Chapel Sound Takeover •• Bloom Nightclub
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One of Vancouver's most exciting gang of envelope-pushers, Chapel Sound, have a small faction heading inwards from the coast for a pair of gigs, including a stop at Bloom Nightclub on Friday April 7 with Which Nancy, Shaunic, WSUPTIGER, and Silence aka Sean OH. Read on to learn more about this crew of sound effect manipulators and visual arts conspirators. Cover will be $5 before 11pm and $10 after, with Happy Hour drink specials on until 11:30!
•• Chapel Sound ••
https://soundcloud.com/chapelsound
Chapel Sound began in founding member Sean OH’s living room with two turntables and a lava lamp. The collective’s origins date back to 2012, when a group of artists began broadcasting a weekly Boiler Room-style live stream that featured different “bedroom” producers and DJs. Today, Chapel’s members span the country from Vancouver to Montreal, and their work reverberates globally. Throughout its four year evolution, the consortium of DJs, producers, visual artists and event producers has grown in number and in recognition, but nonetheless maintain their focus on nurturing the local community. Having begun as a search for the texture and feel of Vancouver’s underground, Chapel has in sense become its incubator.
The group’s mandate is to push creative expression forward without boundaries or prejudice. Bringing people together through events, collaborations and cross-pollination with other local crews has played an important role for Chapel in realizing this ambition. Since graduating from the living room, the collective has hosted electronic music shows at the likes of Fortune Sound Club, Are you MIA and The Biltmore Cabaret, as well as DIY events in underground venues including The Loft, Vancouver Art and Leisure and Red Gate Arts Society, which was home to Chapel’s 3 year anniversary party.
As the crew continues to grow and evolve, the welcoming aura and flare for experimentation that characterized their early lava lamp broadcasts continues to permeate their events and projects. The shared philosophy of openness and inclusion is among the main drivers of their continued expansion. Last year, two Chapel Sound members - Ekalii and Jade Statues - were accepted to the global Red Bull Music Academy, while Kline and Eli Muro were accepted to the RBMA Bass Camp in Montreal. At home, the Chapel crew stays busy nurturing the arts community as well as engaging with emerging producers and beatmakers through their Beat Critique events. Last Spring, the collective will broke new ground yet again with their largest function to date: the inaugural Chapel Sound Festival - a three day event dedicated to Vancouver’s underground art and music.
•• VJ Nancy Lee ••
Nancy Lee is a VJ, filmmaker, interdisciplinary artist, and curator of human interactions. The notion of staging is a constant in Nancy’s work and underpins her projects from early days as a more traditional filmmaker, through her conception and production of events, and into the realms of new media installation, where her art practices continue to coalesce and evolve. Through her DIY and pop-up events held with Chapel Sound, Nancy is able to conceptualize space and test social relationships therein from the vantage point of an arranger.
•• Shaunic ••
https://soundcloud.com/shaunicsound
https://soundcloud.com/westcoastculture/wccmix005-shaunic
•• Silence ••
https://soundcloud.com/fuckthesilence
Sean OH, formally trained in architecture at Pratt Institute, is a DJ and an avid barista. Sean founded Chapel Sound in Sept 2012 in his living room, spearheading Vancouver’s first Boiler Room style weekly electronic music online broadcast series which lasted 2 years. Sean has fostered a welcoming environment for people from various Vancouver DJ, producer and artist crews and people who have not yet found a place of belonging in this city to collaborate, network, grow, and experiment in what is known as Chapel Sound.
•• WSUPTIGER ••
https://soundcloud.com/wsuptiger
https://soundcloud.com/.../4-horsemen-shop-sounds-by...
• Doors 10pm
• $5 before 11pm / $10 after
• $4.50 highballs or draft sleeves from The Savoy Hotel Brewing Co, $7.50 doubles until 11:30pm
• Powered by PK Sound
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