Join us as we explore the many possibilities.
This is your invitation to enjoy our collection of short stories told using sound, light, and motion.
We are fellow travellers inside our BOXSET.
Victoria Gibson, media artist and musician, partners with Miriam Esquitín, movement specialist, to transport audiences into their own multi-dimensional reality.
Play the Moment provides live music.
Place: KW Studios Atrium, Woodwards Courtyard, 111 Hastings St West, Vancouver
Date: October 28, 29, 30
Times: 2 shows daily at 6:00pm – 7:00pm and at 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Live Streamed to You Tube on Friday, October 29th at 6pm PDT
Presented by VIXmedia and Heart of the City Festival — Thanks to KW Studios
Dedicated to Paul Plimley 1953-2002
Do you believe in magic? Come and join us in a space where the impossible is visualized with sound, light and motion. Slip into a dreamspace inside the BOXSET where a series of surreal experiences await. Every journey is different as we encounter new energy and emotion to claim the imagination of both the performers and the audience.
A collection of short live music works with projected visuals created by Victoria Gibson, media artist and musician, are enhanced by interaction with Miriam Esquitín, movement specialist. The inspiration for each work comes from our natural environment, but suspends the usual physical rules of reality.
Live music is provided by Play the Moment Collective. Victoria Gibson, vocals, electric guitar, percussion and electronics; Adrian Adrian Avendaño, drums and percussion with James Meger, bass or Clyde Reed, upright bass ( Oct.29th show)
Visit a sunset on Acadia Beach, see a forest from a new perspective, enjoy the blossoms of summer then splash in the rain, or travel to the stars. Let the music take you on a trip outside the everyday world — all you have to pay is your time and attention.
Play the Moment
Play the Moment is an improvising media performance ensemble founded by Victoria Gibson in the year 2000.
More information about past performances can be found here on this website.
Victoria Gibson (1956) creates work that emerges from the nexus of art and technology to fuse previously discrete disciplines into Integrated Media productions. Working with sound, using both electronic and acoustic source materials, she explores new compositional structures. It is an important part of her practice to leave space for interpretation and improvisation using audio and visual materials within these flexible containers..
In performance she also triggers samples she recorded while controlling a variety of curated visual materials and playing electric guitar, percussion, or vocalizing. Combining elements from her musical blues heritage with music she has studied from around the world she creates a sonic landscape in the digital domain. Victoria, holds a BA, major in music from UBC and is a resident of Vancouver, Canada.
Miriam Esquitín is a dance artist that sees herself as part of a movement to create more access to dance and the arts.
Miriam is the Co-founder and Director of Polymer Dance: a community-based, contemporary dance troupe for adults in Vancouver that started in 2012. Polymer Dance is about training for longevity and ensemble improvisation in public spaces.
Miriam’s interests focus on original movement through pure physical exploration of the body and in dialogue with the space. Representation or expression are relinquished to surrender to deep curiosity and embodiment.
Miriam is an immigrant from Mexico, grateful to live and dance in the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) people.
She’s been fortunate to dance with and learn from teachers and choreographers from around the world, and particularly with the Polymer folks. Miriam holds a Contemporary Dance Teaching Certificate from the Universidad de las Américas-Puebla. Her background includes contemporary dance, modern, ballet, music and Tai Chi. She also holds degrees in Social Anthropology.
Adrian Avendaño (1993) is an emerging sound artist, musician and recordist based in Surrey / Vancouver, Canada [unceded First Nation territories]. Recent projects include Sonic Symbiotic with Roxanne Nesbitt where he performed alongside the instruments of Harry Partch, and Parallel 03 with experimental music duo ENDLINGS (Raven Chacon and John Dietriech of Deerhoof) alongside musicians of the Vancouver creative music community. He was the recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts: Digital Originals funding initiative working with Chilean sound artists Tebo Henriquez and Bastian Diaz. Port Parallels – Acoustic Meridians was a remote collaboration exploring open-source hardware and software to develop methods of interpreting graphic and animated scores. He was a performer and composer for John Brennan’s Rudiments for Hexadrome performance and installation project for the 2021 Vancouver International Jazz Festival. He returned to perform at the festival in 2022 playing with experimental music project LITTLES at Ironworks. He currently plays with Gamelan Bike Bike and studies traditional Korean drumming with Dr. Peter Joon Park.
James Meger is a Vancouver-based bassist and composer working primarily in the fields of jazz, free improvisation and rock. As a performer, his work has been showcased through national and international tours and through recording projects and concerts alongside artists including Kenny Wollesen, Chris Speed, Kris Davis, Wayne Horvitz, Lori Freedman, Ig Henneman, Darius Jones, Peggy Lee and Tony Wilson, among others. James is also active as a sideman and co-leader in various ongoing projects, which showcase his versatility as a player and arranger. These include: Peggy Lee’s Echo Painting, Sick Boss, The Bruno Hubert Trio, Ten Thousand Wolves, The Now Society Ensemble, I Think I Saw You See Me, The Sumner Brothers, Josh Zubot’s Strings, Tony Wilson’s Burn Down The Cornfield and Elisa Thorn’s HUE, among others.
As a composer and producer, James has written and arranged music for bands (Sick Boss, Braveheart, Debra-Jean Creelman), interdisciplinary dance (Lesley Telford’s Spooky Action, Anecdote and Unison), music-theatre (collaborating with Barbara Adler on Pathetic Fallacy, Klasika and Decoy), and for sound installations (Signals from the Mountain, 2015). He also co-curates an interdisciplinary performance series at the Gold Saucer Studio in Vancouver called Sawdust Collector.
October 28 and 30th shows only
Clyde Reed plays October 29th.
Clyde Reed is a long-time member of the vibrant creative music scene in Vancouver. He has performed at major jazz festivals in North America and Europe. Long term musical collaborators include Jared Burrows, Nikki Carter, Bruce Friedman, Vinny Golia, Rich Halley, Kenton Loewen, Paul Plimley, Claude Ranger, and Carol Sawyer.
“Clyde Reed fashions some of the fattest, funkiest, double bass riffs around … dynamic, fluid and fun” — All About Jazz