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If you missed Electric Eclectics

September 13, 2007

Electric Eclectics 2007 - submitted by Josh Richardson

It’s been a while coming, but at the beginning of August in Meaford was held the second annual Electric Eclectics Festival of Mondern Music and Irritainment. Once again it was packed full of artists from around the world and attracted people from all over Canada. This year’s festival was graced by the warm and amusing Jaymz Bee , who is a fixture of the Toronto lounge scene, and a party planner who includes a James Bond opening as one of his many credits. His “Cosmic Vision” was a intergalactic play on the search for romance in a lonely universe, which included Juno award winner Richard Underhill on sax. Their performance was a highlight of the Friday night, along with the incredible duo, Whippoorwill , who closed the night. Saturday was the culmination of the festival, which was preceded by sound installations and workshops across the Grey-Bruce during the previous month. Alexander Hacke of German Industrial legends Einsturzende Neubauten filled in the headlining spot, as well as Canadian “noise-music” pioneers The Nihilist Spasm Band making their Electric Eclectics debut. The entire audience was taken aback by Dutchman Edward van Der Heide’s sound and laser performance late Saturday night, which topped off the evening with an incredible display of light and oscillating waveforms. Many young up-and-coming bands had their time on the Electric Eclectics’ stage. Here is an interview with just one of those bands. Fossils are a trio of 20-somethings hail from Hamilton, Ontario and fall under the “noise-music” genre, which the 60-somethings of the Nihilist Spasm Band originated. The talked to me about their music and their concept of noise.

The following audio clip is out first attempt at using a combination of mobile phones and theOwen.com caller feedback line to collect audio commentary and reviews from events in the area. Many thanks to Josh for taking the time and making the effort to help us out with this. I can pretty much guarantee that the quality can only get better than this as we learn a little more. Clearly a land line will beat a cell for quality any day. Want to give it a try. Have a look around the site and add an audio comment by calling 519 416 Owen (6936)

And on to the audio (the player is being a little funny? you can listen in a new browser window here (if you want you can also right click that link and download the track)

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Written by Ryan · Filed Under The Area, Meaford, The Arts, Podcast, Audio, Music, theOwen 

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3 Responses to “If you missed Electric Eclectics”

  1. Joshua Says:
    September 13th, 2007 at 1:57 pm

    Audio ne march pas…

  2. Ryan Says:
    September 13th, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    Thanks for the heads up Josh. I imagine the trouble is the encoding rate. When I get home to the machine I edited the file on I will see if I can’t get the player to work.

  3. Joshua Says:
    September 13th, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    the “listen in a new browser” worked fine… cheers…

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