EPIC_Tom, interspecies performance (approx. 30 min), 2014-2022
In collaboration with Simon Lysander Overstall and Tom
—video shows an excerpt of a performance at Pixelache 2016: Interfaces for Empathy, Helsinki, with participating musicians—Erkki Joutseno and Grisell Macdonal
EPIC_Tom is a project that expands on live sound and media performance through canine creativity. The project was conceived and produced with my late dog Tom (2004-20) who provided the animated visuals and vocals for the performance. The performance is based on score originating from a 30 second vocalization by Tom, extended to a 30 minutes through granular synthesis techniques resulting in five sonic movements. These movements are accompanied by live animations of Tom with visual effects representing his state of mind. The sonic score and accompanying visuals provide a means for participating human musicians to improvise along with Tom. The musicians are asked to consider what a dog is experiencing the moment just before catching a ball. Could it be proto-euphoric—eager, expectant, desirous?
Tom: vocals, motion capture
Julie Andreyev: theremin + visual performance
Simon Overstall: software + electro-acoustic performance
Jay White: animation of Tom
Richard Overington + Hyuma Frankowski: motion capture support
– 2022 EPIC_Tom++, with Simon Overstall, Adrian Avendaño, Giorgio Magnanensi, Martin Reisle, Anju Singh, and Stefan Smulovitz. Vancouver New Music.
– 2019, Living Things Festival in collaboration with Interactive Art, Science and Technology, Kelowna, BC
– 2018, “Time, Light + Sound Series”, Emily Carr University, Vancouver with musicians—DB Boyko and the VOICE OVER mind Choir.
– 2017, “Shadbolt Seminar 2017: Arts, Criticism & the City”, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver with musicians—Andrea Terpenkas and Jim Bennett.
– 2016, Pixelache: Interfaces for Empathy, Helsinki, Finland, with Erkki Joutseno and Grisell Macdonal
– 2016, curated by Brenda Cleniuk. A new commission by Neutral Ground Contemporary Art Forum, Regina.
– 2016, with members of the Regina Symphony Orchestra—Simon MacDonald, Simon Fryer, Marie-Noelle Berthelet—curated by Brenda Cleniuk, Neutral Ground Contemporary Art Forum, Regina.
– 2014 with members of the Vancouver Experimental Theremin Orchestra—Wynne Palmer, Erin Brown-John, Ricarda McDonald—curated by Wynne Palmer, LocoMotoArt @ Aberthau Mansion.
– 2014 p”Interactive Futures 2014: More-Than-Human Worlds“, Emily Carr University.
– 2013 “Beyond Human: Artist Animal Collaborations”, curated by Janey Winchell, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.
– Andreyev, Julie. “Dogs” (chapter). Lessons from a Multispecies Art Studio: Uncovering Ecological Understanding & Biophilia Through Creative Reciprocity. Intellect Books, 2021.
– Andreyev, Julie. “Responding to Dogs.” Humanimalia: a journal of human / animal interface studies, Vol. 8, number 22, Spring 2017, DePauw University (USA). Web. http://www.depauw.edu/site/humanimalia/
– Leong, Penny. “Other Beings, Julie Andreyev.” Espace 121 Animal Point of View, hiver/winter 2019, Montreal.
