Live Cinema Audio-Visual Performance
Commissioned by the Leonard Cohen International Festival 2008
July 25 & 27, 2008
Rice Theatre
Tickets $15 General Seating

Clinker’s “On the Other Side…” explores Cohen’s continued romance within the light and dark inside our human experience. An audio-visual “deep listening” environment which will draw inspiration from the vast depths of emotion written into the poetry and music of Leonard Cohen.

The lush bass tones of Cohen’s voice provide a point of departure for our journey inside Clinker’s cinema of sound and light. Drawing from years of experience in creating and manipulating music and audio, Clinker will deconstruct and reassemble Cohen’s voice into surreal “bass-scapes” using his unique and sophisticated system of analogue and digital electronics.  Clinker’s creation will bathe the audience in an array of Cohen’s “golden” vocal chords augmented with a connection between sonic and visual details. A specially designed sub-sonic sound system will be in place to reinforce the experience of extreme sound-movement through the body.

This piece will also be punctuated with musical adaptations of some of Clinker’s favorite Cohen songs featuring special guest virtuoso guitarist and recording artist, Les Robot. This will mark their first on-stage collaboration together drawing on both artist’s penchant for post-future musical arrangement.

Clinker Bio:

GARY JAMES JOYNES is an internationally recognized New Media artist, musician/vocalist, and sound designer. As CLINKER, his work explores meditative spaces and the physical effects of sound and visuals on the body. His “Live Cinema” performances invite audiences to experience “deep listening” and the rewards of attention to sonic and visual minutiae.

The last few years have seen Clinker’s work performed and exhibited in Canada and abroad in festivals including THE BANFF CENTRE (BNMI) INTERACTIVE SCREEN 2007, NEW FORMS 2007 (Vancouver), SPRAWL INTERPLAY 4 2007 (Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Bristol) and at Montreal’s prestigious MUTEK FESTIVAL in 2007, 2005, and 2003. He has also recently completed an experimental musical score for the NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA’S feature full-length documentary “DIRT.”

Les Robot Bio:

Emerging from the isolated prairies of Northern Canada the enigmatic Les Robot brings a new sound to the world of guitar. He calls it “Post Future Blues”, a progressive form which draws its soul from the deep-south and its heart from the “shred guitar” he cut his teeth on. In June of 2006 Les Robot made his premiere outside of Alberta by winning the prestigious North American Rock Guitar Competition in Buffalo New York.

Les is currently at work on a follow up to his 1st album, with an expected release date in the Summer of 2008.

DATES AND SHOW TIMES:
Show #1 – Friday, July 25, 2008, 10:30 PM
Show #2 – Sunday, July 27, 2007, 3:00 PM
Show #3 – Sunday, July 27, 2007, 5:00 PM
Rice Theatre (Citadel Theatre)