Electronic musician Loscil to perform first live audiovisual concert in three years at Chan Centre EXP
The Vancouver-based composer and multimedia artist also known as Scott Morgan will be joined by New York-based musician Rafael Anton Irisarri
Loscil. Photo by Ben Didier
LOSCIL WILL TAKE to the stage at Chan Centre for the Performing Arts for his first concert after a three-year hiatus, teaming up with New York’s Rafael Anton Irisarri as part of Chan Centre EXP on October 1.
Loscil is the music project of Vancouver-based composer and multimedia artist Scott Morgan. Complete with video projections, the show will be his first live concert premiering material from his 2021 album, Clara and its companion, Lux: Refractions.
Clara is described as a “stunning meditation on light, shade, and decay” sourced from a three-minute composition performed by a 22-piece string orchestra in Budapest. “The resultant work is wonderfully opaque and spatial, equal parts lush and lurking, traced in fine-grained gradients and radiant silences. The album's title comes from the Latin word for “bright,” a fitting muse for this masterpiece of celestial electric currents and interstitial ether, where shadows are amplified and bright spots dimmed,” according to a Chan Centre release.
Rafael Anton Irisarri. Photo by Nikita Grushevskiy
Irisarri is a composer, record producer, and mastering engineer who also works in the realm of ambient electronic music whom Pitchfork described as “a new kind of composer: one who exists in an undifferentiated welter of pop, techno, and classical”. His recent album, Peripeteia, is “built on an array of modern ambient overtones threaded through oceanic symphonies with tape loops, bowed electric guitar and vast washes of overdriven sound while giving way to the metal and classical influences that emphasize Irisarri’s melancholic tendencies,” the Chan Centre release states.
The artists in the Chan Centre’s EXP stream of programming—a series conceived of by Chan Centre curator-in-residence, Jarrett Martineau—break conventions to produce music that defies categorization.
Tickets and more information are at chancentre.com.
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