FemBots and their evolving junkstruments By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor November 19, 2008 Toronto’s FemBots, once a home recording project by band founders Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier, have found themselves as a rock band constantly bending musical genres.  Their latest release, Calling Out, features the band taking advantage of found sound—or junkstruments.
Junkstruments, a portmanteau of junk and instruments designed by artist Iner Souster, were to be heavily relied upon for the album.
Their plans, however, didn’t turn out exactly as expected. “At a certain point when the record started to take shape, that stuff just didn’t really seem to fit in with what was going on with the rest of the record,” said MacKinnon.
Souster’s junkstruments are made from toys, power tools, and broken thrift store instruments. >> | 48 Hour Flick Fest fetes its winners By Paul Breschuk
Lance Writer November 19, 2008 On the night of Oct. 24, eager participants of the 48 Hour Flick Fest gathered in a downtown bar to receive their instructions. At this meeting, they were given a theme (border), prop (duct tape), and line of dialogue (“nothing is shocking to me”) to be included somewhere in their films. Although such devices may seem arbitrary, or restrictive, they provide assurances that each submission had been filmed within the 48 hour time period.
With these specific guidelines, the filmmakers, in a dispersal of creativity, departed into the night. In the hours that followed, Windsor would be terrorized by cinematic guerilla warfare included speeding cars, bizarre costumes, impromptu movie sets, and sleep-deprived film crews.
What festival organizers were presented with, two days later, was cause for delight, surprise, intrigue, and horror.
Finally, after careful deliberation, the panel of judges are ready to dole out the awards. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | Eye on the Arts: Murad Erzinclioglu By Carly Moulton
Lance Writer November 19, 2008 The task of creating, compiling, and debuting their first CD full of electronic tracks would prove to be a lengthy and difficult project for any artist.
Pair that with being the co-creator and organizer behind Windsor’s largest inter-arts festival, DJing a weekly music variety show, and writing a comic book and you’ve got Murad Erzinclioglu, an artist who has immersed himself into the local arts.
In the arts community Erzinclioglu goes under the name (wh)y m.e.(??), a title that he uses to showcase his music and visual arts projects.
Erzinclioglu is no stranger to the stage and has been performing around Windsor for two years. He describes his sound as “Live ambient electronic music, it varies from genre to genre, I work with sound until it sounds interesting to me and then I go from there.”
Right now Erzinclioglu is focused on producing his own record, which will be available in February at Dr. Disc and at live shows. >> |
