Episode 2.4 (June 2022) In this episode of The No Normal, we welcome Shawn Pinchbeck. Internationally active as a composer, performer and sound artist, Shawn Pinchbeck has, since the mid 1980s, been a key part of the experimental sonic arts scene in Edmonton. With a toolkit that includes analog and digital machinery, expertise in field recording, and wide-ranging performance experience, Shawn has worked with a striking array of artists from sound and music, dance, video, the visual arts and more!
Ian Crutchley’s interview with Shawn Pinchbeck covers the artist’s story from his earliest to latest work, his first electronic gadgets, early local collaborators, mentors, and… bees!
Program:
09:40 – Wildcats, composition, Resonance Cassette release, 1987
23:16 – Scrapes & Shapes, collaboration with Jeff Collins, Collins Gallery, 2020
(shawnpinchbeck.bandcamp.com/album/scape…-and-shapes)
36:35 – Phantoms of Jaak, solo performance BEAMS Art’s Birthday, 2021
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY6RrRZGR3c)
43:38 – Peace of Home, composition, 2021
(shawnpinchbeck.bandcamp.com/album/peace-of-home)
49:24 – Where the Bees Buzz, audio visual performance, Art’s Birthday, 2022
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLtXvvahR8w&t=8488s)
60:46 – Moss Sermons, collaboration with Bernd Hildebrandt, Mazurka Music and Art Society, 2019
70:40 – Bittersweet, song collaboration with Rose McDowall
(open.spotify.com/album/5j9Qedfwgkl5WFMW08dKrd)
Artist Bio:
Shawn Pinchbeck is an award winning Edmonton, Alberta based electroacoustic music composer, sound artist, audio engineer, performer, media artist, curator and educator. His artworks explore all things that sound, often with other elements such as: video, computer interaction, multi-speaker environments, sensors and electronics, interdisciplinary performance and gallery installations. Shawn has eight albums of electroacoustic, film and ambient music. His music and sound design has been used in numerous films and contemporary dance performances. Currently, the film “Far From the Apple Tree” can seen on Tubi TV; its soundtrack, in collaboration with singer songwriter Rose McDowall, was nominated for best Scottish album of the year in 2020. He regularly performs live sound and visual music works at festivals in Canada and Europe. He has MMus and PhD degrees in electroacoustic music composition from the University of Birmingham, UK where he studied with Jonty Harrison and Erik Oña.
