CHARLIE RAE WALKER
BATS!
What is BATS?
BATS! is a fully improvised and interactive musical dream interpretation. BATS! is a long form interactive song experience. BATS! play with polyrythym, automatic freestyle poetry and vocals, orchestral instrumentation and unconventional looping of found objects. BATS! engages audience to interpret their dreams as an automatic musical experience.
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who is BATS?
Bats is a new collaboration of 3 Winnipeg based experimental artists:
A Raven Called Crow
is the Music Nomiker of Winnipeg based experimental artist Charlie Rae Walker. She creates mesmerizing live music happenings which engage audiences in intimate and unexpected ways. Live improvised Harp / banjo loop pedal dream interpretation, turning the audience into an experimental choir. She has been known to improvise whole albums with small orchestras, incorporate experimental mask and performance art and create found object loop pedal sound scapes . Charlie is also a prolific visual artist and runs her own gallery/ home based music venue in the West End of Winnipeg called 'The Secret Gallery'.
Here is a video clip from our performance at BRAIN FEST 2023, Which is a festival that I host in my bedroom in the west end of Winnipeg.
GAGE SALNIKOWSKI
Multi-instrumentalist Gage Salnikowski plays over 50 different instruments, and has used his skills as performer, composer, educator, and multidisciplinary artist, to produce and perform a wide variety of material. From experimental orchestral and jazz, to ambient pop, indy rock, neo-soul, and technical metal, Salnikowski has equal experience performing the avant-garde in art galleries and concerts halls as he does touring with local acts.
Notably, Gage's work has been featured on CBC television, CBC radio, City TV, and CKUW for recording classical symphonies as a one man orchestra, playing every instrument himself.
Brodie
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Hovanessian
is a drummer and multi-instrumentalist and multidisciplinary visual artist originating from Vancouver, BC, now residing in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His works span photography, filmmaking, and drums and percussion in a variety of musical settings.
