Evicshen + guests at the ANNEX

This December 17th, Notebook + Chapel Sound Art Foundation co-presents Evicshen + guests at The AnnexEvicshen’s visceral use of space, body and materiality creates deeply physical experiences that push the boundaries of sound through blistering textures and walls of noise. Her iconoclastic approach invites you to submit to the chaos and the excitement that comes from meshing sound with body [ More about Evicshen ] Evicshen / Victoria Shen is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in San Francisco. Shen's sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones, Shen uses what she calls "chaotic sound" to oppose signal and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning. Her personal identity; her body; is the space her work utilizes to restructure sonic meaning. In her live performances, she proposes an exploration between meaning and non-meaning through the physical activation of noise tropes. Her probing into these melodic voids interrogate the ways we perceive value within aural experiences. The appendage-like instruments and objects she makes, exemplify Shen’s ability to embody through sound her interest in the tension created by opposition: control and chaos, the unique and the mass produced, the practical and the absurd. Shen has performed solo across North America, Japan, Mexico, and Europe. Notable venues in which she has performed include Boston City Hall, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ISSUE Project Room NY, DOMMUNE Tokyo, Petreon Sculpture Park Cyprus, MUNCH Museum Oslo, and Museo d'Arte Orientale Turin. Shen has also been an artist in residence at Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm SE, WORM Rotterdam NL, Kurimanzutto New York US, The Royal Danish Academy Copenhagen DK, and AUDIUM San Francisco, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Omaha, and Headlands Center for the Arts. ‧₊˚♪ 𝄞₊˚⊹♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♪ ♫ ♬‧₊˚♪ 𝄞₊˚⊹ This project is presented in partnership with Chapel Sound Art Foundation, Vancouver Civic Theatres with support from Canada Council for the Arts, Creative BC, BC Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia, and City of Vancouver Arts, Culture and Tourism.