Out Like a Lamb: Sarah Pebbles, Michael Lynn, Kahraba, James Mulvale, Rob Cruick...

Event Description

Come out for an auditory discovery!

𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗯: 𝗔𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 with friends! From Toronto, Sarah Peebles & Rob Cruickshank! From Kingston, Michael Lynn, Kahraba (Michael Boulos), TYΦA, and James Mulvale!

Sarah Peebles is a Toronto-based composer, improviser and installation artist. Much of her work over the past three decades has explored unconventional methods of amplification, manipulated found sound, and distinctive approaches to improvising and composing with the Japanese mouth-organ, shō (笙).

Michael Lynn is a free improvising upright bass player. They have actively been involved in the creative music scene in Toronto for the past 16yrs, running the monthly improvising music series “Audiopollination” for 13yrs. They have had album releases as part of the “Coin Operated Duo”, “The Doomsday Glitter Posse” and “The Side Eye”. Currently they are residing in Kingston and the bassist for the normcore Toronto band “Output 1:1:1”.

Under the Kahraba moniker (meaning "electricity" in Arabic) Michael Boulos focuses on using the mixing board itself as an instrument. Feedback loops, effects, gain and clipping come together in a performance that ebbs, hums, shrieks, pulses, and blares.

James Mulvale is an experimental microtonal composer from the UK, who's been settled in Kingston for nearly a decade. He explores new harmonic modulations not found in conventional western recordings.

All sounds produced by the duo TYΦA are created with handmade cattail cordage, plucked and bowed. Sonic Geographer LJ Cameron began experimenting with cattail fibres from nearby marshes of Ontario in 2023, and found they had tensile strength as musical strings, made audible with contact microphones. Working with longtime partner, sound artist Matt Rogalsky, the pair are performing as an improvisational duo with live electronic processing and responsive video, evoking a murky environment shot through with flashes of brilliance, like red-winged blackbirds seen through the marsh.