ARTISTS

DEADBEAT (BERLIN)
https://blkrtz.bandcamp.com/

Deadbeat is one Scott Monteith, who has been releasing his own special blend of dub laden, minimal electronics since 2000 for labels such as Cynosure, Intr_version, Revolver, and Scape. Deadbeat has performed at some of the world’s most respected festivals, including Barcelona’s Sonar, Berlin’s Transmediale, and Montreal’s own Mutek, and most recently a festival favorite at Wonderment.  Scott has worked in a variety of roles for the Montreal based company Applied Acoustics Systems, makers of the Tassman Software Synthesizer.  The experience left him with a passion for the development of new creative interfaces, and a strong grasp of some the most cutting edge technology in the industry. 

Whether crafting quirky not-quite-dancefloor techno, rumbling digital dub, or sublime ambient works, Scott continually strives to create music that honors the past beyond empty tribute or cultural appropriation, by infusing the digital tools of the present with a little of the magic known as human imperfection. Hindered only by the occasional buffer underrun or synapse misfiring, Scott continues to search for his own unique voice between the ones and zeros.

MIKE SHANNON (BERLIN)
https://mikeshannon1.bandcamp.com/

Mike Shannon:  Any historian who takes it upon themselves to pen the tale of Canadian electronic in the years to come will most certainly find the name Mike Shannon figures early and often in it’s telling. From his humble beginnings in the sleepy suburban town of Kitchener Ontario, the last 15 years have seen him become an internationally lauded producer with albums on 3 of the industry’s most respected labels (Plus 8, Force Inc, ~Scape), as well as a steady stream of consistently charted singles and remixes. 

Those fortunate enough to catch one of Mike’s rare live performances are encouraged to do so with an open mind, as it is in this context that the breadth of his creativity truly shines. His is a musical vision which easily wriggles free of the usual genre signifiers and pays grand dividends to those with the good sense to get nice and close to the speakers; the devil is most certainly in the details as the old saying goes.

LONGWALKSHORTDOCK (VANCOUVER)
https://longwalkshortdock.ca/

Longwalkshortdock essentially started the first time Dave King heard gritty electronic music in early eighties videogames. Strongly influenced by these sounds and melodies, Dave started recording and looping segments as a child. Currently a veteran of sound design and electronic music production for well over a decade, Longwalkshortdock’s music has stepped into a genre of its own. His vast catalogue of hundreds of songs dives into ambient, IDM, electro, acid, house, big beat, indie rock, drones, electronica and down tempo. Dave holds two degrees from the Art Institute of Burnaby for Music Recording and Production.

Longwalkshortdock has performed live for many years, on many stages, and with the likes of Phil Western (Download, Skinny Puppy, Kone) and opened for talented artists like, MSTRKRFT, Opiuo, Junkie XL, Vibesquad, Alex Patterson (The Orb), Mimosa, Adam Freeland. Always working to enhance and upgrade the LWSD live experience, Dave collaborates with veteran of visual wizardry Tim Hill of RIM Visuals. While a mainstay on the BC club and festival circuit for his unique EDM performances that verge on metal, Longwalkshortdock has also been renown for rare sets of ambient music – which he will perform on November 15th at Alix Goolden Hall.

SCREE RUNNING (VICTORIA)
https://screerunning.bandcamp.com/track/somnolent-x

Whether pushing laptops to hi freq fan whir while creating sharply detailed and idiosyncratically arranged electronic music, or coaxing pre-dawn dance floors to lysergic meltdown with genre-agnostic & future facing dance-music, Scree Running (Matt Howells) works with the primordial matter of sound, tweaking its patterns into the DNA of audio worlds yet to condensate.Scree Running’s tracks have found homes on dance floors and radio shows worldwide, with support from platforms such as NTS, Keep Hush, Subtle Radio, and B Side Radio.

With releases and remixes on Pleasure Management, a future-facing label founded in 2024 alongside Looting and Pablo Gun, and Vancouver’s NAGA label, their sound continues to expand and push towards the big now. As a core member of ‘Victoria’s’ Resonance Collective, Scree Running works with other like minded artists to help shape the sound and ethos of the ever present underground.

NENAGWAS (GILFORD ISLAND)

Nenagwas, also known as Naomi, hails from Gilford Island, Alert Bay, and Blunden Harbour. She has been singing all her life, blending traditional and contemporary styles. Naomi has had the pleasure of performing alongside The Tenors and has shared her love of Kwak̕wala by teaching singing and dancing at her childhood elementary school. She is excited to embark on her new journey at the Victoria Conservatory of Music (VCM) and is working with Producer/Engineer Wynn Gogol on her debut EP.Title of Piece: Hutłilala gax̱a̱n (Listen To Me)

The piece intertwines traditional songs from the Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw people, along with modern/contemporary elements to address the critical issue of missing murdered Indigenous women in a beautiful, yet powerful and emotive way. 

DENIZ PEKMEZCI
https://soundcloud.com/pekmezci

Deniz Pekmezci started his musical journey in elementary school as a chorus singer. He started playing the classical guitar in 1999 which was a pivotal point in his life. In 2005, he started playing the drums and has been performing as a drummer and percussion player since 2010. His interest in composition grew rapidly after he started studying music in Istanbul Bilgi University where he was introduced to contemporary electronic and concert music. In 2023, he completed his masters degree at the University of Victoria, under Dr. Anthony Tan’s guidance.

He is interested in devising a musical language of his own by fusing the musical styles he was exposed to while growing up. In addition to his contemporary concert music practices, he doubles in singer-songwriter style combining varying genres to shape his own musical voice.

A PLACE TO LISTEN DUO (VICTORIA)

Kristy Farkas and Daniel Brandes are both experimental music composers and performers who have been collaborating for over a decade. Both were core members of the A Place to Listen Ensemble and concert series from 2012 to 2020. Since 2021, they have been performing as the A Place to Listen Duo.

Through this project, they have been working in longform, ambient electroacoustic improvisation. Their work often makes extensive use of dense blooms of sine tones, field recordings, melodic fragments, and live sampling to create expansive and immersive spaces. 

HOT SLEEPERS (Hrdvsion + efemme , VICTORIA)
https://soundcloud.com/hotsleepers

After years of collaboration across the Atlantic Ocean, Hrdvsion and efemme have finally consolidated their efforts in the same city, bringing their unique talents together face to face. The past year has seen them working tirelessly in their newly unified studio, transforming chaos into precision. As “Hot Sleepers,” they are dedicated to crafting electro tracks designed for the club while also sneaking deep into the corners of your mind.

Their live setup is an intricate fusion of computer and modular synthesizers, producing music with a theme of focused expression, ensuring that every creation resonates with authenticity and depth. Having performed for Wonderment twice already, they are set to unveil their evolved sound in 2024, bringing more heat to the dancefloor than ever before.

Soft tongues: a bioacoustic opera (VANCOUVER)
https://jamireimer.com/Soft-tongues

Jami Reimer’s sound and performance work interweaves solo and choral singing, text, video, and field recording practices in an ongoing and shifting investigation around chorusing— specifically, into the overlapping vocal terrains between humans and amphibians. Beginning in 2022 with a bioacoustic field residency undertaken in collaboration with the Amphibian Natural History Lab at the University of Campinas, Brazil, her project Soft tongues: a bioacoustic opera, is back in development as Jami extends her shifting collaborations with biologists into her home province of so-called British Columbia.

Playing with the science recording as a form of subjective listening, Jami works with sound catalogues of extinct frogs, creates recordings of remaining wetland choruses, and composes immersive listening experiences inflected by mythological songs, speculative soundscapes, and ‘eavesdropped’ science recordings. Soft tongues: a bioacoustic opera, interrogates the relational, adhesive, and compounding qualities of voice, and the listening that tethers it.

PJS (VICTORIA)
https://pjsmusicsound.bandcamp.com/

PJS have been playing live experimental music for over 18 years. Influenced by the intense beauty and sonic range of all genres. We make all our music live with no computer sounds or screens (we still love computer music!). We create all our sound design and do not use presets. Our music shares the full spectrum nature of spacetime through esoteric musical dynamics

DIELECTRIC (VICTORIA)
https://d13lectric.bandcamp.com/track/s-h-a-k-e-t-h-e-w-a-t-e-r

DIELECTRIC is an electronic darkwave synth duo. Exploring new romantic’s apt dystopian side, their performance driven music comes with a heavy beat. Incorporating multiple Leslie speakers and rotating aesthetics, singer LES666, takes on new characters as they power through their 80s pop, psychedelic and experimental set.

ISOLATED SHOWERS (SALISH SEA)
https://isolatedshowers.bandcamp.com/

Pacific City Plunderphonic Improvisors

PERIPHERAL (COWICHAN VALLEY)
https://peripheral.bandcamp.com/album/bury-it-in-the-ground

Among the expansive forest which surrounds Peripheral’s home in the Cowichan Valley, the combination of warm, spacious soundscapes and raw, reverberated drone with a hint of natural distortion is the space which Peripheral strives to create.This solo act, consisting of electric guitar with a healthy dose of both spring reverb and delay, intends to take the listener down a path of spaciousness – creating a full, almost meditative soundscape inspired by wild spaces.”

ϸόKA (VICTORIA)

ϸόKA (pronounced “thoka”) is Michael Benneyworth. Spending a large part of his childhood playing with reel-to-reel tape and listening to shortwave radio, it was inevitable that sound creation and manipulation would be part of Michael Benneyworth’s multidisciplinary artistic practice. His sound art works are concerned with the sounds themselves: ways of creating sounds, how sounds inform space, and assembled sound collages rather than song forms.

works include the construction of acoustic devices ranging from small instruments to large installations. Michael’s current projects are focused on the recording and performance of electronic music. He has performed both solo and with numerous experimental music groups. He is on the board of the GCEMS and has been a member of the Unity Drummers and Singers since 2005

MT. LOGAN (VICTORIA)
https://youtu.be/SrTQoTaLGt4?si=KfLCSv1uVNs7mBqT

mt. logan are an ambient free improvisation duo based on Lekwungen lands, formed by composer and sound artist Megan Harton (they/them) and music technologist Isaiah Doyle (he/him). Inspired by Neuztec8, they joined forces and began blending their diverse skills as multi-instrumentalists, audio engineers and electronic sound enthusiasts.

Megan, pursuing a Master of Music Technology, and Isaiah, studying Music and Computer Science at the University of Victoria, have performed across Victoria. Their work ranges from ambient synth pieces to experimental performance art, showcasing a unique fusion of electroacoustic sounds that highlight their creative exploration of sound and technology.5

TELURK (SALT SPRING ISLAND)
https://telurk.bandcamp.com/

TELURK is an experimental multimedia project that delves into the ethereal realms of sound, utilizing the theremin and Moog synthesizers to create immersive sonic landscapes. Inspired by the concept of rainbow hypogea, TELURK explores the interplay of light and sound, crafting intricate textures that transport listeners to otherworldly dimensions.

The project emphasizes dynamic improvisation, blending organic and electronic elements to evoke a range of emotions. Through captivating performances, TELURK invites audiences to experience a unique auditory journey, celebrating the limitless possibilities of experimental music and the transformative power of sound.

Join TELURK in exploring the depths of sonic creativity.