I VJ either alone or with a partner. I have been working closely with Leeane Berger VJing over the last year, and I will be mentoring Meagan Wohlberg and Erin Gee in the next little while as well. I've also taught workshops in VJing at galleries, artist-run centres, festivals, and a high school. If you want to find out more about my VJ practice, click here.
I am also an experimental turntablist and sound artist. I cut up, break, melt, glue, sandpaper, paint, and glue records to tease new sounds from vinyl and use these "sculptural" records in my live turntable-based performances. Sometimes I make my own record needles or play the turntable itself with various contact mic tools I've created over the years. It's a very cool thing to experience as an audience member, I hear! I have done experimental turntablism performances and/or recordings with Esther B., Marinko Jareb, tobias c. van Veen, Jon Vaughn, and Tim Olive. I VJed for Mike Hansen's experimental turntablism performance at Artspace recently, which was really interesting! When Esther, Marinko, and I perform together, we perform under the name "Vinyl Interventions Trio". I've also done some field recording and contact mic concerts and workshops. I also work with other sound artists on vinyl-based and electroacoustic or noise art.
I usually DJ noise/breakcore/8bit/IDM/psychedelic/abstract hip-hop glitchy stuff alone under my own name, and I've been known to sing, beatbox, and play homemade instruments along with my DJing performances. My DJing performances are always different and pretty wild...I'm probably most well known in the Prairie electronic music scene for my Saturday night solo noise/"freakbeat oddio" sets at the CONNECT festival (which I'm helping organize this year!). I started DJing experimental music and downtempo in 1995 at electronic music events and on the local community radio station under the name 'Lady Gates'. However, I have recently discovered a new DJ persona inside of me called "DJ Rug Doctor"...she spins nasty miami bass, breakcore, and early 90s dance music, and she doesn't answer to Carrie...she's kind of a ho, but don't be fooled by her wigs, fun fur coats, gold chains, and bling, she's still from da block.
I am in two really exciting projects with my partner, Jon Vaughn: Green Gift(noise/electroacoustic/folk) and J + C Feedback Factory (no-input audio and video mixers). I'm very passionate about both of these projects, and we've got lots of videos on my YouTube page of our performances together.
I also work with other artists from time to time.
the big list of people I've worked with:
Jon Vaughn, Nuthre, Mike Hansen, Knurl, zoomboy, Tim Olive, Leeane Berger, Meagan Wohlberg, Laura Kavanaugh, Ian Birse, Holzkopf, Scant Intone, tobias c. van Veen, Fire Flower Revue, Evening Hymns, Max Haiven, Will Kaufold, Tim Jancke, FRILLO (Y2K-era: me + Jon Vaughn, Dylan McKinnon, Christine Eggertson, Morgan Sorochuck), an anonymous group of Brownies, Ruairi Lazers, Ryan Hill, Chad Munson, Antoinette Dykesman, Amanda Schurman, Vera Ronkos, the Blue Girl, and Moka Only.
I also have a release out on the net.label Panospria. It's from a live set I did at the end of 2005 with Scant Intone (aka Constantine Katsiris) and Jon Vaughn at an event at paved Art + New Media called TEXTURES.SK. I played Fisher-Price turntable with a homemade needle, contact mics, and small objects. Jon played several acoustic instruments and laptop, and Scant Intone played from his laptop as well. It is their 20th release! It's free, enjoy!
-Carrie Gates, Jon Vaughn and Scant Intone - Live at PAVED Arts
Also on BricoLodge is a recording I did with Tim Olive and Jon Vaughn that has a very onkyo-esque-ness about it....I was using a sampling keyboard, blank records, and a contact mic, while both Tim and Jon used prepared guitars, and Jon also used his no-input mixer. It's quite lovely, perhaps.
-Tim Olive, Jon Vaughn, and Carrie Gates - Floors and Frames
Here's a link to a DJ mix of experimental and ambient music I did as part of phoniq's 'beta_lab' events at the Esperenza, Montreal:
-DJ Carrie Gates - Live at the Esperenza
Click on the image below to hear Hidden Fortress' remix of my Snelgrove performance track that is on this page!
J + C Feedback Factory (Jon Vaughn and Carrie Gates): Live at the send + receive Festival (Winnipeg, MB, May 2007)
Green Gift (Jon Vaughn and Carrie Gates): Live at "Family Get-Together
*for more information about Green Gift (Carrie Gates and Jon Vaughn), check my blog.
A couple of silent VJ clips I made in Max/MSP/Jitter/etc:
The Techné of the VJ: Video Mixing for the Curious
*above is a video of a talk I gave on Sept. 9, 2006 at paved Art + New Media at their dorkbot meeting. The video above shows maybe a tenth of what happened during the talk, which was a combination of technical and theoretical information about analogue VJing using video mixers, DVD, VHS tapes, live video camera feeds, and computer output. I love VJing, and I want to infect others with my passion! The video can be downloaded here.
Unlocking The Groove - The Art Projects Gallery
*above is some documentation of an exhibition of vinyl record sculptures I curated for The Art Projects Gallery in Regina, SK in December 2005. Artists included: Jeff Morton (Victoria), Jon Vaughn (Saskatoon), tobias c. van Veen (Montréal), Esther Bourdages (Montréal), Marinko Jareb (St. Catherines), H. D'Angelo (Toronto), Jake Hardy (Saskatoon), and I.
Influences
(in no particular order) chaos, life, change, 'nature' and 'culture', technology's impact on society...also people like Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, Sutekh, Philip Jeck, People Like Us, Fennesz, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Mike Patton, Francisco Lopez, Wendy Carlos, Korla Pandit, People Like Us, Mike Shannon, tape, Kiki, Epic, Dino Felipe, Harumi, People Like Us, B-52's, Keiji Haino, Mike Patton, Einsturzende Neubauten, Tim Olive, DJ Olive, INDEE BITCH / Milkhorse, Special Cheese, Jim O' Rourke, Req, µ-Ziq, KLF, Experimental Audio Research, Thomas Brinkmann, 60's & 70's children's records (esp. those dealing with sex, religion, food, and/or politics), Marina Rosenfeld, Magali Babin, Max Haiven, Morton Subotnik, Kid 606, Stock Hausen and Walkman, Mr. Oizo, Maurizio, Dat Politics, Missy Elliot, Montstre, Sachiko M, Neptunes, The Bran Flakes, Hidden Fortress, David Tudor, Wendy Carlos, Ikue Mori, Scanner, country Moogsploitation records, Jon Vaughn, DJ Swamp, Martin Tetreault, Black Dice, DJ Spooky, Lee Ranaldo, Merzbow, The Residents, Medusa, The Nihlist Spasm Band, Tim Olive, Yu Nishibori, Black Box, Jan Jelenik, Kero, Sawako, Depth Charge, DJ Vadim, Eugene Chadbourne, Kevin Drumm, zomgs, Lightning Bolt, Claudine Longet, Chip Tronic, Twisted Sister, Yoko Ono, Phillipe Cam, Dick Clark, Meek, Feathers, John Cage (duh), Princes of Piliferum, Phillip Glass, r a d i o q u a l i a , early Shonen Knife, Black Dog, Camp, Luomo, Phlegm Gadget, y2lhen, Pan Sonic, Sun Ra, Kronos Quartet, General Electroacoustics, Scant Intone, Diamanda Galas, Colouring Book, Sawako, Experimental Audio Research, Deathfunk, Hanin Elias, Aimé Dontigny, Camp, Technotronic, Brast Burn, Astrobrite, Elvis Presley, Alva Noto, Venetian Snares, Luigi Russolo, Debris, Food Eater, Ten Days Late, Phase_M, Submit, Jeff Morton/Nuthre, Constructivist Worker, Theta, time fun, ent, Joseph Beuys, David Last, Epic, James Last (only Voodoo Party), corys hart and the holocologist, Magik Markers, La Monte Young, Merry Jollies, Jammy Jollies, It-Clings, Fennesz, Lydia Lunch, Weird Al Yankovic, Search Click and Destroy, Primus, Nurse With Wound, The Robot Alliance, Heinje, Ravi Shankar, Stockhausen, Dr. Fawn, Dr. Pra(x)il, Yellow Swans, Mountains, James Schidlowski, DJ Rainbow and the Cuddle Brigade, DJ Starbeat Academy, Rahzel, Brian Eno, vitaminsforyou, Melt Banana, Primus, John Oswald, Pita, DJ/rupture, Noah Pred, Nem and the Village Tapes Cru, bkol spyod, Lion Stab, Metalux, Tiffany, early Neotropic, Sister Nancy, Derek Bailey, Black Uhuru, pixelh8, The Ventures, Kraftwerk, Oval, Tim Hecker, John Oswald, Eric B & Rakim, Nam June Paik, Uffie, Claudia Bonerelli, Coil, Marcy the Talking Doll, Negativeland, Neon Tetra, Cobra Killers, Matthew C. Applegate / MCA, Black Sabbath, Teenage Fanclub (only the song 'Metal Baby'), Peaches, This Island Ugetsu, Tomas Jirku, The Neptunes, David Bowie, early Guns & Roses, Milkhorse, Kit Clayton, early Kraftwerk, Sheila Chandra, März, lightning bolt, Karri O., Julie Rousse, Esther B., Marinko Jareb, Morceaux De Machines, Anna Friz, Heffy Methal, o.blaat, Ellen Allien, Puyo Puyo, Mochipet, Squarepusher, Robert Moog, Scant Intone, DJ Mehta Youngs, Tony Ezzy, Tomas Jirku, Martin Tetreault, vitaminsforyou, Lithops, Jim O'Rourke, The Great Kat, Hrvatski, Kid 606, The Smiths, Elliot Sharp, Soundgarden (only 'Louder Than Love'), tobias c. van Veen, King Tubby, Whirl-A-Girl, Kim Cascone, Uncle Neil, Rick Astley (only the song 'She Wants to Dance With Me'), John Oswald, Y2Lhen, Iannis Xenakis, Sister Nancy, Lady Juney, My Bloody Valentine, Donna Summer, Donna Summers, Pierre Schaeffer, Throbbing Gristle, General Magic, Jack Goldstein, Ken Griffin, Zeena Parkins, Merzbow, KNAR, Zero Cash & Electro Atomu, Gabor Szabo, Wormwood, Wormhawk, Yma Sumac, Maria Chavez, Alexandre St-Onge, Ami Yoshida, Eye Yamaguchi, Our Ptarmigan, Sonic Youth (of course), Errorsmith, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Harumi, Wham!, radio commercial background music, and millions of other sounds, sights, smells, textures, tastes, and feelings TBA...
Sounds Like
fun: contact mics, found objects, kid's turntables, homemade record needles, video games, experiments with turntables and record surfaces, noise, organic, eerie, sampling, cut-up, electrified, plunderphonic, electroacoustic, bag of leaves, monsters, cheap vocoder, electro, breakbeat, sensual, strange, wet balloons, psychedelic, domestic, exotic, scat, kitchen appliances, ghostly, bizarre, kitchy, cryptography, turntablism, velcro ripping, academic, avant garde, electrical storm, sugared poison, poisoned sugar, alien intervention, nails on a chalkboard to a nice back beat, gargling chartreuse, chaos, tickle trunk, feedback, radio, scratch, onkyo, vocals, cookie sheet, dying batteries on a kid's fake ghetto blaster, beatboxing, layers, improv, conceptual, en situ, interactive, immersive, visual music...focused imagination and quasi-scientific experimentation...
As usual, the latest group of kids to take to the clubs these days think they invented sex, drugs and rock & roll. Included in this self- delusion of an entire generation is the practice of paddling, aka "spankin'", a current craze they claim to have invented. According to Monty, this fad has been with us for quite a while when it was re-instituted by those same crazy kids who popularized the Limbo. He says Natalie Wood was a big proponent, who loved the "healthy, ruby hue" it brought to her cheeks.
Solid Steel in association with Serato (1st May) Boom Monk Ben gives us his monthly dose of bass wobbles, ragga squelches and splintered riddims a plenty to get you steppin in the right direction, with Mungo Hi-Fi, Rusko and Buraka Som Sistema all featuring.
French Producer U-Point is our guest for the second hour with a mix of leftfield beats from Buddy Peace, Mat Young and Odd Nosdam. With an EP on Neednowarter records, his own productions, much like his mixes, blends U-Point's love of melodramatic, psychedelic and dark movies with heavy hip hop beats.
It's the video for our new single, "BRIGITTE BARDOT".
It's from our new album "LOLA DUTRONIC IN BERLIN", and it's available exclusively from iTunes and CDBaby.com The single is starting to get airplay all over the place including Rodney Bingenheimer's show on KROQ-FM in L.A. , and it just showed up on the NME's website!
You can download both the single and the album today by clicking here:
OUT NOW on Idiosyncratics Records : Phil Maggi - Blue FIelds in Paramount CD
Blue Fields in Paramount is a very personal and fascinating opus, a beautiful introduction to the style of this talented artist, that could be qualified as 'dark psychedelia for daydream believers'. It has been mastered by James Plotkin (Khlyst, Khanate, Old, Phantom) and is out now as a limited to 300 copies ekopack release with a fantastic artwork by czech artist Jan Karpisek.
Carrie Gates! We have just put up a newly remastered track called "Swallow". It is off of our T.I.T.S cd ! There is a chance that it will put hair on your palms, and cause you to go blind. Listen to it at our page ! Then tell us if you survive !
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