//electroacoustic composition, geonotational mapping, location recording, installation, experimental music, fun

musician and artist based in Los Angeles
www.byronwestbrook.com

France Jobin is a sound / installation / artist, composer, and curator residing in Montreal, whose audio art, qualified as "sound-sculpture", reveals a minimalist approach to complex sound environments where analog and digital intersect. Her installations incorporate both musical and visual elements inspired by the architecture of physical spaces. Her work can be “experienced” internationally in varied music venues and new technology festivals, such as Mutek, Flussi, FIMAV, SEND + RECEIVE, Club Transmediale, ISEA RUHR 2010, surface tension and symétrie tours in Japan. 

Jobin has solo recordings on many renowned labels, mainly ROOM40 (AU), LINE (US), nvo (AT), Baskaru (FR) and ATAK (JP). Her sound art is also part of countless compilation albums. 
Invited by the AIR Artist-In-Residence program in Krems, she created und transit, a sound installation set in the MinoritenKirche cloister in Stein (AT). Her two ongoing collaborations with visual artist Cédrick Eymenier (FR) have resulted in  EVENT HORIZON, an audio/video piece, and The Answer, a movie, with the soundtrack by France Jobin and Stephan Mathieu. EVENT HORIZON was screened in Paris (2010), at the Venezuela Biennale in Merida state (2010) and was performed live at the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles (2010) and ISEA RUHR 2010 (DE). The Answer was screened at IAC, Villeurbanne, France in March - May 2016. In 2011, Jobin was one of five international artists to present her sound installation, Entre-Deux, in the new media exhibit Data/Fields, curated by Richard Chartier in the Washington, DC area, along with Ryoji Ikeda, Mark Fell, Caleb Coppock, and Andy Graydon. A new A/V collaboration, Mirror Neurons,  with Italian artist Fabio Perletta and xx+xy visuals was presented in the fall 2014 at A x S / ak-sis / FESTIVAL 2014 | CURIOSITY as part of the Synergetica Screening (CA). In November 2015, France was invited to take part in an artist residency at EMPAC which resulted in the creation of a new light sound work entitled 4.35 – R0 – 413, a collaboration with Alena Samoray, lighting designer 

“immersound”, a concert event/philosophy created by Jobin, proposes dedicated listening environment to seek out/explore new experiences in the listening process. It was first produced in 2011 at Oboro in Montreal. 

She was a finalist at the Sonic Arts Awards 2014(IT) in the Sonic Research category. In January 2013, the Conseil québécois de la musique awarded France Jobin with the prestigious Opus Prize for Concert of the year – Category Musiques Actuelle, électroacoustique for her concert at AKOUSMA 8. 

France Jobin’s work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create new environments.


France Jobin is published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd

Non-Event is a Boston-based experimental music series. 

Animal Hospital is Kevin Micka's one-person musical

recording/performance entity. Formed at the tail-end of Micka's time

with Boston band The Common Cold, Animal Hospital slowly began to take

on a life of its own in 2004. A self-titled debut CD by Animal Hospital

was released on Boston's Mister Records that year and displayed Micka's

ability as a composer and engineer in communicating his creative

expression. Since then, Kevin has  toured the U.S. , U.K. , Asia, New Zealand & Australia.

Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark and Iceland. Within the last 5

years Micka has continued writing and releasing several additional

tracks on various compilations around the world. Animal Hospital has

won followers from all corners of the music world, earning himself

spots with bands as diverse as The Jesus Lizard, Beirut, No Age,

Neptune, Thrones, Dosh and The Great Redneck Hope (not to mention a

recurring role as bumper music on Boston's NPR station).

During performances, Micka buries himself in a pile of

electronics-shelves of effects, mixing consoles, amps and delay

units-while patiently constructing a layered nest of loops consisting

of live drum beats, guitar chords, scrapes, chucks, chimes, and

melodies resulting in anything from more conventional songs to

meticulously crafted ambient movements on to full on improvisation.

Long a hidden treasure in Boston recording circles as a freelance

recording engineer (for diverse projects such as Neptune, Helms, and

Harry and the Potters) and a trusted electronics fix-it man, Micka has

approached Animal Hospital over the last four years in the nooks and

crannies of his schedule. Over the past year and a half, Kevin has been

able to devote more time than ever to writing and recording and it has

yielded two new albums' worth of music - a digital release in January

2009 from the Chicago label - Mutable Sound titled Good or Plenty,

Streets and Avenues and a CD release in March 2009 from the New

York/Boston label - Barge Recordings titled Memory.

Both new albums were recorded in locations across the U.S. - starting

in the bay area, on to an abandoned bank in Wellsburg, WV and

concluding in various locations in the Boston Area and Cape Cod. All

the material was then mixed at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, RI

and The Blast Zone in Roxbury, MA and mastered in South Boston at Old

Colony. Each album moves at the knowing pace of an exploratory mind and

settles comfortably into strange habitats with a sure-footed traveler.

Awesome Tapes From Africa is here for you.

CONTACT: isabella.koen@gmail.com










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