Site & Sound

Site & Sound A unique festival evening of all things auditory! Musicians, poets and sound artists will inhabit the dioramas and displays of the Royal BC Museum after hours. They have specially crafted sound for this event, providing a unique way of experiencing the Royal BC Museum.

April 28, 2012
7pm start
15$

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Kathy Rogers	Award-winning Victoria flutist Katherine Rogers received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Victoria in 2008 where she studied with Lanny Pollet and performed principal flute under the baton of János Sándor in both the University of Victoria Orchestra and the Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra. Katherine recently completed her Master of Music degree at the University of British Columbia in 2010 under the direction of Lorna McGhee (former co-principal with the BBC Symphony Orchestra). In July 2010 Katherine followed the UBC Opera Ensemble to the Czech Republic. Katherine is currently flutist with Victoria’s Palm Court Orchestra, enjoys subbing for the Victoria Symphony, and takes great joy in sharing her love for music with her students.
Dave Morris and Missie Peters	SpeakEasy is the improvised poetry duo of Dave Morris and Missie Peters. Together they have performed at festivals such as the Belfry’s Spark Festival, the Victoria Fringe Festival and the Berlin International Improv Festival.Dave Morris is an improviser, storyteller and educator from Victoria B.C. He is the director of Paper Street Theatre, the regional director for the Canadian Improv Games and in 2011 won Pick of the Fringe for best comedy performer.Missie Peters is an M-Award winning poet and improviser from Victoria B.C. She is a two-time Victoria Slam Champion, the former Vic Slam Master and the current artistic director of Not Your Grandma’s Poetry Productions.
Paul Walde	Paul Walde is an intermedia artist, musician, and curator. Walde’s eclectic body of work suggests unexpected interconnections between landscape, identity, and technology and includes painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation and audio. Recently his work was seen at the Electric Eclectics Festival of Experimental Music and Sound Art in Meaford, Ontario (2010), at Malaspina Printmakers Gallery in conjunction with VIVO’s Signal + Noise festival in Vancouver (2010), and at the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound in Kitchener, Ontario (2011).
Janet Rogers	Janet Rogers is a west coast Mohawk living on the traditional lands of the Songhees and Esquimalt nations. Janet is a spoken word poet, print poet, recording poet and works in video poetry and performance poetry.Janet is a radio host on Native Waves Radio CFUV 101.9fm and Tribal Clefs CBC radio British Columbia. Janet is Victoria’s current Poet Laureate
Tina Pearson	Tina M Pearson is a sound artist whose interest in sonic phenomena, perception and modes of human interaction has led to roles in art, education and community development. Many of her projects look at the boundaries between languages, disciplines and cultures, and between creators, performers and audiences.  Tina was editor of the journal Musicworks, an instructor at OCAD University and recently co-chaired the New Music Forum “Connecting Cultures, Practices and Geographies” in Vancouver. Tina composes and performs in acoustic, electronic and telematic settings with conventional, found and invented instruments. Her music has been commissioned for dance, video, radio and spoken word performances in Europe and North America. She performs with the global collective Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and the Victoria group LaSaM.
Garrett Tompson and Shanti Bremer	The Garrett and Shanti Bluegrass Duo are a pair of young talented bluegrass pickers from Victoria B.C.  Both pickers grew up steeped in the hard driving bluegrass sounds of great players like J.D. Crowe and Tony Rice and it shows in their playing and singing.  Shanti Bremer multi instrumentalist, singer and music teacher has played in many Victoria Bluegrass bands over the years and is the banjo player from the Victoria band “The Sweet Lowdown”.  Shanti plays Scruggs style banjo in this collaboration along with lead and harmony vocals.  Garrett Tompson has been playing guitar and singing for 9 years.  He started out playing everything from Neil Young to Eric Clapton but once he got into bluegrass singing and guitar flat pickin that was it, he was hooked.  Garrett plays lead and rhythm guitar along with vocals in this collaboration.  Together Shanti and Garrett deliver an unmistakable bluegrass sound that is sure to please.
The Victoria Phonographers Union	Formed in 2010, the Victoria Phonographers Union grew out of a workshop and performance with the Seattle Phonographers Union.  Exploring the ways in which the human ear experiences our sonic landscapes, the VPU juxtaposes familiar, novel, and foreign sounds in a listening environment that detaches context from the sound source.  The intent is to offer an investigation into how we individually perceive, analyze, and connect with sound and the thoughts and sensations that these sounds evoke in their raw, unprocessed state.Members of the VPU include: Michael Bennyworth, Hunter Boucher, Caleb Cobell, Christine Comrie, Kristy Farkas, Jessica Karuhanga, Eugene Lee, Christopher Reiche
The Victoria Gum Sing Musical Society	The Victoria Gum Sing Musical Society is a non profit organization operated under the society’s act and is dependent on the generous donation and contributions by its membership and community organizations.  This society was formed by Mr. Leung Kwong Yip and Mr. Stan Tong in 1980 with the intention that members of the Chinese community could enjoy and promote the Chinese musical culture.
Peter Morin	Peter Morin, of the Tahltan Nation of northern British Columbia, is a Victoria-based performance artist. His ideas about museums and their transformation through indigenous ways of knowing began in his cousin’s cabin, where visits with friends, relatives, and elders offered him a gradual understanding of Tahltan history and means of sharing it with one another. Peter Morin has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and live events including Team Diversity Bannock and the World’s Largest Bannock attempt, 7 Suits for 7 Days of Colonialism, and A return to the place where God outstretched his hand (2007); performative works at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; 12 Making Objects, 12 Indigenous Interventions (2009) at Open Space, Victoria and Peter Morin’s Museum (2011) at Satellite Gallery, Vancouver. In 2010 the artist was awarded the British Columbia Creative Achievement Award for First Nations’ Art. Morin is currently serving as the curator in residence at Open Space Artist Run Centre in Victoria BC.

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