Artist: April Aliermo - Artemis of Colour [section 2]
Song: Artemis of Colour [sections 2 + 3]
Recorded at The Music Gallery @ 918 Bathurst (Emergents II), January 19, 2019.
April Aliermo - Artemis of Colour [section 2]
April Aliermo - Artemis of Colour [section 3]
The ever-shifting terrain in which the Emergents series finds performers reached out this time to a pair of graduates of the EQ program, "a space for education, mentorship and community-building for women and non-binary folks who create electronic music". That gave a thread to connect two sets that came from very different sonic angles.
Well-known for her work as a rocker/groover in projects like Hooded Fang and Phèdre, it was exciting to see April Aliermo taking a step in a new direction and presenting a large-scale audio-visual electroacoustic piece. Working with mentor Christina Kubisch, this piece combined Red Light District electromagnetic field recordings with sounds of womxn pleasuring themselves. Those sounds were fragmented and abstracted, sometimes becoming almost percussive elements underneath the rippling, meditative soundscapes. Aliermo, meanwhile, mostly removed herself from the stage performance-wise, setting up on the floor and not upstaging the audio-responsive visuals (created by Sahar Homami and executed live by Kat Estacio) which suggested water ripples and infinite tunnels.
[Aliermo has posted a recording of her full performance over on her soundcloud.]
[The next instalment of the Emergents series, featuring Happenstance and Jana Luksts, is at The Music Gallery on Friday (March 29th).]
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