Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

Despite Clarinetist François Houle and pianist Daniel Janke met only a few months before getting together in Whitehorse to record their collaborative recording, Crystalline (Afterday Audio), this spontaneous collaboration between two accomplished improvised music creators is exciting and fresh.

Clarinetist François Houle has established himself as one of today’s most inventive musicians, in all of the diverse musical spheres he embraces. Inspired by collaborations with the world’s top musical innovators, François has developed a unique improvisational language, virtuosic and rich with sonic embellishment and technical extensions. He has worked with Dave Douglas, Mark Dresser, Joëlle Léandre, Benoît Delbecq, Evan Parker, Samuel Blaser, Gerry Hemingway, Marilyn Crispell, Myra Melford, René Lussier, Alexander Hawkins, John Butcher, Kris Davis, Georg Graewe, Håvard Wiik, Guillermo Gregorio, Eyvind Kang, Hasse Poulsen, and many of Canada and the International scene’s top creative music artists.

Pianist and composer Daniel Janke is an eclectic musician, crossing styles and genres. He is an innovator on prepared and improvised piano. Daniel has composed music for NAC Touring Ensemble, Penderecki String Quartet, Standing Wave Ensemble, Toronto Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, NEM, and Bozzini String Quartet to name a few. He composed the score for Subconscious Password, short-listed for an Oscar award [NFB, 2014]. His recording Celestial Blue with violinist Mark Fewer [2016, Centrediscs] was nominated for a Western Canada Music Award.

https://afterday.bandcamp.com/album/chrystalline




A Place to Listen Duo

Kristy and Daniel are experimental music composers and performers who have been collaborating for over a decade. Both were core members of the A Place to Listen Ensemble and concert series from 2012 to 2020. Since 2021, they have been performing as the A Place to Listen Duo.

Through this project, they have been working in longform, ambient electroacoustic improvisation. Their work often makes extensive use of dense blooms of sine tones, field recordings, melodic fragments, and live sampling to create expansive and immersive spaces.