SANDY EWEN, ANNIE SOCORIA, DAY OF NIAGARA @ SPARK BEER JULY 31st 2022

PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH Ottawa Experimental Music

MUSIC @ 7 PM

$15 Suggested, No One Turned Away For Lack of Funds

Sandy Ewen is an experimental guitarist, artist and architect currently based in Brooklyn NY. Ewen’s approach to playing is centered around found objects and extended guitar techniques. She performs solo and in many diverse musical and multi-media collaborations. She has about two dozen musical releases; recent ones include a trio with Keith Rowe and Damon Smith (Houston 2012), a quartet with Roscoe Mitchell, Damon Smith and Weasel Walter (A Railroad Spike Forms The Voice), and a solo LP on Gilgongo Records (You Win). Ewen frequently tours the US and parts of Canada, primarily playing solo sets. In 2019, she performed in Mexico City, before touring the west coast and central US in February & March. She played the Electric Eclectics Festival in Ontario and numerous gigs around NYC. In 2018, she performed at the Sant’anna Arresi Jazz Festival in Sardinia, the Experimental Sound Studio Option Series in Chicago, and the High Zero Festival in New York. Ewen toured Europe in 2017, performing solo sets and in collaboration with Steve Jansen (tapes and electronics) and Maria Chavez (turntables). While in Brooklyn, she has collaborated with many musicians, including Michael Vatcher, Ravi Coltrane, Bill Nace, Sam Newsome, Stephen Gauci, Kevin Shea, Cecilia Lopez, Chris Pitsiokos, Sam Weinberg, and Weasel Walter. Ongoing projects include a duo with Damon Smith, leading an all-female large ensemble, the trio Etched in the Eye, a duo with Tom Carter called Spiderwebs, and the experimental rock band Weird Weeds with Sarah Hennies & Aaron Russell. In years past, Ewen has performed alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Keith Rowe, Lydia Lunch, Pauline Oliveros and many others, and has performed and recorded with Jaap Blonk, Henry Kaiser, Joe McPhee and more. In 2014, she performed at San Francisco’s 13th Annual Outsound New Music Summit, and she has made several appearances at Austin’s annual No Idea Festival. Ewen enjoys making video art and digital animations and has created many video pieces to accompany her music and others’.

Annie Socoria is an Ottawa based experimental audiovisual artist. They explore atmospheric ambient soundscapes, drones, and “noise” using a variety of methods (hardware and software synthesizers, circuit bent electronics, no-input mixers, pedal feedback, tape loops, field recordings, and more). https://anniesocoria.bandcamp.com/

DAY OF NIAGARA is the solo project of David Jackson.

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