Artist: Lisa Conway & Emma Ongman
Song: [first section]
Recorded at The Tranzac's Main Hall (Women From Space Festival 2022 – Night 2), April 29, 2022.
Lisa Conway & Emma Ongman - [first section]
For the past three years, the Women From Space Festival has been an excellent encapsulation of its moment. Coming on the cusp of the First Big Lockdown, the 2020 Festival is remembered by many as the last event of the beforetimes, while last year's "hologram edition" was an elegant solution to the flatness of livestreams. And now, this year's Festival had to bear all the relief and angst of "returning to live" at this uncertain mid-point of the pandemic. Presented with joy and community spirit over four nights, the Festival was a chance to run into seldom-seen familiar faces and to hear a dizzying variety of sounds.
Lisa Conway and Emma Ongman (respectively on audio and visual synthesis) started the night by heading off, if not to space, then at least to the nearest planetarium in a new song-suite of sorts — albeit one that left plenty of room for improvisation and for the two performers to react to each other. This will probably get fleshed out and released in time, though Conway noted that she has two other albums in the pipeline to attend to first... so stay tuned.
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