Peter Trosztmer, Thea Patterson and Sonya Stefan are presenting work as a part of a festival of their own creation, the @F OFF (microfest). Here in Montréal, the three-day festival will feature “the dance that i cannot do,” “The Kitchen Series” and “5 out of 6 Machines” along with the work of several other artists.
4 days to Mutek
Going with my VCR and DVD player
http://em15.ca/en/artists/8717-alain-lefebvre-sonya-stefan
Les Montréalais Alain Lefebvre et Sonya Stefan travaillent ensemble depuis plus d'un an sous l'alias Annuaire. Ils élaborent un projet audiovisuel qui utilise des objets amplifiés, des field recordings en stéréo et de l'équipement électronique pour créer une atmosphère d'outre-monde mais bien réelle. La musique et la vidéo se combinent grâce un signal à distance qui déclenche courts-circuits, larsens et diverses distorsions. Le musicien Alain Lefebvre expérimente des sons grâce à des instruments analogiques et autres machines, tandis que l'artiste et danseuse Sonya Stefan produit des images en retravaillant les signaux vidéos et la technologie de tous les jours, retrouvée dans les lecteurs DVD, téléphones portables et rétro-projecteurs. Lefebvre fait de la musique noise improvisée en solo depuis 2011, allant au delà des utilisations classiques, dépassant les capacités des instruments et des machines pour en retirer leurs empreintes musicales et leurs non-musicalités. Il a été programmateur pour les séries de concerts “We are the Drugs” et “24gauche”, et a également sorti des albums sur l'étiquette du groupe expérimental K.A.N.T.N.A.G.A.N.O. (Encodages de l’Oubli), ainsi que sur Kohlenstoff Records. Sonya Stefan a projeté ses films inspirés de la danse au Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, aux Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois de Montréal, en France au Festival ONFI, ainsi que dans une multitude de festivals internationaux de vidéos. Co-fondatrice du collectif artistique Groop Index, elle a également une résidence au Centre de Création Circuit Est et se penche actuellement sur les finissions de son premier long-métrage intitulé, "Danses de salon".
in photo Elinor Fueter
Launched the F Off festival.....with Peter/Thea/Jeremy
Hello friends and colleagues:
we would like to invite to a sort of open house 5-7 at The Big Space in Griffintown on Sunday the 27th of April for in informal lancèment of our upcoming event:
The F OFF (a micro festival)
We are inviting folks down to see the Griffintown spaces: both The Hobo Shack and the Big Space (where Jean-Pierre Perrault created his seminal work JOE) and have a beer and chat with the artists about what we are planning and doing down in the spaces and who we will be presenting in this new small format Off festival event.
The address is 141 Rue Ann (between Wellington and Ottawa) west of old montreal and the Darling Foundry. Follow the signs up the stairs to the third floor.
There will be some beer, but also feel free to bring your own so we don't lug 8 million beers up the fucking stairs :) (There is a Dep on Peel and one on McGill)
We very much look forward to sharing our plans and this amazing space with you!
CordiallyPeter Trosztmer, Thea Patterson, Jeremy Gordaneer, Sonya Stefan
Alain and I got into Mutek 2014.
I still can't believe it.
After-math of Agora Show.....
Daily starving.....
Verge of Bankruptcy....
Working 5 projects at the same time to stay afloat somewhat....
Coming up with methods of buying groceries for Charlotte and I.
Stealing Toilet Paper from Around
Telling Charlotte we can't buy a Christmas tree.
I never thought that I would feel actual starving
but then today
I got a CALQ grant.
My first one.
I can pay all the dancers.
I can pay a little of my debt.
I can buy toilet paper.
Last night Charlotte and I bought our Christmas tree.
Wow!
C and I made to the end.
The piece is about to premiere at Agora de la Danse.
I never imagined that this would happen to me......
Today....I entered the enormous space at FJPP..... felt many things.
Said hi to the ghosts who live there.
and then did some cartwheels.....
And then everyone came.
pulled out the cords/projectors/stuff....and started doing.