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Meridan Gallery Presents: Coppice and Ruhlmann/Clément
Meridian Gallery's next concert will feature the Chicago based duo Coppice on Wednesday, March 18th. They are performing their original composition, Compound Form, for pump organ, two tape processes, transmitters, and acoustic filters, with caduc. label cohorts Mathieu Ruhlmann and Joda Clément. This show marks the duo's first time performing on the west coast and working with Vancouver based artists Mathieu and Joda.
About the Artists
Since its foundation in 2009, Coppice has strayed away from its electronics background to create compositions, installations, discography, instruments, arrangements for performance, software, and sculptural objects. Drawing from its expanding glossary of study, they are currently focused on the development of new technologies, releases of recordings, and objects for installation and live repertoire with custom instruments, and electromagnetic and pneumatic processes. Coppice recordings have been released internationally, recently by Quakebasket (US), Triple Bath (GR), Agxivatein (GR), Pilgrim Talk (US), and Senufo Editions (IT).
Coppice performance at New Capital (Chicago); photo by Kelly Kress
Raised in Toronto and based in Vancouver, Joda Clément has been performing and composing experimental music in Canada for over 15 years, developing a unique repertoire of methods for working creatively with sound. His work utilizes analog and acoustic instruments, microphones, found objects and noises recorded from natural and urban environments, investigating hidden properties of sound, space and recording techniques that transcend a distinction between audio and source.
Joda has performed compositions, improvisation and exhibited audio/visual installations in Canada and abroad, including appearances at The Music Gallery, MOCCA, Issue Project Room (NY), Reheat (Austria), Suoni Per Il Popolo, Extermination Music Night, Electric Eclectics, MUTEK and Oboro New Media lab and his music has been released internationally on labels such as Alluvial Recordings (US), Mystery Sea (BE), Unfathomless (BE) and Simple Geometry (CA).
Over the years, collaborators include Magali Babin, Michael Northam, Hitoshi Kojo, Olivia Block, Bhob Rainey, Bonnie Jones, Kai Fagaschinski, Chris Cogburn, Tomasz Krakowiak, Mathieu Ruhlmann and Lance Austin Olsen, for example.
Mathieu Ruhlmann is a visual and sound artist residing in Vancouver, whose work includes painting, film/video, sound installation, and sound performance.
Mathieu first began composing soundworks to accompany his visual art based on found material. These soundworks investigate, through acousmatic composition and field recordings, the hidden voice or 'sonorous membrane' beneath the surface of objects, discovering the language that each object holds.Using stereo and contact microphones he processes these sounds to create a textured sonic film of the inner environment of the material.
Ruhlmann's compositions have been presented throughout the world to accompany art exhibitions, radio programs, and sound installations including Liquid Architecture in Australia, as well as released on various labels in Europe, Canada, Japan and the United States.
Mathieu Ruhlmann also curates the label, caduc, which was established to bring attention to West Coast and Canadian artists working in the electro acoustic improvised field.
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708 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
United States
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