Voice++ Festival 2008
Program, P.2016
- Identifier
- P.2016
- Type
- Music performances;Workshops
- Category
- New Music
- Date
- May 3 – 10, 2008
- Description
- Victoria - The 4th annual Open Space Voice++ Festival, Voicing Up a Storm, descends on Victoria May 3rd to 10th, 2008. This year’s festival features a Vocal Swarm through downtown streets, a live virtual performance with players spread across North America and Europe and the premiere performances of works by iconic American composer Pauline Oliveros, Vancouver composer Jeremy Turner, local composer Cathy Lewis, Coast Salish artist Bradley Dick and Montreal sound artist Kathy Kennedy. Voice++ performers include the Coast Salish Unity Drummers and Singers, members of Hexaphone, Viviane Houle and Stefan Smulovitz, Christine Duncan, Hypatia, Nick Fairbank, Cari Burdett, the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and many more. Works by these performers and by John Cage, Meredith Monk, Alvin Curran and others are included in the program.