Artist: Kathryn Merriam/Isabelle Clermont/Elysha Vorstenbosch
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Recorded at 918 Bathurst (Women From Space Festival 2022 – Night 4), May 1, 2022.
Kathryn Merriam/Isabelle Clermont/Elysha Vorstenbosch - [excerpt]
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.
Dazzled with a formidable array of harpists applying to play the festival, the organizers took a "yes, and" approach and invited them all, combined into a quartet to improvise together and explore their diverse approaches to their instruments. Sadly, Grace Scheele was unable to play, but the remaining trio found some really beautiful spaces to inhabit, with Isabelle Clermont's electronics stretching out spaceward on the lattices constructed by Kathryn Merriam and Elysha Vorstenbosch.
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