prOphecy sun
| prOphecy sun | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏫 Education | Emily Carr University of Art and Design SFU |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Artist, musician, performance art, sound art, installation |
| 🌐 Website | prOphecy sun |
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prOphecy sun is a Canadian Nelson, British Columbia–based[1] sound artist, performance artist, and media artist, whose work involves sound and movement in live performance, video and video installation. Her interdisciplinary performance practice deals with conscious and unconscious choreographies, sound, and environment, to create exploratory works that invoke deep body memory and draw from dreamscapes.[2][3] Since 2007 she has been self-releasing music using smartphone technology as a capturing tool. Current musical[4] projects include: prOphecy sun, Spell and the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble. Past projects include: Her Jazz Noise Collective, Under the Sun, and The Adulthood. She is also interested in shared community practices, with an emphasis on the body in dialogue with the community at large.[3] She performs solo, in collaboration, and in collective projects.[3]
Education[edit]
- BFA, Majoring in Sculpture and cermaics ECUAD, 2012
- MAA, Media Arts ECUAD, 2015
- PhD, School of Interactive Arts + Technology, SFU, 2020
Biography[edit]
Dr.Sun was named as prophecy daleth star sun, and called star until at age six when she assumed her full name. prOphecy sun's parents were both musicians and noise makers, so she grew up with jams and live shows being a regular occurrence in her household.[5] Her father particularly encouraged her to listen to nature and find music within daily life: "'My dad has this really weird relationship with sound which I think has really affected me. He would do things like play sounds of bells or birds and say to me ‘Listen to this!’ and I would be like, ‘Dad, this is really weird,’”[6]
While sound was a strong element of her Childhood, prOphecy sun did not immediately pursue a career in it. From 2005 to 2007 sun co-owned, managed and ran a vegetarian restaurant called Wink in Vancouver Mount Pleasant district. After selling the restaurant, sun branched off into sound and performance works.
Musical Style[edit]
Adams of the Vancouver Georgia Straight newspaper dubs her a "sound collagist"[7] and calls her works "airy aural patchworks".[7] While trying to describe her unique art does lead one into poetics and metaphors, Adams also states one of her works "Follow Me" as "soprano layering channels Léo Delibes's gorgeous "Flower Duet" from Lakmé as much as it does contemporary vocal manipulator Julianna Barwick".[7] The CBC dubs her as " a siren who creates ghostly improvisations, looping vocal drones and free style field recordings using breathing & throat singing, a handmade theremin and a knapsack full of customized musical objects."[8]
Career[edit]
Solo albums[edit]
- 2013 Sleep Forever
- 2012 Bird Curious
- 2011 Not For Dogs
- 2009 Cats Paws
Tyranahorse[edit]
The band started in 2005. Tyranahorse is a five-piece indie rock band based out of East Vancouver. Tyranahorse's 2011 debut full-length independent release, ghostwolfmotherhawk: prairieunicornlionlioness, received reviews in Vancouver's Discorder Magazine[9] and The Georgia Straight.[10] Dubbed a "kaleidoscopic blend of psych rock, pop, and alt-country...[an] eccentric quintet"[11] by the Georgia Straight's Rebecca Blissett.
Members[edit]
- Prophecy Sun – vocals, noise, theremin
- Jaro Welz – bass
- Darren Fleet – guitar, vocals
- Brent Brown – drums
- Max Stockholder – guitar, keyboard
Spell[edit]
Spell are Kristen Roos and prOphecy sun. "The collaboration's signature style stems from Sun's ability to sing otherworldy over the experimental electronic stylings of Roos".[12] Their style described as "weirdo lo-fi folk".[13] Their debut release, Lull, has been made with the intention of representing the live sound of Spell: "All of the tracks were recorded in one take. There is no post-production, aside from equalization and mastering".[14]
Her Jazz Noise collective[edit]
In existence from 2007 to 2010 Her Jazz Noise, to quote from part of their mission statement was: "a vancouver (coast salish territory) based anarcha-feminist network & affinity group created to encourage more women to play noise and experimental music".[15]
Under the Sun[edit]
Jenny Jones and prOphecy Sun created one LP Dust in 2011. "Their unique songwriting process involves turning on a recorder, turning up the volume and letting the music flow"[3]
The Adulthood[edit]
The Adulthood is Pris (Brady Marks), Prim (prOphecy Sun) and Patrik (Darren Fleet)
Dance Troupe Practice[edit]
prOphecy sun is one of the founding members in 2006 for the Dance Troupe Practice, a movement-based performance collective. They were awarded a 3-year studio residency, by the City of Vancouver Park Board, at the Pandora Park Field House from 2015 to 2018.[16]
Selected exhibitions/performances[edit]
- 2019 Nostalgic Geography: Mama and Papa Have Trains, Orchards and Mountains in Their Backyard, Oxygen Arts Centre, Nelson BC.
- 2019 Mothering Bacteria: A Speculative Forecast of the Body as an Interface, Creativity & Cognition / Design
Interactive Systems 2019 Art Exhibition, gallery@CALIT2, UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute, San Diego, US.
- 2019 Hunting Self, 15+ Soundscape Solo Exhibition, Arts Commons, Calgary AB.
- 2017 Fractured Perspectives: Movement and Light, Lumin Prize, British Computer Art Society, London UK
- 2016 Traces of Motherhood, Art + Parenting Group Exhibition, Unit/Pitt Gallery, Vancouver BC.
- 2016 Presence in a Box, One Art Space, NY US
- 2015 Worlds, Live sound performance, ISEA 2015 (21st Int'l Symposium on Electronic Art), Van BC
- 2014 T.I.M.E (TONAL MEDIA Experiment), Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Van BC
- 2013 Cupboards, Exploding Cinema, London UK
- 2012 Cupboards, International ArtExpo event ID / Identities. Istanbul, Turkey
- 2012 Self portrait, FICTILIS 10.-22.-38 Astoria, The LAB. San Francisco, US
- 2012 Hopscotch, Da 2012: Month of Performance Art, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Germany
- 2012 Low Lives 4: International Festival of Live Networked Performances, NY US
- 2012 H[e]ar Concert Series: Vancouver New Music, The Waldorf Hotel, Vancouver BC
- 2011 CiTR Shindig Music Finals, w/ Tyranahorse, Railway Club, Vancouver BC
- 2011 Cupboards, Square Eyes Festival, Exchange Gallery, Penzance Cornwall UK
- 2011 Cupboards, Da 2011 Festival, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
- 2011 Taiko Festival, w/ Vancouver Electronic Music Ensemble, Vancouver Playhouse, Van BC
- 2010 FUSE: Girls!Girls!Girls! w/ Her Jazz Noise Collective, Vancouver Art Gallery, Van BC
- 2009 Hairy Lumps: An Inter-dimensional Allegory, w/ DTP, Dancing on the Edge, Firehall Arts Centre Van
- 2008 Edison & Leo, Puppet Wrangler/ Assistant Animator on Feature, Toronto Film Festival
Awards[edit]
2020-2021 Shabolt Fellowship[17]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Local artists prOphecy sun, Darren Fleet produce 'Nostalgic Geography'". The Nelson Daily. 28 July 2019. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ↑ Sun, Prophecy. "prOphocy Sun: Orchard". CMA Journal (1: Failure). Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "PrOphecy sun " VAN MUSIC The newest and best music from Vancouver". VAN MUSIC The newest and best music from Vancouver.
- ↑ Syminton Fedy, Emelia (15 March 2016). "Trying to Be Good". Roundhouse Radio.
- ↑ "PrOphecy Sun: Vancouver, BC". Art Reveal Magazine (1): 46–51. March 2015. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ↑ Stander, Shuan. "Instrumental Love | Discorder Magazine | CiTR". www.citr.ca. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Adams, Gregory (28 March 2013). "Prolific prOphecy sun probes claustrophobia on Sleep Fever". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ Music, CBC. "CBC Music". music.cbc.ca. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ↑ Berman, Sarah. "Tyranahorse | Discorder Magazine | CiTR". www.citr.ca. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ↑ Adams, Gregory (13 October 2010). "Tyranahorse's ghostwolfmotherhawk: prairieunicornlionlioness gets really, really strange". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ↑ Blisset, Rebecca (6 February 2013). "Pagans get weird at the Rickshaw's Midwinter Festival". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. Georgia Straight. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
- ↑ Kissman, Ashly. "Spell | Discorder Magazine | CiTR". www.citr.ca. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ↑ Adams, Gregory (27 July 2011). "Spell casts a shamanistic Hex". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. Georgia Straight. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
- ↑ Kissman, Ashly. "A Marriage of Voice and Processing (MP3s)". disquiet.com. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ↑ "Her Jazz Noise Collective". Her Jazz Noise Collective. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ↑ "Dance Troupe Practice | The East Village Vancouver". www.eastvillagevancouver.ca. 15 May 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ↑ Newton, Steve (2 December 2020). "Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek, Eden Robinson, Fabian Romero, and prOphecy sun chosen as 2020-21 Shadbolt Fellows". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
External links[edit]
Reviews and interviews[edit]
- CBC
- Exclaim!
- Viva Scene
- Georgia Straight May 30, 2012
- Georgia Straight Aug. 12th, 2015
- Vandocument
- Peppers Ghost
- CiTR
- Bitch media
- Black Magazine
Video and sound links[edit]
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