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Festival of Modern Music and Irritainment taking place in Meaford Ontario August 4th-6th.
I stumbled upon this festival.. surprising to see something like this happening in Meaford Ontario.. it seems there are a number of experimental music festivals popping up all around .. or are simply getting more attention.
Though the line up in general does not peak my interest at all, I thought the general idea was interesting especially coming from small-town Ontario. It seems there is an emergence of small-town of bedroom experimental artists. There is a grass-roots hippie vibe to of an older generation that seems to meld and inspire a new generation of experimental/noise artists that are bored with overly processed sounds and media. One example of the older generation London Ontario’s Nihilist Spasm Band.
The festival includes a range of international and local artists including Alexander Hack from famed German early industrial group Einstürzende Neubauten, as well as longer standing sound, light and media installations.
Peter Venuto and partner Jimmy Green (Toronto) will also be featuring their Rainbow Lites or Electric Rainbow Machine (‘primitive synaesthesia’, diy light display) and musical project Very Venuto.
Video below:
Very Venuto
The new generation of experimental is emerging throughout. A new festival Bummer in the Summer in Toronto taking place Aug 4,5,6 at Tranzac brings new experimental, folk, psych, noise with a surprising number of new, young artists from all around Toronto as well as support from larger American artists in the genre. It has a similar appeal of Terrastock and Suoni Il Per Popolo, but with a good amount of local content to build and support the community.
Local line up includes: Polmo Polpo, Awesome, Picastro, Mortimercy, Rozasia, Creeping Nobodies, Deep Dark United, Nadja, Montreal’s Cousins of Reggae and many others.
Much anticipated appearance by psych rock group Oneida, who will also be swinging through Montreal around that time.
Beginning of these rural festivals seemed to be sparked by a bold venture of Blake Hargreaves of Dreamcatcher/Cousins of Reggae with the EARTH UNDER festival that took place last summer 2005. It was a weekend noise fest in the forests of rural Ontario that brought for the first time some major noise bands from the eastern townships of the US into Canada.
Festival of Modern Music and Irritainment taking place in Meaford Ontario August 4th-6th.
I stumbled upon this festival.. surprising to see something like this happening in Meaford Ontario.. it seems there are a number of experimental music festivals popping up all around .. or are simply getting more attention.
Though the line up in general does not peak my interest at all, I thought the general idea was interesting especially coming from small-town Ontario. It seems there is an emergence of small-town of bedroom experimental artists. There is a grass-roots hippie vibe to of an older generation that seems to meld and inspire a new generation of experimental/noise artists that are bored with overly processed sounds and media. One example of the older generation London Ontario’s Nihilist Spasm Band.
The festival includes a range of international and local artists including Alexander Hack from famed German early industrial group Einstürzende Neubauten, as well as longer standing sound, light and media installations.
Peter Venuto and partner Jimmy Green (Toronto) will also be featuring their Rainbow Lites or Electric Rainbow Machine (‘primitive synaesthesia’, diy light display) and musical project Very Venuto.
Video below:
Very Venuto
The new generation of experimental is emerging throughout. A new festival Bummer in the Summer in Toronto taking place Aug 4,5,6 at Tranzac brings new experimental, folk, psych, noise with a surprising number of new, young artists from all around Toronto as well as support from larger American artists in the genre. It has a similar appeal of Terrastock and Suoni Il Per Popolo, but with a good amount of local content to build and support the community.
Local line up includes: Polmo Polpo, Awesome, Picastro, Mortimercy, Rozasia, Creeping Nobodies, Deep Dark United, Nadja, Montreal’s Cousins of Reggae and many others.
Much anticipated appearance by psych rock group Oneida, who will also be swinging through Montreal around that time.
Beginning of these rural festivals seemed to be sparked by a bold venture of Blake Hargreaves of Dreamcatcher/Cousins of Reggae with the EARTH UNDER festival that took place last summer 2005. It was a weekend noise fest in the forests of rural Ontario that brought for the first time some major noise bands from the eastern townships of the US into Canada.
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