DOORS 6pm

venue: breaking circus, 2164 Amalamek Wy, Halifax, NS B3K 2W4

Evicshen is a sound performance alias by Victoria Shen who manipulates records and materials of all kinds. Her sounds oscillate between moments of restraint and swells of frenetic and confrontational movement. Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones, Shen uses what she calls 'chaotic sound' to oppose signal and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning. Her personal identity, her body, is the space her work utilizes to restructure sonic meaning. In her live performances, she proposes an exploration between meaning and non-meaning through the physical activation of noise tropes. The appendage-like instruments and objects she makes, exemplify Shen’s ability to embody through sound her interest in the tension created by opposition: control and chaos, the unique and the mass produced, the practical and the absurd.

Brandon Miguel Valdivia has emerged as one of the most prolific and respected musicians in Canada working as a drummer and multi-instrumentalist over the past twenty years. He has worked with artists such as Polaris Prize Winner and Grammy Award Nominated Lido Pimienta, Polaris Prize Winner Jeremy Dutcher, U.S. Girls, Picastro, Bomba Estereo, Not the Wind, Not the Flag, Laaraji, Arnold Dreyblatt, Sook-Yin Lee amongst others. Mas Aya is the name of his solo project for which he has garnished international acclaim with releases on Telephone Explosion Records  Shika Shika Collective receiving warm critical reception from such sources as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, CBC, the New York Times and more. His music merges jazz, electronic, Colombian and Cuban styles creating an eclectic, unclassifiable, rhythmic music teeming with subtle contradiction and restless intrigue.