very nice to have the remix of tsimka's owl in this short film piece. also because the collab album is past the half way point of completion. stay tuned!
courtyard series and tsimka collab announce
"one of a current musical collaborations i have going on right now, which i feel so good and whole about, rich with depth and learnings and new/next/needed energy.
tsimka and i started with a simple remix in 2020. and now were past the halfway mark of working on a full release together (somewhere between a long EP and a shorter album). full of natural sounds and words and energy of the west coast.
friday aug 12th will be our first time performing together and first time revealing the sounds we’re been working on. there will be an opening solo set from me (contemplative soundscapes and quiet rhythms), then an intermission, then the two of us together. early evening sit down show, in the little outdoor courtyard of the fire hall arts centre (follow link for tix and more info). 🌻"
SUMMER FESTIVALS 2022
“thankful for the festivals that had me this year and everyone who came out. a few more dates to come and some recordings of certain sets to be released as well. big thanks AQUA LUCIDITY (sunshine coast), BASS COAST (merrit), SHAMBHALA (salmo), WONDERMENT (victoria), HARVEST (northern ontario).
Gateway
Souns on 'Calliope' Compilation
joining the likes of loscil and mount maxwell, a souns track joins the ranks of a compilation on hotham sound for a very worthy cause..
support & listen here: hothamsoundrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/calliope
MAAMAWI
the work has been forming since fall 2021, the process has been rich, and MAAMAWI will be premiering it's first iteration soon. the score will likely yield another release of a body work in album or EP form.
full details of the exciting dance + VR + music + animated illustration + design project here
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Maamawi: Together Through The Fire
O.Dela Arts is thrilled to announce our partnership with Pepper’s Ghost Collective on the creation of Maamawi: Together Through The Fire, a new dance creation in development through 2022-2023. Set 200 years into the future, we are invited to experience the possibility of what could happen if humankind awakened from the aftermath of many great tragedies with renewed reverence for the traditional teachings and remembered the ones who set in motion the technology to witness the world from the heart's perspective.
Dance artists Sophie Dow and Daisy Thompson started choreographic development with co-creators Olivia C. Davies and Athomas Goldberg's VR team in the Shocap Studio this April. The creative team also includes Canadian composer Michael Red, Coast Salish Sto:lo artist Raven John and Anishinaabe artist, Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley along with Anishinaabe mentor Gloria May Eshkibok. We will be sharing a 30min excerpt of our live performance and VR experience this summer in Vancouver and Calgary.
illustration credit is from Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley (part of the core team).
“it's a gift and an honour to be involved in this ambitious and ground-shifting project. my part of the contributions for the work-in-progress being shown is roughly 45 minutes of original audio. a few already released tracks, a pile of unreleased content, and a pile of content made exclusively for this project. all woven together and mixed to integrate and raise up and illuminate and enhance all the other elements.”
Discovery Dub
Mount Dilaudid DUBS
Mount Dilaudid
first release of 2022 is Mount Dilaudid. co-produced, co-written and mixed for Mahmood Schricker (with the exception of the last track). Mahmood's vision was the music of Iran (an homage to prominent figures Parisa, Delkash and Zolfonoon) meets the dub side of dub techno. mastered by Scape Mastering.
BANDCAMP / SOUNDCLOUD / YOUTUBE / APPLE / SPOTIFY
We Beat a Different Drum
souns track 'second story' leads the latest compilation from subtempo records, celebrating 5 years for the label. typeface designed by morgane vantorre and all proceeds go to grey area.
New New Mixs and New Older Mixs on Soundcloud
after many months of filtering through the srchives - a good couple handful of older mixs from various eras have been posted to the soundcloud. some are re-posts that were missing for a few years after a somewhat accidental soundcloud purge, and some are never=heard-before mixs from the vaults.
this was in partial preperation for some brand new mixs to be shared. one of which has already gone up: true self mix
Crystal Creek 2021
sunday october 10 on a newly minted twitch channel low indigo presents : CC2021 online edition
with dj sets from: CARO , MICHAEL RED , RHOMBI , DONNA DADA
opening prayers from KERRI PRAYINGWARRIOR
image design by BRACKEN HANUSE CORLETT
in bracken's words: "whenever I use hands I think of the creative and healing qualities they can have in our day to day…whether they are used in making music, gathering, or used expressively. In many of our dances hands are a key physical tool to tell the story or show transformation."
FULL VIDEO STREAM ARCHIVE CAN BE VIEWED HERE
artists getting paid for this stream, multiple folks getting paid for cultural consultation over the past 2 years, and a lot of admin and other necessities for CRYSTAL CREEK FESTIVAL all have benn generously supported by Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia this year. #creativebc #amplifybc
A LITTLE NOD TO THE FUTURE that a lot more context and story around CRYSTAL CREEK and also around LOW INDIGO as a presenter will be be revealled. and there is great excitement about getting a lot of those details out into the open
7 tracks in 'an untold history' (knowledge network)
more music on screen. 7 tracks appearing in the important and impactful tv series ‘British Columbia: An Untold History’ on The Knowledge Network. totally free to watch with a (free, no strings attached) knowledge network membership.
every minute counts across all episodes, much deserving of several re-watches to better integrate and better understand BC's history and how & why things are playing out today and into the future. some of it is not an easy watch, helping emphesize it's importance.
produced by leena minifie, composer: cris derksen, sound designer & music supervisor: velcrow ripper. other music from loscil and ruby singh
Thomas Nugent x Souns
Thomas Nugent's visuals paired with Souns 'Untouched' for Alliance Française
Tim Rolls x Souns Collab
Tim Rolls x Souns NFT Collab surfacing
Memory ./03 (acquired by Scott Belsky)
statement and dialog about the process here
new LA FE EP on XPQ?
the well recieved brand new 12 inch from the LA FE project with Daniel Rincon, on berlin-based xpq? records. previews can be heard on soundcloud
track premiere and some words from if-only-uk here
boomkat write-up and record available here
bandcamp link here / rubadub here / other digital retailers also carry.
Souns live @ VMF
Souns live @ Vancouver Mural Festival. Big Thanks to Public Disco, who did an incredible job at putting this together (deep in the pandemic). WKNDRS did the live painting. To jump straight to when the Souns set starts at 28:38 - click here
3 new souns albums
3 releases of some older ambient works, to share some life, fall into and drift with .. and to also clear the pallet and make room for new works. newly made available in the fall of 2020, with the work itself spanning the last decade and half.
Hwuy’xwet Pune’luxutth (Opening Penelakut)
watch the full film now on youtube. many thanks to jason mannings and the people of penelakut island and all others who contributed to this project. a GOFUNDME for future trailbuilding is also up and running now.
more music for film & screen
Things have been more publicly quiet, compared to recent years, as more behind-the-scenes work of composing for screen has been developing and getting more prioritized focus.
So far in 2020: music for a Patagonia commercial has been completed, 10 pieces for Destination BC (videos and commercials) have been created, music in The New Coorporation, and a small handful of songs have been confirmed for a numbered of yet-to-be announced short and feature length films, and relationships with high-calibre budding and establised filmmakers continue to be cultivated.
Watch a playlist of music-for-screen projects that exist of youtube here.