October 3 | 7:00 pm
Vowel Jams premiere performance by Kathy Kennedy
19h – 21h oct 3
Casa d’Italia, 505 Jean-Talon E.
With special musical guests Squid pro quo.
A vocal journey beyond the spoken, sung, and heard.
Blurring the lines between voice and environment, Vowel Jams is the latest solo release from Kathy Kennedy—a bold, playful exploration of orality in all its fractured, fluid, and feral forms.
Live vocals meet looping effects, field recordings, and fragmented text in a shimmering collage of sound. Each track invites the listener into a space where language unravels and the voice transforms—at once intimate and expansive, ancient and futuristic. This is not just an album, but an invitation: to listen differently, to speak differently, to feel the mouth of sound open wide.
Kathy Kennedy is a sound artist with formal training in visual art and classical singing. Her art practice generally involves the voice and issues of interface with technology, often using telephony or radio transmission. Her work engages with public space and physical space through voice, often creating environments for others to sing in. This is her first solo vocal album. It will be available as a hybrid book – album during the performance.
Copies of the new retrospective book about Kathy Kennedy’s long career, Singing Off the Grid – Chanter Hors-Piste, published by Centre Sagamie, will be available for sale at the event.
Squid pro quo is the newly formed duo of Julie Delisle and Vergil Sharkya’. They are set on an exploration of sonic, visual and performative probabilities, drawn from their individual lines of experiences and alloyed into a combined force field forged from the sheer pleasure of creation, freedom of play, and pure love.