sonic glow sound+vision
at rodman hall
boutique hotel
SONIC GLOW is an original event series produced by the Niagara Artists Centre and part of this year’s Mighty Niagara Film Fest. Seven years on, it continues to explore new possibilities for expression by combining live performance with moving image.
Merging sound and image into a single experience is nothing new. Newton formed equations between diatonic scale and colour in the 1600s. At the advent of moving image technology, live music was integral to cinema experiences. Contemporary technologies continue to facilitate and empower creativity where the senses of sight and hearing merge, often before preceding technologies have been fully explored. NAC builds platforms where the promise for uncommon creative expression and audience experience can be fulfilled.
sound+vision artists
Grey Lands (15 min) w/ Kid Krome
Grey Lands is an improvised noise trio that anchors itself with melodic riffs and bursts of sonic eruptions. Songs are washed with spiked feedback that recalls early Spaceman 3 or even Sonic Youth’s SYR releases along with low frequency, start/stop, Swans-esque punches of bottom-end.
Visuals by Kid Krome, creator of immersive environments in the context of the dance floor, the club, or the gallery. Drawing from Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable, the opulence of Studio 54, 80s house, and the impossible future of Rave Culture, Kid Krome paints a futuristic portrait pixel by pixel.
Jess Chau, Matt Nguyen, Nash Danger (15 min) w/ La Ronde Magazine
This purpose driven trio will provide sonic textures and swelling soundscapes with a combination of digital samples and electric bass.
Visuals by La Ronde Magazine, an ad hoc group of image manipulators.
Maggot Pizza (15 min) w/ Ciara Garland
Maggot Pizza is a band of three aliens, Logan Legros, Jacob Legros, and Josh Morin. Writing and recording music in their home studio, ‘The Maggot Pizzeria,’ they experiment with a mix of traditional and electronic instruments to create high energy, sporadic, and heavy dance music.
Visuals by Ciera Garland, filmmaker, editor, and horror movie fanatic, brings cult classics to the screen in a new way.
Wild Side (15 min)
Wild Side is built on speed, heaviness (in the old sense), deadpan humour, and riffs that check in at the brain's pleasure centres and never check out. They will be responding to their own re-cut of the second film in the Mad Max franchise.