PrOphecy sun

prOphecy sun is a Canadian Vancouver-based sound artist, performance artist, and media artist, whose work involves sound and movement in live performance, video and video installation. Her interdisciplinary performance practice threads together both conscious and unconscious choreographies, sound, and environment, to create exploratory works that invoke deep body memory and draw from an interior landscape of dreams. Since 2007 she has been self-releasing music using smartphone technology as a capturing tool. Current musi cal projects include: prOphecy sun, Spell and the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble. Past projects include: Her Jazz Noise Collective, Under the Sun, and The Adulthood. She is also interested in shared community practices, with an emphasis on the body in dialogue with the community at large. Her father particularly encouraged her to listen to nature and find music within daily life: "'My dad has this really weird relationship with sound which I think has really affected me. He would do things like play sounds of bells or birds and say to me ‘Listen to this!’ and I would be like, ‘Dad, this is really weird,’”
While sound was a strong element of her Childhood, prOphecy sun did not immediately pursue a career in it. From 2005-2007 sun co-owned, managed and ran a vegetarian restaurant called Wink in Vancouver Mount Pleasant district. After selling the restaurant, sun branched off into sound and performance works.
Style
Adams of the Vancouver Georgia Straight newspaper dubs her a "sound collagist" and calls her works "airy aural patchworks".
Career
Solo albums
*2013 Sleep Forever
*2012 Bird Curious
*2011 Not For Dogs
*2009 Cats Paws
Tyranahorse
The band started in 2005. Tyranahorse is a five-piece indie rock band based out of East Vancouver. Tyranahorse's 2011 debut full-length independent release, ghostwolfmotherhawk: prairieunicornlionlioness, received reviews in Vancouver’s Discorder Magazine and The Georgia Straight. Dubbed a "kaleidoscopic blend of psych rock, pop, and alt-country... eccentric quintet" by the Georgia Straight's Rebecca Blissett.
Members
* Prophecy Sun - vocals, noise, theremin
* Jaro Welz - bass
* Darren Fleet - guitar, vocals
* Brent Brown - drums
* Max Stockholder - guitar, keyboard
Spell
Spell are Kristen Roos and prOphecy sun. "The collaboration's signature style stems from Sun's ability to sing otherworldy over the experimental electronic stylings of Roos". Their style described as "weirdo lo-fi folk". Their debut release, Lull, has been made with the intention of representing the live sound of Spell: "All of the tracks were recorded in one take. There is no post-production, aside from equalization and mastering".
Her Jazz Noise collective
In existence from 2007-2010 Her Jazz Noise, to quote from part of their mission statement was: "a vancouver (coast salish territory) based anarcha-feminist network & affinity group created to encourage more women to play noise and experimental music".
Under the Sun
Jenny Jones and prOphecy Sun created one LP Dust in 2011. "Their unique songwriting process involves turning on a recorder, turning up the volume and letting the music flow"
Selected exhibitions/performances
*2016 Presence in a Box, w/ Kristin C/ Shannon C, Scores + Traces Exhibition, One Art Space, NY US
*2015 Devonian Mirage, w/ Ariel G, L'Alternativa. Festival de Cine Independiente de Barcelona
*2015 Send & Receive, w/ Mirae R, ISEA 2015 (21st Int'l Symposium on Electronic Art), Van BC
*2015 Worlds, Live sound performance, ISEA 2015 (21st Int'l Symposium on Electronic Art), Van BC
*2014 T.I.M.E (TONAL MEDIA Experiment), Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Van BC
*2013 Cupboards, Exploding Cinema, London UK
*2012 Cupboards, International ArtExpo event ID / Identities. Istanbul, Turkey
*2012 Self portrait, FICTILIS 10.-22.-38 Astoria, The LAB. San Francisco, US
*2012 Hopscotch, Da 2012: Month of Performance Art, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Germany
*2012 Low Lives 4: International Festival of Live Networked Performances, NY US
*2012 Har Concert Series: Vancouver New Music, The Waldorf Hotel, Vancouver BC
*2011 CiTR Shindig Music Finals, w/ Tyranahorse, Railway Club, Vancouver BC
*2011 Cupboards, Square Eyes Festival, Exchange Gallery, Penzance Cornwall UK
*2011 Cupboards, Da 2011 Festival, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
*2011 Taiko Festival, w/ Vancouver Electronic Music Ensemble, Vancouver Playhouse, Van BC
*2010 FUSE: Girls!Girls!Girls! w/ Her Jazz Noise Collective, Vancouver Art Gallery, Van BC
*2009 Hairy Lumps: An Inter-dimensional Allegory, w/ DTP, Dancing on the Edge, Firehall Arts Centre Van
*2008 Edison & Leo, Puppet Wrangler/ Assistant Animator on Feature, Toronto Film Festival

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