Souns is an ambient music project from Vancouver based artist Michael Red.
Releases with: New Kanada, ISLA, Hotham Sound, Subtempo, Deep Sea Mining Syndicate, Panospria, Kikapu, Sensing Waves, Breaking Tension.
Live performances at: Vancouver Art Gallery, Ambient Ping, VNM Festival, Bass Coast Music Festival, Shambhala Music Festival, PGNB Festival (headliner), Signal & Noise Festival (finale), Environments (series resident).
Live collaborations with: Tanya Tagaq, Gabriel Saloman, Loscil, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Steve Roden, DJ Olive, Marina Rosenfeld, Lawrence English, FLUX Quartet, Mei Han, Randy Raine-Reusch, Rachel Iwaasa, scant.intone, Lee Hutzulak, Giorgio Magnanensi, Anomalous Disturbances, Tusk, hawah, inter_mission.
Shared the bill with: Fennesz, Pan Sonic, Oren Ambarchi, Crys Cole, Tomas Jirku, Segue, Montag, artificiel POWEr, magneticring, Babe Rainbow, granny'ark, coingutter, x41, si-cut.db, Gunshae.
Common themes are sounds and resonances of the natural world, the unseen world, outer space, and transcendence. Performances are largely intuitive and improvised, often guided.
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