Jamie Drouin is a Canadian composer of abstract electronic music, and visual artist. The reductionist nature of his work focuses on the subtle, perceptual experiences which can emerge from closely related colours and tones.
SELECTED WORKS
ARBOREAL
Liquid Transmitter
Half-seen limbs plot paths across the night sky – presences made known solely by the patterns in their wake.
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.
MEANDER – Liquid Transmitter
“The sense of perspective in all six tracks is palpable; it’s not so much like looking at a lava lamp as actually floating within one, perceiving the bobbing pitch motes up close and from a distance. As such, in both a literal and a figurative sense, Meander is extraordinarily immersive, as well as being some of the most beautiful ambient i’ve heard in a very long time.” – Simon Cummings | 5:4
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.