Last Saturday I was at the CJ building (Loyola campus - Concordia University) for reasons other than classes. Mind-blowingly skilled Montreal-based musician and composer John Brennan is moving to Vancouver this summer and Saturday was one of our last chances to see his live work here for a while. Brennan put together an intricate set up involving a performance room, were he and other special guests were playing various instruments (all improvised, allowing spontaneous moments to guide the music) and an interactive room where audience members could create loops of the performance (composed of four stations, each equipped with keyboard to control the loops and speaker to hear the results. People could either walk throughout the space listening to the different loops, sit down on one of the four chairs and listen to all four loops in a quadraphonic setting or go up to a station, erase a loop and create new one). Last but not least, there was a third room in which the audience could make their own mix tapes of both the performance room and the loop room to take home.
I feel very very lucky to have had the chance to collaborate with John on my most recent big project. He created the perfect score for my film Anima, Animus for which I am extremely grateful. Above all I am fortunate to have him as an amazing friend who I will miss very much.
John, best of luck touring BC and Japan + starting your new life in Vancouver. You've definitely made your mark here, I know you will do the same no matter where you go.
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