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Pop Montreal: Ford & Lopatin + Sleep Over + d'Eon + CFCF
I arrived before the show to check out the venue, which is a very cool open space, and had been decorated for ArtPop. There were some interesting installations including a pile of spectrographs and radio equipment, as well as a stage setup featuring taxidermied wolves, and an owl, lit with a black light. The open space and big sound made it a great venue for the show that was about to take place.
First to take the stage was CFCF. He played in front of a backdrop of perfectly cheap and cheesy looking new age visuals which brought to mind a time when the internet was a baby and the soft synth, bell pads and pan flutes samples on display would be more likely to be found on an Enya or Kitaro record than at a show for the cool kids. He played a set with peaks and valleys, anchored by rumbling bass, booming electronic drums and woven pan flute and bell. This recent resurgence of interest in new age soundscapes has been anchored by fellow local artist, and next to play, d'Eon.
His show was a looser affair where miscued samples abounded, but once the songs got going we were brought into his world of chiming bell pads, strange pummeling rave-like rhythms, screams and weird RnB. His music got the quiet crowd moving a little more, and people were excited to hear songs like "Transparency," with its catchy vocals and banging 90's hip-hop on ecstasy inspired beats.
The show took a different direction when Sleep ∞ Over came on. Their set took on a slower pace and had a more enveloping sound, drawing from some similar influences as d'Eon with a distinctly RnB feel mixed with late 80's dream pop and shoegaze. The band rolled through newer sounding arrangements of songs like "Casual Diamond" and "Romantic Streams," which were only recognizable once I heard the familiar vocal melodies buried beneath the synth wash and echo. The set had a great druggy quality to it that brought you into the world of Sleep ∞ Over's haunting melodies and darkly beautiful synthesizer music. It was definitely far too brief, though.
Last to play was the great duo of Joel Ford and Daniel Lopatin. The show started out with some drifting ambient synth, reminiscent of Lopatin's solo work as Oneohtrix Point Never, but once the beat dropped you were transported into the 1980's, complete with boom-bap drum machine, which brought to mind the early years of hip-hops golden era, and glistening poppy synth. The music hit hard and each sample was perfectly placed as they ran through songs off their new record, Channel Pressure. The performance ran a lot like the record, with more contemplative moments between songs, and pure 80's pop bliss bursting throughout. A definite highlight of a great weekend, and a fantastic way to end a very interesting show.
-Marshall V hosts Fear Of Music every Thursday night from Midnight to 1am
Cancer Awareness Group to Use Lennon and Ono’s Bed-in Room
Breast Cancer Montreal will use the room of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1969 bed-in for a campaign. They will occupy the room in the Queen Elizabeth hotel Thursday morning.
The group is asking for mandatory labeling of products that can cause cancer. They want warning labels on products with links to cancer like cosmetics and processed foods. They hope to get enough signatures from the public for a petition.
Lennon and Ono famously stayed in the hotel room for seven days to protest the Vietnam war. They recorded “Give Peace a Chance” during their stay.
A Breast for Cancer member says they are doing this to give prevention a chance.
Occupy Wall Street Comes to Canada
Rallies of protest against the global financial system in cities across the United-States have spread to Canada.
Occupy Toronto organisers expect hundreds of people to show up at the intersection of Bay and King streets on October 15. They will prepare for a march for the week after the Toronto Stock Exchange opens.
Canadian protests are also being organised in Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Victoria, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, according to the Occupy Together website.
To learn more or join the protests being arranged in Montreal check out the Facebook page.
By: Greg Wilson
October 3rd 2011
Produced By Melissa Mulligan
Read By Sarah Deshaies
Articles By: Joel Balsam, Esther Viragh, Audrey Folliot
ASFA By-Election Campaign Gets Started
The Arts and Science Federation of Associations (ASFA) by-election campaign kicks off today. Candidates will be trying to convince voters for the next week and a half that they are right for the job.
The VP Communications and Promotions position remains open as no one ran for the position last year. But Katie Brioux, Alexis Suzuki and Laura Robbins will be vying for the job this time.
Brioux is a Communications student in her fourth year from Brampton, Ontario. She plans on creating an “open communication platform” on ASFA’s website to keep students informed. Brioux is currently the Graphics Editor at The Concordian newspaper.
Suzuki is in her third year studying English, Art History and Studio Art. She is the VP External for Concordia Volunteers In Action (VIA) club. Suzuki plans to add a “sustainable” twist to getting students informed about ASFA events.
Robbins is an activist on campus with student-led movements. She promises to provide students with ways to be involved while doing her part to keep ASFA transparent and accountable.
The position for VP External and Sustainability is also up for grabs. Boris Degas and Paul Jerajian will go head to head in the by-election.
Degas is in his fourth year in Biochemistry from Marseille, France. He plans on starting a ride share program as well as reviving the annual Green Week.
Jerajian is in his second year of Actuarial Mathematics and Finance from nearby Saint Laurent, Quebec. He plans to focus on fighting tuition fee hikes and to create more sustainability-centred events on campus.
Also looking to get elected, Yazzy Zahar and Sian Mill will try and fill the vacant Independent Councillor slot.
Zahar is a second year student from Washington D.C. specializing in Environmental Science. She wants to incorporate international students into ASFA as well as increase its visibility on campus.
Mill is in her fourth year from Vancouver, B.C. studying Geography and Urban Studies. A former VP Internal of the Geography Undergraduate Students Society, Mill also wants students to know what ASFA is all about by increasing student "awareness" of the organization.
Stay tuned to cjlo.com/news for continued coverage of the 2011 ASFA by-election.
Arts and Science students can vote in various locations around campus from 10am to 8pm on October 12th and 13th.
Balancing The Body And The Mind
Slackline Montreal had an open house on Saturday. It ran from one in the afternoon to the early hours of the following morning. For those unfamiliar with the activity, the event proved to be the perfect opportunity to go and find out. Our reporter, Esther Viragh was there.
Nylon webbings stretched out across the floor, tempting all visitors to leap on them and try them out. The goal: to stay on as long as possible. The challenge: to do so with grace, style and agility. Julien Desforges organized the event and founded Slackline Montreal, a unique company, in the city.
"More center and more balanced in your body and your mind is one of the biggest thing that slackline has ever brought me. So, that’s why I try to speak about it and give it to as many people as possible."
Slacklining plunges participants into a meditative state to achieve both a physical balance and a psychological one as well. This has played a decisive role in Tania Reyes’ life.
"I have found solutions for some problems and I couldn’t believe that just walking a line could be like this."
Videos were also part of the event. Slackliners ventured on several 1000 feet high lines, a clear demonstration of human endurance.
Esther Viragh, CJLO News
Walking The World
Jean Béliveau has finally reached Ottawa this weekend after walking around the world for almost eleven years.The fifty-six-year old Quebecer has walked across six continents and more than sixty-four countries. In total, he has walked for more than seventy-five thousand kilometres during those years.
His journey had started as an attempt to discover himself during a mid-life crisis, but along the way, it turned into a walk for peace and an attempt to increase awareness about young victims of violence.
Fifty-three pairs of shoes later, he is close to reaching his goal, but he admitted that there were times where he thought about giving up.
Béliveau only has two more weeks to go before he meets with his wife Lucy in Montreal, and before he ends his eleven-year walk around the globe.
Futurs bus
Le futur bus de Montréal aurait 5 portes en accordéon, la priorité aux intersections et le temps d’attente indiqué aux arrêts !
Une réunion sur les transports en commun a lieu cette semaine aux Entretiens Jacques Cartier à Montréal. La directrice de l’Institut français des sciences et technologies de transports, Nadine Mordant présentera le projet.
La réunion est en alternance avec Lyon, en France mais est aussi internationale : 2500 participants d’une trentaine de pays sont attendus ainsi que 775 conférenciers.
Le bus représente 60% des transports publics. Cette activité économique se doit d’être renforcée : confort, meilleur flux des passagers, siège du conducteur déplacé au milieu du bus pour plus de visibilité.
Des essais ont lieus dans 7 villes. A Budapest, le fabricant d'autobus munichois MAN présente un autobus accordéon qui comporte cinq portes afin que les passagers montent et descendent plus facilement.
Real Time Twitter Moods
It isn’t surprising to find happier tweets on weekends than on working days.
Researchers have been delving into people's moods expressed through Twitter and other social networks to detect positive and negative moods throughout days and seasons.
More than half a billion Twitter messages, from 84 countries were analysed by language detection software for positive and negative moods. Generally, most tweets are positive in the morning and climb in the evening.
Researcher’s claim that changes in the daylight do have an effect on people’s messages. Sleep is said to be an accurate cause of mood changes during the day.
Researchers claim that people are emotionally refreshed by sleep and this would explain why positive tweets appear in the morning.
DJ Danielle's Pop Montreal Diary (part 1)
Photo by Alex Menjivar
PopMontreal turned 10 years old this year, and they brought an extremely packed roster of both well-known and more obscure acts for their audiences. With big names like Arcade Fire and Chromeo taking the stage, it was fantastic to see lesser-known cult favourites like R. Stevie Moore and The Raincoats included on the bill. Wednesday night was the opening night of the festival, and was sure not to disappoint.
I began my adventure into the music-riddled Plateau, which was the centre for most of the acts, by heading down to Radio Canada to check out Duchess Says in a rare Montreal appearance on Bande a Part. Due either to my own confused brain or to the lack of organization on the Pop Montreal website, I missed out on the fact that you needed to RSVP the event, and wasn’t allowed in. It was a disappointing start to the festival, but I was determined to persevere. So I hopped on my trusty turquoise bike and headed all the way up to Il Motore to catch local CJLO faves Aim Low. Even though these guys regularly practice at the station, I admit I have not seem them live until now. Made up of CJLO volunteers, their set, though sadly under-attended, gave me major shivers up and down my spine. They mixed a blend of drone and shoegaze with gorgeous harmonies and mind-blowingly loud noise effects. The use of vocal filters was masterful, to say the least. Aim Low plays frequently in town, so if ever you get the opportunity, I would recommend them highly.
Next I sped down to O Patro Vys to see local up-and-comers Reversing Falls play for an enthusiastic fan base. Jesse Ash, Tyler Crawford, and Charlie Neufeld recently released a music video for their song “Doom Beach” and it was obvious to me that the audience was familiar with their work. Their stage banter was amusing to the guys standing beside me, who knew several obscure facts about the band. Reversing Falls played tracks off of their “Little Goodbye/Doom Beach” release, and one new track to be released on their new album. Their sound is 90’s inspired Sloan-like straight up rock, with the odd foray into jam land in the middles of their songs. They also play regularly around the city, so if you’re jonesing for some nostalgia, check these guys out.
-Danielle J hosts Runny Noise every Thursday from 10pm-12am
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