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Bio:
Erin is a media artist informed by sound as a phenomenological experience. Using bio-sensors as a sort of interface her work explores emotional sincerity both as a composer and in videogame design. Her work is cerebral and politically engaged, but is nonetheless insistently physical and grounded in the body.


Recording Notes:
There is a good deal of rain in this recording. Too, Erin has the rich vocal timbre of an ASMR-tist so those textures combine to make this a pleasant interview to listen to, especially in the cavernous converted factory of Montreal’s Eastern Bloc gallery space where we took the recording. When I asked Erin to offer me an experiment upon which to base this episode’s bridging music she shared with me a dream she had of spitting, screaming, singing crystals. So you’ll hear my attempt to sound design that dream. I had assistance from Aug and their crystal collection, as source material for the sound design. You’ll also hear an excerpt from Erin’s 3rd person shooter VR experience that centres on emotional sincerity, rumbas and b-list vocaloids.

Toward the end of the interview Erin describes a new work, showing until the end of the month at Eastern Bloc and available at laughingweb.space. To experience or contribute to her piece-- inspired by Cheryl L’hirondelle (luh-ron-dell)-- visit the website linked below.

Links:

Artist:
Artist’s Website:https://eringee.net/
Swarming Emotional Pianos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8crC5vGj44A
Project Heart VR: https://www.projectheartvr.com
Laughing Web: http://laughingweb.space/

References:
Rosalind Krauss: https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/know-your-critics/how-to-understand-rosalind-krauss-53988
Eye Movement Desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy: https://www.womenscollegehospital.ca/programs-and-services/sexual-assault-domestic-violence-care-centre/emdr
ASMR: https://softchew.podbean.com/
Mariko Mori: http://www.artnet.com/artists/mariko-mori/love-hotel-VeFBwtQtNWqs87Vz4AW_tg2
Donna Haraway, How Like a Leaf: https://monoskop.org/images/3/3f/Haraway_Donna_How_Like_a_Leaf_An_Interview_with_Thyrza_Nichols_Goodeve.pdf
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g09x4q
Pauline Oliveros ‘The Tuning Meditation’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5bj8sO2-WY
Yawane Haku: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE1D0fSV2jI
Hatsune Miku: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoTd918zhZc
Military Roomba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0EqrWrHMLk
Voices of VR podcast: http://voicesofvr.com/
Eastern Bloc show: https://easternbloc.ca/index.php/en/exhibits-events/exhibits/amplification_en
Cheryl L’hirondelle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOFYD9t_afw

I've released a record compiling a number of resolved experiments begun in the process of making the podcast. Excerpted in this brief plug is Technosolutions 2.

You can listen to the complete record here:
https://paleeyesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/little-music

Bio:
Maria is a New York-based abstract turntablist and multidisciplinary artist from Peru by way of Houston, Texas. She has pioneered a singular style of improvisation on the turntable involving perfect and destroyed vinyl and styli. She is an author, a teacher, a DJ, and an outspoken critic of the institutions of fine art of which she finds herself, against all odds, a part-- this latter characteristic is amusingly exemplified in her recent work in painting, which she expands upon in this episode.

Recording Notes:
This interview was recorded at Cafe le Gamin in Maria’s rapidly gentrifying Greenpoint neighbourhood. We met for lunch while Maria was briefly home in New York between stints in Italy, Germany, Istanbul and the Rauschenberg Captiva Residency. The chance, or accident, so fundamental to Maria’s practice turns up here in the shape of the clatter of cutlery, the city’s drony din, and the cafe’s regular custom.

I want to warmly welcome Cale Weir back to the pod, who joined me in producing the music for this episode. We worked from Maria’s autodidactic Masters Thesis, Of Technique: Chance Procedures on Turntable. Despite her kindly encouragement of our efforts, Maria may not totally approve of the results, nor of the liberties we took in attempting to execute her techniques (I cannot get away from my little digital modulators, and Cale was working with his antiquated CD-Js) but that we took her instructions in our new direction would seem to be in keeping with the spirit of her work. Truth be told, I just haven’t got the manual dexterity Maria has to grapple with the fragility of the turntable as instrument.

Links:

Artist:
Artist’s Website: www.mariachavez.org
Maria’s IG: @chavezsayz
Maria’s Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/MariaDChavez
Documenta 14: Between a Gunshot and a Whisper: https://www.documenta14.de/en/public-radio/14725/between-a-gunshot-and-a-whisper

References:
Oneohtrix Point Never’s Software Label: https://softwarelabel.bandcamp.com/
Judd Foundation Wind Instruments documentation: http://mariachavez.org/1913-2/
Every Time A Ear di Soun, a Documenta 14 Radio: https://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/11085/every-time-a-ear-di-soun-a-documenta-14-radio-program-presentation
Gagosian: https://gagosian.com/
Pauline Oliveros: http://paulineoliveros.us/
Phil Niblock: https://phillniblock.com/
University of Texas solo show (String Room): https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2017-04-28/maria-chavez-string-room/
Merce Cunningham Dance Company: https://mercecunningham.org/history/
Dia: Beacon Museum: https://www.diaart.org/
Playing in a gigantic Richard Serra sculpture: https://www.diaart.org/
Jasper Jonhs: https://www.moma.org/artists/2923
Goldsmiths: https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=11082
Resident Advisor: https://www.residentadvisor.net/
Francisco Lopez (get this man an agent!): http://www.franciscolopez.net/

Bio:
Kent is a multidisciplinary artist of Cree ancestry working in painting, performance, installation and video. His painting seeks to overturn the settler painterly tradition through application of the same, and by authorizing through art history otherwise suppressed narratives of indigeneity, while his performance work lays bare sexual colonialism with his partly Cher-inspired alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.

Recording Notes:
This interview was recorded live, as part of George Brown College’s 26th Annual Labour Fair, which brought artists and activists in to the college community to speak to this year’s theme: Revolution and Resistance. The audience who joined us for the talk put some questions to the artist toward the end of our conversation. Bridging into this section is the track Dance to Miss Chief, produced for a video by the same name featuring Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. The song heralded the artist’s late arrival to the event. This was entirely my fault, as I sent him to an address on the West side of the city. My questions are breathlessly delivered, the mikes glitchy, but Kent, ever graceful, offers us insight into his practice, his studio, and what drives this work that is both timely, and centuries overdue.

This episode was engineered with the assistance of full time good boy Cale Weir.

Links:

Artist:
Artist Website: kentmonkman.com
Miss Chief Eagle Testickle’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/MissChiefEagleTestickle
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kentmonkman
Tweets: https://twitter.com/KentMonkman

References:
Louvre Ruebens' de Medici Cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de%27_Medici_cycle
Jeff Koons atelier: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jeff-koons-triples-production-capacity-of-his-giant-stone-cutting-facility-antiquity-stone-272656
Damien hirst atelier: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/mar/16/damien-hirst-art-market
ROM: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rom-apology-into-heart-africa-royal-ontario-museum-1.3840645
AGO: http://www.ago.net/canadian-highlights
George Catlin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Catlin
Paul Kane: https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/paul-kane#
The Indigenous Dandy as Cautionary Tale: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/wi-jun-jon-pigeons-egg-head-light-going-and-returning-washington-4317

Photo by Chris Chapman.