Auditory Borderlands – sounding The Dusk Meridian

In collaboration with Vancouver New Music, the Vancouver Art Gallery co-presents Auditory Borderlands – sounding The Dusk Meridian. We invite the public to gather safely outdoors at Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite for this special event.

Taking the sculptural and lighting elements of Keith Langergraber’s installation The Dusk Meridian as a polydimensional score, an ensemble of Vancouver-based musicians will create an ambient musical reading of the piece. The musicians will be arranged within the plaza to create an immersive spatial experience and audience members will be encouraged to move through the space to create their own uniquely shifting aural and visual perspectives.

Performed by Matthew Ariaratnam, Adrian Avandaño, Ross Birdwise, Soressa Gardner and prOphecy sun.

In the event of rain, the performance will take place on the following Thursday, May 5, 2022.

Offsite is located at 1100 West Georgia Street, between Thurlow and Bute Streets, just west of the Shangri–La Hotel. Directions »

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Matthew Ariaratnam is an interdisciplinary sound artist, composer, guitarist, and listener based on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations – also known as Vancouver, BC. He creates sensory walks, writes dumbpop and chamber music, and frequently collaborates with choreographers, visual artists, and theatre-makers.

Recent projects and commissions include: kiitos, äiti (Thin Edge New Music Collective), The View From Here (Jillian Peever/Sasha Ivanochko) Plastic Me (Naishi Wang), Body Tuning (Vines Art Festival), Creative Music Series 10 (NOW Society), Take Good Care (as dumbpop), Isolation Commission (Little Chamber Music Society), Altar :=: Source (Music on Main), and How long will these sounds sound? (Artist-in-Residence, North Vancouver Recreation and Culture). He has an MFA from Simon Fraser University and a BMus in Music Composition from Wilfrid Laurier University. matthewariaratnam.wordpress.com

Adrian Avendaño is an emerging sound artist, musician and recordist based in Surrey / Vancouver, Canada [unceded First Nation territories]. Recent projects include Parallel 03 with experimental music duo ENDLINGS (Raven Chacon and John Dietriech of Deerhoof) alongside musicians of the Vancouver creative music community. He was the recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts: Digital Originals funding initiative working with Chilean sound artists Tebo Henriquez and Bastian Diaz. Port Parallels – Acoustic Meridians was a remote collaboration exploring open-source hardware and software to develop methods of interpreting graphic and animated scores. He was a performer and composer for John Brennan’s Rudiments for Hexadrome performance and installation project for the 2021 Vancouver International Jazz Festival. He currently plays with Gamelan Bike Bike and will be studying traditional Korean drumming with Dr. Peter Joon Park. avendanosounds.wordpress.com

Ross Birdwise is a Vancouver-based musician and occasional visual artist. Much of his recent electronic music in various idioms is concerned with the deliberate manipulation of the listener’s sense of time and space and is concerned with disrupting, loosening or expanding the grid that underlies much electronic music to attempt to create musical space-times that can range from fluid, lurching, layered, grooving, malfunctioning, hypnotic, awkward, aggressive, soft, rigid or organic. As an improviser he has been using his voice and electronics to do explorations into non-idiomatic improvisation, structured improvisation, and lo-fi approaches to spatialized sound.

Ross has played music festivals such as Mutek (Montreal), Soundasaurus (Calgary), Electric Fields (Ottawa), Vancouver New Music and has presented visual art at centres such as VIVO Media Arts (Vancouver) and Gallery 101 (Ottawa). He holds an MAA in Media Arts from Emily Carr, and a BFA from Ottawa University. rossbirdwise.bandcamp.com / birdwise.tumblr.com/media

Soressa Gardner is vocalist, laptop composer/improvisor, and sometimes songwriter. Her keen sense of mood, colour, humour and gravitas are expressed through extended vocals enhanced by electronic manipulations and sound-worlds carefully crafted from a variety of audio processing techniques. Soressa’s recent live performances include Victoria’s Neuztec Festival (2021) Wonderment Festival (2020), Vancouver New Music Festival: Resonances (2019, The Annex) and CoexistDance: Western Edition #2 (2019, ScotiaDance Centre). Her electronic compositions have garnered international recognition and airplay. A  Vancouverite by birth, Soressa holds a music degree from Vancouver Community College and currently resides in Victoria, BC, Canada. soressa.com / soressa.bandcamp.com

prOphecy sun (Ph.D.) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, queer, movement, video, sound maker, and mother. Her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the in-between in which art, performance, and life overlap. Her recent research has focused on ecofeminist perspectives, co-composing with voice, objects, surveillance technologies, and site-specific engagements along the Columbia Basin region and beyond. She hosts Tapes and Beyond on Kootenay Co-op Radio and is the Arts Editor for Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. She performs and exhibits regularly in local, national, and international settings, music festivals, conferences, and galleries and has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications on sound, performance, and the entanglement of domestic spheres. prophecysun.com / soundcloud.com/prophecy-sun

ABOUT VANCOUVER NEW MUSIC

Vancouver New Music is dedicated to exploring and contextualizing new music and sonic art, through concert presentations, festivals, community, and workshop events. newmusic.org