Listed in reverse chronological order. All performances took place in Montreal, QC
unless otherwise stated.
Performed first ever public solo set of unaccompanied and unamplified acoustic guitar improvisations for Gavin's birthday. You'd think after some 26 years of playing guitar and my belief that it's the best music I make, a live set would have happened earlier. Sh*t happens. Or doesn't.
Performed on electric guitar with the jam/stoner-rock trio Los Druidos (A.K.A. Druid Style), opening for Wil Murray's The Factory Hens. After about 40 minutes of playing a pretty monolithic stonerrock jam, the owner of the place cut the power on us! Rawk N Roll! Best show no-one saw!
Performed a solo live set (the first one in a long time) during the tentacules.09 event. I did harmonic singing in my acoustic guitar, and later, treated it with electronics (amplified by a boombox).
Performed live in Le Black Noise during the second day of the Le Placard event happening at MUTEK. The audio portion has been archived on bandeapart.fm's site
Played in a trio with Flüffy Erskine and Michel Meunier, improvising music for the last 2 reels of Andy Warhol's _EMPIRE_. Also performances by: Esther B.; Mauro Pezzente, Bruce Cawdron, Gordon Krieger & Jesse Levine; John Heward, Rainer Wiens & Malcolm Goldstein; Caroline Künzle & Marcello Marandola; Matt Lederman; Mitchell Akiyama; Christof Migone; Crackpot.
Performed live (on "disco hi-hat") in the GlitterSoul Orchestra formed by the Natacha's recordings collective.
Performed live (on "disco hi-hat") in the GlitterSoul Orchestra (a 19-piece disco-soul ensemble formed by the Natacha's recordings collective).
Performed live (on prepared guitar) in a duo with Francis Arsenault, opening for Martin Tétreault and Otomo Yoshihide. This was the opening evening of the SuperOption2 series of musique actuelle concerts organized by SuperMusique.
Performed live (on "disco hi-hat") in the collective band Rivers and Mountains with Ralph Thomas.
Performed live (on radios/electronics) in a duo with Alexis Bellavance in a performance involving invisible sounds. The sold-out event happened in his backyard, and the audience were all wearing headphones. Also performing were Samuel Roy-Bois in a solo performance and the duo of Maude Smith-Gagnon + Mathieu Lévesque. The event was organized by périphériques (follow that link for photos, video & audio, under archives for #2).
Performed live (on prepared guitar) in a trio with Jacques Gravel (bass trombone) and Alexandre St-Onge (double-bass).
Performed live (on electronics) in a duo with a_dontigny as Micro Désastre. Also playing were Martin Tétreault + Napalm Jazz, themoonstealingproject (from Baltimore), Esther B., Jon Asencio, and The Undisciplined Disciples.
Performed live (on prepared guitar) with Nathalie Dion (alias Zazalie Z.) and Nathalie Derome for the second Collimateur event.
Performed live (on organ) with a_dontigny, Diane Labrosse and Érick D'Orion for the CD launch of "télépathie" on notype. Click here for the live recording.
Performed live (on prepared zither) in a duo with Alexandre St-Onge (double-bass). The evening also featured the duo of Diane Labrosse (sampler) and Julie Rousse (laptop), as well as the duo of E3F1 (sampling/laptop & prepared organ). The evening was recorded by radio-canada's le navire "night". Follow this link for some photos and videoclips.
Performed live (on prepared guitar) in a duo with Zazalie Z. (AKA Nathalie Dion, voice, poetry). Also performing were: Irène Mayer, Diane Trahan and Dico-Tommy.
Performed live (on prepared guitar) in Le chemin des machines, as part of the Machines concert series (see their site for photos & videoclips). Playing with 7 other musicians each in separate locations, including Diane Labrosse, Alexandre St-Onge, Steeve Lebrasseur, Raphaël Simard, Aimé Dontigny, Julie Rousse, and Mathieu Lévesque.
plus 4 musicians via the web: Jocelyn Robert (California), Kevin M. Krebs (Vancouver), and Francesco Guerri & Gianluca Galante (Italy).
Furthermore, the collective improvisation was sculpted and spatialised in the main space by a tag-team of 4 electro-acousticians: Marc Tremblay, Jean-François Denis, Gilles Gobeil, Louis Dufort. The audience members could walk around, hearing each musician separately, or all together in one place.
Performed live (on prepared guitar) in a quartet with Jacques Gravel (bass trombone), André Asselin (double-bass) and Samuel Roy-Bois (double-bass). Opening up was F.Caisult (A.K.A. Francis Arsenault, of CFOU & CKUT) on "wire".
Performed live (on radios & interference) in Trio Saccacomie with Érick Dorion (laptop, sampler) and Guillaume Théroux-Rancourt (tapes, equalisers). This is the first anniversary of the Machines series.
also on the bill: Steve Heimbecker, Samiland (Millimetrik, Monobor), Unboard (Patrick Bouchard (e3), Philippe Pasquier (Monobor)).
Performed live (on prepared guitar) in a quartet with Jacques Gravel (bass trombone), Flüffy Erskine (percussion) and Michel Meunier (prepared guitar). Headlining was Knurl's ambient project Pholde. Presented by alien8recordings.
Performed live (on prepared guitar) in a trio w/ with Jacques Gravel (bass trombone) and Zazalie Z. Also playing were Whilst and Sundar Subramanian.
Performed live (on prepared guitar) in a duo with Jacques Gravel (bass trombone) for a vernissage.
Performed live (on prepared guitar) in a duo with Jacques Gravel (bass trombone), as well as a trio w/ Jacques and Zazalie Z. (AKA Nathalie Dion). This is a vernissage for an exhibition of Zazalie Z.'s woodcuts.
in a duo with Jacques Gravel (bass trombone) The evening featured Sundar Subramanian, and 'Gypt Gore (Sam Shalabi+ Philémon).
Improvised a soundtrack for the 1925 silent film Strike by Sergei M. Eisenstein, with Philémon, Eric Craven (of hangedup), and Flüffy (of molasses).
Performed prepared guitar in a duo with bass trombonist Jacques Gravel, opening for 'Gypt Gore (Sam Shalabi + Philémon). Also joined them later in the evening, forming a quartet.
Performed prepared guitar in a trio with Esther B. (turntable + prepared records) and Aimé Dontigny (trumpet, voice, casio sk-1).
Performed prepared guitar in a duo with bass trombonist Jacques Gravel, then as guest with the quintet of Jacques Gravel, Philémon, Aimé Dontigny, André Asselin and Will Glass.
Performed a solo set on prepared guitar and radio. Also playing were The Reasons and Sundar Subramanian.
Performed a 38-minute solo set using radios and prepared guitar. The event was called postrien, part of the Rien à voir festival, co-produced by no type. More details. Also on the bill was Cal Crawford.
Performed live (on electronics) in a quartet w/ Magali Babin, Alexandre St-Onge and Guillaume Théroux (A.K.A. Le chien borgne).
Performed live (on guitar) in a quintet w/ Aimé Dontigny, Philémon, Jacques Gravel and Jesse Levine. This marked the first public performance of Yves Hudon's composition Africa/Grass. We opened for Tim Olive/Jeffrey Allport, and The Draperies (from Toronto).
Performed live (on prepared guitar) w/ Aimé and Philémon as part of the opening party at artist collective gallery/studio etc. space, along with Fonderie Darling. This marked our first performance since abandoning the name Yves Hudon et Son Equipe.
A benefit concert for Le Centre d'Apprentissage Parallèle de Montréal (CAP). Performed a 10-minute set for a largely-unappreciative crowd in the group Yves Hudon et Son Equipe. An audience member jumped on stage to yell a few lines in the mic. Also of note, my bandmates Aimé and Philémon played in the trio Hochelaga debout! with Jacques Gravel (trumpet, alto sax, bass trombone respectively).
Overlapping sets by Camp (of no type), a duo of Magali Babin and James (A.K.A. Qui Joue Quoi?), CinDy (Alexandre St-Onge + Sam Shalabi), and Yves Hudon et Son Equipe, featuring notype/Napalm Jazz members Philémon & Aimé.
Participated in the the 'rumble', hosted by Detention (Alex MacSween & Sam Shalabi), along with André Asselin, Marc Chénard, Aimé Dontigny, Érick Dorion, Flüffy Erskine, Jacques Gravel, John Heward, Norsola Johnson, Jesse Levine, Philémon and Rob Stevens. A lot of fun; I played prepared guitar and radio/tape mangler.
On the show le
navire 'night', which featured excerpts of OUT1-5, and some live shenanigans
live from Studio 12 hosted by Eric Létourneau, with Philippe
Lambert, Jon Asencio, Magali
Babin, Alex MacSween, Alex Moskos, Nathalie Dion, and Esther b. (who
also took photos
).
Under shelter from the cold icy rain, but not the
wind, with failing batteries, we played hammered dulcimer, electronics,
noises, samples and voice.
Huddled under an overpass in the old port near Silo #5, we tried to take shelter from the wind on this cold, almost-Hallowe'en evening. Lit in part by pumpkins, we did a 40-minute performance with an audience of 2, using battery-powered electronics, voice and toys.
10-minute opening set, providing background
noisescape and sounds for Matt & 'Greg', who read their One-Sentence
Stories. (dis)Organized by Paula Belina, although the place was miraculously
packed despite. I mangled tapes & radio buzz, with a very minimal setup.
Musicians: 3, Audience: 0. Hardly really a
show, since it was scheduled officially by monstre for 8AM, and no-one
showed up to watch us make noise in the woods! monstre did his voice stuff
with a few toys, jon had a synth and an old 75-in-1 electronics kit, and
i made sounds w/ a contact mic and effects and my voice and a cow.
Due to some miscommunication, I had to do a very short opening set, which
was a loud, droning affair on a minimal setup. Then the amazing Detention
played. Then Thierry [godspeed..., molasses] joined them. Finally, everyone
was on a cramped stage, and we played for almost an hour; it was a lot
of fun. I mangled tapes and used radio, creating short bursts of noise,
or droning things. Sam did electronics, Michel played prepared guitar,
Flüffy [molasses] drums & junk percussion (including a ventilation
duct), Thierry on contrabasse, and Alex on drums & nose flute. A really
nice evening at the cozy Casa
del Popolo organized by alien8recordings.
"kneel right down what was it anyway / guitar on the ground what was it
anyway" -- Kim Gordon 'nevermind
(what was it anyway)'
It was an eclectic evening, an interesting bill to
be sure. This time I had a radio drone going, purposely generating
a burst of static every so often. Also, a guitar played mallet-style, processed
thru various effects. Near the end, I just used a sort of oscillation
generated by the effects themselves, modifying various parameters via a
parametric EQ. Po was really great... a real pleasure to see
Alexandre on his contrabasse again.
[photos by Heather Thompson]
My first solo show. My main sound source was the whirring of a music box
and a tape recorder capstan (both of which I found in the garbage). The
sound was processed thru various effects. For the finale, I reconnected
the chime of the music box, revealing the source. Aube did a more
ambient set with 2 panes of glass; it was riveting to see. At the last
minute, David Kristian could not make it. The evening was organized by
alien8recordings.
Quite a disaster. I had just driven back from a NYC weekender w/ friends, dead tired, ran to the gig where Philippe had set up my stuff. I used my most complex setup ever, which had worked quite well at home: 2 radios, a mic & a contact mic, and effects. The mic fed back uncontrollably, the radios produced uninteresting static. Curiously, some people had enjoyed it.
Dear Paula got Matt on the bill of an in-store series of young poets, and Matt brought me along to provide noisescapes. Not knowing what kind of sound system was involved, I brought a minimal setup: boombox to act as speakers, some tapes, a contact mic and 2 effects pedals. Although Matt thought it wasn't going well, he cut it short, but I felt it was our best performance (or at least, there were a minimum of screw-ups). It was certainly interesting to see the audience's reaction, wondering what a distortion pedal was doing at a poetry reading!
Matt this time had his computer, playing various samples. We had actually
rehearsed this time, and worked out a vague piece. I used tapes, radio
and guitar, played mallet-style. We had a section in which Matt read some
of his one-sentence stories and I provided a noisescape. Unfortunately,
the sound guy messed up Matt's computer volume, so I had to turn my stuff
down, and it didn't work well.
[photo by Attila Tolnai]
My first public performance. Matt did his one-sentence stories spoken-word thing, and I provided some background noisescapes & sounds between them, using tapes, guitar and effects.