Trading Places: un échange with °Fish Sung Sounds°

Wednesday
Nov 6, 2019

Doors: 9:30 PM
Show: 10 PM

$10 | Pay at door

Fish Sung Sounds is back and starting our 2nd season off with a bang! We’re partnering with Trading Places Un Échange, a cultural residency program that connects improvisational musicians across Montréal and Vancouver, to present a night of improvised music and dance.

Trading Places

Clarinetist Elizabeth Millar and guitarist/oudist Sam Shalabi travel to Vancouver from Montréal for a ten-day residency which includes several performances around the city with Vancouver-area musicians Soma Morse, Giorgio Magnanensi, Joshua Zubot, and Josh Stevenson. Presented in collaboration with Montreal’s Suoni Per Il Popolo, Coastal Jazz, Music on Main, and NOW Society.

Elizabeth Millar

Elizabeth Millar is an experimental musician and clarinetist based in Montreal since 2009. Engaging with sound art, free improvisation, experimental noise music and self-made instruments, her creative practice explores the merging of acoustic and electronic textures with amplification and extended techniques. She has played internationally in Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Mexico and Australia, and coast-to-coast throughout Canada. She is co-founder of Mystery & Wonder Records, and the amplified trumpet-clarinet duo, Sound of the Mountain.

Sam Shalabi

Sam Shalabi is an Egyptian- Canadian composer and improviser, living in Montreal, Quebec. Beginning in punk rock in the late 70s, his work has evolved into a fusion of experimental, modern Arabic Music that incorporates traditional Arabic, shaabi, noise, classical, text, free improvisation and jazz. He has released 5 solo albums, 5 albums with Shalabi Effect, a free improvisation quartet that bridges western psychedelic music and Arabic Maquam (scales) and 4 albums with Land Of Kush (an experimental 30 member orchestra, for which he composes). He has appeared on over 60 albums and toured Europe, North America and North Africa. Recent projects include albums with Dwarfs Of East Agouza, a Cairo based trio with Alan Bishop and Maurice Louca -Albums with Karkhana a group featuring members from all over the middle East, and the debut album by Moose Terrific (an electronic duo with Tamara Filyavich) and collaborations with vocalist Nadah El Shazly and a debut album with Oren Ambarchi, Mark Fell, and Will Guthrie.

Hasnaa Fatehi

Trained in a bunch of fancy sciences, Hasnaa spent much of her life secretly dancing in her head, in living rooms, in forests and night clubs. After immigrating to Canada in 2014, she discovered Contact Improvisation through a happy Google mistranslation. She fell in love with the form and found in movement improvisation a liberating expression beyond language and culture. She has since trained (and continues to) with renowned Contact Improvisation teachers such as Anne Cooper, Peter Bingham, Ray Chang and Mark Young, and is ever expanding her learning to other forms. She attended workshops on Solo improvisation with Helen Walkley, Ensemble thinking with Julie Lebel and Improvisation with musicians and text with Katie Duck. Recent highlights include a four month training at EDAM Dance with Peter Bingham and Reverse pilgrimage: re-authoring to dignity, a three month journey starting in Europe across the Gibraltar strait to her native land Morocco. Hasnaa never performed live but is an avid jammer and a brave woman. 

Lyle Hopkins

Lyle Hopkins is a double bassist, improviser, and composer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is interested in improvisation and interactive multimedia. He has performed at the Kaslo Jazz Etc. Festival, Oregon Jazz Festival, Reno Jazz Festival, Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival, Seattle Jazz Experience, and Vancouver International Jazz Festival. His work has been featured at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Western Front (Vancouver), WoodStockhausen (Victoria), and Sonic Boom Music Festival (Vancouver). Lyle holds a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon and he has studied with double bassists Tyler Abbott, André Lachance, Jodi Proznick, and Darren Radtke.

Sonja Janousek

With an interest in process and experience before outcome, Sonja enjoys creating connection with improvisers and finding natural, yet unexpected, evolution and endings. As an avid fan (and occasional dabbler) of all things percussive, Sonja enjoys extending her practice of ensemble improvisation from dancers to musicians. When not dancing, Sonja can be found challenging siloed mentalities and creating new and additional connections as an environmental sustainability consultant. She is a six year member of Polymer Dance, where she works alongside other dancers, developing ensemble improvisation skills and creating pieces for inclusive and alternative stages. Such stages includes the Vines Art Festival, the Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival, Link Community Dance, as well as in parks and outdoor spaces around the city.

Victoria Gibson

Victoria Gibson creates an intriguing blend of electro-acoustic music that defies categorization. Investigating the possibilities of creating a dream-like liminal space to inspire an emotional response; she is inspired to communicate stories that have relevance to society or the environment. Working with sound, using both electronic and acoustic source materials, she explores new compositional structures that encourage improvisation with electric guitar and voice as live audio sources. Combining elements from her musical blues heritage with music she has studied from around the world she creates a sonic landscape in the digital domain. She has performed her compositions nationally and internationally. Victoria holds a BA, major in music from UBC and is a resident of Vancouver, Canada.