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Internationally celebrated avant-garde vocalist and poet Jaap Blonk returns to Kelowna for an incredible solo performance. “Blonk becomes a contemporary Bruckner of sound poetry, it’s not just Jaap Blonk’s performances that are virtuosic and remarkable, but his compositional vision.” – https://musicworks.ca/
Hailing from the Netherlands, Jaap is a self-taught composer, performer, and poet who has performed all over the world and has worked with many other musicians including Mats Gustafsson, Joan La Barbara, and The Ex. With an astonishing range of extended vocal techniques such as multiphonics - singing/voicing two or more pitches at the same time, guttural growls, percussive fricatives, palatal clicks and lip smacks, Jaap performs with an almost childlike freedom underpinned by a virtuosic compositional sense. While generating an array of inconceivable sounds with his voice, Jaap will often manually manipulate his face or throat for further effect, creating a performance that is both startling and comical.
Jaap has worked for radio and television, including several commissioned radio plays, and has made numerous recordings for VICTO, Monotype Records, and his own self-made record label Kontrans.
http://jaapblonk.com/
Also on the bill is vocalist and sound artist Jessie Rivest, who works across contemporary, experimental, and improvisational forms while creating immersive vocal landscapes through looping and extended vocal techniques. Jessie has collaborated with Tanya Tagaq and Free Play, as well as major choral and interdisciplinary productions including Game of Thrones: Music is Coming, Nordic Light Symphony, and the Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Tour. Her compositions have been performed internationally, and her 2025 public sound art exhibition PSOUNDS, commissioned by the City of Kelowna, explored listening as a vital skill for navigating change.
https://www.jessierivest.com/
This concert is the forty-eighth installment of the Skin And Bones Music Series – an Okanagan Arts Award nominated concert series dedicated to the presentation of experimental music in the Okanagan.
Doors open at 6:30 pm and the concert will begin at 7:00 pm.
Admission at the door is $25 or $20 for students and Alternator members. Advance tickets can be purchased online at Event Brite.
This concert is made possible through the partnership between the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art and the Inner Fish Theatre Society, producers of Kelowna’s annual Living Things International Arts Festival and frequent collaborators with both the Alternator and Skin & Bones.
https://www.facebook.com/InnerFishTheatre/
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is an artist-run centre located in Kelowna, BC at the Rotary Centre for the Arts, 421 Cawston Avenue. The Alternator is a registered non-profit charitable organization dedicated to the development of the creative community. Since 1989 the Alternator has shown the work of emerging Canadian artists and focused on innovative and non-traditional mediums engaged in social and cultural issues.
https://www.alternatorcentre.com/
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Event venue
Central Okanagan United Church, 721 Bernard Ave, Kelowna, BC V1Y 6P6, Canada
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