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Meet Me At the Woodshop

Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival, Montreal Quebec Canada 2023

Four channel radio transmission, Four day durational performance/ Installation, videos.

Building on their most recent collaboration, Gambletron and Johnny Forever's newest work Meet Me At The Woodshop explores the erotics of labour and the relationship between the body and its immediate built environment. Sourcing materials, imagery, and sound from their experience in construction, Gambletron and Forever work queer fantasy into the world of quick and dirty home renovation.

The work is an installation activated by several scheduled performances. Gambletron's rumbling house-influenced beats, roughly hewn from a collection of synths and homemade electronics are layered over tones produced via electric musical saw. This sound comes through heavy-duty jobsite radios via multichannel transmission. Meanwhile, Johnny Forever transforms typical home improvement labour into chaotic, precariously executed queer burlesque.

As a queer couple who have spent many years on nightlife scenes and construction sites, the artists are allowing themselves space to flirt with the image of a babely nonbinary handiperson just doing their job while bringing their usual absurdist experiments with technical failure and material decay into the play space/work site.

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GAMBLETRON at RIDM 2014

Noise, glitch pop, radio theremin queen GAMBLETRON performing with visuals by Johnny Forever

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GAMBLETRON

Sonic artist and musician based out of Montréal. She is known for noise-electronic improvisation, her extended multi AM Radio Theremin, roving radio transmitted “Field Trips”, performance based radio installations with artist Johnny Forever and experimental “Noise Karaoke.” Gambletron is a musical scavenger collecting technical run off, incorporating analogue, digital, old, new, and unlikely technology into her art. Gambletron has toured internationally and participated in various festivals and residencies around the world. . She can be found performing and collaborating in numerous projects on Constellation Records.

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Transparens (Idle Chatter 003) by V/A: Gambletron, NaEE RoBErts, Wren Turco

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AM RADIO THEREMIN 2012- present

SIREN: DRONE Oscillations groundswell festival Hudson New York 2015

AM Radio Oscillations Place Public Performance 2, Darling Foundry, Montreal, Quebec 2013

AM Radio Oscillations w/ Jen Reimer, Sala Rosa Montreal

AM Radio Oscillations w/ Jen Reimer- Sophie Gips-Höfe Gallery, Residence Souterrain,  2013, Berlin, DE

The AM Radio Theremin is an extended instrument I created from watching a demonstration of a 3 radio theremin on Youtube.  My version has multipal roving tones and can consist of anything between 5 radios to 40 radios.  It can be created as a stand alone installation but the project was created to preform in. I like to imporvise with the sculputre using a musical saw and vox. 

You can explore more of this project in the ART section of my site.

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CIRCLES: EMANATIONS -SEPHIROT TRANSMISSION

The ten Sephirot of universal vibration emerge from the Ein-Soph.  

FIMAV Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville

Located behind the Charles-Édouard Mailhot Library, Victoriaville,QC 

 91.5 FM 

This sculpture is an exploration in public interaction and transmission highlighting the inexplicable spiritual connection with “something” that often occurs during improvisational performance. The interventions// interactions will occur as short interviews, sound bites and improvisational performances between myself, festival participants, and musical friends. We will explore and chat about our interactions with the static divine while making music. 

These interactions will be either be pre-recorded or transmitted live in Victoriaville at the FIMV festival using my flagship mobile sculptural station. They will then get chopped and interwoven into an informative soundscape sonic mélange looping on the station when there is not a live transmission. People are encouraged to bring their own radios and tune in. 

 This sculpture is made up of a stationary antenna, built and placed in the middle of the breakdance stage behind the Charles- Édouard Mailhot Library in Victoriaville Quebec. It’s made out of locally sourced branches and attached to a low wattage FM transmitter placed underneath. The radios surrounding the antenna are all from my personal collection sheltered from the elements and attached to exterior speakers and antennas. The plinths are all handmade from trash pieces on an old pipe organ. This transmitter is transmitting to 10 radios placed evenly in a configuration loosly based on a Kabalistic diagram found of the 10 Sephirot. Here is a quick-y-wiki explanation: 

Sefirot (/sfɪˈroʊt/, /ˈsfɪroʊt/; Hebrew: סְפִירוֹת‎‎ səphîrôṯ), meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which Ein Sof (The Infinite) reveals themself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the chain of higher metaphysical realms (Seder hishtalshelus). The term is alternatively transliterated into English assephirot/sephiroth, singular sefirah/sephirah etc.- wiki 

Each Radio represents a line on the above Kabbalistic chart. This project hopes to redefine these 10 steps that bring us closer to the divine through the act of improvisation. 

My great grandfather, Rabbi Yehudah Yidul Rosenberg who was a writer, a kabalistic scholar, a head Rabbi and spiritualist working in the early 20th century, inspired the use of the Sefirot diagram. Yidul was a controversial figure in the Rabbinical community, criticized for his translation of sections of the Zohar, the foundational Kabbalistic text, from Aramaic into Hebrew at a time when many believed the mystical text should remain only in its original. He was considered to be a rebel, also criticized for writing fiction in a time where Rabbis were to only dedicate themselves to their religious endeavours. Although growing up as a jew my only spiritual activation has truly only existed through art and music, I believe the Rabbi and I would have gotten along. 

Another inspiration for this project was my beloved dog Lucy, who just passed away at 16 years. She couldn’t stop pacing in circles before she died. When I was given the task to create a project for this location I could not help but see everything in circles because of her. She loved music and sat through many of rehearsal and improvisational session.

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Radius highlights Episode 75: Gambletron & Johnny Forever in the next program of our ongoing SKETCHPAD Series produced for Wave Farm. The program features a re-broadcast of previous Radius Episodes, and is followed by an audio playlist selected by the featured artist.

Radius SKETCHPAD broadcasts Saturday, February 25, 2017 from 2pm - 3pm EST on WGXC (90.7-FM) in Greene and Columbia counties in New York, USA.

Listen to WGXC (90.7-FM)

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Radius extends an invitation to attend the third LIVE broadcast and performance of the 2016 GROUND Series with Episode 75: Gambletron & Johnny Forever inside the underground rock canyons at Starved Rock State Park.

Radius GROUND Series is a three-part, site-specific commissioned radio series that focuses on radio’s direct physical connection to the Earth.

When:

Saturday September 10, 2016 at 3:00PM - 5:00PM CST RSVP on Facebook

Where:

Starved Rock State Park 2688 East 873 Road Oglesby, Illinois United States