13.02.13 Pickles & Cheese: Telepresence Machine (1st score)

13.02.13 Pickles & Cheese:looking up at the world through a transparent ground plane (2nd ink score)

12.11.12 Pickles & Cheese: draw concentric circles in the wet sand

Pickles & Cheese is an ambient/experimental laptop improv trio that performs to laser guided japanese zen ink drawing scrolls as scores. 

There are three people that compose Pickles & Cheese:

Cnoc:n:conc ------ aka Vancouver native Katrina McGee, has been making noise/ audio / radio art since 1997. A former member of experimental band Arts and Krafts, Katrina played noise electronics.  From 1997-2000 Katrina was co-host of CiTR 101.9FM's noiz-r, making collaborative soundscapes / noises / rackets and loops with saibot and Enahs, including CiTR's first worldwide net-performance with Vienna's Kunstradio for the "24 Hours of Radio Art" celebration of Art's Birthday.  With the formation of Pickles and Cheese.  Katrina brings the pickles.

ssiess (A.K.A. Alexander Bell) has spent a life time collecting fragments from around the world. These fragments are assembled  to create a dialogue of spaces. It all started in the late 90’s with a private and profound love affair between ssiess, a field recording setup, and 12 portable cd players, taking over ambient rooms to perform all night environmental audio mixes for the pleasure of fur-clad euphoric ravers.  When he is not creating audio, ssiess creates as a painter and photographer. He has also been known to work with installation, net art, and creating 8 bit visuals. 

Graeme Scott has been a part of Pickles & Cheese since it's inception, and 1/2 of coin gutter since 2000, releasing music under his own Vanity Records, No Type, Objective/Subjective Records, Panospria, and on various compilations

Sometimes playing a laptop, guitar, toy keyboards, no-input mixers, drums or bagpipes,  and sometimes lying about the instruments he can play, Graeme has been a part of the experimental music scene for over a decade.  There have been a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of earplugs, and a lot of music.  For this, Graeme is forever thankful.

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