Three Performances:
May 14, 15, 16 | 23 h
FIMAV Headquarters | Studio Monique-Bourgeois | Carré 150 | free

John Oswald « PlunderphoniCoveralls » (Ontario etc.)

Toronto polymath artist John Oswald pioneered the compositional approach, Plunderphonics, primarily as a recorded project making familiar music unfamiliar through radical re-creation –– Michael Jackson is an infamous example. Coveralls is a live version of the concept that he sums up as “karaoke in reverse”; he will play the isolated vocal tracks of known singers – Elvis? Dolly Parton? Pavarotti? – while three groups of festival musicians, each on a different night and hand-picked by Oswald, will improvise strange and wonderful accompaniments.

John Oswald, plunderphonics
with three groups of FIMAV artists

Collage : John Oswald