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Performing at Gigspace (953 Gladstone Avenue), Saturday September 22nd 7:00pm.
- Ian Birse – Guitar & Electronics
- David Jackson – Guitar & Electronics
- Laura Kavanaugh – Violin & Laptop
- Mark Molnar – Cello & Electronics
A first-time collaboration featuring four long-time friends of IMOO and stalwarts of the Ottawa improvised music community.
Ian Birse worked with altered guitars through the 1990’s, using contact pickups, secondary bridges, and lo-fi cassette loops. He has been making tools for virtual visualsonics since the turn of the century. As Instant Places he and Laura Kavanaugh have created intermedia works on location in Australia, Japan, South America, Chicago/NYC, and across Canada.
Laura Kavanaugh is an improvisor who works between music, noise, light, and the shapes of things. She was active in interdisciplinary circles in Edmonton and Calgary, making performance works for samplers, overhead projectors, piano and voice, before taking Instant Places on the road with Ian Birse for five years.
David Jackson is a Canadian musician and sound artist working primarily with improvised analog and digitally processed guitar and field recordings. He has played in bands such as the Red Pony, North, Northern Sound Electrical System, and the Fucking Machines and solo as Spetter and under his own name. In 2012 he became creative co-director of IMOO.
Mark Molnar plays strings and electronics with Kingdom Shore, 1/4 Tonne Spike Pitcher (Nick Keupfer and Eric Craven), Generator (John Higney and Jamie Gulliksen), Mice (Bennett Bedoukian and Dave Clark), and in duos and a variety of configurations with Eric Craven, Craig Pedersen, James Annett, David Broscoe, Jamie Gulliksen, Linsey Wellman, and Bennett Bedoukian. He also plays erhu and rebab in Gamelan Semara Winangun.