thanks KAMP and BASS COAST

had a stellar time in the BC interior that last couple weeks.

KAMP was a really sweet time. i would totally recommend. really enjoyed soaking up the "kamp" vibes and making a few new friends. did a sound journey workshop which i thought went particularly well, and might make a point to do more of, and had fun with the mainstage set on saturday night. go team blue

BASS COAST is pretty much a local legend and now a garunteed sell-out each year. so solid. through and through. didn't catch a set i wasn't feeling. it was gift to deliver an umcompromising live set on the closing night. very thankful to be part of that fam. long live bass coast.

cheers

souns @ pretty good not bad

wanted to take the time to thank the team from the first annual pretty good not bad festival in victoria, bc.

great performances from laurel halo, loscil, sean evans, chris dammeyar, compzit, magnetic ring, emp interactions, liquid transmitter, and the local dancers and drummers who opened the ambient picnic. it was especially a treat to live collab with loscil. had a good time during my souns set as well.

thanks all

chambers - sigma flare ll

sigma flare ll is out now on debacle records.

resident advisor announced it, tiny mix tapes did a premiere, ransom note had a first listen, and beatroute did an interview piece on it.

many thanks to all involved :)

music on boomkat

..always was a personal goal to get my music up on boomkat. they don't accept just anything. so pleased that i have a small handful of pieces up on there now. here's to many more.

..and thanks for stopping by the website, by the way. if you're reading this - cheers!

mysteries of the deep

a recording of one of my dj sets for vancouver symphony orchestra's new music festival made it to the mysteries of the deep podcast under the chambers umbrella. naturally, given the context, it features all ambient, solo piano, and neo-classical music. thanks to debacle and all else involved.

Mysteries Of The Deep Podcast, Chapter LIII by Chambers. Cover photo courtesy of Candace Price. Recorded at The Orpheum in Vancouver, B.C., 2016. Selected and Mixed by Michael Red. Tracklist: 1. Tarentel - Ghosty Head 2. Unknown - The Planets 3. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Hibari 4. Marcus Goddard - Wind, Sand and Stars - IV (Vetta Chamber Music) 5. Julien Neto - Sketch 6. Deaf Center - Lamp Mien 7. Nils Frahm - Re (Modiac Rework) 8. Greg Davis - Cumulus 9. Thomas Newman - Standing Man 10. Arvo Part - Spiegal im spiegal 11. Kenji Kawai - Ghostdive 12. Johann Johannsson - Melancholia 13. Stanislav Vdovin - Vague Memories 14. Goldmund - Procreant 15. Marsen Jules Trio - Eclipse http://debaclerecords.com

9 of cats videos

a belated announce about the moving abstract videos giorgio magnanensi created for the 9 of cats release this past march. was an effortless pleasure to get together with giorgio on this. thank you

chambers 'satellites' on beacon sound

full length cassette of edited live recordings from two intimate performances in vancouver in 2015. one at the emerald and one at the rio theatre (hence the track titles). very pleased to making the link with beacon sound on this - it's an incredible label that hosts a lot of great music. grab the digital/physical at bandcamp or the label website direct.

this is the second official release for chambers, with a third release soon hot on it's heels later this month on debacle.

souns live performance @ Nomadic Streams

video is up from last years festival. thanks so much to everyone involved. it was such a great weekend.

interview + show with ADSR

sat down with vancouver's ADSR for chat before my show with them on saturday. very much looking foward. excited to make the link. event link here

dipped 011

just released 2 tracks with dipped recordings:

• UPRIGHT EARTH
• XS feat sinerise

check the preview clips here, check the video below, and grab the music here: boomkat, juno, beatport.

..apparently it made it to the dub charts for a bit on juno. cheers!

unlog complex #07

408 (a track i made when "wonky" was first being thrown around as a genre name) just came out on unlog complex #07. the whole compilation is worth checking out. happy to have made the connect with this team.

next EP announced for low indigo

9 OF CATS EP
coming APRIL 8 on all channels (bandcamp, itunes, juno, beatport, spotify, etc)
including videos for each song by giorgio magnanensi

tracklisting:
1 - why
2 - gwey from
3 - slow motion
4 - sirens

here's a piece of the write-up:

'gwey from' is an expression on the current state of earth. it views the more destructive side, earthquakes, large scale catastrophe, violence and suffering, .....and the massive aching beauty of it all. a world dying, swirling and collapsing into itself, while a world is re-born. the sound of evolution in progress and an even larger hope. gwey is "go away" in patois. so the literal translation "go away from" is an example of the basic ignorance that brought this current world to it's destructive end, but also an example of transcendence beyond literal language and feeling the correct meaning (new ways in a new world).

unlog complex 7

dropping this mid march - montreal based unlog drops it's 7th compilation. 28 songs deep, from around the globe, and my tune '408' is one there. keep a look out.

thanks to vso new music festival

HUGE thanks to vancouver symphony orchestra for having me this past weekend at their new music festival at the orpheum theatre. was a pleasure on so many levels. loved checking out so much work by local and canadian composers, many of who were in attendence. and having my dj work so well recieved that the symphony's conductor called me "quiet tasteful actually" on stage and some of the composers and players giving me compliments .. well, let's just say that carries a different type of weight than someone flashing their lighter at a rave (which, or course, is great too!). ..might be a mix or two that results from the affair as well. cheers! and til next time!

appearing at VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's New Music Festival

Very pleased to announce that i will be DJ'ing in the lounge at the Orpheum Theatre to close out each night of next week's New Music Festival. Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, Standing Wave, Rachel Iwaasa, and others will all be performing. New works from Jocelyn Morlock and more.

I did this last year and totally recommend. Take in the main concert, then have a drink after with me blending sounds/themes from the festival with modern electronic sounds.

Special deal for those that check the site: use the promo code "VSODJRED" to purchase half-priced tickets off the website.

event link here

Maybe see you there!

next low indigo release

okpk's ep is dropping in a matter of days. a lot of folks who hands on the pre release are buzzing about it.

winnie cooper just premiered the video, exclaim did a nice little piece on it as well, undone gave it some love, and a few radio stations are doing some featured interviews on it. check the cjsw bit here while the stream lasts (next up are victoria and montreal based campus radio stations) .

cats only club to celebrate this friday at the rattle. always a good time.

available on bandcamp, itunes, juno, beatport and all other major retailers.

..as we continue

discorder feature

thanks to discorder for the feature they printed in this month's issue. some interesting intreview questions that got me thinking. first one off that bat was something like, "how do you define sound art"? ..very nice.

download the whole issue here or check the piece directly below.

oh and cheers for letting my latest souns release onto your charts!

blind prophet collab

managed to catch some studio time with blind prophet while he was in vancouver, and we turned out a heavy 130bpm number we're both pretty pleased with. coming soon to a dancefloor near you..

low indigo news..

momemtums and navigations have started to level out a bit for low indigo as a label now. started with the bandcamp, then moved up to some proper distro which promptly folded just a few months in, then the following re-calibration, new distro, now smoothing out and approaching glide mode there. quite soon, if not already, all low indigo releases should be available on all the major retailers like itunes, juno, beatport, etc. ..and remain on bandcamp as well.

future release schedules, mists taking shape:

in less then a month we'll have okpk's latest 'hollow' ep out, paired with video curtosy of laine butler. cats only club / ep release party for that'll be friday feb 12 at a familiar location (stay tuned).

in march will be a 4 song EP from me, '9 of cats'. long time vancouver experimental music community shaper giorgio magnanensi has created four outstanding videos for that. one is in 3D even.

and in spring, slope is putting the final touches on his debut EP for the label, with long time collabortaor corinthian on deck for the video.

preperations are being made for a compilation slotted for late spring. some familiar names to label already, and some new ones. stay tuned!

..and lastly, as a nice cherry-on-top to the new year and fresh energies that come with - just caught wind of the lovely label spotlight piece FREQ printed in september. some months later, but the timing is actually perfect. thanks FREQ!

january souns

starting to get anchored in the new year here. clouds beginning to clear. a few souns projects coming up in the near..

JAN 24 (afternoon) : a collab and bit of an experiment with Danielle Hoogenboom. ambient soundscapes paired with yin yoga at Fortune Sound Club.

JAN 24 (evening) : premiering a ambient video my friend Joe Cobden and i put together, happening at EYE OF THE STORM A/V CLUB.

and steady working on more souns releases. a remix for the brand new Subtempo Records, and other soon-to-be unannounced video and musical releases.

xx