Ruby Singh's Vox.Infold & the Chimerik 似不像 Collective

 

LIVE ARTIST | MOTHER CLOUD SPATIAL SOUND FESTIVAL

Ruby Singh is a multi award winning performer, composer and producer residing on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver BC.). His creativity crosses the boundaries of music, poetry, photography and film engaging with mythos, memory, justice and fantasy.

Singh is an artist whose work is informed by sound found all around us, from the whirling planets and stars of distant galaxies to percussion of an umbrella under coastal rains, to the perpetual moving birdsong of the dawn chorus, constantly circling the globe. The richly imaginative visual textures to his sound design have found kinship in the theatre, film and dance worlds, where he has been celebrated by multiple Jessie and Leo award nominations.

His distinct approach uses traditional and emergent sonic practices to create compositions that express the vast spectrum of the human experience. In 2022 Singh received the Lieutenant Governor’s Jubilee Award for excellence in Art and Music. In 2023 he received his inaugural Juno nomination and he won both the WCMA award for best Global Music Artist of the Year and BC Touring Council's Artist of the Year. Singh’s offering are wide ranging and expansive from ambient audio-visual worlds of the Polyphonic Garden to Jhalaak, a Sufi hip hop album made alongside Manganiyar musicians recorded in the clay huts of the Thar desert in Rajasthan India, reinterpreting 13th century Sufi poetry. Vox.infold, an a cappella project bringing together the sounds of Inuit, Indigenous, Black and South Asian voices that has been met with critical acclaim.

 

Chimerik 似不像 Collective

Chimerik has created live visuals/video design for wide ranges of musicians such as famous Taiwanese pop star Faith Yang 楊乃文, Jam Hsiao 蕭敬騰 & indie band Sunset Rollercoaster, hip hop artist Dwagie大支, Electronic music DJ such as Erol Alkan & Débruit, Hip Hop artists such as Shing02 & Substantial, heavy metal bands such as Aztland Underground.

They’ve worked with BC based musicians such as Tarun Nayar, Ruby Singh, Kimmortal, PIQSIQ, Peregrine Falls, Lief Hall, Hard Rubber Orchestra and Orchid Ensemble. In Dance/Theatre, they’ve worked with The Arts Club, Gateway Theatre, Aeriosa, Fakeknot, Wen Wei Dance, MACHiNENOiSY, Karen Jamieson Dance, Dancers of Damelahamid & Raven Spirit Dance. Chimerik has been nominated 3 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award and won 2 Outstanding Productions awards and 1 Outstanding Innovative & Immersive Storytelling award in the theatre productions that they’re involved as New Media/Projection Design Team (productions: Camera Obscura, The Great Leap & Inheritance)