February 2010
6 posts
Clamor and Toll / Cultural Olympiad 2010
Absurdus is an instrumental psychosomatic noise experiment that relies on the dynamics of improvised sound, free of convention/assumption/categorization. Their recent endeavor uses indeterminacy as a compositional principle and involves electroacoustic conversions. Korean born Joomi Seo is a multi-disciplinary artist. From Fluxus to New Music, her research investigates sound in relation to...
Clamour and Toll
Absurdus has been asked to participate in Clamour and Toll, February 2010. Below is the information.
PERFORMANCE CLAMOUR AND TOLL C\R\I\T\I\C\S, Josh Rose, Absurdus, Christian Nicolay and Ya-chu Kang February 17, 8pm, 2010 Curated by Eli Bornowsky Clamour and Toll is the first in a series of evening performances based in Vancouver’s robust noise/performance community. Vancouver has a history of...
Performed at LIVE Biennale, 2009.
Hammock Residency, Solder & Sons and Absurdus!
After staying at Graveley Street for May & June, Phoebe came back and Joomi moved back to her house. We needed a new practice space and Robert Pedersen made up an awesome trade! I made coffees on Mondays and for July & August, Joomi and I had a practice space at Solder & Sons. Joomi was a participant of the Hammock Residency during this time, with Solder & Sons an official,...
How We Started, as told by Heidi Nagtegaal, 2009
“Absurdus was started when Joomi Seo stayed over at my house while Phoebe went on vacation, May 2009. We stayed up all night, jamming, too many nights in a row, and decided to explore musical sounds (of all sorts) together. Spirituality, poetry, peacefulness and beauty were topics of continual navigation, with Joomi on keys and myself on vocals.”