TONAL Interactive MEDIA Experiment

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WHATSINYOURLOOP 07 / JOSEPH HIRABAYASHI

#WHATSINYOURLOOP 07 / JOSEPH HIRABAYASHI We asked Sprïng frontman Joseph Hirabayashi what was in his loop. Q. What was the first guitar pedal you ever bought? A. Boss DS1 Distortion and Boss TU-2 Tuner package. I still have the tuner! Q. What is one pedal that you couldn't live without? A. Boss TU-2 Tuner. Q. What is your standard pedal setup? A. Boss Tu-2 Tuner => Turbo Rat => Lluna Oscillo Fuzz Drive => MXR Phase 90 => Deep Six Compresser => Eventide H9 => Eventide Timefactor STANDARD. Q. What is one pedal you want, but do not own. A. Ugh, there isn't just one. But I might want to get that Strymon Tape Delay, the El Capitan or whatever it's called, or Moog Ring Mod ala John Mutter.  Q. Is there such thing as too many pedals? A.Probably. It's Conceivable. See Spring’s free TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival show at David Lam Park Saturday, June 28th at 12:00pm. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/255521307984931 www.5pring.com

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WHATSINYOURLOOP 06 / JOHN MUTTER

#WHATSINYOURLOOP 06 / JOHN MUTTER We asked TIME performer John Mutter leader of alt-jazz ensemble ‘we just stole a car’, and alt-pop project JOHN MUTTER WAS RAISED BY WOLVES what was in his loop.
 Q. What was the first guitar pedal you ever bought? A Boss distortion. Although I was lucky and inherited several old made-in-Japan Boss pedals from my dad, a phaser, chorus, compression/sustainer, before I ever had to buy one. Q. What is one pedal that you couldn’t live without? A. A simple overdrive if the amp I’m using doesn’t have good distortion...if it does... Z-Vex Fuzz Factory? MY TUNER? Q. What is your standard pedal setup? A, Z-vex Fuzz Factory - Earnie Ball Volume jr - Maxon OD9 Overdrive - Maxon AD9 pro Analog Delay - Moog Ring Modulator - BOSS DD6 Digital Delay - Electro harmonix Holiest Grail Reverb - Korg Tuner. Q. What is one pedal you want, but do not own. A. Digitech Whammy. Or a Marrs Fuzz Light Year. Or a pedal of an electric car with a whole new electric car surrounding the pedal. Q. Is there such thing as too many pedals. A. Yep. www.johnmutter.com johnmutterwasraisedbywolves.tumblr.com www.wejuststoleacar.com TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival #TIME2014

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WHATSINYOURLOOP 05 / prOphecy sun

#WHATSINYOURLOOP EP 05 / prOphecy sun Five Q’s for TIME performer, solo artist, and Tyranahorse member prOphecy sun. Q. What was the first guitar pedal you ever bought? A. I borrowed a delay and looping pedal forever. A Line 6 was my first though jump into vocal freedom.  Q. What is one pedal that you couldn’t live without? A. A looping pedal! I can't even imagine composing sound and voice without one. Q. What is your standard pedal setup? A. Line 6, Pitch shifter and delay pedal with Theremin. Q. What is one pedal you want, but do not own. A. Cluster of Looping pedals. Boss RC-30 Loop Station Q. Is there such thing as too many pedals? A. Goodness, no! Imagine you could only cook with one ingredient. Man, that would be boring in my books. I wisssssh I could afford to have more pedals in my kitchen so I could make even bigger feasts of sounds! prophecysun.ca/ @prOphecysun

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WHATSINYOURLOOP 04 / STEPHEN LYONS

WHATSINYOURLOOP EP 04 with Stephen Lyons, leader of JUNO Award winning Fond of Tigers and Limbs of the Stars. Q. What was the first guitar pedal you ever bought? A. Probably a DOD flanger. Maybe a Tokai Distortion around the same time. I remember seeing a Dinner is Ruined solo show where, in addition to playing slide bass with his feet using a bass tin whistle, he also used a Tokai Distortion, but every time he switched it on, his guitar sound went totally washed out, thin, and quiet. You could hear his pick against his electric guitar strings more than the sound from his amp. This was around when grunge was really getting going as a corporate concern, and when the amount of overdriven guitars on choruses was really beefing up. I liked his use of the pedal as an effect through subtraction, almost to the point of negation. Q. What is your standard pedal setup? A. With Fond of Tigers and Limbs of the Stars, it's mainly been just a volume pedal. I've used various looping pedals for writing material, but very rarely live. I've written a few parts by screwing up the timing on the loops, and then liking the mistake more than the original idea. Over the years, I've sporadically performed in a duo called Collapsing Lung (with Lee Hutzulak), and for a good part of it my approach was to try to sound like I was using pedals, without using any (other than the volume pedal). It was a good challenge, and sometimes maybe even worked. For my upcoming solo show, I think I'll be using an Empress Tremolo and an ElectroHarmonix 2880 loop pedal. Oh, and the volume pedal. Q. What is one pedal you want, but do not own. A. Still trying to find the ideal looper. Each one has drawbacks. Maybe someone wants to design a special one for me and my needs? Q. Is there such thing as too many pedals? I've seen too many times that frantic chase to find a problem in the effects chain. The panicked unplugging and replugging. Is it the chorus pedal? Is it this little patch cable? Or that one? or that one? The more pedals, the more chance of getting caught up in this tornado. Lyons is currently at work writing the next Fond of Tigers album. See their previous work (including their JUNO Award winning album “CONTINENT & WESTERN” at https://fondoftigers.bandcamp.com Limbs of the Stars can be found here: http://limbsofthestars.bandcamp.com/releases

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Lee Hutzulak (one of your TIME performers and facilitators) heard here with Dixie's Death Pool. / TIME / 06/21/14 - 06/22/14 / ROBSON SQUARE

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Vancity's ffffftttt!!!! featuring Lee Hutzulak, John Mutter, Dave Chokroun and Jonathon Wilcke.

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WHATSINYOURLOOP 03 / JEFF YOUNGER

Q.What was the first guitar pedal you ever bought?   A. Well, I'm from Winnipeg, so.... Boss Distortion Pedal! Q. What is one pedal that you couldn’t live without? A. For the Devil Loops stuff, the Digitech Whammy pedal (conspiring with the Rat Deucetone) really makes some of the crazier, extended techniques stuff speak.  I totally love it when you discover amazing sounds a pedal was never intended to make...! Q.What is your standard pedal setup?   A. Depends on the musical island I happen to be on... but basically whatever helps get the right sounds out.  Q. What is one pedal you want, but do not own?   A. I would like a pedal that does all of my emailing, scheduling and promo... and doesn't need batteries... and also makes amazing espresso... and tasty, grilled sandwiches.   Q. Is there such thing as too many pedals? A. Yes.  When you're dragging them through airports and train cars, there is definitely a too many pedals thing!  Too many pedals!!!  JEFF YOUNGER'S DEVIL LOOPS volume two CD RELEASE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 @ The ORPHEUM ANNEX - 823 Seymour St (2nd Floor) musicians:  JP Carter - trumpet/electronics, Chris Gestrin - keys, Dylan Van Der Schyff - drums Jeff Younger - guitar/electronics dancers: Renee Sigouin, Elissa Hanson, Alexa Mardon video and improvised video: Chirs Gestrin and a very special guest TBA! FB /  https://www.facebook.com/events/306036109561280/

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WHATSINYOURLOOP 02 / LEE HUTZULAK

WHAT'S IN YOUR LOOP? // LEE HUTZULAK, leader of Dixie's Death Pool and one of your T.I.M.E. performers and facilitators. Q. What was the first guitar pedal you ever bought? A. Boss DD2 Q. What is one pedal that you couldn’t live without? A. The one that I don't own yet (gear slut). They all serve different purposes - useful sometimes, and at other times unnecessary. There is no one pedal I use every time. There is no instrument I use every time either. Situation takes precedence. Q. What is your standard pedal setup? A. N/A - changes all the time depending on what I'm after. Q. What is one pedal you want, but do not own. A. This looks useful and pretty cool: http://koma-elektronik.com/?product=ft201-analog-filter-10-step-sequencer Q. Is there such thing as too many pedals? A. NO - they are just colours to paint with. It doesn't mean you will make a good painting, or that more is better, but at least you can pick and choose the colours to work with when you have a selection at your disposal. / T.I.M.E. / 06/21/14 - 06/22/14 / ROBSON SQUARE dixiesdeathpool.com

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WHATSINYOURLOOP / ELLIOT LANGFORD

WHAT'S IN YOUR LOOP? T.I.M.E. asks Vancouver's own Spring guitarist Elliot Langford 5 Q's. Q. What was the first guitar pedal you ever bought? A. A bespeco weeper. It was a cheap wahwah. I also had an ibanez session man II which was a distortion with a delay in it, I forget which I got first. I was pretty stoked on the wah at 12 years old Q. What is one pedal that you couldn't live without? A. I have become pretty attached to the Eventide Pitchfactor for Sprïng and later SSRIs stuff. It's got a lot of cool pitch and delay effects and you can set any of the parameters to work with an expression pedal, and you can save 100 settings in it. So it's a monster and my go to for weirder textural or non-guitar-sounding sounds. Q. What is your standard pedal setup? A. Tuner -> Eventide Pitchfactor -> ZVex Distortron -> Electro Harmonix Memory Boy (Delay) -> Marrs Multiverse (Fuzz/Boost/Tremolo) -> Electro Harmonix Holy Grail -> Line 6 DD4 (Delay/looper) Q. What is one pedal you want, but do not own. A. Some really gnarly fuzz or synth of some sort. I used to have a ring mod, kinda want one of those again. Q. Is there such thing as too many pedals? A. Sure, but even with a small amount of pedals there can be too much pedal switching and I think that's the bigger problem. I like the shifting colours you can get from switching up pedals lots, but I hate when I realize that part of the set has become an elaborate tap dance, so I try to avoid that. See Spring’s free TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival show at David Lam Park Saturday, June 28th at 12:00pm. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/255521307984931 www.5pring.com

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John Mutter : one of your T.I.M.E. artists and facilitators. Leader of experimental alt-jazz group we just stole a car, alt-pop project JOHN MUTTER WAS RAISED BY WOLVES and numerous improvising ensembles including ffffftttt!!!!, NOT YET YETI and The Blanket Orchestra, composer / guitarist /artist John Mutter began [//////////////// REDACTED //////////////////] with visual art and [///////////////// REDACTED ///////////////] meanwhile collaborating with [////////////////////// REDACTED ////////////////////] / T.I.M.E. / 06/21/14 - 06/22/14 / ROBSON SQUARE TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival www.johnmutter.com johnmutterwasraisedbywolves.tumblr.com @john_mutter

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Jeff Younger : one of your T.I.M.E. artists and facilitators. “Guitarist / composer Jeff Younger has a guitar, hands, feet, and some pedals… The Halifax Jazz Festival exclaimed “Jeff Younger is a 6-string master who has learned the most extreme techniques of the guitar and developed some of his own.” Jeff likes it when his pedals make it feel like you're living in a bizarre dreamworld or there are invisible bugs crawling all over your skin. Jeff and his pedals just finished a month long European tour of solo shows and performances with some of Europe's finest improvisers, including Michael Moore, Ab Baars, Ig Henneman, Achim Kaufmann and Raoul Van der Weide.” www.jeffyounger.net https://www.facebook.com/jeff.younger.125 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival

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Lee Hutzulak: one of your T.I.M.E. performers and facilitators. Leader of experimental pop group DIXIE'S DEATH POOL, Lee's music has always struck a balance between song and sound, combining electro-acoustic ambience, musique concrète, and improvisation. This process generates an ever expanding library of sounds, focusing on texture, tone and space — essential materials of future recordings and mixer based performance. On the flip, a desire to keep it immediate, and perhaps as a reaction to increasingly complex set ups, Hutzulak continues to explore, both as a soloist, and in small improvising ensembles, the acoustic guitar, a few choice effect boxes and all manner of extended technique. / T.I.M.E. / 06/21/14 - 06/22/14 / ROBSON SQUARE TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival http://dixiesdeathpool.com/ / http://www.leehutzulak.com/

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prOphecy sun : one of your T.I.M.E. performers and facilitators. "prOphecy sun is an interdisciplinary performance artist who interfaces with sound, movement and installation to create emotive environments. She is East Vancouver’s noise darling – a siren who creates ghostly, looping vocal drones and free style field recordings, with breathing & throat singing, a handmade theremin, a knapsack full of small delay and pitch shifting pedals and hand held musical objects. Repurposing elements/images drawn from dreams, memory and the moving body, she creates pieces that suggest parallel dream worlds." / T.I.M.E. / 06/21/14 - 06/22/14 / ROBSON SQUARE http://prophecysun.ca/