Saturday June 14, 7:30 pm, 2025
Mile Zero Dance (9931- 78 Avenue NW, Edmonton)
Creamy Rainbow (Andrew Thorne, Anna Wildish, and Aidan Oatway)/Soft Ions (Jenna Turner and Parker Thiessen)/Codyma (Cole Dorchester, Makenna Graham, and Dylan Lindsay)
Creamy Rainbow
9931 78 Ave.
9931 78 Ave. will be an amalgamation of a typical band set up ( guitar, ball and drums), field recordings, radios, and other household items.
Soft Ions (Jenna Turner and Parker Thiessen)
Neighbours
With Neighbours, soft Ions creates a picture of their neighbourhood using environmental/found sounds, synth, bells, and violin loops.
Codyma
Obsolescence
Obsolescence is a phantasmagoria of 80 years of various obsolete, broken, or nominally incompatible technologies bound together into a single functional organism. The piece is centred around four CRT monitors all feeding off outputs of test equipment, synthesizers, and signals from a central MAX patch. The forest of wires and equipment is focused around a prepared saxophone, the instrument itself battered by many years of service, wires, tubing, and string coming from every part of it and connecting back to both the MAX patch and into the equipment, all breathing as one.
Cole Dorchester: composition, live electronics, Makenna Graham: composition, prepared saxophone Dylan Lindsay: composition, live electronics, MAX programing.
The Artists
Creamy Rainbow is the current iteration of Anna Wildish and Andrew Thorne’s collaborative sound projects. Both born in Mi’kmaki, or Moncton, New Brunswick, Thorne and Wildish first began playing together since 2018, in the Kjipuktuk (Halifax) based group, Tangent. Since moving to Treaty Six territory, Edmonton in 2021, both have been interested in songwriting and sound-making through the blending of conventional and unconventional instruments. Guitars and bass are frequently accompanied by the distortion of radios, telephone calls, and Tasmanian devils. Recently, the group recruited friend and musician Aidan Oatway on drums. Further pushing the band into the territory of alternative music, with the ethos of Pauline Oiveros and Salomé Voegelin.
The band is interested in music and sound as a living art, never separating one from the other. Often incorporating environmental, cityscape or domestic sounds while they play. Acting as the noisy conduits of it all. Their mercurial attitude has led them to take on many different monikers, such as Anna & Andy, Doppler, or Oil City Demolition, never resting on our laurels for too long. Photo Credit: Kev Liang
Soft Ions takes the audience through cinematic soundscapes, providing the imaginary soundtrack to a dark thriller or sci-fi film, eerie communications evoking alien shadows. Live performances by the duo build on this atmosphere, often including experimental visuals and instruments. Their self-titled debut was released on Edmonton’s Pseudo Laboratories in 2017, followed by the apocalyptic “Nigh” in 2019. In 2025, Soft Ions return to show their softer side, exploring the sounds of their neighbourhood, the community that resists amidst what feels like a dystopian present.
Photo Credit: Lyle Bell
Cole Dorchester is an Edmonton-based composer, vocalist, and electronic musician focused on timbre, microtonality, and the obsolete. They have performed as an electronic improviser at numerous festivals and events both locally and internationally.
Makenna Graham is an eager and emerging composer and experimental flutist working in Edmonton, Alberta. She is in her fifth year of a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Alberta.
Dylan Lindsay focuses on performance and improvisation. He has composed stereo and quadraphonic works for acoustic and electronic instruments, and often contributes recordings to tracks produced by the independent US-based studio Fractional Farthing.
Accessibility
Mile Zero Dance Space (9931 – 78 Avenue NW, Edmonton): accessible building with multiple all-gender washrooms. There is a cleared path from the front door to the warehouse space. We have two accessible washroom facilities on the main floor as well. Please note that we do not yet have an automatic front door and the sidewalk outside needs to be improved as well. The #523 bus stops at 99 St and 78 Ave, approx 120 meters from the venue (stop #1542 SB, stop #22729 NB), and the #8 bus stops at Whyte Ave and 99 St, approx 500 meters from the venue (stop #1035 EB, #2824 WB)
