Video by Carrie Gates Sound by Jon Vaughn Illustrations by Jon and Carrie 2013
VJ Carrie Gates and Jon Vaughn Live at the Sight & Sound Festival in Montreal
http://sightandsoundfestival.ca/ promo video: https://vimeo.com/42419650 festival photo album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.366177213430324.77158.100001141442184&type=1 More info coming soon!
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 performs live at the INDEX Festival in New York at the [Mis]Adventures In Manipulation event
Two evenings of performances are dedicated to artists who repurpose, hack or deconstruct tools to produce sound and/or light for time-based performances. The selected artists have built instrumentation using various and varied media formats. In a Frankenstonian spirit, these artists fashion composite instruments, for the purpose of engaging further into …
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
Error Benders: Audio/Video Object Exhibition and Performance Series Call for Submissions
Very cool call for submissions for circuit-bending fans from my friends Jeff Morton and Leeane Berger – check it out!
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!!!
Smarties for Milkhorse – Video by Carrie Gates
This video was made in February 2006 in order to be used as projected video during a crazy show with Saskatoon noise band, Milkhorse. Since then, it has been used as VJ source footage and a hypnotism tool!
Vinyl Interventions
Vinyl Interventions is an experimental turntablism group and project series that I did with Esther Bourdages and Marinko Jareb in the early 2000s. We performed concerts and recorded an album together. We did presentations on the history of turntablism and sculpture incorporating vinyl records.
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 …