Anju Singh
Wine Glass Orchestra | Performed by Her Jazz Noise Collective: Sarah Buchanan, Caitlin Gilroy, Sarah Charrouf, Amberleigh Forsyth, Rachael Wadham, PrOphecy Sun, Sidria, Aja Rose Bond, Mel Mundell, Jenny Jones | 2008 | 25:00mins | Experimental Sound Performance | Canada
Anju is by now a very familiar face in Vancouver’s experimental music community. Indeed, she is very committed to providing a comfortable space for experimentation, as she is actively involved in both Fake Jazz and the Her Jazz Noise Collective. She has been performing in various groups/incarnations including Set Sail to Sea, i/i, and Ahna. She is an omnivorous musician, using violin, cello, guitar, pedals, boards and other instruments (ad-hoc or otherwise), as context dictates. She tells me her practice is in part informed by a punk/diy aesthetic, and that’s probably as good a point of entry as any into the work she presents here. - Alex Muir
Her Jazz Noise Collective is a Vancouver (coast salish territory) based anarcha-feminist network & affinity group created to encourage more women to play noise and experimental music. We share our skills through open jams, performances, workshops and organizing. In doing so, we aim to create supportive spaces for women to meet, play and be inspired by one another. We put on shows featuring mostly female artists, release recordings and collaborate with like-minded people in other places. We host open jams for which no invite or experience is needed. Her Jazz is multifaceted entity, we are transgender inclusive and there are many different ways to be involved. This is not a band; it’s a radical, posi-core community interested in dialogue about equality, privilege, gender, power and personal experience.
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Wine Glass Orchestra: 10 wine glasses, 10 contact mics, 10 players make various tones both celestial and grating. Composed and conducted by Anju Singh, performed by Her Jazz Noise Collective.
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