new year. new mix. new sound. thanks to subtempo for the web piece and for hosting. (photo: syd woodward)
ANNUAL LIGHTA POST-NEW-YEARS
major thanks to SubCulture Saturdays for hosting the Annual LIGHTA Post-New-Years jam. SOLD OUT by midenight, piles of good vibes and smiles, and the best music all night. out to crew, rauiri lazers on sound, kyinskies on visuals, and red room.
full collab with SCRATCHA DVA now released
Short version released on Scatcha's latest album, last month. Now the full rinse-out version has dropped, as part of the The 12 Days of Bass Coast (2018 edition).
100% of proceeds will be donated to West Coast Environmental Law and the total proceeds will be matched by Bass Coast up to $5000.
vancouver symphony new music festival
Back again on DJ duties with the Vancouver Symphony's New Music Festival for the official after-event in the mezzanine of the beautiful ORPHEUM theatre. January 18 & 19.
HEALING SOUND project coming in 2019
slowly, carefully.. allowing this project to blossom when the wind and temperature is right. recordings are complete and things have moved into an editing, creation and contemplation stage. so far, yasmeen olya has contributed a truly moving selection of voice and harp towards the project. as it all unfolds. many thanks to the canada council for making this possible - commissioning a healing sound album with focus on sufi and persian influences.
subtempo news
pleased to report that the souns remix EP (featuring loscil, synkro and phaeleh) has finally come together and we are very close to setting a release date. subtempo also recently revamped their website and it looks great.
video for old growth forests in BC
happy to have been able to contribute the music for ramshackle productions latest video campiegn to raise awareness of endangered old growth in BC.
collab with scratcha DVA out now..
original score for Sammy Chien dance performance
happy to have provided some of the soundtrack to Sammy Chien's evolving 'w(e)aves' project, along with audio from the notable Barry Truax. so far, the work has been explored at centre A, 'pretty good not bad' festival, the vancouver art gallery, and lake studio in berlin.
some music work for Destination BC
first foray into this sort of thing. music for destination bc's ongoing ad campaign. 8 pieces have been released so far, with more rolling out over the year. many thanks to jason mannings for providing the link, shawn parkinson for being a great project lead, and for jenny lea and skeena reece for lending their incredible voices to the work.
'no seh' out on RED GATE double cassette comp
red gate makes no compromises in serving the true underground community and up-and-comers and weirdos in east vancouver. contributing a track to their wildly diverse double cassette compilation, to help raise funds for their continued efforts, was no question.
remix for mahmood schricker
mahmood schricker's latest album 'el muerte' is out now, featuring a michael red remix of 'shanaz' and a mix credit on the 'shanaz' original track and 'opa shahr'.
souns (re) [isla19]
(re) is now fully available on extra-warm cassette or digital download. just under 100 minutes of deep ambient and soundscape music. THANK YOU Isla.
basscoast 2018
100% vinyl old school jungle set. 3am friday night on the radio stage. llllllllighta!
2 hour live set to close the new ambient/lounge stage. 4am late sunday night. ~bless~
one of the most anticipated events every year. happy 10 year basscoast
new souns ..soon
the next souns release, (re), arrives june 23. limited edition cassette and digital.
just under 100 minutes of deep meditative ambient textures and tones and slow morphings. working with themes and methods of healing sound and sacred frequencies. almost the entire ‘lights’ album combined with half of the ‘scenarios for the real self’ album - all re-edited and refined and re-mastered, in some cases to such a degree that a lot of it sounds like brand new work. the title “(re)” is partially short for “(revisted)”.
it feels perfectly at home to release with ISLA for this one. daniel rincoin (label head / NAP) is a pleasure to work with. and the work was originally created all pre-ableton (a lot of it on hardware), all while firmed rooted and living in east van (12th & st. catherine, heatley & keefer) - very ISLA. (re) carries a size-able resonance (maybe it’s an east van thing) with the rest of ISLA’s body of work so far - perfectly below radar, perfectly free-spirited exploratory, and that comfy insular alone-while-together feel that comes with the weather/social climate this side of the world.
tracklisting:
side a: 1 red (re) 2 orange (re) 3 yellow (re) 4 green (re) 5 blue (re) 6 indigo (re) 7 violet (re) 8 rain (re)
side b: 1 white (re) 2 open tones (re) 3 frozen ocean1 (re) 4 frozen ocean3 (re) 5 frozen ocane2 (re) 6 frozen ocean4 (re)
very much looking forward to the release event at index gallery, which is actually a co-release with sean evans (who’s music i really believe in). it fits as well that deep sea mining syndicate be the imprint for sean’s album debut, who i also put an album out with and have plans for another release with in near future too. all is in sync.
music for dance
taking on three musical commissions for dance performance this year. one centered around a free public summer solstice event for the little chamber music series that could, one for a project called 'gateways' for olivia c. davies, and one for a mixed-media piece being created by sammy chien which also features music from barry truax.
souns on 16 wooden panels
live souns performance amongst some very good company, for west coast radians, put together by vancouver new music's giorgio magnanensi. read more about his wooden panels in cbc's article here.
'Aquamarine' reviewed in ELECTRONIC SOUND
Thanks to UK's Electronic Sound Magazine for the glowy review of Aquamarine. Cheers!
vancouver symphony new music festival 2018
pleased to be joining the VSO's New Music Festival again. live performing with pianist Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa and soprano Camille Hesketh, and dj'ing three of the post-concerts (past years dj sets here).