Sounding Evolution: Andrew MacKelvie w/Lukas Pearse, Geordie Haley Monday, April 10, 8pm 1313 Hollis, 1313 Hollis Street $20/PWYC Silence is seemingly the opposite of music. For Andrew MacKelvie, though, there’s a certain resonance to it—and that’s what he seeks to explore in his work. “There’s certain patterns, almost, in the air that you can start […]
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Oversight
Dalhousie School of Architecture and Planning Inspired by different activist movements, Oversight is an installation exploring our relationship, as citizens, to the police. The collaboration between the three artists started as a Centre For Art Tapes project (together with Lindsay Dobbin), now being adapted for the festival. Dina, Pearse and Bowles look at the way […]
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Photos: Rebecca West at Pro Skates
Last night at Pro Skateboards & Surfboards, 90s-era Halifax band Rebecca West reunited for a sick set in anticipation of the band’s performance at Pop Montreal later this month. Fronted by Allison Outhit, with Lukas Pearse on bass and Dale Hussey on drums, Rebecca West played from both Cinnamon Toast Records albums, including the amazing jam “State of Grace,” […]
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Cinnamon Toast Crunch: Rebecca West plays ProSkates
This is a tale told a thousand times but just in case . . . Back in the early 1990s, with bands like Sloan, Plumtree, Thrush Hermit and jale, indie labels Cinnamon Toast Records and Murderecords, with Eric’s Trip just over in Moncton, a brand-new alt-weekly newspaper (ahem!) and a growing annual music festival, almost everyone thought Halifax was becoming “the next Seattle.” […]
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String Things: German artist Helmut Lemke performs tonight
Tonight, UK-based, German sound and performance artist Helmut Lemke presents “Long Strings ‘n’ Short Encounters” at The Bus Stop Theatre (8pm), a collaborative, improvisational concert experience with Paul Cram (sax/ clarinet), Brandon Auger (modular synth), Lukas Pearse (bass) and Andrew Patterson (reading). It will be his only performance in Halifax. As one of the the Ballast artists […]
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Upstream Music veers in new directions
Rivers and streams can change their course with time, and after 25 years, it’s time for Upstream Music to flow away from its source a little. Director and founding member Paul Cram is stepping down after 19 years at the helm of the experimental music association, and Diving For Pearls will celebrate those achievements and […]
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Lukas Pearse goes on the record
It’s a contemporary question with deep historical roots. Is technology “better for music or does it take the soul out of the music?” asks vocalist Janice Jackson on the phone before a rehearsal of Vonda De Ville in Temporal Follies—An Electropera, a piece created for her by Lukas Pearse. The hour-long work will be performed […]