MIDNIGHT E SCAPES AT NUIT BLANCHE (GUELPH)

On Saturday September 11th- Sunday September 12th, 2010 members of the Guelph group of the Community Sound [e]Scapes project joined emerging and established musicians and VJs to present a unique audiovisual event entitled "Midnight [e]Scapes".The event was part of the inaugral Nuit Blanche in the town of Guelph, Ontario. Nuit Blanche (Guelph) was presented by the Guelph Jazz Festival and included contemporary art events from dusk until dawn across the city.

Join us at midnight for a late night jam session of cutting-edge sound art, new online technologies and improvised music, informed by the communities and spaces in which we live. With Germaine Liu, Mark Zurawinski, Andy Houston, Francois Muillot, Nicholas and Rosa Loess, Boston Carlyle, Byron Murray, John Campbell, Rebecca Caines and more.

In 2009-10, under the banner Community Sound [e] Scapes, community members and sound artists of all descriptions, across three different countries, came together to record, edit, mix and improvise with the sounds unique to their communities and the places they live. Sounds from Australia, Northern Ireland and Canada, recorded by participants of all ages and backgrounds are gathered into a unique online sound database which features everything from the sounds of birds in the Arboretum to the clink of a bicycle spanner in a beachside Australian town; from the bread machine slicing at the Guelph Farmers market to the sounds from a housing estate in South East Belfast. Participants also helped to shape the design of a new online mixer The eScaper, a simple interface that turns anyone into a sound artist through allowing you to choose sounds from the library and combine, overlap and loop them to create sound pictures, music, stories, ambient sounds or any adventures in sound you can imagine, all of which evoke the complex audio world we move through everyday. This jam will include some of the hottest sound artists from the Community Sound [e]Scapes project, who will be using the eScaper mixer and sound library live, coupled with musicians improvising with instruments and the sounds in the room. The work of local video artists will also be projected on the walls. Bring an instrument or just yourselves, and join us for an exploration/ escape through sound and image.

This project is part of the Improvisation, Community and Social Practice research initiative, based at the University of Guelph and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

GALLERY OF PICTURES FROM THE COMMUNITY SOUND [E]SCAPES GUELPH NUIT BLANCHE EVENT ON SEPTEMBER 11th 2010

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