Review – Hmmm Remix – by Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

KATHY KENNEDY – HMMM REMIX COMPILATION (CD by Le Son 666)

Perhaps it’s safe to assume that all people hum, at least every now and then. Humming to themselves, to a tune or to meditate. Kathy Kennedy, of whom I never heard, does group hummings for ‘sonic experimentation and meditation, for play and for physical well-being’. Recordings of this humming were given to a whole bunch of people in order to crank out some form of remix, which is clever thinking, me thinks, because it brings her work to a new audience. Kennedy is, I believe, from Montreal, so some of the Montreal posse are here, such as Helene Prevost, i8u but also Francisco Lopez, Kim Cascone, Thanos Chrysakis, Austici, and lesser known names, such as Doug van Nort, Magali Babin, Jonas Olesen, Margaret Schedel. Some of them use the humming of voices as a starting point to create electronic deviations of it, other use the voices as voices, and layered them, change the pitch etc. But all of the twelve remixes (the first track is a sort of documentary piece about humming and people are being interviewed) seem to be interested in creating densely, atmospheric music in which you can feel good. To create perhaps a similar effect as humming, to enter a relaxing state. Quite a nice compilation, but not always a big surprise.

Address: http://www.le-son666.com

(FdW, Vital Weekly, #614)

Montreal 03.04.2004 – Studio XX


THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2004, 5:30 pm @ Studioxx

Salon Femmes br@nchées #54 – FUGUES INTERACTIVES

Studio XX, Montreal¹s premier digital resource centre for women, proposes a rendezvous with five sound artists just coming out from months of new technical explorations. As always, tantalising snacks will be provided during this Happy Hour get-together.

Freed from intensive sessions in front of their monitors, the artists who participated in the MAX professional development workshop are happy to present their works-in-progress. They will demystify for you this programming environment that they loved discovering. Why MAX? To learn a versatile new tool that allows for a plethora of possibilities ­ electric, interactive, musical. During the first part of the evening, Chantal Dumas, Kathy Kennedy, I8U and Vera Ronkos will expose the interactive applications that they developed using sound and automation. The instructor of the workshop, Patrice Coulombe will join with them to convince you that MAX is a necessary tool for all interdisciplinary and technological artists!

Montreal 02.05.2003 – Free Radical

FREE RADICAL CONCERT SERIES
February 5th – 8th, 2003
at the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault,
2022, Sherbrooke St. East,
Montreal, Quebec

A premiere performance by duo
Magali Babin and I8U at the
Maid in Cyberspace Festival 06

With an eye on emerging artists, the
Free Radical Concert Series features
a range of new music, from actuelle
and experimental to orchestral, electro,
and technopunk.
CONCERT SCHEDULE

Wednesday, February 5th : Electrotext Acoustica
(an evening in Quadrophonic Sound)
Kathy Kennedy
Alexis O`Hara

Thursday, February 6th : IMPROV
Magali Babin and i8u
Haeyoung Kim (NYC Game Boy Composer)

Friday, February 7th : New Electronic Music
Anna Friz + Annabelle Chvostek (Theremin )
[sic] (a.k.a Squirrelgirl)
Myléna Bergeron

Saturday, February 8th: The Great Bitbang
Lesbians on Ecstacy
Nanobot Auxillary Ballet
Haeyoung Kim (NYC GameBoy composer)
Alice and the Serial Numbers

More Info:

http://www.studioxx.org/