Keith Fullerton Whitman
Send+Receive @ Video Pool: Exhibit & Artist Talk
Send + Receive: A Festival of Sound and Video Pool team up once again to present a listening lounge exhibition in Poolside Gallery that kicks off during S+R’s 20th anniversary festival and runs through October, as well as a presentation by renowned composer, recording artist and performer Keith Fullerton Whitman: sendandreceive.org
Exhibition:Â An Alternate History of Canadian Electronic Music (1956-1981)
Opening Reception: Thursday October 4, 4:30-6pm
Dates: October 4 – November 3
Gallery Hours:Â W-Sat 12-5pm
An Alternate History of Canadian Electronic Music (1956-1981) presents works unearthed and curated by composer, recorder and performer Keith Fullerton Whitman. During the course of this three-hour program, the listener will be drawn into the deepest recesses of early electronic music in Canada, focusing on obscure and transgressive pieces found outside of the usual academic lanes, all from the nascent days where psychedelia, sound poetry, experimental film and emerging audio and video technologies were all being explored with equal aplomb. The work of composers and musicians such as Wayne Carr, Robert Bauer, Lloyd Burritt, and Marcelle Deschênes will be explored, along with seldom heard pieces by storied figures such as Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Rudolf Komorous, Ann Southam, Alain Clavier, Michel Longtin, and Norman McLaren.
Artist Presentation: Sub/conscious Decision-Making while Performing Live Electronic Music | Keith Fullerton Whitman (US/AU)
Date:Â October 7
Time:Â 2pm
Location: The Output – 2nd flr Artspace Bldg
Over the course of an hour-long presentation, Keith FullertonWhitman will discuss the challenges one must face when approaching electronic instrumentation in an orchestral manner. His “Redactions” and “Generators” setups will be on hand, and the choices made while designing and implementing their specific topologies over the course of a decade will be demonstrated. While a familiarity with experimental electronic music and analogue synthesizers will be helpful, the talk will center on a broader discussion about how and why to implement chance and improvisational concepts within rigid compositional frameworks, and how to delineate risk and humanistic performance tendencies to simple algorithmic systems.
Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer and performer living in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently performing geographically and thematically relevant live electronic music works under the “Redactions” banner, and he has recently done so for the GRM’s Immersion festival in Paris, Documenta 14 in Athens, MaerzMusik’s The Long Now in Berlin, and at the Don Buchla Memorial Concerts in San Francisco.