Temporal Contours v06
Tim Olive | Brendon Ehinger | Lindsay Dobbin
at THE OUTPUT 221-100 Arthur st | Doors 8:30 / Sound 9PM
Tim Olive
Tim Olive uses modified magnetic pickups, consumer detritus (springs, styrofoam, metal sheets, hand-wound motors, magnetic tape, dental floss) and analog electronics to make a lo-fi, difficult-to-categorize music, existing at the intersection of noise, live electronic music, and musique concrete, with sound-textures and scraps of pitched material evolving, shifting and mutating in real time, resulting in a music which is uncanny, uneasy, and yet somehow beautiful.
A Canadian residing in Kobe, Japan, Olive has released music on Japanese, European and North American labels, with Pascal Battus, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Doreen Girard, Nick Hoffman, Anne-F Jacques, Jin Sangtae, Jason Kahn, Takahiro Kawaguchi, Cal Lyall, Francisco Meirino, Elizabeth Millar, Katsura Mouri, Takuji Naka, Makoto Oshiro, Ben Owen, Craig Pedersen, Martin Tetreault, Yan Jun, and others.
Olive has performed/recorded in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America, with the recording collaborators listed above, as well as performances with others including Akiyama Tetuzi, Cristian Alvear, Maria Chavez, Che Chen, Crys Cole, Chris Dadge, Joe Foster, Haco, Hong Chulki, Bonnie Jones, Richard Kamerman, Kostis Kilymis, Madoka Kouno, Tomasz Krakowiak, Toshimaru Nakamura, Carl Stone, and Nate Wooley.
In addition to organizing events in Japan, Olive runs the label 845 Audio.
Brendon Ehinger
Brendon Ehinger is a Brandon, MB based multi-instrumentalist and sound artist. Having performed in a variety of Winnipeg music groups and genres since 1991, he has gradually moved away from conventional punk, rock, and pop music in favour of more experimental and progressive forms of music and sound art that employ elements of improvisation, unconventional instrumentation, and alternative compositional methods. Since 2016, his practice has evolved into a methodology of “blind sampling” and responsive sound manipulation that utilizes field recordings and live audio input along side Eurorack modular synthesis and audio effects. Ehinger, has performed solo and collaboratively in alternative spaces, galleries and venues in Canada and Europe including The Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Brandon, MB), Neutral Ground ARC (Regina, SK) and Warte Für Kunst (Kassel, Germany). Ehinger has performed and/or collaborated with Ernie Dulanowsky, Jeff Morton, Kelsey Braun, Poortree, Amber Christenson, Lisa Wood, and was commissioned by Tahltan artist Peter Morin to compose a sound piece as accompaniment to a performance of Experiments with Time Travel at the Kamloops Art Gallery in 2017.
Brendon Ehinger—who also performs electronic music as Moon Shape Noise—is Métis, a freelance graphic designer, a preparator at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, and founder of Prairie Wires Modular.
Lindsay Dobbin – acousmatic presentation of her work Drum Voices
Drum Voices is a sound piece that transports the drum to a place before time. By recording a single strike of a deer-hide hand drum and then using simple audio processing techniques, artist Lindsay Dobbin journeyed to the heart of a drum to find a hidden choir that speaks to our origins. Both terrestrial and alien sounding, the voices have been arranged to unfold as a mantra – an eternal song of slow and rhythmic chanting – creating an evocative surround sound environment for deep listening.
Lindsay Dobbin is a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) – Acadian – Irish water protector, artist, musician, curator and educator who lives and works on the Bay of Fundy in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of Lnu’k (Mi’kmaq). Born in and belonging to the Kennebecasis River Valley, the traditional territory of the Wəlastəkwiyik, Mi’kmaq and Passamaquoddy, Dobbin has lived throughout Wabanaki as well as the Yukon in Kwanlin Dün territory.
Dobbin’s relational and place-responsive practice includes music, sound art, performance, sculpture, installation, social practices and writing, and is invested in Indigenous epistemologies and cultural practices, such as rumming. Through placing listening, collaboration and improvisation at the centre of the creative process, Dobbin’s practice explores the connection between the environment and the body, and engages in a sensorial intimacy with the living land and water.
As a passionate educator, Dobbin employs traditional and contemporary land-based practices, creativity, play and improvisation as tools for self-awareness, collaboration, experiential learning and community building — revealing that people and the environment are related in dynamic ways. Dobbin is also an active artistic collaborator, and have worked on projects with musicians, sound artists, dancers, visual artists and filmmakers.