Quiet City is a series of concerts in Vancouver, focused on live performances of experimental, electronic and improvised music in a comfortable and intimate setting. Established in January 2010, we are now in our ninth year of programming
Date/Time: Mar 8 2018, 9:00 pm to 0:00 am
Vancouver, The LidoCost: Free
“Vancouver finally achieves transcendence through drone. Quiet City looks to provide a proper home for the deep-listening experience.”
-Scout Network
The forty-first edition of this series will be featuring performances by:
- Mary Ocher (Berlin)
- Ross Birdwise
MARY OCHER:
Mary Ocher has been persistently creating passionate, uncompromising work; it's raw, thought-provoking, socially and creatively pushing against the current, dealing with subjects of authority, identity and conflict. Her work is as enchanting as it is polarizing, ranging from traditional folk to raw 60s garage, ambient with ethereal vocals and abstract synths, to experimental pop with African and South American rhythms. She has released four studio albums on five labels in the past six years, as well as a double anthology of home recordings, two EPs, and two collections of remixes. Her previous solo release was produced by Canadian psych rock guru King Khan.
The most recent, "The West Against The People" is out on Klangbad, the label operated by Hans Joachim Irmler of the krautrock legends Faust. It features solo tracks, as well as tracks with her two drummers Your Government, and elusive legends Die Tödliche Doris and Felix Kubin. It also features an essay elaborating on the themes of the album and analyzing the current sociopolitical climate.
ROSS BIRDWISE:
Ross Birdwise is a Vancouver-based musician and visual artist. Much of his recent electronic music, whether beatless noise, or some sort of beat driven experimental music or free improvisation, is concerned with the deliberate manipulation of the listener’s sense of time and space and is concerned with disrupting or dequantizing the quantized grid that underlies much electronic music to attempt to create musical space-times that are alternately fluid, lurching, malfunctioning, awkward, violent or organic. Much of his video work has been similarly concerned with addressing issues around space and time, and time-based media itself, attempting to explore time and space in a philosophical but also visceral way. Identity, whether personal, impersonal or collective, or in terms of genre (in music) has also been an ongoing (and related) concern, and research to this end has centred on issues in philosophy, particularly individuation (Simondon), concrescence (Whitehead), duration (Bergson), and the virtual (Deleuze). Ross Birdwise has also been active in the arts as an arts writer, curator, and convener of conferences and other events.
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