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For Laika

by Cosmic Homeostasis

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Cosmic Homeostasis is both a loose collective of sound-makers and the events they convene at. In a dozen performances over three years, nearly thirty different players have joined in. As a nascent improviser, I wanted to create a context where active listening was given equal value to making sounds — mostly because I felt it was a skill I myself needed to work on. The second goal was to create a safe and friendly environment where sound-makers of any skill level could feel comfortable taking part in a public performance. Besides a gentle reminder to listen there are usually no fixed musical instructions, outside of some general prompts to start a piece — no one needs to read sheet music, or know what key they're in, or count beats. In a large ensemble, there are enough voices that one can always pause and listen to everyone else without worrying they have to be contributing from moment to moment, and the division between ensemble and audience can fade away into the aether.

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released May 29, 2021

Recorded live at Array Space, Toronto, Canada on January 19, 2020.
Ambisonic recording engineered by Perren Baker.

Beard Closet - guitarguitarguitar
Ron Blake - iOS apps
Rob Cruickshank - electronics
Dame Cook - electronics
Heraclitus Akimbo - melodica, synth, pedals
Michael Lynn - magnetic pickup, pedal
Mira Martin-Gray - synthesizer
Paul Newman - tenor saxophone
Fahmid Nibesh - tone generator, Yamaha PSR-2, Peavy Max 110
Patrick O'Reilly - Casio SK-1
Scott M2 - Animoog/Borderlands
Del Stephen - synth, effects pedal
styrofoamNosebleedPrincess - synthesizer
Laura Swankey - voice, pedals
Abigail Trotsky - guitar, e-bow, pedals
Chris Trotter - synth, pedals
Victor O - grand piano, percussion
Curtis Whittaker - misc. percussion, bowed cymbals

Design & Layout by Tiny Little Hammers (www.tinylittlehammers.com)
Photo by Laura Swankey

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Cosmic Homeostasis Toronto, Ontario

Following the dictates of the Cosmic Homeostasis Tactical Memo, performers from varying artistic practices and levels of experience will join together to navigate through an emergent stable sameness that includes internal-hierarchical data exchange, data selectivity, informational integration, and environmental-organismic information exchange. ... more

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