E.R.

This is a sound piece functioning as my ethical representation of the participants that I connected with at the Doctor Peter Center. Plug in your headphones and close your eyes to listen.

I knew that I did not want to use photography as my method of representation for this project. I feel that photography can be an easy way out or too simple a solution for such a complex matter as representing people from a marginalized and at risk community.

I had originally done some field recordings of conversations to document the soundtrack at the DPC. I asked one man to record some of his opinions on creativity, the housing epidemic in Vancouver and the downtown eastside. I also did some recordings with a Native man singing traditional drum songs. I decided to base my piece off of one particular field recording that I took in the living room area at the center. I made one vocal tone to represent each person that was in the room at the time of the field recording. The harmonies mimic the conversation, certain parts more audible than others, depending on its ebb and flow.

film

shot it through a crystal ball.

draw a blank

featherhead by alan rahi

bdaystickyjam

all shot off my computron in my “studio” ie, parents basement, in which i currently reside. merw. columbian jewelry inspires my body wires.

soundtangs

Recorded into a grate by the cambie skytrain with Ray Madison
Gratemoan 

Recorded in the bathroom of the Guggenheim in November 2009
Art Snob Part I 

Art Snob Part II 

ahoy hoy,
how doth thy bode young sire? the snow, has she graced the lands over yon? She dareth not show her face here. Here the rain billows and blows in sheets, saturating our bones for weeks and weeks.
tinslemoan – jenarla