's, mostly in Halifax in the mid to late 90's. Evidence of this is strewn across several underground releases, working with the likes of Sixtoo, Kunga219, Tachichi, Knowself, Governor Bolts, Mcenroe, Donse, and Josh Martinez. Michael's also contributed beats, engineering and mixing to several rap & spoken word cd's for the youth-empowerment-through-the-arts group 'Power of Hope'.

S950 sampler + atari ST / raps recorded in halifax / music produced in east van around the year 2001


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