Events › Expanded Cinema: Sound Migrations

Expanded Cinema is a series of performances that combine cinema with live music, movement, theatre, and more.

Sound Migrations is an improvised audio-visual performance by violinist Meredith Bates, sound artist Lief Hall, and visual artist Josema Zamorano. Merging live video manipulation of photographs of the Canadian Rockies with experimental electro-acoustic soundscapes, Sound Migrations converges in a sensorial dialogue of audio-visual transformations reflecting on our connectedness with the natural environments we inhabit. Following the performance, there will be a Q&A session with the artists.

This Earth Day event seeks to create space for curiosity and conversation on our relationship with the environment via the work of artists responding to the climate crisis. Sound Migrations also exists as an interactive online installation: http://www.soundmigrations.ca/

Meredith Bates is a distinguished Vancouver-based violinist and composer, known for her unique contributions to the Canadian music scene as both a solo artist and collaborator. With a strong focus on artistic exploration, she has gained recognition through her versatile performances and innovative projects, including her work with acclaimed ensembles such as Pugs and Crows and Gentle Party.

Lief Hall is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and composer based in Vancouver, Canada. Hall’s practice incorporates sound, installation, video, multimedia performance, and choreography. Her works often explore themes of nature, technology, and the body as they relate to mythology, mysticism, and the posthuman voice.

Josema Zamorano is an interdisciplinary visual artist and university instructor, native of Nayarit Mexico, based in Mexico City and Vancouver (non-ceded, ancestral and traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.) His work and courses often deal with a critique of modern ways of knowing: the camera, the prefigured method, the instrumental construction of reality. He leans toward experimental-performative processes of making and interactive reception.

Live Music at VPL is generously supported by VPL Foundation donors. 

Accessibility: VPL is committed to making our programs accessible for all. If you have an access need that we have not addressed here, please email us at programs@vpl.ca.

• Level 8 is accessible via the main elevators.
• The Montalbano Family Theatre has three wheelchair accessible spaces in the front row.
• The theatre offers cinema-style seating, with limited space between seats.

For more information on physical access, view the Accessibility information on the Central Library page.