Tech:gnosis"Enlightenment Through Art"
Live PA's, improvised electronic music and collaborative artwork by artists from our collective in Toronto
Definition
Tech- from Ancient Greek Techne, meaning craft or art
Gnosis- also from Ancient Greek, meaning enlightenment or divine knowledge
Currently Associated Musical Acts (Click artist name to visit url)
Caspar Project
Maikė Maas
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Mental Floss
Vangel
Simply Jason
Rob Hyde
The Beat Fabrikators
JayDid
Mission Statement
The first purpose of this collective is to help individual artists and electronic musicians promote their talents, and enjoy each others' works. The second purpose is to provide venues for the creation of collaborative multimedia works involving many talented musicians and artists.
Think of a Tech:gnosis event as being the critical mass of all of the musical and artistic disciplines we have been absorbing, learning and running between all of our lives. An artistic Apex that reveals only the tiniest bit of the whole, but contains splinters and fragments of all of the individual elements that make us whole as visual artists and musicians.
Typically a Tech:gnosis event will begin with each artist showcasing their work. Visual artists through gallery showing, and musicians through showcasing their own compositions. After each musician has completed their set, we move on to the collaboritive stage of the evening. It is at this point that all participating musicians patch their instruments together into one large ensemble (a sort of electroacoustic orchestra per-se). Visual artists then feed off of the collaborative musical improv, and vice versa. This loop of creative feedback between artists and musicians is the true meaning of techgnosis. It is this process that will enable us to create brave new sights and sounds.
New:
JayDid Live PA set! (in 'media' or 'albums')
Rob Hyde Live PA set!
Caspar Project Live PA set!
Photos From Tech:Gnosis I (Aug. 17, 2007)
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Jungle, Drum 'n Bass, Techno, Minimal, Techstep, Dubstep, Hip-Hop, Trance, Electro, Glitch, Experimental
