Jamie Drouin is a Canadian composer, free-improvisation synthesist, and visual artist. The reductionist nature of his work focuses on the subtle experiences which can emerge from closely related colours and tones, and positioning electronic environmental noise within musical frameworks.
SELECTED WORKS
THIS, AND THE OTHER SPACE
Jamie Drouin | Lance Austin Olsen
Examining the fracturing of memory and the creation of multiple realities, or spaces, as details obscure and the remnants eventually form their own parallel narratives.
THE FRENCH DROP
Jamie Drouin | Lance Austin Olsen
The Hieronymus Bosch painting known as The Conjurer (c.1475–1505) has held a constant position in the back of my consciousness for several weeks – being emblematic of the dangerous political world we find ourselves in. It represents the ease, and apparent willingness, of people to repeatedly fall for the simple distraction techniques of the travelling charlatan, including the oldest slight-of-hand illusion of them all: Le Tourniquet, or The French Drop.
FUSIFORM
Jamie Drouin
Eight compositions for Buchla synthesizer and magnetic tape, in which variable forms are revealed through the speeding up, and slowing down of recorded layers. FUSIFORM also functions as the second half of my 2018 album DRIFT.