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Sarah Peebles Sarah Peebles is a Toronto-based composer, improviser and installation artist. Her initial violin, composition, and theatre studies in Minneapolis, MN, were followed by a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from the University of Michigan School of Music (Ann Arbor) in 1988, studies in contemporary and traditional Japanese music at Toho Gakuen School of Music, the Tokyo Association of Shinto Priests, the Okada Guild of Sato-Kagura (Saitama) and others in Japan, and, workshops in electronic media at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto. Much of her practice focuses on digitally manipulated found sound projected via loudspeakers and/or physical objects, often incorporating acoustic and amplified improvisation on the shoh (the Japanese mouth-organ used in gagaku) - often exploring alternative performance settings such as museums, bamboo groves, temples and parks. Ongoing work since 2006 includes collaborations with artists and bee biologists on a series of integrated media installations, community outreach projects and web site which focuses on local pollination ecology and native bees, collectively titled “Resonating Bodies”. RB installations highlight the act of observation as an immersive experience while illuminating essential information about native bees, habitat and co-evolution. Peebles’ activities have included music for dance, multi-channel sound, radio, video/film, performance art, integrated media, sound installation and improvised performance. Venues and producers include The Kitchen, SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater Evening, Festival L'Espace du Son (Belgium), Xebec and Studio Kinshicho (Japan), Societé pour des Arts Technologiques, Gesù (Montreal), WADE festival, Continuum for soundaXis festival, Night Swim for Nuit Blanche-Toronto, Southern Theatre (MN), New Adventures in Sound Art (The Banff Centre and Toronto), Open Ears Festival, The Adelaide Festival of Arts-The Listening Room (ABC), Subtle Technologies, The McCluen Festival of the Future, CCA (Glasgow), The Music Gallery, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre (Toronto), Deutchland Radio, BBC3, Radio-Canada, Radio New Zealand and The Physics Room, among others. Her activities in Japan (since 1986) have included performing gagaku (court music), kagura bayashi (Shinto dance-drama music), shishi mai (lion dance music) and other musics for Shinto festivals, weddings and other traditional functions throughout the Tokyo metropolitan region; concerts and collaborations with a wide variety of Japanese artists as an Uchida Fellowship (Japan Foundation) recipient; a tour with the Canadian trio Cinnamon Sphere; and, creation of the radiophonic work “108 - Walking through Tokyo” (SRC, L’espace du Son commission / Mario Gauthier, producer). Her music is available on Cycling '74, innova Recordings, Spool, Post-Concrète, and Sonus.ca and others. Details at sarahpeebles.net. September 2010 |
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