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I had always wanted a Want Machine. I had heard it could fulfil desires, complete dreams. All you had to do was plug it in, adjust the dials just so, and press the button. I had saved up for months, working extra shifts at the diner, selling my old clothes and books, and skipping meals. … Read moreTHE WANT MACHINE

SOUNDING THE DUSK MERIDIAN started as a project that took the sculptural and lighting elements of Keith Langergraber’s installation, The Dusk Meridian (2022), as a polydimensional score, and created an ambient musical reading of the piece. They performed the response at the Vancouver Gallery Offsite in partnership with Vancouver New Music in April 2022. Their … Read moreSOUNDING THE DUSK MERIDIAN

SNaiLBiRDFiSH is a polyrhythmic exploration of sound from natural and synthesized landscapes in a multimedia experience some may have dreamt of but never seen before. A 20-year revolving member project of WiL Shulba based on a hybrid of Ableton Live, electro-acoustic instrumentation, and modular synthesis, SNailBiRDFiSH takes inspiration from the wilds of the pacific northwest … Read moreSNAILBIRDFISH

RY MORAN was the founding director for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NTRC). Among many significant projects, Ry launched the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada, and contributed directly to the launch of Gord Downie’s “Secret Path”. All this work rests on a foundation of music. Ry is a dynamic multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer, … Read moreRY MORAN

ROZEK has been making music for three decades.  Coming from the era of Toronto’s early rave scene, when you could find vintage analogue gear at thrift shops for a few dollars, his knowledge of and passion for electronics deepened, as he soon found himself looking under the hood to both modify and build his own … Read moreROZEK

Þoka + SEALION (w/ video by sLo) Þoka, Michael Benneyworth, will be performing the last of a four piece cycle of work this year at Neuztec in collaboration with Sealion. Lorne Hammond, aka Sealion has drifted around the local  electronic music scene for some 47 years. He will play little boxes. George Welsh aka sLo … Read moreÞoka + SEALION (w/ video by sLo)

OBLIQUE SYNCHRONICITY is a nonfixed member project that explores the unknown aspects of sound to convey something unique. On this occasion, this group emerges again to explore extensive, unrepeatable, and enigmatic sound possibilities. Performers in Oblique Synchronicity are Deniz Pekmezci, Marco Neri, Rio Houle, and Sean Kiley.

NO SPECTRUM in 2023:  This time with four hands plunged into the crackling frontier of everything to scrape at the edges of discarnate perpetual voices; twisting and snapping at thin air in chance compliance with this Obstinant Speaker insensibly bursting onto centre-stage come raving with syntax then wrenched stumbling back into the disintegrated field. NO … Read moreNO SPECTRUM

NEVAR is a new collaborative project between media artists LES666 (Bonnie Doon), David Parfit (Monkey C), Willow Sereda-Michel, and Daniel Taggart-Hodge (The Sky Lit Up) – a quadraphonic installation and live performance experience. Combining synths, hard wired acoustic experiments, generative sound, with interactive projections and sculptures, Nevar uses samples and foley to create an emotional … Read moreNEVAR

MILK FANGS are Tobias Dunn-Krahn and Michael Zak, OG Victorians who have been making music together in various capacities and locales for more than two decades. Their discography spans a few genres, but these days they favour electronic hardware to craft left-field bangers and experimental pop music.

LIAM HOCKLEY is a versatile musician for whom “alternative or avant-garde approaches to his instrument are only part of the everyday tool kit” (Georgia Straight).  Liam holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of British Columbia and maintains an active freelance schedule in both Victoria and Vancouver.  He joined the Victoria Consevatory … Read moreLIAM HOCKLEY

ISOLATED SHOWERS are an improvising duo featuring Shaw Smith and Speedy Weaver and hailing from the Garden City. Isolated Showers have a keen appreciation for mash-ups of loops and samples exploring Fourth World realms & dubbed-out soundscapes.

ISLES peers into the physics around us to create a sonic journey deep into the nucleus of an atom. Explore the fabric of our world and how the vibrations of particles affect the Universe.

IFFER is fashioning her distinctive niche in the sonic landscape with an unbridled passion for plants, improvised performance art, experimental music composition, and a love for comedic expression. Inspired by the genre bending of the 80’s such as the hidden reverse and punk scenes, and influenced by the Hyper-pop music of the last few decades, … Read moreIFFER

HRDVSION is Nathan Wairoa, an electronic music producer and composer who has been releasing music internationally for almost two decades as a solo act and as a part of numerous group projects. Live performance and DJ tours have taken them to the United States, all over the UK and Europe, Russia, and through Asia while … Read moreHRDVSION

FINAL AMBIENT EMERGENCY is a hauntological broadcast system devised by Victoria artist Andrew Bourcet.  Bourcet has been active for over a decade under the moniker Looting and is a founding member of the Resonance Collective.  As Final Ambient Emergency, Bourcet purveys the noise of prophets, artists and spectres through a series of performative rituals and … Read moreFINAL AMBIENT EMERGENCY

DEEP FIELD ARRAY In the year 2014, a resonance was born in the echo chamber of existence — Deep Field Array. A Vancouver-birthed experimental ambient duo, they are not just a terrestrial phenomenon, but entities that float in the nebulous abyss of the universe’s silent theatre. An abandoned array, a phantom of antiquated technology sailing … Read moreDEEP FIELD ARRAY

COUGHER is a local synth artist who has spent the last several years recording and performing music in the Victoria music scene. Berlin School, ambient, electro, hauntology, and kosmische musik are all deep rooted influences on Cougher’s musical explorations. DiN Records founder, Ian Boddy has identified Cougher’s sound “as reminiscent of John Carpenter’s classic releases”. … Read moreCOUGHER

ATOMIC CHOCOLATE is a deliciously powerful quadraphonic PA, blending speech and static to generate a third harmonic engineered to reach the deep recesses of the primal mind.  Atomic Chocolate is instigated by Japan’s Merzbow, Ikeda, Yoshide and Zbigniew, inspired by the culture-jamming politic of Carlin M, and infused with all the ethos and energy of … Read moreATOMIC CHOCOLATE

12TH PLANET ORCHESTRA is a moniker for the machinic arrays of tobias c. van Veen, who performs live acoustic electronics to his surreal silent cinema. Suspended in slow time, expect a cut-up improvisational encounter with odd elektroniks by way of bow, circuit, and fingers to his Afrofuturist short film, LOST ALIEN (2018). Since the ‘90s … Read more12TH PLANET ORCHESTRA