The Lo-Techs (1983)

Three mates from Fisher Park High School in Ottawa move to Vancouver, form a band, and under the advisement of former Payolas bassist Gary Middleclass, relocate to Toronto, where they produce this deadpan Casio jam (title unknown but I’d call it “Reason to exist”).
Sandra White (lead vocals, bass guitar, synth), David Creelman (guitar, synth), Ian Gallen (guitar, synth).
Shot in a house in Forest Hill, Toronto, by Richard Quinlan.
If you’ve got more info on the band or its members, feel free to get in touch!

[[transformer]] / alex roshuk (1980)

Catastronics | Monty Cantsin (Istvan Kantor), 1983, Canada

with the assistance of canada council video section and centre de recherche neoiste, balazs bela filmstudio, budapest, yul records.
“in the blue endless sky / a flaming iron flies…”

Procession | produced and directed by Mark McCarty (1967)

Happy 96th Birthday, Anna Halprin!
In Procession the Anna Halprin Dance Group “adapts, adjusts, confronts, reacts” to a continually evolving stage environment of ladders and mobile scaffolding, accompanied by Morton Subotnick’s sputtering electronic bleeps and random bursts of noise.

In Review (1980), produced and hosted by C.J. Hirschfield (now Executive Director of Children’s Fairyland in Oakland, California), was a Viacom Cable Television series that covered local art exhibitions, concerts, theater, and dance programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. Music by Rick Burnley.

Happy birthday (May 30), Pauline Oliveros!
1981 interview by Joyce Cutler Shaw, during which Pauline responds to critic Martin Bernheimer’s negative review of El relicario de los animales (1977) and talks briefly about Pieces of eight (1964) and Bonn feier (1977).

Excerpt from Tajny film (Secret film) | The Mumr of Whis

Czech, early 1990s. Glass percussion in a cosmic echo chamber populated by tropical fish.

Google never heard of The Mumr of Whis either.

WJ

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Pour vous … Madame: a magazine for women
7th annual children’s fashion show, Paris, 1968-69
“New colors are the rule for tots from 1-4.”