My trip to Mutek and Artengine residency in June, Part 1 – Ross Birdwise

July 22nd, 2010

This June I flew in to Ottawa from Vancouver to visit friends and family and to perform at the Mutek festival in Montreal. I was performing with the largely Ottawa-Gatineau based electronic music group if then do, of which I am a founding member (I used to live in Ottawa). Ryan Stec, Artengine’s artistic director, had recently collaborated with if then do in the past using his skills as a VJ and video artist to develop live A/V performances with the group. For this year’s Mutek, Ryan also did live visuals, in some cases using our real-time, partially improvised audio feeds to modulate the video image he had created. Ryan also invited me to do an Artengine Residency at the M70 lab while were at Mutek, but I will save that story for my next post…

Tech/Tonic.

November 22nd, 2008

Lights pis l’électronique, sé quossé qui y’allait d’on hiâre swoir pou’ Electric Fields. J’m’ai levé le chu de mon ordi about 10 heures pou’ m’en aller à SAW. Boune p’tite crowd out pou’ l’événement, qui y’a valu la peine. Checké les portraits d’la swoiré. Entre lé sets, Mike pis moi sé planté devant y’une installation. […]

IF THEN DO OFFICE PARTY

June 1st, 2007

Mutek and Radio-Canada collaborated to present artists from across the country during three days of the festival. Yesterday evening Ottawa-Gatineau soundscape duo If Then Do broadcast their Mutek debut from the Artengine space at Arts Court as a part of this concert concept. It was a fantastic intimate show and the first artists we have […]