RENDER social & record release of Chris Flanagan's "Cambridge"

[Barbara Hobot]

*Chris Flanagan: Cambridge*

RENDER social and official record release


October 15th from 8 - 11 pm at RENDER, East Campus Hall, University of
Waterloo

October 17th from 7 - 9 pm at School of Architecture Cambridge and 9 pm to
closing at the Black Badger Pub at 55 Water Street North in Cambridge


*Admission is free.  Twoonie bar available at both events.*



This past spring, RENDER commissioned artist and DJ Chris Flanagan to
produce a new work and the results will be launched at two upcoming related,
but distinct, events on October 15th and 17th.  Flanagan has created a new
musical score in response to recordings found in the many junk shops and
thrift stores around the region, places to which he is consistently drawn to
feed his voracious appetite for vintage and obscure vinyl.


 Chris Flanagan: “One of the businesses that seems to be thriving in this
climate are the thrift  stores which pepper the townscape. It was these that
originally brought me to the region several years ago, on the never ending
quest for strange and obscure vinyl records. As a collector and DJ for over
10 years, music subcultures and record ephemera have permeated my
installation practice. For this project, I’m composing a soundtrack for
Cambridge built entirely from samples taken from vinyl records sourced from
the City’s many thrift stores. This will not be a “mixtape” of various songs
but rather entirely new compositions based on reworking snippets of hundreds
of hours of music. These albums, the source material for this new score, are
the aural refuse of the town’s inhabitants which bore witness to the drama
of their lives over many years."

Flanagan's new score has been pressed as a limited edition vinyl record and
surreptitiously returned to the thrift stores in which the original albums
were found (for those unwilling to scrounge through thrift store milk
crates, the record will also be available for sale in limited quantities at
both events).  Both events will include additional visual and installation
components.

Join us on Thursday, October 15th from 8 - 11 pm at the main RENDER space in
East Campus Hall, University of Waterloo to hear Flanagan's score and to
enjoy an evening of music DJ'd by the artist.

Join us again on Saturday, October 17th from 7 - 9 pm in the atrium of the
School of Architecture Cambridge for the official record release.  The
festivities will continue at the Black Badger Pub on Water Street until we
shut the place down.


RENDER

263 Phillip Street

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario


School of Architecture Cambridge

7 Melville Street South

Cambrige, Ontario


Black Badger Pub

55 Water Street North

Cambridge, Ontario


For more information please visit: www.render.uwaterloo.ca
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