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I just got back from an amazing trip from Germany where I played at the Kassel Dokfest (as well as in Berlin afterwards). I had a fantastic time! Excellent people and a beautiful atmosphere. It was decorated like an old-school circus and there were all of these beautiful people wearing …
I have been helping some good friends of mine by making a website for their wicked label, Crunks Not Dead. Cindy Wonderful and Sarah Adorable of Scream Club run the label and they have a ton of really cool albums out by artists like Nicky Click, Johnny Dangerous, Jenna Riot, …
This is a silent video clip I use in my mixes in live performance. Starring Anna Hansen, Nicky Click, Jamie Cooper, and Nathan Steadman.
I would like to bring your attention to a really wonderful visual and sound artist in Saskatoon named Jon Vaughn. His work is circulating alot these days with zines, art books, exhibitions, and shows in Europe, Japan, and locally. His work is unique in execution and the peculiar fantasy-laden style …
I can’t say enough about how much I love this girl. Queer femme pop diva to the MAXXX! Nicky and I met online last spring, then did a residency together at Queer City Cinema in Regina in May. We spent a week frolicking in wigs and discussing the finer points …
This is a silent video clip I use in my mixes in live performance. Starring the fabulous Cindy Wonderful from Scream Club.
This is a silent video clip I use in my mixes in live performance. Nicky Click, the one and only, entertains us with her technochow-wizardry in this clip.
This is a silent video clip I use in my mixes in live performance. This video features Sarah Marie Charters playing with her fancy new Lomographic camera.
This is the sticky note timeline we used to organize our information about the history of VJing for the Wiki Sprint at the Mapping Festival in Geneva, May 2010. We rewrote the Wikipedia page on VJing and added photos and an audio recording of the article. See our work here: …
Carrie Gates reporting live from the Hotel Saskatchewan in Regina, interviewing Nicky Click after she has been forcefully smothered in 12 chocolate eclairs.
Unslumber SoundCamp is a two part event that I curated at AKA Gallery with the support of holophon. Sound artists from across the Prairies were selected to take part in a sleepover in the AKA event space, complete with tents and sleeping bags, a fake fire, and lots of time …
I was asked by the Neil Wiernik and Greg J. Smith at Vague Terrain to curate an edition of their online new media magazine, Vague Terrain, that is published out of Toronto. I chose work with the theme of international VJ culture. There are over 20 different VJs and VJ …
This video was made in February 2006 in order to be used as projected video during a crazy show with Saskatoon noise band, Milkhorse. Since then, it has been used as VJ source footage and a hypnotism tool!
Vinyl Interventions is an experimental turntablism group and project series that I did with Esther Bourdages and Marinko Jareb in the early 2000s. We performed concerts and recorded an album together. We did presentations on the history of turntablism and sculpture incorporating vinyl records.
BricoLodge is a net .label that I used to run with Jon Vaughn.
This is a live set from the Vinyl Interventions Trio: Esther Bourdages, Marinko Jareb, and Carrie Gates. Live at Ecube, Montréal, this album documents the six-turntable cut-up that flipped it squiggly-style for a very live crowd. Using homemade microphones, sliced + diced records, kiddy turntables, oddity vinyl classics all switched …