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Issu dune collaboration clate entre lensemble vocal Phth et lartiste visuelle Beth Frey, ce spectacle met en lumire les six chanteurs et leurs costumes, mtamorphoss et fusionns grce un montage numrique captivant.
Collaboration entre lartiste visuelle Beth Frey et lensemble vocal Phth, Nmangerie mche! fait dfiler sur vido une ribambelle de personnages tranges, mis en son par une performance vocale dans lespace. La signature stylistique de Phth est,tout comme lart visuel de BethFrey, pleine dhumour et de surprises. La nature informe et chromatique des cratures de Beth partage des chos conceptuels et sensoriels frappants avec leur mise envoix bizarrode par Phth, connuspour leur palette sonore qui accueille la beaut et la laideur organiques du son sans discrimination.

Chaque vocaliste de lensemble Phth est compositeurtrice et improvisateurtrice; le processus cratif pour cette uvre estun hybride de co-cration collective, dimprovisation vocale et de partition visuelle partir des images vido. Les outils artistiques de Beth Frey englobent le dessin laquarelle, lart vido, lgo-portrait, le dtournement dapplications mobiles et une utilisation crative de lintelligence artificielle, qui questionne et djoue ses problmatiques inhrentes. Les corps et mouvements des membres de Phth ont servi construire les tres morphologiquement ambigus de cette mascarade, qui semblent suspendus entrele plaisir et linquitude, leprcieux et le grotesque.

Un spectacle baroque, exubrant etrsolument moderne qui promet debrouiller les frontires entre ralit et imaginaire.

The result of an explosive collaboration between vocal ensemble Phth and visual artist Beth Frey, this show highlights the six singers andtheir costumes, metamorphosed andfused through captivating digitalediting.
Prepare yourself forthis explosive collaboration between the vocal ensemble Phth and visual artist Beth Frey Nmangerie mche! features a parade of strange characters on video, set tosound by a vocal performance in space. Phths signature style, like Beth Freys visual art, is rife with humour and surprises. The formless, chromatic nature of Beths creatures share striking conceptual and sensory echoes with theirbizarre voicing by Phth, known for their sonic palette that welcomes both the organic beauty and ugliness of sound without discrimination.

Each vocalist in the Phthensemble is a composer and improviser; the creative process for this work is a hybrid of collective co-creation, vocal improvisation and visual scoring using video images. Beth Freys artistic tools include watercolour drawing, video art, self-portraiture, hijacking ofmobile applications and creative use of artificial intelligence Thebodies and movements of the Phth have been used to construct the morphologically ambiguous beings of this menagerie, who seems suspended between pleasure and anxiety, the precious and grotesque.

A baroque, exuberant and resolutely modern show that promises to effacethe boundaries between reality and imagination.

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Returning to Toronto to play a solo concert of new, old & very old music on Feb. 16th at the Monarch Tavern.

Sunday, Feb. 16th
John Kameel Farah, piano & synthesizers
doors open 7:30pm, concert at 8:00pm
The Monarch Tavern
12 Clinton St, Toronto


John Kameel Farah is a Palestinian-Canadian composer and pianist whose music embraces aspects of Baroque and Early Music, Middle-Eastern Music, Improvisationand Electronic Music. He has studied with Terry Riley in California, and at the Arabic Music Retreat in Hartford. Calling his music Baroque-Middle-Eastern-Cyberpunk, John combines the piano with electronics, moving freely between improvised soundscapes and detailedcompositions. His project Music for Organ & Synthesizers treats the organ as the first, ancientsynthesizer, which he presents inchurches and cathedrals across Europe. John has performed across Europe and North America, as well asSouth Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Palestine, and most recently in Amman,Jordan. In 2003 he gave master-classes at the Edward Said National Conservatory in Ramallah.

Artwork@johnkameelfarah

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