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| SUNDAY, JULY 19, 2026 EMMEDIA: 2005 10th Avenue SW, Calgary Alberta Canada T3C 0K4 TICKETS: Free, $10 and $15 >>> GET THEM HERE DOORS AT 6pm, SHOW 7-10pm Bug Incision @ EMMEDIA We are extremely excited to be back at the Emmedia screening room for co-presentation featuring Bug Incision-curated 4 acts improvising alongside 2 Emmedia-curated video artists. Emmedia has been a central part of the Bug Incision story since the late '00s, and we are positively jazzed to be re-uniting with them for this collaboratively-programmed multi-media evening of music and visuals. |
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| MUSICIANS: NTH is the improvised synthetic noise project of Chad VanGaalen that has been in the works for almost a decade. It blends un quantized beats with morphing melodic samples that come and go with tape machines that are constantly being dragged through the swamp. Andrea Scala (drums + electronics) : The project involves the use of acoustic drums, samples, and other electronic elements, all played in a sort of one-man band. These compositions incorporate abstract rhythms, textures, noises and electronics, employing analog and digital processes. Everything is expressed through a system of improvisation within a musical structure, dictated by the interaction of different rhythms that overlap and generate incidents with other sounds in transit. The idea is to fuse all these elements together and transport them beyond the static, aiming to express something happening in the moment, generating chaos and movement. Organic and digital, human and machine, in total creative freedom, conceptually jazzy and adventurous. Born in Italy and based in Toronto, Andrea Scala is a drummer and composer. He showed a natural inclination towards percussive instruments and creative arts since he was a kid. Andrea started from a teen age to work as a live and studio session drummer with various bands and songwriters, gathering several collaborations with established musicians in the field of rock and progressive music. He toured with pop, alternative, jazz, folk and world-music bands, performing at festivals, venues and clubs in Europe, Canada, USA. He continues to collaborate and develop original musical projects together with creative composers and musicians. Chris Dadge (since 2006) and Jonathon Wilcke (since 2012) are the core operators of the Bug Incision series, which is currently in its 20th year of programming improvised and otherwise experimental music in Calgary. The two have maintained a duo for the last decade, Wilcke currently focusing on the soprano sax and Dadge negotiating a pile of drums and percussion. Their language is a spiky, abrasive one, filled with extremes of tone and dynamic shifts, and a moment-to-moment constant renegotiation of the music's trajectory. They've played and recorded with legendary improvising guitarist, and are two fifths of the group Circular Sparrow, alongside Nate Waters, Jiajia Li, and Lydia Pineau.
Meghana Iyer is an experimental video maker based in Mohkínstsis, Calgary, Alberta. Through the use of video, sculpture, performance, and glass, her practice explores themes of the self, materiality, and punk subcultures. A sampling of the work of multidisciplinary artist MODAL can be found on Instagram here. |
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BUG INCISION ARCHIVES: |
In January of 2020, we began work on the Bug Incision Archives, which rounded up all audio, video, & photo documentation, press coverage, and promotional materials relating to the Bug Incision Presents concert series, dating back to early 2006. While this archive will undoubtedly result in some new documentation being available to the general public, the main goal is for it to be accessible to its participants (the artists and documenters) for their own uses, while also providing a thorough overview of the series' activities for internal purposes. HOW TO GET INVOLVED: Bug Incision has a huge archive of materials in its possession currently, but there are holes all over the 18 year history, not to mention more and potentially better-quality iterations of existing event documentation. If you have any photos, videos, or audio recordings of Bug Incision Presents concerts, we would be very interested in getting our hands on them for inclusion in the archive. For information on how to get us these media items, as well as information on privacy, credits, and more details about the planned usage of materials, please email: bugincision@gmail.com |
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