LUCAS ‘GRANPA’ ABELA aka JUSTICE YELDHAM

Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela’s performances on their signature instrument; shards of amplified glass are the stuff of legend. Their singular practice spawned from the noise music underground, where over twenty years the glass evolved from a means to create ecstatic free-noise cacophonies into an outsider instrument that produces some kind of organic electronica. Abela vibrates the pane vocally to control a modular patch that uses no traditional syntheses techniques, instead the glass acts as both sound and modulation source. The patch extracting control voltages from the glass’s dynamics and frequency in order to modulate itself in synchronicity with the performance, shaping six parallel stereo effects chains that merge into dense layers of anomalous music.

DEATH KNEEL

Death Kneel is the primary recording outlet of Toronto based musician Max Klebanoff. His output is characterized by unyielding binaural manipulation and unapologetic octatrack abuse. Incidental sound and electroacoustic automatic drawings dismantled and deconstructed to be recycled, again and again. Since 2014, Klebanoff has been featured on notable labels Chondritic Sound, Total Black, White Centipede Noise and his own imprint Life Of Sensation, with new releases forthcoming on Students of Decay.

NIMMIE AMEE

Patient and incidental noise from Toronto. Dynamic sound collage mustered through field recordings, carefully plotted melodies, and slow-swelling intensity. Deeply personal and spirited audiographic experimentation.

TRIPTYCH (Colin Cudmore / Kristina Guison / Colby Richardson)

Colby Richardson, Colin Cudmore and Kristina Guison are experimental sound artists working with minimalist, acoustic and low-tech methods. Richardson’s work “Dimmer Switch” involves producing sound from malfunctioning light bulbs. Cudmore is a versatile percussionist utilizing ready-made and found objects, while Guison creates metal sound sculptures / instruments which incorporates time-keeping devices, tools and other materials. Together, their trio amalgamates their individual practices into producing suspenseful, brooding, resonant and cacophonous sounds.

Visuals by Colby Richardson