Holophon Presents Wavefield: A Festival of Experimental Music, Sound Art and New Media

Holophon’s first festival. Check out the events we have in store for our first edition!

Holophon Audio Arts and Art Gallery of Regina present:

Wavefield: Festival of Experimental Music, Sound Art and New Media

Sept 27 + 28 2024

Friday Sept 27 co-presented with Adjust Tracking

7pm RPL Film Theatre

Decoder (1984)

Counter-cultural cyberpunk West German film made by Muscha, based on the writings of William S. Burroughs featured a legendary cast of experimental and industrial musicians.

Eric Hill: Retrospective Sampler

Super8 films by local artist Eric Hill featuring a live soundtrack by the artist himself!

After Party - 10pm German Club (Lounge)

• Plains (Live - modular house/techno)

• Patty Blue (DJ - disco/italo/house)

• Guidewire (DJ - braindance)

Saturday Sept 28

Saskatchewan Science Centre

1pm Theatre - Matinee Performances

• diatom

• e.dulanowsky

• respectfulchild (Saskatoon, SK)

3pm Atrium

Cam Wiest - DIY Oscillator Workshop - Participants will be building an analog,  Hex-Inverter based oscillator from scratch. The circuit’s function will be explained and suggested modifications will be shared to encourage hacking!

8pm German Club (Lounge)

Evening Performances

• Scant Intone (Saskatoon, SK) @harsh_walls

• Jon Vaughn's Impossible Musics Ensemble (Album Launch) (Saskatoon/Regina, SK) featuring: Jeffrey David Morton @jeffreydavidmorton, respectfulchild, e.dulanowsky, Matt Carr @imokbtw,

• Hilarey Cowan, and Jon Vaughn @jon_vaughn_

• Jacob Audrey Taves (Edmonton, AB) @holzkopf666noisebeast

After party - DJ's B2B

• badcarlotta (bass/jersey club) @badcarlotta

• Mr. Jay (garage/techno) @hugh_jazz_96

• DJ Dyke Boyfriend (bangers) @ihaveasickness

• VC Vibes (hardgroove/acid/schranz)

Thanks to the generous support of SKarts and SaskCulture this festival is free to attend!

See you there!!!

Holophon Listening Station July 15 - October 15 2024

July 15 - October 15 2024 - Holophon Listening Station Summer

Holophon and AGR's @artgalleryofregina Listening Station returns for the summer edition!

Natural Sympathies
(Amber Goodwyn)

The Love Project (2023-2024)

This informal research project seeks to gather various personal perspectives on the experience of love toward the creation of art-based "reports" including song writing and other intuitive collation methods.

Amber Goodwyn is a settler, artist, and festival organizer based in Treaty 4 territory. Her creative work includes music (Natural Sympathies, Cobra & Vulture), writing, and filmmaking practices. Her most recent project is an expanded music project for Natural Sympathies called The Love Project (working title), a multi-disciplinary exploration of the complexities, varieties, and abstractions of love.

Ian Campbell

TWENTY20THCENTURYSUMMERS (2024)

This work is a simulation of summers past through time and space arranged by a human from exclusively AI generated sounds. Our view of the past often comes from memories amplified by technology at the same time as it is tainted by that technology. Without human memory to constantly contextualize the past, we will never see the whole picture and understand where we came from.

Ian Campbell is a filmmaker and multimedia artist who works in video, installation, and performance art. His short films have been screened across Canada at film and experimental media festivals such as Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal), WNDX (Winnipeg), Antimatter (Victoria), and The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany). He has presented performance work using live improvised projected video at artist run centres and performance venues across western Canada. He is currently based in Saskatchewan (Treaty 4), where he teaches film at the University of Regina.

Drone Day 2024 - Saturday May 25 - Regina, SK

Droneday 2024 - Saturday May 25, 2024

Neil Balkwill Arts Centre - South Side Outdoors - Regina, SK.

diatom, Ian Campbell, Jon Vaughn, Garry Wasyliuw, Guidewire.

In partnership with the Art Gallery of Regina.

Holophon Listening Station April 15 - July 10

April 15 - July 10th 2024 - Holophon Listening Station Spring

Thaw - Jon Vaughn - 13m04

A composition in four parts using field recordings, acoustic guitar and cymbal, Thaw is multidisciplinary artist Jon Vaughn’s contribution to Holophon and Art Gallery of Regina’s Listening Station project, Seasons. Spanning a year from Autumn 2023 to Summer 2024, Vaughn’s work was made for the Spring edition. Each part of Thaw has a subtitle of 32FA, B, C, and D. Thirty two degrees fahrenheit is the temperature at which ice begins to melt, part of the multi month process of thawing what has been frozen over the winter. Field recordings were made during the spring season in four different locations, Vaughn’s own backyard in Regina, Saskatchewan, Emma Lake, Wascana Lake and the riverbanks of the South Saskatchewan River that runs through Saskatoon; their place of birth and previous residence. Instrumental parts were written for acoustic guitar and cymbal, responding to the field recordings by illustrating what is unheard in them; from the mood and vibe of the geographical location to the personal associations with memory and place. Thaw follows the process of the first drips of melting ice, to a shattered mass of fragmented ice crystal flutes, to the gushing and flowing waters that transform the prairie landscape. 

DJ Dyke Boyfriend - 009 (False Spring) - 5m45s

DJ Dyke Boyfriend makes music that delights at the frayed edges, where neon light streams in through the seams of existence. Glitchy, propulsive, and layered, her mixes radiate a fresh aliveness for dance floors, making sonic space for joy, desire and limitless dreaming.

Bio:

Jaye Kovach is a multimedia and performance artist who lives as a white Magyar/Scots settler on Treaty 4 territory (Regina, Saskatchewan). Her work, which has received local and national attention, often engages their queer and trans community, taking as its starting point his positionality as a disabled and neurodivergent, butch trans woman.

In 2019, she was featured in the spotlight section of Canadian Art’s FEMME issue. In 2020, they attended the Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency. His performance work has been presented at Queer City Cinema/Performatorium, a queer media and performance art festival based in Regina that attracts international artists and filmmakers, as well as Buddies in Bad Times' Rhubarb Festival in Toronto.

Jaye is a current participant of Tender Container’s Peer Mentorship Platform, Do Trans People Dream of Non-binary Sheep?. She also facilitated the Capacitor project, a programming channel for Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming artists with a connection to Saskatchewan, with the University of Saskatchewan (USask) Art Galleries and Collection. Most recently they have been named interim project director for Into The Streets, a Regina-based mentorship program for trans girls and youth affected by transmisogyny.