dark light heavy

© by Vergil Sharkya', all rights reserved

cahos::dub::loose:::le::5ème::élément

free improv, VergilReality,Montréal, 17th Feb 2011
recorded and mastered by Vergil Sharkya'


Ellwood Epps :: trumpet :: Vergil Sharkya' :: synthétiseur ::: VergilReality 17th Feb 2011 :: take 2b

Kathy Kennedy - vocals, effects
Vergil Sharkya' - synthesizer, vocoder, effects

Enregistrement web diffusion : 
Luc Laflamme, réalisateur
Philippe Bouvrette, ingénieur de son
Enregistré dans le cadre du Cabaret qui ruisselle, une coproduction du MNM et Productions SuperMusique, Salle Pierre-Mercure, 24 février 2021
Mastering de l’extrait audio: Vergil Sharkya'
© 2023 by the artists. all rights reserved.

44retroAstronef4

Kathy Kennedy - vocals, effects
Vergil Sharkya' - synthesizer, vocoder, effects
Recorded and mixed by Vergil Sharkya' @ VergilReality, Montréal
© 2023 by the artists. all rights reserved.

33retroAstronef3

22retroAstronef2

Wasps 0n Acid :
Julie Delisle - flute, piccolo
Valentin Duit - drum set
Vergil Sharkya' - synthesizer, vocoder, effects

Recorded live at MUK - Music and Arts Private University of Vienna, 2023-07-18
Recording, mix & mastering by Vergil Sharkya' at VergilReality, Montréal
©2023 by the artists. All rights reserved.

Wasps 0n Acid - Geben und Benehmen

Wasps 0n Acid : 
Julie Delisle - flute, piccolo
 Valentin Duit - drum set
 Vergil Sharkya' - synthesizer, vocoder, effects

Recorded live at MUK - Music and Arts Private University of Vienna, 2023-07-18 
Recording, mix & mastering by Vergil Sharkya' at VergilReality, Montréal
 ©2023 by the artists. All rights reserved.

Wasps 0n Acid - %#*^+~]=\

Wasps 0n Acid - Human Chain Reaction

Julie Delisle - piccolo, voice
Vergil Sharkya' - synthesizer, vocoder
Oliver Zehner - sequencers, synth flutes & woodwinds

Recorded live at Semmelweisklinik, Vienna, 2023-06-28
Recording by Oliver Zehner
Mix & mastering by Vergil Sharkya' at VergilReality, Montréal
©2023 by the artists. All rights reserved.

Movies Are The Strangest Films

Delisle/Sharkya'/Zehner - MoviesAreTheStrangestFilms

Julie Delisle - flute, piccolo, synthesizer
Vergil Sharkya' - synthesizer, effects
Michał Seta - T-Stick

Recorded live during a rehearsal for "No One Receiving Squid pro quo", 2023-09-16
Mix & mastering by Vergil Sharkya' at VergilReality, Montréal
©2023 by the artists. All rights reserved.

Fool's Gold

Squid pro quo & Michał Seta - Fool's Gold

Yestoday

Tonky Honk

improv, solo synth & fx, recorded live at VergilReality, Montréal, 2017-08-23

© by Vergil Sharkya', all rights reserved

Tvashtar Paterae

planthem II

Orbital Eccentricity (0.0041)

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb - vocals
Julia Warren - sax
Peter Burton - double bass
Vergil Sharkya' - synth & fx
Recorded live at El Centro, Montréal, 25th January 2020
Lux Magna Festival | Late Night Jam | Hosted by Kathy Kennedy

"This recording is a bit of a guerilla job, captured from the Zoom sitting on my fx table, so the levels are all over the shop. But it's kinda also sweet the way it came out after de-reverbing, re-reverbing, and mastering, and it does have some nice depth to it. There's no editing as such, only the clicks of me switching my pedals that I've removed. And the music we made is, well, lush!" -VS

Lush Magna

Vergil Sharkya' - synthesizer, vocoder, fx
François-Xavier Vigneault-Marcil aka Fxbip - synthesizers & fx
recorded live at Casa del Popolo, Montréal, 21st January 2020
https://soundcloud.com/fxbip
https://mardispaghetti.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/MardiSpaghetti/

Vergil Sharkya' & François-Xavier Vigneault-Marcil aka Fxbip :: Concussion Blender

Ascents is a composition / hypercomposition originally created during a residency program for the SAT - Society for Arts and Technology in Montréal in 2017/2018. Then named NAscent, it featured a film created for the work by visual artist Push 1 stop (Cadie Desbiens), and a 3-D audio mix realised in collaboration with Mourad Bennacer. The resulting immersive audio-visual work enjoyed a 3-week run in the Satosphère in February 2018, and was again shown during the iX Symposium at SAT in May 2018. In June of the same year it was also presented as part of the SAT's long films selection at Sonár+D, the 360º immersive part of the Sónar festival in Barcelona.

Ascents differs little from the original work, but 2 of the 9 sections of the original composition were slightly re-worked, incorporating additional layers that were not present originally, to reflect the intensity of the audio-visual impact. The stereo version does not try to mimic the 3-D audio mix, as that would simply be impossible to do, but rather focuses on the inherently immersive quality of the music, especially the hypercomposed parts, which can still be experienced when listened to on 2 channels. I recommend high quality speakers, or headphones, to get the maximum effect.

Vergil Sharkya' – composition & hypercomposition, synthesizer, effects, sound design
Recorded, edited, mixed and mastered by Vergil Sharkya' at VergilReality, Montréal

© by Vergil Sharkya', all rights reserved

Photo credit: Sébastien Roy; showing a frame of the film made for NAscent by Push 1 stop

About NAscent:
https://sat.qc.ca/catalogue/preview-en.php?id=147


Ascents est une composition / hypercomposition qui a vu le jour durant
une résidence de création à la SAT - Société des Arts Technologiques à
Montréal, en 2017-2018. D'abord nommée NAscent, la pièce a été présentée
dans sa première version avec un film de l'artiste visuelle Push 1 stop
(Cadie Desbiens) et un mixage audio 3D réalisé en collaboration avec
Mourad Bennacer. Le résultat de cette collaboration, une œuvre immersive
audiovisuelle, a été diffusée à la Satosphère durant trois semaines en
février 2018, et a été à nouveau programmée à l'occasion du Symposium iX
de la SAT en mai 2018. En juin de la même année, NAscent a fait partie
de la sélection de longs métrages de la SAT présentés à Sonár+D, le
programme immersif 360° du festival Sónar, à Barcelone.

Ascents est assez fidèle à l'œuvre originale, mais deux des neuf
sections de la composition originale ont été légèrement retravaillées,
incorporant des couches sonores additionnelles qui n'étaient pas
présentes à l'origine, afin de refléter l'intensité de l'impact de la
version audiovisuelle. La version stéréo n'a pas pour but d'imiter le
mixage audio 3D, ce qui serait simplement impossible à réaliser, mais
vise plutôt à mettre en valeur la qualité immersive inhérente à la
musique, spécialement dans les parties hypercomposées. Cet effet
d'immersion peut encore être clairement perçu lorsque l'œuvre est
écoutée en stéréo. Je recommande une écoute aux haut-parleurs de qualité élevée, ou au casque, pour obtenir des résultats optimaux.
(traduction par Julie Delisle)

Ascents

Vergil’s music combines composition, hypercomposition and improvisation, played on synthesizers, computers and acoustic instruments. His sonic worlds are exploring an aesthetic of immersive quality, constant flowing motion through webs and layers of shimmering, gleaming micro-frequencies and rhythms, brute force collisions, explosions, implosions, and fractures of sound masses of high-density arrangements of proportion canons and sound modulations – a free-spirited dance through complex sonic architectures, driven by the deep forces of free improvisation, dub, and electro.

Bio:
Vergil Sharkya’ is a musician, composer, improviser and sonic explorer of Austrian origin. After having settled in Liverpool, UK, for 15 years, he joined Montréal’s artistic community in 2010, where he works predominantly but not exclusively in the domains of experimental and improvised music, and Musique Actuelle.

Armed with synthesizers, vocoders, software, analogue and electronic effects, and his unique sense of treating his sonic materials, he works in a multitude of music projects, as well as creating musics and soundtracks for dance, radio(,/-)theatre, slam, poetry, and film/video. In addition to his work as a composer and performer, he continues to create music based on the method of hypercomposition, developed during his doctorate at Liverpool John Moores University.

His music has been heard at SÓNAR (Barcelona, ES); SAT-Société des arts technologiques (Montréal, QC); CKUT 90.3; CiBL 101.5 (both Montréal, QC); FIMAV-Festival International de Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville, QC). He has collaborated with Ensemble SuperMusique; Ensemble Innovarumori; TIT-Total Improvisation Troop; Opéra de Montréal/Orchestre Métropolitain (all Montréal, QC); Vienna Improvisers Orchestra; Kombinat M (both Vienna, AT); as well as Luki Star (Marion Lukic), Kathy Kennedy, Geneviève Gauthier, Elizabeth Lima, Ida Toninato, Sarah Albu, Lukas Ligeti, Philip Jeck, Colin Fallows, Serge Lamothe, and many other musicians, poets, writers, dancers, directors and artists.

Recordings of his music have been published on labels including Cuneiform Records (USA), Audio Research Editions (UK), Mikroclimat (QC), Ambiances Magnétiques (QC), Atrito-Afeito (QC), UKsupersonic (UK), and VergilReality (AT/UK/QC).

Vergil Sharkya'

Pinned to spotlight

Popular tracks