RADIO Rethink: Art, Sound and Transmission
RADIO Rethink: Art, Sound and Transmission. Edited by Daina Augaitis and Dan Lander. The following text is taken from Front Magazine, vol. V, no. 5, p. 10,…
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Canada Shadows
Special Production. The Canadian Shadow Players are a group of Vancouver Pataphysicians who specialize in the esoteric study of umbrology. This video is the translation…
Aka Nada
Commissioned by O Kanada, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin. With live computer music, three simultaneous screens and various projection technologies, the piece was also performed in…
Vis à Vis: Shadow Opera in 3 Acts
Kate Craig, Glenn Lewis, Patrick Ready, Martin Bartlett, Josephine Rigg and Hank Bull. “This play featured several articulated screens, projection of film, slides, dancers and…
Interview for the Birds
Special Production. With Jo Anne Birnie-Danzker. An ironic view on the ambiguity of most interviews, emphasized by the slight double image recorded by the two…
Weather or Naught
Commissioned by the Burnaby Art Gallery, this play saw the introduction of Patrick Ready’s “rhythm machine,” a system of wheel-driven arms that banged drums, shook…
The Edge of Sleep
Work is a single channel video production of a script written by by Patrick Ready and Judith Berlin, featuring Rick Scott, Lin Bennett, Gary Pogrow,…
A Bite Tonight
The “world’s longest radio play” was written by Patrick Ready and loosely based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with Opal Nations as the artist-vampire, Suzanne Ksinan as…