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Ruby Singh & Lobe present Equinox Summit From March 23 to 26
Ruby Singh & Lobe present Equinox Summit From March 23 to 26
Ruby Singh and Lobe present an Equinox Summit from March 23 to 26, featuring Singh’s new Polyphonic Garden digital album release
Events feature album spatial composition, live performances, poetry readings, workshops, and family events, all at Lobe Spatial Sound Studio
(Vancouver, BC) – Ruby Singh and Lobe Spatial Sound Studio are hosting an Equinox Summit: three days of events centered around bioacoustics, sonic ecologies, and sensory-poetic relationships with plant life. This celebration is in tandem with the soft release of Singh’s newest iteration of the album Polyphonic Garden. Live events are presented with violinist Meredith Bates, poets Cecily Nicholson, Brandon Wint, Hair Alluri, and storyteller Mendel Skulski at Lobe Studios, 713 East Hastings Street. Tickets are now on sale and available online here. Workshops and discussions are free to ticket holders and otherwise by donation.
“It’s imperative that we, as humans, reconsider our relationship with the natural world,” says Ruby Singh.
“The Polyphonic Garden was created to be a source of reflection, respite, and rejuvenation. It meditates on our connections with ourselves, each other, and the more-than-human worlds. These are songs of light and electricity, feathers and wind, wires and wonder. This work was created using tools for bio sonification that help raise song from flora and fungi throughout so-called BC. In the Polyphonic Garden, these songs dance with field recordings of their biomes. May this spark a sense of wonder for the natural world, and signal how we might be able to move towards right relations with these generous lands, waters, and skies that nurture us all.”
“Spatial sound invites the creation of new places, planets, and gardens. It allows us to create environments in which nothing is fixed. Every sound is free to wander and transform, as is the attention of every listener who enters,” says Hannah Acton, Creative Director of Lobe Spatial Sound Studio. “These immersive ‘places’ make creating sonic ecologies approachable: everything in them, including the way they are perceived, is in a dynamic relationship.”
Polyphonic Garden Spatial Composition – Experience the Album Spatialized in 4DSOUND at Lobe Studio
For spatial composition sessions, audiences are welcomed at Lobe to listen to Ruby’s new release of Polyphonic Garden in spatial sound. These sessions offer immersive environments for deep, collective listening.
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: Lobe, 713 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can $15 – $30 (not including service fees)
Purchase: Online: Spring Equinox Summit | Polyphonic Garden (Spatial Composition) Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite
Polyphonic Garden Spatial Composition with Live Poetry co-presented by Massy Arts Society
Reading with Cecily Nicholson, Brandon Wint, Hari Alluri, Ruby Singh
Poets Cecily Nicholson, Brandon Wint, Hari Alluri and Ruby Singh will provide poetic expressions within the second presentation of Polyphonic Garden.
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2023
Time: 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Location: Lobe Studio, 713 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can $15 – $30 (not including service fees)
Purchase: Online: Spring Equinox Summit | Polyphonic Garden (Spatial Composition) Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite
Panel Discussion and Q&A hosted by Mendel Skulski and Spatial Composition and Poetry Reading with Brandon Wint
Storyteller and creator of the podcast Future Ecologies, Mendel Skulski, will lead a discussion amongst participating voices in the Equinox Summit on the subject of acoustic ecologies, ecopoetics, and sonification. Following this conversation will be a spatial composition of Brandon Wint’s piece, Antidote, recorded in 4DSOUND and originally presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2021.
Brandon Wint’s piece, “Antidote,” is a poetic and musical collaboration between spoken word artist, Wint, and an array of musical contributors from Edmonton, AB and Vancouver, BC. This piece resides at the compelling axis of celebration and grief, as the listener is carried through notions of self love, divine celebration, and climate catastrophe. It is 18 minutes long.
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2023
Time: Panel with Medel Skulski at 1:00 pm, Poetry Reading by Brandon Wint at 2:00 pm
Location: Lobe, 713 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Tickets: Admission by donation. These workshops and discussions are free to ticket holders of other summit events and otherwise by donation.
Purchase: Online: Spring Equinox Summit | Polyphonic Garden (Spatial Composition) Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite
Live Show with Meredith Bates and Ruby Singh
Ruby Singh (Polyphonic Garden) and violinist Meredith Bates (If Not Now) perform live
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm and 9:00 pm
Location: Lobe, 713 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can $25 – $40 (not including service fees)
Purchase: Spring Equinox Summit | Polyphonic Garden (Spatial Composition) Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite
Polyphonic Garden Spatial Composition for Families
An afternoon event for families of all ages. Come experience the Polyphonic Garden in 4DSOUND at Lobe Studios, with no expectation to sit still or be absolutely quiet.
Date: Sunday, March 26, 2023
Time: 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm
Location: Lobe, 713 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can $15 – $30 (not including service fees)
Purchase: Online:Spring Equinox Summit | Polyphonic Garden (Spatial Composition) Tickets, Multiple Dates | Eventbrite
Ruby Singh is a multi award winning performer, composer and producer residing on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver BC.). His creativity crosses the boundaries of music, poetry, photography and film engaging with mythos, memory, justice and fantasy. Singh is an artist whose work is informed by sound found all around us, from the whirling planets and stars of distant galaxies to the percussion of an umbrella under coastal rains, to the perpetual moving birdsong of the dawn chorus, constantly circling the globe. The richly imaginative visual textures to his sound design have found kinship in the theatre, film and dance worlds, where he has been celebrated by multiple Jessie and Leo award nominations. His distinct approach uses traditional and emergent sonic practices to create compositions that express the vast spectrum of the human experience. Singh’s artistic impulses gravitate in many directions, in 2022 he received the Lieutenant Governor’s Jubilee Award for excellence in art and music and in 2023 was nominated for a Juno award for best Global Music Album of the Year.
Lobe is a 4DSOUND spatial sound studio located centrally in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighborhood. Founded in Vancouver in 2020, Lobe is the first dedicated spatial sound studio in North America to work with a permanently integrated 4DSOUND system.
An array of speakers across the ceiling and under the floor, in conjunction with custom-designed vibroacoustic floor panels, entirely surround the listener in an immersive and haptic listening experience. Using 4DSOUND technology, sound ebbs and flows, forming sonic environments holographically and without perceivable sources.
Lobe was built by a group of dedicated volunteers and community enthusiasts; everything Lobe is and will become owes itself to their initial enthusiasm and efforts.
