//pleasure through sound

2011-12-22T17:51:00.000-05:00

CLOSING FORMAT
Friday, December30
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Open Format was a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre. It ran for the duration of 2011, and is closing with its final edition on Friday, December 30th. Please join us and help celebrate endings and beginnings.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in the community where it may be helpful.

All proceeds of CF will be split evenly between SITE Ottawa and Vancouver's PIVOT:

SITE
"...an effective mandatory health program, which has been in operation since 1991...deemed a necessary public health measure to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, primarily HIV and Hepatitis-C virus, and to minimize the risks associated with substance use in society. "

PIVOT
"Pivot's mandate is to use the law to address the root causes of poverty and social exclusion. Our name is metaphor for our approach to social change - by making the most tangible violations of human rights the focal point of our efforts, we exert maximum pressure in order to shift society toward greater equality and inclusivity."

Massive gratitude to those who made this series possible:

- Shanghai Restaurant, and Don in particular, who has been so welcoming and patient with us, and let us use their fine space and PA for the series, for free, and made us some nice little finger foodies and menus, and provided a space in which we could play this music.

- CHUO 89.1 FM, who sponsored the series with in-kind donation of radio ads that they kindly allowed us to make.

- Everyone who came out, donated money and ears and time and always created such a friendly, stimulating and open vibe at the OF nights.

- And lastly but importantly-- all the DJs who took part and donated their time and love of music. Without whom.

Stay tuned...from the ashes of OF perhaps something new for 2012...

Sponsored by CHUO 89.1 FM.

OPEN FORMAT 12

2011-12-01T17:16:00.001-05:00

OPEN FORMAT 12
Friday, December 9
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Open Format is a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in the community where it may be helpful.

All proceeds from OF 12 will be going to Organizing4Justice, a "collaborative effort of several local groups and individuals. It is aimed at those involved and/or interested in community organizing and activism in the Ottawa-Outaouais region."

Capacity is limited!

Sponsored by CHUO 89.1 FM.

OPEN FORMAT 11

2011-10-31T19:51:00.002-04:00

OPEN FORMAT 11
Friday, November 11
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Open Format is a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in the community where it may be helpful.

All proceeds from OF 11 will be going to Le Temporaire artist-run studio, gallery and performance space in Vieux-Hull.

OF 11 is presented by J'envoie, officially releasing their "Les vitesse des chats sauvages" 12inch record. In 2010, J'envoie released the 5-song mini-album "Le vitesse des chats sauvages" on Hull's E-tron Rec.
Available as a 12" on 180-gram virgin vinyl w/ digital download code, for OF11 ALL J'ENVOIE RELEASES WILL BE AVAILABLE AT PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN PRICES WITH ALL PROCEEDS GOING TO LE TEMPORAIRE.

The recent E-tron Rec. reissue of early J'envoie demos will also be available in a cassette/digital package.

Capacity is limited!

Sponsored by CHUO 89.1 FM.

OPEN FORMAT 10

2011-09-30T00:15:00.000-04:00

OPEN FORMAT 10
Friday, October 14
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Open Format is a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in our communities where it may be helpful.

All proceeds from OF 10 go to Psychiatric Survivors of Ottawa.

Capacity is limited! Sponsored by CHUO 89.1 FM.

2011-08-01T20:18:00.001-04:00

Ahoy there! There will not be an OPEN FORMAT in August. Come see us when we're back in action in the fall-- the line-up is full til December!

2011-08-01T20:14:00.002-04:00

OPEN FORMAT 07 sets posted. We raised $50 to split between the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. and the Société Alzheimer de l'Outaouais Québécois-- thanks everyone. And a big thank you to the staff of Shanghai Restaurant, who went way out of their way to accommodate us this month.

2011-06-23T20:48:00.008-04:00

OPEN FORMAT 07
Thursday, July 14
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Note: OF07 is on a Thursday this month!

Open Format is a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in our communities where it may be helpful.

All proceeds will be split 50/50 between the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. and the Société Alzheimer de l'Outaouais Québécois.

Capacity is limited! Sponsored by CHUO 89.1 FM.

2011-06-15T16:36:00.001-04:00

Finally...OPEN FORMAT 05 sets posted. Excerpts from 06 in the works.

2011-06-13T16:40:00.004-04:00

OPEN FORMAT 06 raised $47.05 for POWER: Prostitutes of Ottawa/Gatineau, Work Educate Resist.

2011-05-20T22:56:00.003-04:00

OPEN FORMAT 05 raised $75 for CKCU 93.1 FM. Thanks again folks for your generosity. It's going to take me a bit to get the sets up, since I won't have access to editing tools for a bit.

2011-05-20T22:54:00.002-04:00

OPEN FORMAT 06
Friday, June 10
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Open Format is a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in our communities where it may be helpful.

All proceeds from OF06 will be going to POWER: Prostitutes of Ottawa/Gatineau, Work Educate Resist, a voluntary, non-profit organization that envisions "a society in which sex workers are able to practice their professions free of legal and social discrimination, victimization, harassment and violence and in which sex work is valued as legitimate and fulfilling work making an important contribution to society. "

Capacity is limited! Sponsored by CHUO 89.1 FM.

2011-04-27T21:02:00.001-04:00

OPEN FORMAT 05
Friday, May 13 (that's right!)
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Open Format is a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in our communities where it may be helpful.

All proceeds will go to CKCU 93.1 FM, "a pioneer in community broadcasting, carrying out our mandate of providing an alternative to commercial radio and the CBC as a voice for the many Ottawa communities not served by the mainstream media."

Capacity is limited! Sponsored by CHUO 89.1 FM (in solidarity).

2011-04-21T19:42:00.001-04:00

OPEN FORMAT 04 sets posted for download. 02 and 01 are up there too, if you poke about. OF04 raised $70 for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives!

2011-03-30T20:18:00.001-04:00

OPEN FORMAT 03 set excerpts have been posted for your free downloading pleasure. Enjoy.

2011-03-26T12:33:00.004-04:00

OPEN FORMAT 04
Friday, April 8
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Open Format is a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre.

This month will feature a SPECIAL GUEST DJ, born and raised in Ottawa and now hailing from Vancouver in a special re-union of a sort.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in our communities where it may be helpful.

All proceeds will go to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, an "independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice."

Capacity is limited! Sponsored by CHUO 89.1 FM.

2011-03-26T12:29:00.002-04:00

OPEN FORMAT 03 raised $198.72 for Just Food. Thanks everyone!

2011-03-12T17:37:00.002-05:00

OPEN FORMAT 03 (and further OPEN FORMATS) are henceforth sponsored by CHUO 89.1 FM. Perhaps you will enjoy our robo-hostess as she dispassionately urges your participation on the airwaves...

2011-02-24T23:40:00.005-05:00

OPEN FORMAT 03
Friday, March 18
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Open Format is a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in our communities where it may be helpful.

All proceeds of OPEN FORMAT 03 will be going to Just Food.

Capacity is limited! Sponsored by CHUO 89.1 FM.

2011-02-06T22:46:00.002-05:00

OPEN FORMAT 02
Friday, February 18
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Open Format is a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in our communities where it may be helpful.

All proceeds of OPEN FORMAT 02 will be going to CHUO 89.1 FM.

Seating is limited!

2011-01-11T18:42:00.010-05:00

OPEN FORMAT 01
Friday, January 21
9:00pm - 1:00am
Shanghai Restaurant (651 Somerset Street West)
ALL AGES

Open Format is a monthly series presenting a changing roster of secret DJs mixing together music they love, freely and regardless of genre.

Admission is free but donations are requested, with the DJs of each night directing all monies to people and/or places in the community where it may be helpful.

All proceeds of OPEN FORMAT 01 will be going to Exile Infoshop.

Starting at 7:00pm, the evening will be proceeded by, and run concurrently with, a vernissage for the artwork of Daniel Martelock.

Seating is limited!

2009-09-04T12:57:00.010-04:00

Marysol Foucault exhibition - Barely There
Opening on Saturday, September 5th, 2009 at 8pm
Wurm Gallery/Invisible Cinema
319 Bank Street (@ Lisgar)
FREE; all ages welcome.

Marysol Foucault will be presenting her new works of large scale drawings at the Wurm Gallery in Ottawa's Invisible Cinema from Saturday, September 5th - October 15th, 2009.

Marysol Foucault's drawings function as transcriptions of imaginary situations. The narratives often invites comparisons to fairytales - missing the happily ever after conclusion.

In her drawings and paintings, Marysol introduces us to unreal yet familiar places and meditates on the puzzling condition of interpersonal relationships. Feelings of abandonment, solitude, anxiousness and uneasiness, are portrayed in the pieces where only one subject evolves; mischievousness, grieving and resentment are often evoked when two subjects or more are present. These situations are illustrated by injecting macabre details into everyday scenery or by creating an atmosphere that is eerily delicate, yet quite disturbing by it's subject matter.

The Wurm Gallery and Invisible Cinema now occupy the hallowed halls of an early incarnation of Gallery 101 in the late 1980's and early 1990's, which is where many a lost soul wandered in and found some refuge from the deluge of mediocrity that was plaguing "college rock" at the time with bands that had listened to too much Eagles and were feigning an earnestness that felt like more of a cry for help than a cry for release. It was the ventricle for a foundation of local left-field and punk culture for a wide variety of aimless spirits that found some resonance in the honesty and beauty pounded out on off nights between exhibitions through cheap amps and cracked drums, long before the inadequate instruments that represented the only consolation our shitty jobs could buy would become badges of honour for the ironic and aestheticized youth of post-(insert meaningless genre here).

The old Gallery 101, as opposed to its last incarnation which has gone the way of most community spaces and hubs of social services in this city,- it is now a condo tower,- held shows by Phil Minton, Joan of Arc, Prisons Come Home (featuring our own Ryan Hough), and was the site of the very first Buried Inside show (whose singer is now the proud, kind, and gently discerning owner of Invisible Cinema).

Kingdom Shore will be playing a small 30 minute set of music early in the night to open the evening. They are happy to be playing that space again.

Both the artist, and the Invisible Cinema and Wurm Gallery deserve any support you can give. Having traveled across this wonderful and complicated country, we can attest that there are few movie rental stores as good as this anywhere within our borders, and we're lucky that they are here among us, supplying us with windows into wonder. Please come out and support them both.

2009-07-19T20:33:00.016-04:00

Pleasure Through Sound Presents:

SUNDAY, JULY 26th, 2009:
NORMAL LOVE (Philadelphia)
KINGDOM SHORE (Ottawa/Aylmer)

Live at SOUNDS UNLIKELY
(5 Arlington Ave. -- see map)
Music at 20:00 sharp
$7.00
ALL AGES

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NORMAL LOVE (Philadelphia)
Stoking the community since '06, NORMAL LOVE is a Philadelphia-based quintet comprised of amplified violin, two electric guitars, electric bass, and drum set.

"For all their precision, and holy hell, the aural somersaults and tightrope-walks they pull off make Cirque du Soleil look like a flea circus, NORMAL LOVE is messy. Rock 'n' roll messy. Spontaneous-combustion messy... NL, which recently released its debut self-titled CD on High Two, makes brutally intricate music, aggressive and perfectionist. If the Warriors had scratched past the Orphans and the Baseball Furies only to chance upon a shiv-wielding chamber ensemble, Normal Love would be perfectly cast." - Philadelphia City Paper {Shaun Brady}

"Philly's best metal band is also its best avant-garde classical ensemble. Or possibly it's the other way around. Unlike symphonic metal bands that simply layer cheesy strings over bombastic rock songs, Normal Love writes intricate and difficult instrumental pieces inspired by modernist classical composers, and then play them with death-metal ferocity. The result is music that succeeds at being alternately brutal and beautiful, sometimes both at the same time. By totally shredding and shredding clichés, Normal Love is proving that prog doesn't have to be a four letter word." - Billboard.com {Stephen Potter}

"Along with Zs, this Philadelphia band is the future of music. Buckle up and get ready."

"Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring." - Roman Polanski

KINGDOM SHORE (Ottawa/Aylmer)

Kingdom Shore puise ses influences du punk rock qui a émergé du hardcore des années 80, de l'avant-rock, du art rock, de la musique électroacoustique, du noise, du gospel d'une autre époque, de la musique contemporaine et left-field.

KINGDOM SHORE was formed in March of 2006. Blurring the lines between the punk rock that grew out of 1980's hardcore, avant and art-rock,electro-acoustic music, noise, old world Gospel, and contemporary and left-field music.

Les musiciens / The musicians: Nathan Medema, Simon Guibord, Ryan Hough, Jasmine Landau, Gerg Horvath et Mark Molnar.

www.blackbough.ca
(contact (at) kingdomshore.ca)

2008-09-26T14:41:00.027-04:00

Saturday, September 27, 2008

The Dead Science (Seattle) w/ Kingdom Shore (Ottawa)

At the Parish Hall of St. Brigid's Centre for the Arts, 179 St. Patrick St. (at Cumberland), Ottawa.

$8.00 at the door.

Music at 21:00 sharp.

Constellation recording artists The Dead Science is Sam Mickens, Nick Tamburro, and Jherek Bischoff.

"The Dead Science breathe in an ethereal mire, a soaring swoon that's merely a pancake-makeup film above the wicked stratum beneath."

They have shared bills with and possibly enjoyed the company of bands like Blonde Redhead, Deerhoof, Interpol, The Wrens, Pleasure Forever, The Get Hustle, Xiu Xiu, The Swords Project, The Intima, The Warlocks, The Curtains, Godzik Pink, Young People, Nels Cline Singers, The Building Press, The Lies, Low Flying Owls, Secret Machines, Eyes of Autumn, Rasputina, Good for Cows, KUMA, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Glass Candy & the Shattered Theater, Holy Ghost Revival, and Suffering & the Hideous Thieves.

They have released records on Tomlab, Absolutely Kosher, have a record on Constellation entitled Villainaire, and have backed up Carla Bozulich, Craig Wedren, and Xiu Xiu on "The Promise", "Fag Patrol", and the Xiu Xiu/Sweet Science EP.

Kingdom Shore was formed in March of 2006. Blurring the lines between the punk rock that grew out of 1980's hardcore, avant and art rock, electro-acoustic music, noise, old world Gospel, and contemporary and left-field music, the current line-up includes Nathan Medema (pedals, found-sounds and field recordings, laptop, electronics, samples, processing, rich artist), and Simon Guibord (laptop, electronics, Korg MS-20), Ryan Hough (violin), Jasmine Landau (violin), Gerg Horvath (Double-Bass), and Mark Molnar (cello, loops, and electronics).

The new album, ...and all the dogs to shark, is available on CD and 180 gram audiophile vinyl through Black Bough.