Vancouver guitarists and composers Alvaro Rojas and Cole Schmidt reunite and celebrate with a new LP and repertoire of guitar duets, nondual. The duo’s riffs, songs, counterpoint, drones and improvisations twist and turn in the contemporary style, accompanied by live visuals by digital artist Travis Kirton. Kirton’s artwork explores how simple computational rules unfold into dense, emergent structures, and mirrors the duo’s movements. They are joined by special guest May Joy Bosaing, whose live shadow follows the Muy Thai tradition of pairing music (sarama) with pre-fight rituals and the fight itself, with the pacing of the music swelling to inform their strikes & intensity.
Haley Bird is an oboist, improviser and multimedia artist residing in Vancouver, BC. Recently, Bird has been experimenting with wind synthesizer in addition to their primary instrument, the oboe. In their creative practice, they explore themes of disability, anticapitalism, nonsense, community care, and beyond-human creaturehood.