Viviane Houle

"Houle not only owns the many avant vocal styles on display here, she has something unique — sometimes stunningly brilliant — to bring to each of them."
The Squid's Ear

"Intimate, eerie, electrifying, Treize is a tour de force of vocal improvisation. ...an auspicious debut recording from an attention-riveting artist."
- Exclaim!

"throwing dictionaries out of windows, the sound of a trombone digging up a grave, ripping out everybody's larynx with your bare hands...a genius example of this audacious approach to music...one of the year’s best albums."

- CokeMachineGlow

"Houle warbles and scats like some demented cross between Yma Sumac and Slim Gaillard, but also does the Phil Minton thing of squeezing non-musical grunts and sighs from a closed larynx." 
- The Sound Projector

"[Louis Andriessen] was then joined on stage by Vancouver’s powerful and unmatched Viviane Houle. It turns out that she embodies a kind of Kiri Te Kanawa who has swallowed the DNA of Yma Sumac. The heights of Houle’s vocal folds are stratospheric. We get grand opera, French chanteuse, and abstruse, cryptic, and arcane contemporary classic singer capable of anything deeply vocal."
- Vancouver Observer





Roberts Creek Arts Festival
Our music studio here in Roberts Creek, Lotfive Sound, will be one of seven venues in this year's Robert Creek Arts Festival.
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Our music studio here in Roberts Creek, Lotfive Sound, will be one of seven venues in this year's Robert Creek Arts Festival.  We're looking forward to hosting and performing with both local and international artists who will be working with us at our studio.  Stayed tuned for more info....

The festival is May 17th - 19th, 2013.

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Workshopping with Juliet Palmer and Su-Feh Lee
I was also in the studio in September with Su-Feh Lee (Battery Opera) and Juliet Palmer (Urban Vessel) working on source material from my Charlotte Saloman research project.  Amazing women to work with!!  Two new project ideas/directions came out of this one year process... more to come.
 
Co:Lab

Looking forward to being a participant in CO:Lab!

A Dance Centre and Canadian Music Centre project, CO: LAB is a six-day ‘collaborative laboratory’ where six choreographers and six composers are invited to come together in the studio to explore the infinite possibilities of contemporary interdisciplinary creative process.


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Looking forward to being a participant in CO:Lab!

A Dance Centre and Canadian Music Centre project, CO: LAB is a six-day ‘collaborative laboratory’ where six choreographers and six composers are invited to come together in the studio to explore the infinite possibilities of contemporary interdisciplinary creative process.

 I'll be one of the composers and I get to invite one musician to join me for the process. This fits in perfectly with my Charlotte research project which had me exploring voice and movement.  Looking forward to this very much!


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Jaap Blonk workshop and performances
In October, Holland's Jaap Blonk (vocalist, sound poet, improvisor) was here on the coast as an artist in residence in our Roberts Creek Lotfive Studios.  We did some playing and recording together.  Incredible!  I had admired Jaap's work for so many years.  What a thrill to sing with him!  Jaap also offered a vocal workshop here on the coast and we performed together with Stefan for the Sechelt Arts Festival and then at 1067 in Vancouver with Stefan and Lisa Miller.
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In October, Holland's Jaap Blonk (vocalist, sound poet, improvisor) was here on the coast as an artist in residence in our Roberts Creek Lotfive Studios.  We did some playing and recording together.  Incredible!  I had admired Jaap's work for so many years.  What a thrill to sing with him!  Jaap also offered a vocal workshop here on the coast and we performed together with Stefan for the Sechelt Arts Festival and then at 1067 in Vancouver with Stefan and Lisa Miller.
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Words and Music

I am very happy to be part of a four day concert series curated by Clyde Reed.

Musicians, poets, spoken word artists and singers from up and down the west coast will be creating some spontaneous music, sounds, songs.


All performances will be at the Prophouse Cafe (1636 Venables Street, just off Commercial drive), 5:30 to 7pm, everyday, from Monday June 25 to Thursday June 28.
 

See you there!

Viviane


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I am very happy to be part of a four day concert series curated by Clyde Reed.

Musicians, poets, spoken word artists and singers from up and down the west coast will be creating some spontaneous music, sounds, songs.


All performances will be at the Prophouse Cafe (1636 Venables Street, just off Commercial drive), 5:30 to 7pm, everyday, from Monday June 25 to Thursday June 28.
 

See you there!

Viviane
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Sechelt Festival of the Arts
I am singing for two differeant shows during this wonderful festival - with Stefan Smulovitz and Eyvind Kang on the Friday night
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I am singing for two differeant shows during this wonderful festival - with Stefan Smulovitz and Eyvind Kang on the Friday night and with Cody Chancellor, Jennifer Norquist-Chancellor, and Andrew Bate on Sunday.  Check out the Festival website for more details.

Cheers,

Vivinae


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Viviane Houle
Canada Council
 
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