Soundasaurus - Thursday, November 15, 2012
Biography
prOphecy sun is a Canadian interdisciplinary performance artist who interphases with sound, movement and installation to create emotive environments. Her works, compositions, videos and collaborations have been exhibited in Canada and abroad. She is a master theremin player, an improvisational looping maestro and an experimental throat singer. Her current musical projects include: prOphecy sun, Tyranahorse, Under the Sun, Her Jazz Noise Collective, Spell and The Adulthood. She is also a performer in two movement collectives: Dance Troupe Practice and So So So. Sun graduated from Emily Carr University with a Bachelors Degree in Visual Arts majoring in Sculpture & Ceramics. Mostly, she enjoys riding on her road bike Mr. Falcon around East Vancouver and being a mom to three lovely cats.
Artist Statement
My interdisciplinary practice is a manifestation of the duelling identities, sound and movement, that joust deep in my psyche. To process my experiences I use many articulations of these disciplines to understand the world around me. I create pieces that explore human eccentricities through vocal abstraction, physical manipulations, experience, and visual metaphor. The desire to communicate on a sensory level is of utmost importance to me and everything I see, hear, and do has the potential of being source material for choreography or noise soundscapes. A buzz, a purr, a railing, a sidewalk, a table, a dress, a halting train, a humming refrigerator, a creaking door, a giant ladder, are all opportunities waiting to unfold.
Incorporating these inspirations from everyday life, my solo sound practice has evolved from random sounds too focused repetitive, looping cyclical patterns, and processed, affected vocals, with continual articulations on the same sound or combination of lyrics. A variety of conceptual techniques are explored in this practice of sound making utilizing tools like voice, breath, throat singing, discarded electronics, keyboards, a modified theremin, field recordings and delay pedals.
I have always carried a sense of heightened urgency in the creation and musical production process, and in my most recent projects, this urgency has become a central theme in my work. The now is my tomorrow. I focus attention on the life spans of my musical performances, understanding that they exist before and beyond the physical presentation of the work. Each work is a holistic and unfamiliar territory in which sound and the surrounding elements combine to create a unique output. Over the years, my improvised process has honed itself to focus on a single point of departure. Every articulation and every musical choice is based on a work’s originating concept.
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