UPCOMING SHOWS:
- SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 2024
High Line Brewing: 1318 9 Ave SE, Unit #113
(access via Minh Chau parking lot off 9th Ave SE)
7-10pm, 18+, $15 cover at the door, CASH ONLY
HOW TO SURVIVE A HIGH RISE HOTEL FIRE with LEDA XO
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DOMINIC JASMIN
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JONATHON WILCKE/CHRIS DADGE DUO
We are pleased to welcome back a couple out of town acts that we've had the good fortune of previously presenting in past years. Victoria's How To Survive A High Rise Hotel Fire will perform in both trio formation (with Nikko Whitworth and Haley Bird alongside guest member Leda XO) and also as a quintet with Bug Incision's own Jonathon Wilcke and Chris Dadge, who will also play as a duo on this night. Additionally, we will witness a solo set from Montreal's Dominic Jasmin.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HIGH RISE HOTEL FIRE + LEDA XO
how to survive a high rise hotel fire is a collective started by bassist Nikko Whitworth and oboist Haley Bird that strives to create community around co-regulation, meaning-making and nonsense-making through sound. Their experimental conversations meld elements of noise and free jazz, inviting trance states and deep listening in performers and listeners. As a collective of free improvisers, members are invited to collaborate in a variety of iterations of htsahrhf. They perform in Vancouver, in spaces such as 8EAST and Red Gate Arts Society and with the noise music series Teflon Spine. They have released two live recordings of these performances titled “do you wrestle with dreams?” and “chop or shred all pieces of matter to hasten decomposition”. On tour, they have played for experimental music series in Western Canadian cities such as Bug Incision (Calgary), Interior Network (Edmonton), and Near Dark (Victoria).
Leda XO is the vocalist of experimental noise-grind project Sissy XO as well as other extreme music acts such as Jisei and The Hallowed Catharsis. It experiments with a plethora of unorthodox vocal techniques, contact mics and manipulation with effects pedals.
 
JONATHON WILCKE/CHRIS DADGE DUO
The two individuals behind the scenes at Bug Incision have been playing together, on saxophones and percussion, respectively, for decades, first appearing on stage together around 2003 as part of a double quartet assembled by Darren Williams for an Ornette Coleman tribute concert. Not long after that they played as a trio with Scott Munro at original Bug Incision venue The Soda, during Bug Incision's first year of existence, then Wilcke relocated for a time to Vancouver. They saw each other less during those years, but Dadge and Scott Munro would make frequent trips to the coast to play as the Bent Spoon Duo, mainly at legendary Vancouver improv-centric venue 1067, a collective run space on Granville that one entered from the back alley, and they kept in touch through these visits. Once Wilcke returned to Calgary in 2012, the two began playing together more frequently, and Wilcke became centrally involved in the operations of Bug Incision. They have played many duo concerts, released an album of live recordings, performed and recorded with free jazz guitarist Joe Morris, and are two fifths of the group Circular Sparrow, who recently performed at this year's Sound Atlas contemporary music festival.
DOMINIC JASMIN
We are pleased to welcome back this Montreal-based electronics manipulator for another set of kinetic, high energy music:
Dominic Jasmin is a composer and improviser from Montreal, Canada. His music, somewhere between free jazz and acousmatic music, blends the accidental and unpredictable nature of the former with the techniques of the latter to create what has been described as structured noise. Primarily working with found sounds and electronics, he also incorporates guitar and voice to some of his live sets.
He graduated from the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal in 2018 and has been active on the music scene there through his involvement in organizing concerts with Kohlenstoff collective and Mardi Spaghetti as well as being an active musician.
Apart from his solo practice through which he has collaborated with many other artists on a one-time basis, he is involved in different projects including Actors Artificial, Shortest Job First and Larsen. He is also a trained sound engineer, working in live sound for contemporary classical music and in the studio (or on location) recording, mixing and mastering different projects.
+ in-between set music by DJ Curry
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