http://rayfenwick.ca/A-Greenhouse-Evening

Excerpt from "A Greenhouse. Evening."

This is a mix of *some* of the music demos from "Grottoesque". It does not contain the other performance aspects of the full thing.

Playlist
1. Where Are You
2. Losssst
3. Oh Whoa the Echo
4. In this Melody
5. Dust Ball
6. A Drop on the Page

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Grottoesque is a suite of doo-wave cave ballads and psychedelic banter by Pastoralia—a hybrid music and performance project by myself and Mitchell Wiebe. In Grottoesque, two wanderers cross paths just long enough to: bounce some songs through the caverns, read salacious poems to each other, mine some wipeout diamonds, itemize the forms of light, worry about the big dance, and more still. Then, like most wanderers, they wander off, in search of... something. They will meet again. And again. And again. 

Grottoesque is set within a site-specific, abstracted cave installation, and features two almost identical performers with pale, shimmering faces. The result is something akin to a psychedelic DIY rock opera whose tone oscillates between the melancholic and the absurd.

Performed in 2016 at Halifax Nocturne Festival (NS) and Saltbox Performance Festival (NL). Performed in 2017 at Plug In ICA (MB) and Art in the Open Festival (PEI). 2018 it will be performed at Re:Flux Festival, Moncton and Rainbow Trout Music Festival, Manitoba.

Grottoesque

Interview for Five Voices was a video and sound installation in the School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, October 24–November 5 2012. 
This is a 20 minute sound excerpt, recorded in the gallery from 10–10:20 am on Friday, November 2nd. 

View a simulated video excerpt:
https://vimeo.com/rayfenwick/interviewforfivevoices

Ray Fenwick