Tonight, a phone interview with Edmonton-based sound sculptor Mark Templeton. Mark played at the Epcor Centre on Thurs. Jan 19 as part of the Soundasaurus festival.
Links to download the show recording: mp3 ogg
(From Mark's web site:)
Canadian sound artist Mark Templeton utilizes acoustic instruments, found sounds and sampled material to construct textured, collage-like electronic compositions. Since the release of his critically acclaimed “Standing on a Hummingbird” in 2007, his sound has been called "pastoral," but also "painterly" in an attempt to describe how his sources are crumbled and reconstructed into new forms; a process further developed and realized on subsequent releases for Anticipate Recordings, Staalplaat and Sweat Lodge Guru.
Templeton's works have been commissioned by organizations of contemporary dance, film and audiovisual disciplines. His live performances have at times been accompanied by Edmonton-based experimental filmmaker aAron Munson's visuals. In 2009 this ongoing collaboration resulted in the release of M. Templeton & aA. Munson: Acre Loss on CD and DVD.
Templeton has performed at international festivals and alternative spaces such as MUTEK Festival (Montreal), Unsound Festival (Krakow), Eat This Festival (Utrecht), Galapagos (New York), Send + Receive Festival (Winnipeg), Half Die Festival (Rome), Café OTO (London) and Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival (Montreal).
Along with filmmaker/photographer Kyle Armstrong Mark presented EXTENSIONS - an audiovisual performance at the Epcor Centre. EXTENSIONS refering to McLuhan’s book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The performance took place on Thursday, January 19th. The show was both aurally and visually arresting with moments of blissful pastoral beauty and gut-rumbling low frequency noise. Mark's wizardry with the tape loops and effects were mesmerizing and Kyle's visual imagery (looped/spliced/processed film footage etc.) was not just a beautiful visual accompaniment, but visually engaging, both conveying ideas and affecting emotions. The set totally lived up to my expectations. Hopefully it will be recorded for posterity and released in the future.
The interview starts at about the 43 minute mark of the recording and lasts for about 40 minutes. The rest of the show went as follows: The Drift - The Skull Hand Smiles/ May You Fare Well from "Blue Hour" (Temporary Residence Ltd.), Simon Scott - Betty from "Bunny" (Miasmah), Morgan Greenwood - Fur Unison from "Winter" (Bandcamp), Oneohtrix Point Never - Power of Persuasion from "Replica" (Mexican Summer/Software), The Caretaker - When the Dog Days Were Drawing to an End from "Patience (After Sebald)" (History Always Favours The Winners), Saito Koji - Music from "Music" (Resting Bell), Mark Templeton - Beginnings from "Sea Point" (Anticipate), Mark Templeton - Scotch Heart from "Scotch Heart" (Sweat Lodge Guru), [Mark Templeton Phone Interview], Nicola Ratti - Cathrina from "220 Tones" (Die Schachtel), Maps & Diagrams - Hide Yourself in Silence from "Lights Will Call On You" (Nomadic Kids Republic), Kreng - Petite Grimoire from "Grimoire" (Miasmah), Jacaszek - Evening Strains to be Time's Vast from "Glimmer" (Ghostly International), Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason - Saccades from "Solaris" (Bedroom Community), Grouper & Ilyas Ahmed - Flickering from "Visitor" (Social Music's Record and Tape Club), Two Bicycles - The Ocean (Part One) from "The Ocean" (Crash Symbols), and Poor Man's Fantasy - Riley Park from "Drifter" (Desperate Living).
Canadian sound artist Mark Templeton utilizes acoustic instruments, found sounds and sampled material to construct textured, collage-like electronic compositions. Since the release of his critically acclaimed “Standing on a Hummingbird” in 2007, his sound has been called "pastoral," but also "painterly" in an attempt to describe how his sources are crumbled and reconstructed into new forms; a process further developed and realized on subsequent releases for Anticipate Recordings, Staalplaat and Sweat Lodge Guru.
Templeton's works have been commissioned by organizations of contemporary dance, film and audiovisual disciplines. His live performances have at times been accompanied by Edmonton-based experimental filmmaker aAron Munson's visuals. In 2009 this ongoing collaboration resulted in the release of M. Templeton & aA. Munson: Acre Loss on CD and DVD.
Templeton has performed at international festivals and alternative spaces such as MUTEK Festival (Montreal), Unsound Festival (Krakow), Eat This Festival (Utrecht), Galapagos (New York), Send + Receive Festival (Winnipeg), Half Die Festival (Rome), Café OTO (London) and Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival (Montreal).
Along with filmmaker/photographer Kyle Armstrong Mark presented EXTENSIONS - an audiovisual performance at the Epcor Centre. EXTENSIONS refering to McLuhan’s book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The performance took place on Thursday, January 19th. The show was both aurally and visually arresting with moments of blissful pastoral beauty and gut-rumbling low frequency noise. Mark's wizardry with the tape loops and effects were mesmerizing and Kyle's visual imagery (looped/spliced/processed film footage etc.) was not just a beautiful visual accompaniment, but visually engaging, both conveying ideas and affecting emotions. The set totally lived up to my expectations. Hopefully it will be recorded for posterity and released in the future.
The interview starts at about the 43 minute mark of the recording and lasts for about 40 minutes. The rest of the show went as follows: The Drift - The Skull Hand Smiles/ May You Fare Well from "Blue Hour" (Temporary Residence Ltd.), Simon Scott - Betty from "Bunny" (Miasmah), Morgan Greenwood - Fur Unison from "Winter" (Bandcamp), Oneohtrix Point Never - Power of Persuasion from "Replica" (Mexican Summer/Software), The Caretaker - When the Dog Days Were Drawing to an End from "Patience (After Sebald)" (History Always Favours The Winners), Saito Koji - Music from "Music" (Resting Bell), Mark Templeton - Beginnings from "Sea Point" (Anticipate), Mark Templeton - Scotch Heart from "Scotch Heart" (Sweat Lodge Guru), [Mark Templeton Phone Interview], Nicola Ratti - Cathrina from "220 Tones" (Die Schachtel), Maps & Diagrams - Hide Yourself in Silence from "Lights Will Call On You" (Nomadic Kids Republic), Kreng - Petite Grimoire from "Grimoire" (Miasmah), Jacaszek - Evening Strains to be Time's Vast from "Glimmer" (Ghostly International), Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason - Saccades from "Solaris" (Bedroom Community), Grouper & Ilyas Ahmed - Flickering from "Visitor" (Social Music's Record and Tape Club), Two Bicycles - The Ocean (Part One) from "The Ocean" (Crash Symbols), and Poor Man's Fantasy - Riley Park from "Drifter" (Desperate Living).
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