dashes - - is a sound collaboration between John Brennan and Elisa Ferrari. – – pays homage to the incidental and ephemeral microtonal exchanges that occur through layering sustained dissonant frequencies, live samples, subtle movements and vocalization of text borrowed from dictionaries, language, and sound manuals. In their improvised performances, – – combines sounds of amplified objects, feedback manipulation and modified percussion with field recordings and voice. Central to their approach to improvisation is an emphasis on the sonic interstices and slippages between the listeners/performers’ inner thoughts and the perception of the acoustic environment outside. dashes' work has been presented at festivals and sound art series such as BigJoy (Vancouver), Vox Organi(Vancouver), Les Vespérales de l’orgue du Sacré-Cœur (Montreal) Quiet City (Vancouver), No Idea (Austin), Helicotrema (Venice), Sounding Paths (Syros). They have collaborated with a diverse range of influential artists, including John Dieterich, Raven Chacon, Adrian Foster, Chris Corsano, Graham Lambkin, Áine O'Dwyer, and more. dashes’ approach to listening and sound making cherishes collaboration and play.
We're grateful to collaborate and produce on the shared, stolen, unceded, ancestral and traditional territories of Penelakut, Lamalcha, Hwitslum and other Hul’qumi’num speaking peoples, as well as the ceded territories of Tsawwassen First Nation, on what is now known as Galiano Island, British Columbia. We recognize the complex impacts that hosting settlers and non-settlers has on the Indigenous land and peoples of this area, and we aim to be responsible and accountable for these impacts and our footprint—whether cultural, environmental or social.
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