On Friday,August 23rd for Alleyways in the Exchange, Makade Star and send + receive return to the 189 Bannatyne lot, featuring performances by Shadow Pattern, Body of Intrigue, and Camping with Bret.
Free and outdoors at 7pm!
Nathan Ivanco’s Shadow Pattern, based in Hamilton, Ontario, is a project for whom the term ‘under-the-radar’ is a cute understatement. Operating with scant regard for the cultivation of listenership or exposure, Ivanco’s work – both as Shadow Pattern and through his Hamilton Tapes label – usually manifests via subterraneously low-key tape editions that rarely if ever make out of his home country of Canada. Typically these releases are procured by direct contact with Ivanco himself and forgo the usual online Noise tape hype cycle. No bandcamp, no webstores, no promo, no bullshit.
Mangled, stripped-back samples are subjected to the crudest of electronic processing whilst washed-out ambience saturated with tape hiss and eerie recurring motifs gently propel themselves across multiple tracks. Elsewhere more outwardly experimental and freeform works appear in the mix, impressing the idea that these pieces were vehicles to document Ivanco’s ongoing sonic interests as much as eventual committed, final works. Above all, there is quiet sophistication evident in Ivanco’s knack for arrangement and pace evoking the most classical instincts of concrete sound obsession even within such deeply homemade sonic environs.
Body of Intrigue is the experimental entity of Adara Moreau from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her work involves incorporating field recordings/natural resources with minimal noise at times, and/or waves of ambient sound.
Alleyways Sounds is part of Alleyways in the Exchange, a monthly summer event that explores different alleys in the Exchange District though audio and dance performances, a makers’ market and art lounge.
Friday, June 21 | Friday, July 19 | Friday, August 23