Studio XX: FB Salon #40 - Boyfriend: Live from Latvia

karen wong programmation at studioxx.org
Thu May 22 11:11:08 CEST 2003



        Montreal, May 21, 2003 / For Immediate Release
        Please forward this information / We apologize for any
        cross-postings





    Femmes br at nchées Salon #49
    Boyfriend: Live from Latvia
    live audio stream + interview + video



In collaboration with the RIXC Centre for
New Media Culture - Riga, Latvia

May 30th at 6 p.m. - Studio XX
Members: free / Non-members: $3

Infos: www.studioxx.org <http://www.studioxx.org/> or 
http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/



         > day 00 <http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/setup.html>

         > day 01 <http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/day1.html>

         > day 02 <http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/day2.html>

         > day 03 <http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/day3.html>

         > day 04 <http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/day4.html>

         > day 05 <http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/day5.html>

         > day 06 <http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/day6.html>

         > day 07 <http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/day7.html>

         > day 08 <http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/day8.html>

         > day 09 <http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/day9.html>

         > day 10 <http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/day10.html>




        References

         > Hannah Bosma: Gender Issues in Electronic Music
        <http://cf.hum.uva.nl/%7Ehannah/genderissuesinelectrovocalmusicindex.html>






Studio XX, Montreal's foremost women's digital resource centre, is proud 
to present Boyfriend - Bernadette Houde and Maija Martin - who have 
travelled to the RIXC New Media Centre in Riga, Latvia for the month of 
May. Many people are excluded from contemporary electronic music due to 
its often opaque means of production, limited distribution avenues and 
over-intellectualized justifications of what is essentially audio 
masturbation. Boyfriend's mission is to demystify electronic music 
technologies by making their process transparent to their listeners.

Boyfriend will create one song each day for 10 days. The songs will be 
constructed using computer generated beats, software synthesizers, 
enhanced midi files, live bass and other sounds collected while in Riga. 
This process will be documented daily on the internet at: 
http://projets.studioxx.org/boyfriend/.
At the end of each day, the duo will upload the day's song accompanied 
by documentation such as sound samples, photos and a daily log. The site 
will allow listeners to witness their trials, errors and breakthroughs, 
as well as glean technical information.

On May 30th, Boyfriend will host a listening party "Live from Latvia", 
featuring the new songs created and streamed to Montreal using RIXC's 
server. As part of the Webcast, they will interview Rasa Smite of the 
RIXC Center about the Art + Communication - Media Architecture 
<http://rixc.lv/03/info.html> conference taking place in Riga from May 
15th - 18th, 2003. At the party in Montreal, local artist Tricia 
Middleton will mix video and DJ Cyan will play records.


_Boyfriend
Boyfriend is a female electronic music duo starring Bernie Bankrupt and 
Mix Master Maija. This duo represents an opportunity to combine their 
musical talents and technical capacities, bringing together disciplines 
such as theatre, new media and music. Boyfriend has been working 
together since 1999 on video, music, and Web art projects.


_Tricia Middleton
Tricia Middleton is a cross-disciplinary artist working with a variety 
of forms including sound, video, sculpture, drawing, text, installation, 
and curation. Originally from Vancouver, she completed her BFA from the 
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (Honours, 1995), and is now newly 
enrolled in the MFA programme at Concordia University, Montreal. Her 
videotapes have been exhibited widely at national and international 
festivals.


_DJ Cyan
DJ Cyan has been dropping beats on Montreal's airwaves since 1996 with 
the launch of Third Ear Movement on CKUT Radio, which garnered respect 
as one of the city's most popular electronic music shows. Another 
initiative, Traktion (www.traktion.com), evolved in 1998 as a late night 
excursion into techno rhythms. She now co-hosts Modular Systems, a 
magazine show highlighting local artists and music. Her style can vary 
from abstract downtempo to deep house to dancefloor rocking techno.


_RIXC Centre for New Media Culture, Riga (Latvia)
http://www.rixc.lv/
The aim of the RIXC entre is to bridge the traditional gap between 
'high' and popular culture and the divisions between various youth, sub- 
and minority cultures. RIXC is the member of NICE network 
(Nordic-Baltic-North-East European network for small scale innovative 
initiatives in the field of new media culture (http://nice.x-i.net). It 
takes part in other international and cross disciplinary networks, 
co-projects and mailing-lists in Europe, Canada and other parts of the 
world. It intends to become a meeting place for different types of 
culture on local and international scales.


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++ Studio XX - media arts and resource centre for women
++ 338, terrasse saint-denis, montreal qc h2x 1e8
(metro sherbrooke or berri-uqam, bus 24 or 125)
++ 514.845.7934 / www.studioxx.org <http://www.studioxx.org/>/
programmation at studioxx.org <mailto:programmation at studioxx.org>


Founded in Montreal in 1995, Studio XX is a media arts resource centre 
for women, which privileges the production and promotion of digital art 
works. Studio XX wishes to foreground the multiple territories, voices 
and acts that women have drawn for themselves in the vast territory of 
imagination, in order to shape and define new limits of cyberspace.

Studio XX would like to thank its partners for their generous 
contributions: Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Canada 
Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal and McCauslan.








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