Jean Piché, video still, "Bételgeuse," Spin, 1999-2001, three channel video and stereo sound. Credit: Courtesy of the artist
Exhibitions
Tone Deaf 4
Atrium
16 October 2005
The Agnes Etherington Art Centre was pleased to join Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre in the presentation of Tone Deaf 4, Kingston's annual festival of experimental sound performance. At the Art Centre on Sunday 16 October, Jean Piché, a senior Montreal composer and pioneering innovator in digital audio technologies, presented an evening of expressive hybrid videomusic, combining stunning images in an extreme panoramic format with crystalline electroacoustic soundtracks on Sunday 16 October, at 8 p.m. The opening act was an on-line collaborative performance by Mike Cassells (Kingston), Tonsesucker (UK), and Erdem Helvacioglu (Turkey).
Additional evenings of sonic experience took place 14 October at Little Cataraqui Conservation Area, at 8 pm, featuring Kathy Kennedy (Montreal) and Christof Migone (Montreal), and on 15 October at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre featuring Clive Robertson (Kingston), and Erin Donovan (Toronto) with John DS Adams (Toronto), also at 8 pm. See www.tone-deaf.org for full information.
This fourth iteration of Tone Deaf was curated by Matt Rogalsky as a platform for sound art and experimental noise. Advance tickets were available at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Modern Fuel (21-A Queen Street):
$9 single evening, $7 members/students
$25 Festival Pass, $18 members/students
Tone Deaf 4 was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts Music in Alternative Spaces program and the City of Kingston Healthy Community Fund.
Jan Allen