Name: Meryem Yildiz: Backbone — avec thisquietarmy et Cloud Circuit
Start: 2025-10-21T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-21T23:00:00-04:00
Location: P'tit Ours

$Meryem Yildiz: Backbone \u2014 avec thisquietarmy et Cloud Circuit$

Poésie-performance de Meryem Yildiz avec les nappes soniques de thisquietarmy (aka Eric Quach / guitare drone, improvisée et électroniques) dans le cadre de la sortie de son premier recueil de poésie « Backbone », qui vient de paraître sur Guernica Editions au mois de septembre 2025.
En première partie : Cloud circuit, le duo de la poète Deanna Radford et de l'artiste sonore Jeremy Young.
Mardi 21 octobre
P'tit Ours
5589 ave du Parc
Portes : 19 h
Spectacle : 20 h
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Meryem Yildiz x thisquietarmy: Backbone
Meryem Yildiz is a Montreal-based poet of Turkish and French Canadian descent. Winner of The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry as well as the Quebec Writers’ Federation carte blanche Prize, her work explores identity, culture, and the psyche. Backbone is her first book.
Montreal-based artist Eric Quach, known as thisquietarmy, celebrates 20 years of crafting experimental electronic and free jazz-infused heavy drone guitar music. Over the years, he has released work on labels such as Consouling Sounds, Midira, Utech, Aurora Borealis, Shelter Press, and Denovali, and has collaborated with members of Voivod, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Amenra, and Nadja. He has performed over a thousand live concerts across 40 countries, including appearances at internationally renowned festivals such as Le Guess Who?, Biennale Nemo, Amplifest, Dunk! Festival, Mutek, FIMAV and Red Bull Music Academy.
On a side note, over the 25+ years they've known each other, Yildiz has lent her vocals on two thisquietarmy tracks. She also contributed her artwork photography on Quach's multiple musical projects' artwork such as Destroyalldreamers, Some Became Hollow Tubes & Mains de givre.
https://www.meryemyildiz.com/
https://thisquietarmy.com/
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Cloud Circuit:
Poetry-sound project Cloud Circuit draws inspiration from communication glitches and lost connections. Poet Deanna Radford channels her iterative text reams into deconstructed “words of mouth,” while sound artist Jeremy Young employs sine waves in flux, 1/4" magnetic tape, and captured radio airs. In performance, Cloud Circuit’s approach is collaborative and improvisational, with their sound being composed, dissected, and refracted.
In 2020, Cloud Circuit’s debut EP, Bur sting brea k'r, was released by Archive Officielle, and they performed as part of Vicky Mettler and Zach Scholes’ Live in Concrete series. In 2023, they issued a live recording of the experience on 10” lathe-cut vinyl and cassette.
In the spring of 2023, Cloud Circuit performed in Berlin and were invited Ambassadors of the Embassy of Utopia at the Tartu International Literary Festival Prima Vista in Estonia. In the fall of 2024, they completed a tour of Western Canada, featuring performances at send + receive: a festival of sound in Winnipeg and at Bug Incision with New Works Calgary.
https://cloudcircuit.ca/