Once again, I’ve trekked out to the Motion Notion Festival to do some VJing performances! I love this festival more than I can say and it has been a highlight of my summer for over a decade now. The entire festival is so well put together and the environment is …
MEME Festival 2017 with VJ Carrie Gates
I’m 1000% thrilled to be performing again at the MEME Festival in Winnipeg, MB. This urban electronic music festival has top notch programming for techno and house with a sophisticated sound and takes place at tons of different swanky venues around the city. I’ll be performing at The Cube in …
Carrie Gates performing at Surround Sound – An Audiovisual Concert at Paved Arts
I’m doing a live video mixing performance with members of the Saskatoon Symphony at Paved Arts on March 22. The players will be performing a work by Jeff Morton called “The Old Cause”. Last time Paved and the Symphony put on an event like this the tickets sold out quickly, so get …
Music Video Shoot in Berlin with TUSK
I was in Berlin a week ago for a little while and had the pleasure to shoot a music video for TUSK (Benjamin Teicher) at a great little studio that we rented for the occasion.
Pop Quiz net.label launched!!!
I just finished making the website for a Saskatoon based net.label called Pop Quiz. it is directed by Jon Vaughn. There is a ton of cool underground electronic, noise, and avant garde music to be downloaded here, so rev up your click finger :) www.popquizparty.com
Pop Quiz Party Jam 2011! Multi-Album and Website Launch!
VJ Carrie Gates videos screened at the INDEX Festival Opening Party, New York Aug. 3, 2011
Castle If and Carrie Gates – Live at Jale, June 2011
I recently had the pleasure of performing with Castle If (aka Jess Forrest) in Saskatoon at Jale (the event space above Cafe Sola). She’s a really unique character whom I find quite intriguing…her music is synthy and kraut-influenced, with a splash of sort of an electronic goth vibe. Check out …
Carrie Gates and Jon Vaughn – Live at Vive’s yaya Event Series January 2011
Jolly Jams – Boxing Day Party 2010
I am really excited to play at the Jolly Jams Boxing Day party at Ramjam this year! It is a bit of a tradition in the Saskatoon scene to have an annual gathering and performance with all of the cool ex-Saskatonians who are back in town for the holidays (we …
Carrie Gates Audiovisual Performance at Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest in Germany
I just got back from an amazing trip from Germany where I played at the Kassel Dokfest (as well as in Berlin afterwards). I had a fantastic time! Excellent people and a beautiful atmosphere. It was decorated like an old-school circus and there were all of these beautiful people wearing …
J + C Feedback Factory Live at the Vancouver New Music Festival
I would have to say that this was one of the nicest gigs to do. I was really inspired by the other sets I saw at the festival, and the staff were absolutely incredible. Huuuuuuuge screen!!!
Electric Fields Festival 2008 – Carrie Gates and Squelchbox
Phlegm Gadget at Neutral Ground Gallery – May 2007
NINTENDISCO Events
Annual Fundraiser parties (2006 & 2007) for Saskatoon’s media art based artist-run centre, Paved.
Vinyl Interventions live at Ecube – BricoLodge Release 019
This is a live set from the Vinyl Interventions Trio: Esther Bourdages, Marinko Jareb, and Carrie Gates. Live at Ecube, Montréal, this album documents the six-turntable cut-up that flipped it squiggly-style for a very live crowd. Using homemade microphones, sliced + diced records, kiddy turntables, oddity vinyl classics all switched …
DIGIDOME Archives: Various Artists
Spine-tingling psychoacoustics, glitches that open abysmal dungeons, and absurd cross-cultural collaborations comprised the very special night of audiovisual immersion known as DIGIDOME. In a voluminous inflatable golf dome in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a pan-Canadian cast of exceptionally talented and creative audio artists joined forces with a juried international selection of videos …