VNM Festival 2019 – Resonances

Linda Bouchard, Gordon Grdina, François Houle, Kenton Loewen

All Caps No Space

Friday, October 17, 2019

Annex (823 Seymouve STreet, 2nd Floor, Vancouver, BC)

All Caps No Space is composed for three live musicians, live video, and live electronics. It is a unique work that invites audiences to actively reflect on their role as consumers of information. Musicians perform and interact with a table that projects live video onto a large screen. The audience is also invited to integrate comments into the visual flow of the work. Using a graphical score, stock and prerecorded material and live processing, All Caps No Space explores the amplified solitude we experience within the media barrage of information that besieges us.

This work is conceived to capture a moment in time and geographic location. In every city where it is performed, topical elements from the news are integrated into the visuals and sonic experience, like prompts. The experience is visceral, lyrical, and political.

Linda Bouchard, concept, music and video
Keith Turnbull, dramaturgy
Kim Collier, Stage Direction
Grdina – Houle – Loewen Collective

Video documentation by Mingtao Kong.
Audio documentation by Ira Jordison.