Performance

Playbook

Playbook is an interactive, immersive experiment with improvised sound and text. The performance is structured to involve audience input: four sets of vintage encyclopedias are distributed around the room, and spectators are invited to look through the books, select a short piece, and bring it to the reader. The text is then deconstructed and incorporated into the sonic material produced by the musicians, creating a web of sounds, words, and rhythms played through an 8-channel immersive sound system. Playbook is an oblique exploration of what, how, and why we archive knowledge — and what we do with all the data.

Artists: Andrew Stauffer (percussion), Darren Williams (saxophone), Jessie Rivest (voice), Miles Thorogood (musician/audio engineer), Chris Anderson (musician/audio engineer), Eliseo Santillan (piano and soundscape), and Neil Cadger (text). Presented with the 8-channel, circular immersive sound system from the SPIRAL lab at UBC Okanagan — live inputs from musicians and vocalists are transformed into sonic textures that envelop the audience.