The Artists

The agaperaygunexperiment is the art against the frontlines. We are the pulse of traffic blooming into the sounds of the heart.

We are the art of the unexcited. The mundane transformers of nonsenses into the surround sounds of poetry.Get used to breathing.

We are a performance collective that uses the disciplines of dance, performance, art, poetry and music to transcend and redefine art forms.

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John Armstrong is an artist producer working mostly in music and new media. Whether he's laying down bass with the Stone Merchants, manipulating Theremin and electronica with LEO.fx or staging guerrilla-style, community folk festivals, John is all about musical interactivity. In recent years, many of his projects have also utilized film, video and computer media.

Since established Brass Monkey Productions in 1991, John has produced numerous independent recordings and live events.

John has played with SMAC (Stone Merchants Ancestors Collective), LEO .fx. The Stone Merchants, The Ancestors, Wendy McNeill & fiends, Tapestry, Naked Ape, Preston Williams' Revolover / Drunken Boat, The Eclectics, and The Al Brant Band

John is a member of SOCAN, ARIA, ATAA and board member at large with the Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS).

John Armstrong

Ian has presented solo works and collaborations across Canada, Europe, and Australia. His current practise is focused on collaborative work with Laura Kavanaugh. Together they are engaged in a series of location-specific projects called Instant Places that explore hybrids of physical action and digital process.

Instant Places
Project Archives

The Condoleezza Rice Paddies is an Edmonton-based electroacoustic collective with a rotating membership, led by experimentalist Gene Kosowan, whose background includes solo performances as flEm and as a member of groups like Lurch, The Pillaging Mouth, and She-Devils on Wheels. The Condoleezza Rice Paddies debuted in 2004 at The Works Art and Design Festival with Kosowan on keyboards, Bill Damur on guitar and Will Truchon on amplitude modulation (basically playing a radio and shifting frequencies throughout the performance). The 2005 version of the collective has Kosowan on prepared guitar with Georges Giguere (Small Town Apathy, Jongleur) on bowed electric bass.

Wayne grew up in a house where the repertoire of the Royal Conservatory of Music was prescribed to many students, including himself, by his piano teaching mother. Perhaps the experience of having beautiful classical music relegated to Grade levels and repeated endlessly on the Kawai drove him to experiments involving sound palettes and musical structures that were definitely not normal, by that standard at least. Over the years these have led to shockingly wonderful workshops with Steve Heimbecker and Ken Gregory in Winnipeg, as well as to local collaborations that have taught him so much, with Ian Birse, Dan Schnee, Jay Lind, David Aide, Lane Arndt, and so on. Having a couple of kids has also piqued his interest in the sounds of story-telling, through reading hagiographies as well as fairytales, especially those featuring lying gnomes.

Wayne DeFehr

Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist living in Montreal. For the past six years she has predominantly created self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. From the childhood fiction of "the little people in the radio" to documentary remixes of live political events, she creates dynamic, atmospheric works equally able to reflect upon public media culture or to reveal interior landscapes.

Anna has presented installation and performance works across Canada and in international media art contexts such as the Third Coast Audio Festival, Chicago; Digitales, Brussels; Club Transmediale, Berlin; Ars Electronica, Linz; and the Fifth International Biennial of Radio, Mexico City. She has produced numerous original radio works for independent radio across Canada and the U.S., and for public radio in Canada, Austria, Denmark and Mexico.

www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/frizbio.html

Anna Friz

He began his musical life as a trumpeter in Winnipeg, MB, playing with anyone who would let him. Experiences ranged from jazz to rock and classical to hiphop. In 1995, after having completed a Bachelor degree in music at Brandon University, he abandoned performance and turned to composition. He completed a Master's degree in Composition at the University of Alberta where he studied with Laurie Radford, Malcolm Forsyth and Howard Bashaw. He is presently working toward completing a Doctoral degree in Composition at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Keith Hamel. He is a board member of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) and a founding member of the eMC - Experimental Music Collective (www.sonicseaweed.ca). His musical output is divided evenly between works of electronic media and that for acoustic instruments with a focus on integrating the two. Works of his can be heard on the CEC compact discs Cache 2000 and Discontact III and on the Boreal Music Society (BEAMS) compact disc Unsound as well as on the Sonus.ca website. He lives in Edmonton, AB.

Sound Sample

Familiar Monsters (3 views to a Secret)

Living and working in Montreal, QC, Canadian artist Steve Heimbecker studied fine art at The Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. Spanning 2 decades Heimbecker has presented his audio art and new media installations, performances, and multi channel sound diffusion compositions at such events as Media Blitz II, Calgary / Feedback and Forth, Zurich / Sound Symposium 7, St. John's / The Intermedia Arts Festival, Edmonton / The Works Festival, Edmonton / Send + Receive, Winnipeg / Silophone, Montréal / Mois Multi, Québec City / Subtle Technologies, Toronto / les Islomanes, Iles de la Madeleine, and such galleries as The C.C.M.C. Music Gallery / The Glenbow Museum / The Illingworth Kerr Gallery / The Edmonton Art Gallery / The Mackenzie Art Gallery / Emmedia / Avatar / Vidéographe / Western Front / InterAccess / and OBORO. In Europe, most recently he exhibited at the Kiasma Museum of Contempory Art, Helsinki Finland, for the ISEA 2004 Wireless Exhibition, and performed at ORF Kunstradio for Re-Inventing Radio - Die Lange Nacht der Radiokunst 04, Vienna, Austria. In 2005, Heimbecker's installation POD, won an Honorable Mention in Interactive Media at the Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. His work has been supported by arts grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Conseil des arts et des lettres Québec, Fondation Daniel Langlois, and The Canada Council for the Arts.

Steve Heimbecker

Gary James Joynes is a dedicated musician, sound designer, and visual artist.

He is fascinated by the sources of electronic composition and draws ideas from everyday soundscapes; objects and mechanisms stimulate his process. His compositions explore serene and meditative spaces through the power of sound and ambience.

Clinker's audio explores a hybrid of digital and analog sound textures and micro-detailed mixing. The sounds are created using a combination of digital modular and analog synthesis programming and modern sampling technology.

Recent works include a video to accompany "Teilmenge 24" an audio piece by renowned German audio artist Asmus Teitchens for curator TJ Norris' "TRIBRYD UN:MIX" compilation which will tour Europe as an installation in 2005. Clinker's forthcoming full length CD entitled "Unloading 550 volts" will be released on the Cognition Audioworks label in 2005.

Recent performances and invitations include the MUTEK Le PLACARD FESTIVAL in June 2005 (Montreal), a Live Cinema Audiovisual Performance at the New Forms Festival 2004 (Vancouver) and a collaboration with Montreal AV artists Nomig. The last few years have seen Clinker's work performed and exhibited in Canada and abroad in festivals including STANDART 2003 (Madrid, Spain), the New Forms Festival 2003 (Vancouver). In May 2003 Clinker made his premiere outside his native Alberta at the prestigious MUTEK FESTIVAL in Montreal.

Clinker

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Sulo Kallas is a 35-year old computer and electronics enthusiast who sells his services in the field of IT support. During his free time, he takes part in various art projects together with his artist friends, often helping them realize their creative visions. His various hobbies include photography, and designing and building of audio electronics.

Sulo Kallas

Ivika Kivi is an Estonian multimedia interdisciplinary artist. She has a BA in Product Design and a MA in interactive multimedia from the Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA). Currently, she is a lecturer of theoretical and practical courses on new media subjects and head of the MA study department in interactive multimedia. She is a member of: "Sheer Joy" Sing and Play Society for Female Artists in Estonia, whose main activities are video-art, performance-art, and web-art (kliinfann.artun.ee); and of the artist group "ID" (olematu.agentuur.ee/ID). ID's socially critical interactive installation "idCommunication" was presented during the International Symposium of Electronic Art in August 2004.

Ivika Kivi

Jay Lind lives in Edmonton. It is hard to say anything about him because he says that anything you say will just sound like an attempt at sounding important. This doesn't matter anyway since what he says you could read about him is pretty pretentious. He plays guitar and likes the romanticism of "The West"; neither of which you'll hear about during his performance on June 26.

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Mark Nerenberg was born in 1973 in Edmonton. He graduated in 1997 from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Music. Mark studied piano with Richard Troeger, Helmut Brauss, and Haley Simons; he studied composition with Howard Bashaw and Malcolm Forsyth. He is currently working on a Master of Music in Composition, studying with Laurie Radford and Paul Steenhuisen.

Since 1984, Shawn Pinchbeck has been active in Edmonton and abroad as an electroacoustic composer, sound artist, performer, installation artist, teacher, curator, sound engineer, and consultant. At first a self-taught composer, Shawn acquired a Master of Music degree in electroacoustic composition from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2004 where he studied with Jonty Harrison and Eric Oña. Since 2001, Shawn is a lecturer of sound art courses and thesis advisor on topics to do with sound, sensors and interactivity for Masters of Multimedia students at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Shawn Pinchbeck

Composer Laurie Radford creates music for diverse combinations of instruments and voices, electroacoustic music, and for performers in interaction with live computer-controlled signal processing of audio and video. His work has been performed and broadcast throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia. He is currently Senior Lecturer of electroacoustic music and composition at City University, London (UK).

Laurie Radford

Clarinetist Don Ross is the leader of Saint Crispin's Chamber Ensemble. Since 1994 the group has been broadcast frequently on CBC radio and has recordings on the Clef Records, Arktos and Eklectra labels. Don also appears regularly as a soloist and orchestra player, most recently with the Edmonton and Prince George Symphonies, the Calgary Opera and the Citadel Theatre Orchestra. He is at the forefront of the Edmonton new music scene and is a frequent collaborator with the Edmonton Composers' Concert Society as well as an enthusiastic BEAMS artist. He was recently named an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre.

Don teaches at Alberta College Conservatory and The King's University College and he is much in demand as a clinician, adjudicator, conductor and composer. He holds music degrees from the Universities of Alberta and Toronto, as well as a Master's from Northwestern University in Chicago.

Don Ross

Sound Samples

My Dad's Story (Excerpt)

Tabla Rasa (Excerpt)