VEDA HILLE & CHRISTOF MIGONE play "Escape Songs" at Summer Courtyard Series

Sunday June 28 • the Music Gallery presents
VEDA HILLE & CHRISTOF MIGONE: ESCAPE SONGS
Part of the Summer Courtyard Series

Doors 8pm, concert 9pm
Tickets $15 advance, $20 at the door ($15 MG members)
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Escape to or from. Escaped songs escaping. Tiny licks of music and clicks and breath and god knows what. Veda Hille and Christof Migone, starting in 1999, made little songs and unmade them, and then made them again. In 2003 they released them. The album is called Escape Songs (squintfuckerpress) and now in 2009 comes the first live escape attempt. Veda and Christof will be joined by a keen team of soundmakers to listen and playback the tiny twisted tunes. Hear unrecognizably accurate renditions of sympathectomy. Come lick the war machine. Come hatch an escape plan.

Veda Hille has been making records, staging events, and touring relentlessly since 1992. What descriptives can we come up with? Classically trained pianist, art-school drop-out, performance curator, self-taught singer, puppet-show enthusiast, independent artist. She has released 12 albums, the latest being This Riot Life (Ape Records, 2008). She has completed numerous commissions for dance, theatre, and special events. Collaborations with other artists have resulted in video and music performances, electro-acoustic experiments, rock songs for children, and an opera about pine trees. In her spare time, she organizes parades and sews slogans onto old towels. Above all, Veda aims to write songs that are distinct and precise and beautiful. Songs about the natural world, human relations, mathematical theory: she turns her eye to the things that amaze her, and the results are interesting, odd, and amazing in turn. http://www.vedahille.com

Christof Migone is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer. His work and research delves into language, voice, bodies, performance, intimacy, complicity, endurance. He co-edited the book and CD Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 2001) and his writings have been published in Aural Cultures, S:ON, Experimental Sound & Radio, Musicworks, Radio Rethink, Semiotext(e), Angelaki, Esse, Inter, etc. He obtained an MFA from NSCAD in 1996 and a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University in 2007. He has released six solo audio CDs on various labels (Avatar, ND, Alien 8, Locust, Oral). He has curated a number of events: Touch that Dial (1990), Radio Contortions (1991), Rappel (1994), Double Site (1998), stuttermouthface (2002), Disquiet (2005), START (2007) and STOP. (2008). He has performed at Beyond Music Sound Festival (Los Angeles), kaaistudios (Brussels), Resonance FM (London), Nouvelles Scènes (Dijon), On the Air (Innsbruck), Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Experimental Intermedia (NYC), Méduse (Québec), Victoriaville Festival, and in Montreal at Radio Canada, Quinzaine de la Voix, Musiques Fragiles, Galerie Oboro, Casa del Popolo, Théâtre La Chapelle, etc. His installations have been exhibited at the Banff Center, Rotterdam Film Festival, Gallery 101, Art Lab, eyelevelgallery, Forest City Gallery, Studio 5 Beekman. He has collaborated with Lynda Gaudreau, Martin Tétreault, Tammy Forsythe, Alexandre St-Onge, Michel F. Côté, Gregory Whitehead, Set Fire To Flames, and Fly Pan Am. A monograph on his work, Christof Migone - Sound Voice Perform, was published in 2005. In 2006, the Galerie de l’UQAM presented a retrospective on his work accompanied by a catalog and a DVD entitled Christof Migone - Trou. He currently lives in Toronto and is a lecturer at the University of Toronto Mississauga and the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery. http://www.christofmigone.com