//pleasure thru sound

Saturday, March 12, 2011

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...

Pleasure Through Sound is an ongoing not-for-profit organization that has been promoting left-field, experimental, electro-acoustic, electronic, genre-crossing punk and rock, and modern composition music since 2001.

In promoting shows and presenting artists in our home town, we subtract remedial production costs, posters, and government and publishing taxes from the gross, and provide the net from the door to be divided between the artists involved, and their respective booking agent (should they be using one to contact us).

We do not take a cut for ourselves. Any grants that we get will be put into shows and artists, but we do not work with a stable stream of funding, and thus artists should expect to be paid the old fashioned way: their cut will depend on the nature of the expenses in relation to the setup that they require, and how many the people they draw in our town.

We will work with artists to explain the reality of presenting their work in our town, and to come to an agreement on an affordable price for the patrons of live music here. We will poster, provide the show info to all local media, and to all who have expressed an interest in the PTS series as a mailout. Reliable contacts and introductions can be provided if artists wish to send copies of their work to those who will actively play their music on the radio, or to the appropriate stores to encourage them to stock their music. We will work with artists and labels to the extent that they wish to push the show and build a following in our city.

Ideally, we would ask for requests for shows 3-4 months in advance to make sure that we can find a respectful venue for your work, and to lay a strong foundation for promotion and awareness that you will be bringing your music to our city. Our audience is small in number, but strong and reliable in spirit. If you feel that your music fits with the artists that we work with, and you want to work toward engendering an audience for your music in our city, please get in touch.

Artists We Have Made Shows With

A Silver Mt. Zion (Montreal)
Akisakila (Ottawa)
Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks (Hamilton)
Christoph Migone (Montreal)
Cowpaws (Toronto)
CPI (Ottawa)
Diebold (Montreal)
Dot Pattern (Ottawa)
Dreamcatcher (Montreal)
Drei Eichel Musik/The Acorn (Ottawa)
Ejaculation Death Rattle (Vancouver)
Eric Chenaux (Toronto)
Eric Chenaux and Michelle MacAdorey (Toronto)
Essai (Hull)
Generator (Ottawa)
Hangedup (Montreal)
Harris Newman (Montreal)
if then do (Vancouver/Ottawa/Hull)
Iszoloscope (Aylmer)
J'envoie (Hull)
Kevin Drumm (Chicago)
Kingdom Shore (Ottawa)
L'ombre (Ottawa)
Le Lecteur (Hull)
Les Angles Morts (Montreal)
Mark Molnar (Ottawa)
Micah Blue Smaldone (Kennebunkport)
Mitchell Akiyama (Montreal)
Monstre (Montreal)
Montag (Vancouver)
Pillow (Chicago)
Polmo Polpo (Toronto)
Rake (Ottawa)
Sam Shalabi (Montreal)
Sandro Perri (Toronto)
Simon Guibord (Hull)
Sinequanon (Hull)
Snailhouse (Montreal)
Sundar Subramanian (Toronto)
Tap Dance Funeral (Ottawa)
The Dead Science (Seattle)
The Draperies (Toronto)
The Readymades (Ottawa)
The Reveries (Toronto)
The Silt (Toronto)
The United Empire Loyalist Orchestra (Frontenac County)
Tim Hecker (Montreal)