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1601 Johnston St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9

Viviane Houle is one of Canada’s most dynamic and fearless vocal improvisers. With Unsung Songs, Houle releases a new album alongside a stunning book of graphic scores she created to elicit sonically-searching duos with fellow interpreters like Lina Allemano, Sylvain Darrifourcq, and Didier Petit. Houle’s evocative black and white abstractions are “deeply lyrical, generous, entangled, energetic and sparse, offering their chaotic wilderness to an audience whose understanding of image and sound might just be cracked open and changed forever” (Avni Vyas). For this unrepeatable performance, Houle debuts an ensemble featuring Jessica Ackerley guitar, Konrad Agnas drums, Clyde Reed bass, Joshua Zubot violin, Chris Gestrin piano, and Hadis Fard’s projected, real-time manipulations of Viviane’s graphics.

This show is part of our Granville Island Jazz series