Recording: Killer Quartet

Artist: Killer Quartet

Song: [excerpt from an improvisation]

Recorded December 4, 2022 at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Audiopollination 10th Anniversary Bash).

Killer Quartet - [excerpt]

A round number anniversary is always worth celebrating, and more so for this labour of love devoted to creative expression and community building. Kudos to Mike Lynn for putting in the work to keep Audiopollination going for a decade — definitely worth celebrating with a slice of pie and a crowded room in the Southern Cross.

Lynn closed out the first part of the afternoon with this group that saw him joined by Audiopollination Guelph founder Emjay Wright (on drumkit) as well as Kai Grant (vocalisations) and Erin Corbett (synth), exploring dark alleys and uncertain emotional terrain.

You can check out some footage from this set over on the Audiopollination youtube channel:

[Audiopollination is back at Array Space on Friday, January 13th with sets by Mike Barber/Daisy Betlej/Tegan Dietsch / Kousha Nakhaei/Owen Kurtz / Jamie Eriksen/Adrian Russouw/Bri Clarke and Kimberly Ivany/Katheryn Merriam.]

Recording: Wright/MacKenzie/Hughes

Artist: MJ Wright/Sterling MacKenzie/Aidan Hughes

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Array Space (Audiopollination 80), February 8, 2020.

MJ Wright/Sterling MacKenzie/Aidan Hughes - [excerpt]

After some quieter excursions, this night ended on a noisier note with this trio offering some abrasive, distorted textures. Thanks to Wright's percussion, there was still a clattering groove here, making this a rather pleasing exploratory noise-rock ramble.

You can also check out some visual documentation of this set over on the Audiopollination youtube channel:

[Audiopollination returns to Array Space on Saturday, March 14th with another self-curated night including sounds from Rick Sacks/John Oswald/David Sait, Nicholas Cooper/Del Stephen/Kalia Lenaghan, Ryan Kinney and Avant-Gardeners, and Tiina Kiik/David Story/styrofoamNosebleedPrincess.]

Recording: The Side Eye

Artist: The Side Eye

Songs: [two excerpts]

Recorded at Array Space, September 20, 2019.

The Side Eye - [excerpt 1]

The Side Eye - [excerpt 2]

Celebrating a CD on the esteemed (and recently-defunct) Arachnidiscs label, this trio shared some clattering improvisations. Featuring Kayla Milmine on soprano sax and Mike Lynn on double bass, the piece of grit in the oyster here is percussionist MJ Wright, equally at home behind the kit as seated on the floor surrounded by an array of contact-mic'd percussive bricabrac, providing tinfoil rustles and little curls of feedback to frame the other instruments.

Recording: Campbell/Wright/Corbett

Artist: Rod Campbell/MJ Wright/Aaron Corbett

Song: [first piece]

Recorded at Array Space (Audiopollination 75), September 14, 2019.

Rod Campbell/MJ Wright/Aaron Corbett - [first piece]

It is sometimes quite astounding how well Audiopollination's "self-curated" nights can work, creating beautiful sounds that cohere not just within a set, but over the course of a whole night. This opening combination of Rod Campbell's trumpet, MJ Wright's junkshop percussion and Aaron Corbett's modular synths were nicely simpatico right from the start, breaths and blips moving from burbling textures to excited crescendos.

You can watch video documentation of this set over at Audiopollination's youtube page:

[Audiopollination will be back at Array Space on Saturday (November 9th) for another self-curated night featuring Paul Newman & Ashley Urquhart, Twin Mask/Jeff Luciani/Rebecca Gray, Bob Vespaziani/Arnd Jurgensen/Elizabeth Lima, and MKL32 & Lidija Bozica.]