Interdisciplinary Installation based on plantlife and language presented as part of 'From Meadows, Woodlands, Far and Near' at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, University of British Columbia, March 10-September 4, 2016, in collaboration with Brigitte Potter-Mael and Derek Tan.
VENTRILOQUIAL INVESTIGATIONS
Performance Installation for Gamelan and Live Media, Western Front, 2016
Vancouver has been a city under intense pressure to adapt to the demands of the global economy: urban expansion, development, re-designating living space, industrial space and agricltural space to create for profit housing on a scale unprecedented, and creating an unprecedented scarcity of affordable, humane housing adapted to the needs of the existing population. YVR:the rememerbed city was a project that investigated the 'remainder', by inviting Vancouverites to re-create what has disappeared from memory and cardboard. The result was a floating city of paper buildings exhibited at the Roundhsoue Performance Centre and accompanied by a sound installation that draws on the World Soundscape project from 1973.
special thanks to the City of Vancouver Office of Cultural Affairs 125 Cultural Fund
TAMTAM
Interactive Sound Installation, 2013
Above: Steel resonator fitted with microphones and tactile transducersal controlled by smartphone application and interactive mixing matrix. Created with Darren Copeland as proposal for the City of Richmond Public Art Program.
Above: Creatyed with Darren Copeland as Proposal for the City of Richmond Public Art Program
THE VEIL OF NATURE
School for Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, May/June 2013
New Media Installation, Theatre Project and website, created by Patricia Gruben, Martin Gotfrit and Marian Wihak,Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts. Colaborating artist.
STREAMING
Sited Media Installtion based on the 'Lost Stream'of Vancouver
Holosonic Speaker array triggered by user movement, correllated to the undergoround locations of Vancouver's more than one hundred 'lost streams' locations and cardinal points in the Vancouver landscape. Proposed projected map site at the Langara Skytrain Station, Vancouver. 2011
Above: Proposal for Langara Skytrain Staion, Vancouver
TYPEFACING: IMPLODING THE STANCE:
The Conference on The Conference, Simon Fraser Unviersity, 2011
Presenter/Responder for Dylan Cree's MFA Project "The Conference on the Conference', Simon Fraser University Woodwards, School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver.
16th International Syposium on Electronic Art,
"The other night under water", A. Kahre/ D.Copeland
presented by Deutschlandradio Kultur, Duisburg-Ruhrort
Above: The Oscar Huber Museum Ship and Performance Venue
THE SPORT OF LISTENING
Cultural Olympiad Countermeasure, Vancouver, 2010
12 Sound Walks,Vancouver, February 12-28, presented by the Xenographic Society, in collaboration with Western Front New Music, Vancouver New Music and Lulu Performing Arts.
Poster: The Sport of Listening, 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympiad. A. Kahre
HEAVEN'S BREATH
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, 2009
(Collaborator) )Wind-controlled Media Installation by Chris Welsby, Brady Marks and Scheherazade Cooper. Percussion/Composition, Surrey Art Gallery,
FISH ON AIR
Radiophonic Work and Installation, The Elements Festival, Gabriola Island BC, 2008
created with Darren Copeland, commissioned by the Elements: A Festival of Nature in Performance, Lulu Performing Arts, Gabriola Island, Permanent Installation on Gabriola Island, Fish Sound (50' Loop)
Above: Fishing for Sound, The Elements Festival, Gabriola Island, 2008
COOL CROSSING
Community Intervention, Gabriola Island BC, 2008
Created with Tom Thomas, part of the PRODRI
integrated mobility plan (BC Ferries 2020 Project)
Above: PRODRI staff, ready to explain the integrated mobility plan
THE RADIX REDEMPTION PROGRAMME
Virtual Performance Concept, with Paul Ternes, HIVE 2 Festival, 2008
Media Installation, part of Emergency Measures, with Dick Averns, and Carlos Vela-Martinez, produced by Savage Media, curated by Lorna Brown,
Emergency Theory, Installation, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
THE REAR VIEW MIRROR PLAYS (2003)
Four Definitivist Paper Theatre Plays
Performed as part of Half A Tank,
Radix Theatre, Vancouver and Freefall Festival of Performance Art, Toronto1. Half a Tank
2. The Nucleon Coverup
3. The Man who Never left his Car
4. On the Road
THE IKEA PLAYS (2002)
IKEA Richmond, 2002
"Invisible Theatre" Performance for four channel narrowcast radio and embedded performers. Co-created and performed as 'The Swedish with Radix Theatre at IKEA Richmond.
)inspired by C.F. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc and Soren Kierkegaard. with Talking Pictures (Ron Samworth, Peggy Lee, Dylan Vanderschyff, Bill Clark) Elizabeth Fischer, and Gabriel Alden. Presented at the WISE Hall, Vancouver.
P Performance Potluck, Photo: A. Kahre
ABANDONING THE WORKPLACE (1999)
Readymade drama for Office furniture and narratives of abandonment, published in FRONT Magazine, 1999
LOWBROW (1998)
Sonic Boom Festical 1998, Western Front
suite for drone, three hi-hats, and expletives.
Audience-participatory performance
DIVA
Western Front Performance Art Program, Vancouver, 1998
Recently discovered works of Emily Brettschneider and the Piscator Brothers (cf. Definitivism) Collaboration with Carol Sawyer,Re-inventing the Diva Festival, Western Front, Vancouver
Natalie Brettschneider performs Foxgloves, 1930s
Photograph by Carol Sawyer
HIDDEN TREASURES
Western Front Exhibitions Program, Vancouver, 1996
site-specific installation that explored hidden aspects of the Western Front. Audio installation, bar-coded brass plaque, and evaluation stickers for staff of the organziation. Curated by Antonia Hirsch.
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Above: Hidden Treasures, Western Front, Vancouver, Plaque and Audio Controls
COLD COMFORT
Sonic Boom Festival, Western Front, Vancouver, 1995
Vancouver Pro Musica, Sonic Boom Festival,
Western Front, Vancouver
Delegated performance for two mathematicians and conductor. Performed by Dr. Rajiv Gupta and Dr. Richard Froese, Dept. of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
V max [spectacular motoring]
@ Gallery, Vancouver, 1994
presented as part of The Spectacular State: Fascism and the modern Imagination. Produced by Basic Inquiry/SFU. Curated by Richard Pinet and Derek Simons. Intravehicular performance for tape and Mercedes Benz 600SEL exploring Vancouver's architecural dimensions of xenophobia and public spectacle. @ Gallery, Vancouver
Performance still from V max, Parachute Magazine, 1995
PARADOGMA (Questions on Nature)
Sonic Boom Festival, Glass Slipper, Vancouver, 1994
Sonic Boom Festival,
Performance for two musicians, fox terrier and magnetic tape, with Martin Gotfrit. Glass Slipper, Vancouver
A CONCISE HISTORY OF DRUMMING
Western Front Performance, Vancouver, 1993
performed at the Western Front, VECC , 1990, 1993
written, composed and designed by Andreas Kahre
directed by Andreas Kahre and Chris Gerrard-Pinker.
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A coproduction between the Western Front and Rumble Productions, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 1993. Photograph by Hank Bull.
THE MUSIC MACHINE
Science World British Columbia, Vancouver, 1988
Science World British Columbia Inaugural Exhibition
Interactive sound sculpture
created with Kenneth Newby
Concurrent with my visual art studies, I began to collaborate with independent theatre and dance theatre companies in Vancouver, and across Canada, in roles ranging from set and sound designer to writer, dramaturg and sometimes director. I am especially interested in devised theatre, collaborative creation, and in site-related scenography.
I have long been associated with Radix Theatre in Vancouver, the early years of Rumble Productions, and I worked for many years as a close collaborator with Vancouver choreographer Lola McLaughlin. My work has been nominated for the Siminovich Prize in Theatre as well as twenty individual and collective Jessie Richardson Awards and Nominations.
Andreas Kahre is an interdisciplinary artist and designer whose work combines images, sound and text in a variety of configurations. Born in Germany in 1959, he has lived in Canada since 1979, where he studied visual art, art history and film at the University of British Columbia.
Based in Vancouver and on Gabriola Island, he has been working as a freelance artist, musician, writer and designer since the 1990s. His work encompasses interdisciplinary performances, audio art installations, and collaborations with theatre, dance and new media artists.
Andreas was one of the director/curators of the Western Front artist run centre in Vancouver for more than ten years. He has taught as adjunct and sessional faculty at the department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He is currently the founding artistic director of the Xenographic Society and the Gabriola Institute of Contemporary Art artist-run centre.
I have been creating design and visual identities for cultural organizations since the 1980s, and have over twenty years' experience as art director and publications designer, including ten years as Art Director of FRONT Magazine. I am familiar with all aspects of print and web design, and my work has received Western magazine Awards, including Best Art Direction (Cover) in 2000.
To see a digital portfolio of my work, please send an email, to receive notice of the upcoming online portfolio email me.
Andreas Kahre
I create sound-based installations and performances, and have collaborated on more than a hundred interdisciplinary projects that have been presented across Canada and internationally. I am particularly interested in interactive works that combine text, sound and paper theatre, in acoustic ecology, and in fluxus–inspired, community-engaged art practices.
My projects often explore the interstices between corporate and institutional constructs in contemporary art practice, in the form of diagrams, promotional material, exercises in 'branding' and 'strategic planning', and in the creation of virtual organizations.
Installations and Performance >>
Graphic Design and Visual Communication >>
Professional Affiliations >>
Theatre and Dance >>
Music and Sound Design >>
I have been a drummer and percussionist for more than forty years and have performed — more recently also on electric cello — with jazz, new music, and world music ensembles across Canada. I am especially interested in improvisation, non-Western musical traditions, and acousmatic composition.
I began musical training with the Stuttgarter Hymnus Chorknaben under Prof. Gerhard Wilhelm at the age of nine, studied percussion and flute with private teachers, including German Jazz drummer Hannes Clauss, and in workshops and intensives with Glen Velez, Steve Lacy, Pauline Oliveros, Trishy Shankaran, and Karl Berger, among others. As a sound designer I have worked with many theatre, dance companies as well as on film and installations and several projects with Electronic Arts.
Writing, Editing and Translation >>
I began working as a freelance translator and writer in the late 1980s, creating and adapting texts, in both English and German, for theatre and film projects. Since then, writing has become a central aspect of my practice as an interdisciplinary artist,
From 1998 until 2009, I was co-director of the Western Front Artist-run Center's Publications Program, and editor-in-chief of FRONT Magazine. I have been commissioned to write libretti and dramatic texts, and have served as writer and editor for various publications on contemporary interdisciplinary art practice. I am fully bilingual and translate into both English and German, concentrating on critical writing and contemporary Canadian novels, frequently in collaboration with German translator Michael Mundhenk.
Industrial Design >>
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I apprenticed with Canadian naval architect Richard Johnson from 1980 to 1984, and continued until 1986 as associate designer at Viking Pacific Inc. I worked on craft ranging from high speed aluminium monohulls to SWATH vehicles, and a two year research project for a high speed inshore lifeboat with the Canadian Coast Guard and naval architect Howard Apollonio.
From 1986 until 1988 I was marine designer for German+Milne Naval Architects, and the ECS Group of Companies, in Ottawa, for the SAGA-N research submarine and the Polar 8 Icebreaker.
In 1987 I co-founded Sedna Subsea Systems based in Montreal where, as Head of Design I developed the Agloolik One Habitat, an underwater hotel for one hundred occupants, to be constructed on the coast of Venezuela. Since returning to Vancouver, I have continued to work as a freelance marine designer on commercial and pleasure craft, and founded Navigraph Marine Design in 1990.
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Editor & Art Director, Dance Central, 2011–present
Bi-monthly web publication featuring conversations with dance artists, designers and curators relating to critical issues in contemporary movement-based performance. Click above or visit this >>link
Radix Theatre is a Vancouver-based interdisciplinary theatre company that is noted for its sited scenography and collective creations. >> Radix Theatre
Interdisciplinary artists collective that presents new sound, text and image based projects, including contemporary paper theatre, print and web-based interventions, speculative audio work, and a range of publications, including the series: Abridged Versions of Twentieth Century Philosophies.
Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing, Sessional and Adjunct Faculty,1999-2006
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VISUAL POETRY AND OTHER WRITING
Above: Ten years of FRONT Magazine and several translations
ENISLING
Ontologies of Confinement. Notional Book Project and Intervention.
Presented through The Gabriola Institute of Contemporary Art, 2013
GUIDE TO SUCCESS
Ready-Made Poem, published as part of THE ENPIPE LINE, Christine Leclerc, Ed., 70,000+ kilometres of poetry in resistance to the
Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline proposal, (2012)
Libretto,
Commissioned by Gamelan Madu Sari, 2009 Special Thanks to the Canada Council Theatre Section
THE MAN WHO LOVED FISH
Radio Play/Audio Performance
performed with the Deep Wireless Ensemble: Chantal Dumas, Debashis Sinha, Kathleen Kajioka, Andreas Kahre, Deep Wireless Festival of Radio Art, Toronto, 2008
A Contemporary Shadowplay,
Libretto: The Cave, Michael O'Neill, Composer
Commissioned by Gamelan Madu Sari through the Canada Council For the Arts, 2007
THE LINEAR ANIMAL
Paper Theatre / New Media Performance, Western Front, Lulu Performing Arts, 2007
SHELTER THEORY
written as part of the "Transit Lounge" Project.
With Anosh Irani, Kendra Fanconi, Conrad Alexandrovitsch, Rachel Ditor and Ami Gladstone,Theatre at UBC, 2005
ASSEMBLY
Co-Writer, with Andrew Laurenson, Billy Marchenski, Emilia Symingon Fedy and Katy Harris McLeod
Radix Theatre, Vancouver, 2004
THE IKEA PLAYS
Writer, Co-Director, Performed as 'The Swedish Play'
Radix Theatre, Vancouver, 2001
Interdisciplinary Performance
Co-produced by Rumble Theatre, Western Front, Vancouver, (1990/1994)
CRITICAL WRITING
COLLISION: Interarts Practice and Research
Editor: David Cecchetto, Nancy Cuthbert, Julie Lassonde
and Dylan Robinson.
The Aesthetics of Disappointment,
by Andreas Kahre and Heidi Taylor
Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
ISBN: 1-4438-0031-7
ARMS-LENGTH CALCULUS
Policy Matters,:Administrations of Art and Culture
by Clive Robertson, YYZ BOOKS (2006)
Contributor: Arms–Length Calculus, Artists Project
Interdisciplinary Art Practice, 2001
Editors: Guy Laramee, Bernhard Schutze, Andreas Kahre.
Editions d'Art Le Sabord,
ISBN: 1-4438-0031-7
FALSE FRONTS
Reinventing the politics of collectivity
in the age of institutionalized art:
Six essays explore issues of governance
and disciplinary discourse in artist-run centres.
Edited by Andreas Kahre.
Notional Publication, Gabriola Institute of Contemporary Art, 2014.
A typical Canadian Artist-run Centre. Photo: A. Kahre, 2009
EDITING
DANCE CENTRAL
Editor, Art Director, (2011 - present) Bi-mothly publication by The Dance Centre, Vancouver, focusing on contemporary dance and dance theatre, performance theory and movement-based art practice.
TECHNOLOGY, NATURE, SOFTWARE AND NETWORKS:
Materializing the Post-Romantic Landscape (2011)
by Chris Welsby, Andreas Kahre ed.
Leonardo Journal, MIT PRESS, Volume 44, Number 2, April 2011, pp. 101-106 (Article)
EXPANDED CINEMA: Activating the Space of Reception (2011)
An essay by Chris Welsby, Andreas Kahre, ed.
Published in Expanded Cinema: An Anthology, Tate Modern Gallery, London, UK,
FRONT Magazine
Publisher: Western Front Artist-run Centre, Vancouver,
Editor-in chief, 1998-2009 (1998-2000 as co-editor with Kerri Embrey), Art Director
To browse past issues of FRONT online, click on the images below >>
For an essay on the magazine's position and role in artist-run culture, see:
FRONT IS NOT A REAL MAGAZINE
by Donato Mancini, 2007
Commissioned Essay for the Western Front's 30th Anniversary,
Published online at the Western Front website (http://front.bc.ca/research/texts/6)
CANADIAN THEATRE REVIEW
CTR 129, Sound Design, 2007
Essays on Contemporary Practices in Sound Design
Edited by Andreas Kahre
University of Toronto Press, ISSN: 3398-20983
TRANSMISSIONS
Rumble Productions, Vancouver,
Bi-Annual Publication on Performance and New Theatre
Editor/Art Director/Author,
1997-2006
TRANSLATION AND LOCALIZATION (selected)
Several of these titles (here marked *) were translated by Michael Mundhenk, in various forms of collaborations with Andreas Kahre. For references, please contact Michael Mundhenk directly.
GAMES & POLITICS
Exhibition Catalog, Goethe-Institut and ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, 2017.
BRAD TOLINSKI: LICHT UND SCHATTEN: Gespräche mit Jimmy Page
German Translation: Michael Mundhenk, Andreas Kahre, Editor, Musical Adviser.
Edel Verlag, Germany, ISBN: 978-3-8419-0129-3
BILDER DES ROTEN WIEN
ZUR PREKAEREN SICHTBARKEIT EINES FEHLENDEN VOLKS
by Johan Frederik Hartle (Samir Gandesha, ed.)
Simon Fraser University Centre for the Humantities, UnIversity of Amsterdam, 2012
To see details about the project, go to >>Johan Hartle
EIN "OFFENER BRIEF" AUS DEM AMT FüR UNZUSTELLBARE POST AN SIEGFRIED KRACAUER, DEN "WUNDERLICHEN BRIEFSCHREIBER"
Essay by Jerry Zaslove, (David Kettler, ed.)
Bard College Press, New York, 2011
TAKE ME HOME
or: Is it actually (about) singing?
Radio Documentary by Michael Lissek, written for Südwestrundfunk SWR Baden-Baden, Feb 2009
Deep Wireless Conference, Toronto, 2010
PARIAHS AGAINST THEIR WILL
Essay by Dieter Auer, 2007
Adorno and Arendt and Their Experience of Exile,published in Understanding Political Modernity: Comparative Perspectives on Arendt and Adorno, Lars Rensmann/Samir Gandesha, eds., Stanford: Stanford University Press 2011
UNDERWATER
based on the Marionette Play by Günter Eich,
Adaptation and Translation for Paper Theatre, unpublished, 2006
MERCY AMONG THE CHILDREN*
A Novel by David Adams Richards
Brennendes Eis | Fischer , 2006
CRAZY HORSE*
A Biography by Larry McMurtry
Crazy Horse | Claassen, 2005
HUNTING AND FISHING WITH HEMINGWAY,*
A Biography by Hilary Hemingway & Jeffry P. Lindsay
Fischen und Jagen mit Hemingway | Claassen, 2004
THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
Essay by Wolf-Dieter Narr, 2003
West Coast Line, (ed. Jerry Zaslove)
THE ELECTRICAL FIELD*
A Novel by Kerri Sakamoto
Das Echo eines langen Tages | Claassen, 1999
MY BELOVED DEAD*
Novel by Erika de Vasconcelos
Meine geliebten Toten | Claassen, 1999
JACOB'S HANDS*
Novella by Aldous Huxley / Christopher Isherwood
Jakob der Heiler | Ullstein, 1998
MY BROTHER'S BLOOD*
Novel by Michael C. White
Das Blut meines Bruders | Ulstein, 1998
THE JADE PEONY*
Novel by Wayson Choy
Die Pfingstrose aus Jade | Ulsteinm 1997
SCENARIOS IN THE IMAGE SPACE OF REALITY*
Essay by Jeff Wall,
Szenarien im Bildraum der Wirklichkeit.
Essays und Interviews | Verlag der Kunst, 1996
AIM FOR MAXIMUM DIFFICULTY IN WHAT HAS HAPPENED*
by Jasper Johns, Notes from Sketchbooks
"Ziele auf maximale Schwierigkeit dessen, was passiert ist." Interviews, Statements, Skizzenbuchnotizen | Verlag der Kunst, 1996
WOYZECK
Play by Georg Büchner
Translation and Adaptation for Paper Theatre, 1996
THE POST OFFICE*
Biographical Novel by Charles Olson
Das Postamt. Eine Erinnerung | Maro, 1995
OBASAN*
Novel by Joy Kogawa
Obasan | Reclam Leipzig, 1993
TECHNICAL TRANSLATION AND LOCALIZATION (selected)
(selected)
SSX SNOWBOARDING GAME
Software Localization German, 2000
Electronic Arts Canada, Burnaby, BC
NHL'98
Software Localization German, 1998
EA Sports, Electronic Arts Canada, Burnaby BC
CONTROLVIEW
Software Localization, German, 1992
Dynapro Inc. ( A Divison of Allen Bradley )
New Westminster, BC
THE BLOOD BOOK
Understanding Blood Tests, 1990
by Peter Birkner, (ed. Sue Tauber)
Hartley & Marks Publishers, Vancouver
DRAMATURGY AND ADAPTATIONS FOR THEATRE (selected)
THE PILLAR CLOCK
by Manami Hara
Dramaturgy, 2004
TWO IN THE HEAD THREE IN THE BACK
by Jason Shermann, Production Dramaturgy
Rumble Productions, PI Theatre, 2003
VANUNU
By Camyar Chai,
Dramaturg, Co-Director, Set Design
Rumble Productions/NeWorld Theatre, 2002
X,Y: THE SOLDIER'S TALE
Adaptation for Paper Theatre
Western Front, Adaptation from Ramuz, 2001
TRUTH, OR THE JOURNALS OF JOHN D.
by Guillermo Verdecchia
Production Dramaturgy,
Rumble Productions, 2001
WOYZECK
by Georg Büchner
New translation and adaptation for Paper Theatre
Havana Theatre, Vancouver, 2000
PUBLIKUMSBESCHIMPFUNG/OFFENDING THE AUDIENCE
Peter Handke, SFU Theatre, Translation and Adaptation. 1990
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IMPROVISATION, JAZZ, AND WORLD MUSIC
Above: 1979 Gretsch Maple DrumkiT
COLLABORATORS(SELECTED)
Lisle Ellis,
Paul Plimley,
Lori Freedman,
Tina Kiik,
Lloyd Arntzen,
Christine Duncan,
DB Boyko,
Tina Jones,
bill bissett,
Kenneth Newby,
Stefan Smulovitz,
Chris Houston,
Bob Bossin,
Calvin Cairns,
Heri Dono,
Hilary Peach,
Alex Varty,
Elizabeth Fischer,
Dinah D,
Nathan Tinkham,
Moritz Behm,
Joe Bjornson,
Francois Houle,
Amir Koushkani,
Alan Koushan,
Randy Raine Reusch,
Ron Samworth,
Tony Wilson, Peggy Lee,
Martin Gotfrit,
Eric Brown, Greg Howard,
Michael ONeill,
Mark Parlett,
Blair Lewis,
Dave Phyall,
Brad Shipley,
Tony Gradanti, Carol Sawyer, Bufflehead,
Cymbali,
Masamba,
Resin,
Sudanda, Hextremities,
Gamelan Madu Sari,
Vancouver Creative Music Orchestra, Ken Capon Memorial Marching Band, Saburo Murata, Frank Sehr, Tom Bradbrooke, Erik Johnson.
Above: NS Electric Cello, Tabla, Ghatam, Udu, Framedrum, M'bira, Shakers
PERFORMANCES(SELECTED)
Vancouver International Jazz Festival,
Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville,
Bumbershoot Festival Seattle,
Vancouver Folk Festival, Newfoundland Sound Symposium,
Elektra Festival of Media Arts, Montreal,
Akusma Festival, Montreal,
Music Gallery Toronto, Dancing Man Festival, Gabriola Island,
Vancouver Island Music Festival,
Sonic Boom Festival, Vancouver,
Electro-Radio Days, Montreal,
Deep Wireless Festial Toronto, CBC Radio, Western Front New Music, Vancouver, Toronto Theatre Centre, PuSh Festival, Vancouver,
GAMELAN
I have been a member of the Vancouver Gamelan Community since the first Summer Intensive at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, with Pak Chokro, I Njoman Wenten and Pauline Oliveros in 1986, and subsequent intensives with Sutrisno Hartana. I perform regularly with Gamelan Alligator Joy, the Javanese Gadon-style gamelan originally commissioned by Martin Bartlettt and housed at the Western Front, Vancouver, as well as the Balinese Batel Ensemble 'Turtle Bliss'.
COMPOSITIONS FOR GAMELAN (SELECTED)
LET N=N
Suite for Gamelan and Voice, 8'30", Western Front 2014
EAR | NOSE | THROAT
Paper Theatre Opera for Javanese Gamelan, 3 Voices, and Projected Image. 52'15" Commissioned by Gamelan Madu Sari, Premerie Performance Roundhouse Performance Centre, Vancouver, 2011
Above: Excerpt from the score for Ear Nose Throat, commissioned by Gamelan Aligator Joy (2010)
PROTOKOL
Structuralist Drama for Gamelan, Voice and Projected Image. Western Front 1998.
Above: Excerpt from the score for PROTOKOL, Gamelan Madu Sari, 1998
FESTIVALS AND ANNUAL EVENTS (SELECTED):
GABRIOLA DRUM DAY
Gabriola Drum Day Annual Percussion Festival, Gabriola Commons, Directed by Andreas Kahre and Dave McGRath. Produced by the Xenographic Society and the Gabriola Commons, with support from Poetry Gabriola, in memory of Ken Capon.
Screen Life, Gabriola Island, 2013
compositions by Jack Duncan, Mixed and Mastered by Teune Schut
Percussion, Electric Cello, Graphic Design
HIVE
Gamelan Madu Sari, Vancouver, 2010
compositions by Sutrisno Hartana, Michael O'Neill, Mark Parlett, Andrew Czink, Ben Rogalsky, Kenneth Newby, and Alec Roth.
Songlines Record 2406
Percussion
SONG ROOM CD
The Capilano Review, Collaborations, Series 3,No.4, 2009
The Rose, with Carol Sawyer and Scot Keefer
Keyboard and voice
SUITCASE LOCAL
Spoken Word and Music, with Hilary Peach and Alex Varty, 2008 www.hilarypeach.com >>
Percussion
THE SONGLINES ANTHOLOGY
François Houle/ Andeas Kahre Duo, Méandre, (1996/2006)
Songlines Records Sampler, Vancouver
Percussion
OUTER BASS
Dinah D. and
The Contraband Trio, 2005
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Drums, Percussion,
ONLY HERE
Resin & Julie Vik, 2002
Percussion
OUT OF THE WOODS
Blair Lewis & Out of the Woods, 2002
Percussion
TREE LINE
Michael Bushnell, Christopher Butterfield, Jo Kondo, Alexina Louie, Michael O'Neill, et al. Vancouver New Music Ensemble, Conductor: Owen Underhill, CBC Musica Viva, 2001
Percussion
SILENCE DESCENDS
Western Front Records 002, 2002
Voice
TRUTH: THE JOURNALS OF JOHN D.
by Guillermo Verdecchia, 1998
Performed by Norman Armour and Peggy Lee.
Edited, mixed and designed by Andreas Kahre,
Rumble Theatre CD
THE ECOLOGY OF SOULS
Kenneth Newby, 1994
City of Tribes (re-release: Songlines 2002)
Vocals
LETTING THE BLUE NOTE SETTLE
Duets: Andreas Kahre & François Houle, 1993
Tatterdemalion Music, Vancouver
Drums, Percussion
MASTER PIECES FROM THE MUSIC GALLERY
Cymbali: Kenneth Newby, Michael O'Neill,
Lorraine Thomson, Andreas Kahre
Music Gallery CD Series, 1993
Percussion, Electronic Gamelan
NEWFOUNDLAND SOUND SYMPOSIUM COMPILATION
Cymbali: Kenneth Newby, Michael O'Neill, Lori Freedman, Andreas Kahre, Lorraine Thiomson
Sound Symposium Records, 1990
Percussion
POST-POP FOR NOW PEOPLE
Elizabeth Fischer
Independent Release, Cassette, 1990
Percussion
PRELIMINARY HEARING
Cymbali Independent Release, 1988
Kenneth Newby, Michael O'Neill,
Andreas Kahre, Lori Freedman
RAW AND COOKED
Hextremities
Martin Gotfrit, Randy Raine-Reusch, Mark Parlett,
DB Boyko, Andreas Kahre, Kenneth Newby
Independent Release, Cassette, 1984
AUDIO ART (selected)
YVR: THE REMEMBERED CITY
Audio Installation, presented as part of the YVR Project , 2012, Roundhouse Performance Centre, Vancouver, co-presented with Radix Theatre, and the Xenographic Soiety (see also under Installations for images)
SOUND COLUMNS
Permanent Audio Installation, Kinsmen Centre, Edmonton, 2011) Commissioned by the Edmonton Arts Council. (see also under Installations for images)
FISH ON AIR , 2011, Deutschlandradio Kultur online and on site at the Musée Réattu, Arles. La Gaîté Lyrique,
Paris,
Conrad-Zuse-Medienhaus – studio 1, Weimar, >>SONOSPHERE
THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Radiophonic Work, 8 minutes, Essay and found sound objects. 2010
Commissioned by CBC Radio's Living Out Loud and the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio Art, hosted by New Adventures in Sound Art.
Premiere: May 25th, 2010,
Ryerson University, Toronto A Radio Essay about Home entirely created from generic sounds
NANAY : The Sound Room
written by Caleb Johnson and Gerry Pratt, 2009
Directed by Alexander Ferguson, Sound Installations,
PuSh Festival, Chapel Arts Centre, Vancouver,
HAU 2 Festival, Hebbel Theater am Ufer, Berlin.
Audio Installation/Narrowcast Radiophonic Work,
created with Darren Copeland, 2008
Commissioned by the Elements: A Festival of Nature in Performance, Lulu Performing Arts, Gabriola Island, BC
Premiere: August 5, 2008, 40 minutes
THE OTHER NIGHT, UNDERWATER
Audio Art Work, 52 min., with Darren Copeland,
Produced by Goetz Naleppa.
Commissioned by DeutschlandRadio Kultur.
Premiere Broadcast: May 2, 2008
FISH IN CONCERT
Composition based on aquatic sounds and recordings, created with Darren Copeland, ca. 40 minutes
Presented at AKOUSMA (5), Montréal, December 2008
GEOMETRIC DINING
Radio performance, Wireless Graffiti, 24 moniutes Part I, 1994
with Hiro Kanagawa, Rita Bozi, and Norman Armour
performance work for food, small ensemble, and post-modern architecture
HOELLENSPEKTAKEL
Part I: Wireless Graffiti, CFRO Co-op Radio, Vancouver, 1993
Part II: Electro Radio Days, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, 1994
SOUND DESIGN FOR THEATRE AND DANCE (selected)
MOTHER TONGUE: OUR VERGES
Directed by Conrad Alexandrovich, based on a work by Erin Moure Wild Excursions Theatre, SCOTIABANK DANCE CENTRE, 2014
by Daniel Danis PI Theatre,Vanvouver, 1998
Sound Design, with Noah Drew (Jessie Award Nomination)
TRUTH
or the terrible but incomplete journals of John D.
by Guillermo Verdecchia
Wireless Graffiti, Rumble Productions, 1998
Vancouver East Cultural Centre/ATC Calgary/Performance Works, Set Design,
Sound Design, CD Production
GRACE
by Michael MacLennan
Touchstone Theatre, Vancouver
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 1997
ALPHONSE
By Wajdi Mouawad
Pink Ink Theatre
Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver, 1997
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
by Tenessee Williams
Gateway Theatre, Richmond, 1997
ACTS OF PASSION
Contemporary Quebecois plays in translation
Annual Festival of week-long festival of staged readings, 1994-1998
CO-Produced by Pink Ink Theatre/Ruby Slippers Productions and Théatre La Seizieme,
SLED
by Judith Thompson,
Touchstone Theatre, directed by Roy Surette & Stephane Kirkland, 1996
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, March 1997,Co-Composer with David Epp (Jessie Award Nomination)
PATAGONIA
by Karim Alrawi
Ruby Slippers Theatre, directed by Katrina Dunn
Firehall Arts Centre, 1996
ANGELIQUE
by Loreena Gail
On the Verge Festival, National Arts Centre Ottawa, 1996
directed by Sandhano Schulze
VANUNU
by Mara Coward & Camyar Chai
Imaginary Enclave, directed by Michelle Porter
Vancouver Fringe Festival, September 1997
STONE AND ASHES
BY Daniel Danis, directed by Sandhano Schultze
Pink Ink Theatre,
Firehall Theatre, Vancouver, 1996
Composer/Performer (Jessie Award Nomination)
HEROTICA
Ruby Slippers Productions
Station Street Theatre, Vancouver, 1995
COYOTE UGLY
Lynn Siefert,
Ruby Slippers Productions,
directed by Katrina Dunn
Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver, 1994
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WATERFRONT
Radix Theatre/Vancouver Public Art Program, June 10 - July 8th, 2018, False Creek Vancouver. A Walking Tour based on recent Climate change predictions,designed to explore the newCoastline.
VAST
Amber Funk Barton, The Response, Premiere at Dance in Vancouver Festival 2017
THE MOST TOGETHER WE'VE EVER BEEN
Dancing on The Edge Festival, Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, 2013
Choreography by Ame Henderson and Matija Ferlin, Set Concept: Mauricio Ferlin. Collaborating Set Designer (Vancouver): Andreas Kahre
Radix Theatre Performance Research Project, 2013/2014, Vancouver
THIS STAYS IN THE ROOM
Horseshoes and Handgrenades Theatre, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, March /2014
A devised theatre project on Shame and Forgiveness led by Mindy Parfitt and Alexa Devine, dramaturged by Heidi Taylor. Co-created by the team, performed by Allan Morgan, Alexa Devine, Robert Salvador and Manami Hara, Set & lighting design by Andreas Kahre. Video projection design by Cande Andrade. Sound design by Noah Drew. Choreography by Amber Funk Barton. Stage management by Lois Dawson. Technical director Jessica Howell. Publicity by Maryanne Renzetti. Produced by Sean Devine. Winer of the Vancouver Sun Critics Choice Award 2014.
SLOWPOKE
Russian Hall, Vancouver, 2013. Created by Billy Marchenski and Allison Denham, directed by James Fagan Tait, produced by Radix Theatre. Creative Consultant and Graphic Design
by Natalie Meisner,
Directed by Natasha Nadir, 2011
Gateway Theatre Studio Series, Richmond, BC,
Set, Sound, Props Design
Burning In Set, Gateway Studio Theatre, Photo: A. Kahre 2011
THE EDWARD CURTIS PROJECT
PuSh Performance Festival, Presentation House, North Vancouver, Cultural Olympiad 2010, National Arts Centre Performance Series, Ottawa, 2011
by Marie Clements and Rita Leistner,
Directed by Brenda Leadley and Marie Clements, Produced by Presentation House Theatre, North Vancouver, the PuSH International Performance Festival & 2010 Cultural Olympiad and the National Arts Centre, Ottawa.
Set and Props Design.
Commissioned by PuSh International Performing Arts Festival with
Goethe-Institut,
Brighton Festival,
Hebbel - Theater Berlin. Premiere Performance: Cultch Theatre Vancouver, PuSh Festival 2010.
Touring Presentations include On The Boards, Seattle, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin,
Brighton Festival, Cork Midsummer Festival,
LIFT Festival, London,
La Bâtie-Festival de Genève.
Radix Theatre>>
Touring Production, Scenography
Theatre La Chapelle, Montreal,
2009 PuSh Festival, Vancouver, BC Scene, National Arts Centre, Ottawa
Winner of the Vancouver Sun Critics' Choice Award for Innovation
at the 2007 Jessie Richardson Awards and One of Vancouver's best live shows in 2007 (The Georgia Straight)
Written by Caleb Johnson and Gerry Pratt,
Directed by Alexander Ferguson,
Scenography, Set and Sound Design
PuSh Festival,
Chapel Arts Centre, Vancouver,
and at FAMILY: YOUR NANNY HATES YOU
HAU 2 Festival, Hebbel Theater am Ufer, Berlin, Touring Production, Manila, Phillipines 2013
The Program for Your Nanny hates you
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Video In, Vancouver, 2009
Felix Culpa Theatre, March 27 - April 4, 2009
Created by David Bloom, Alex Lazaridis Ferguson, Marcus Youssef, Robin Greenwood and Itai Erdal, Performed by David Bloom, Tricia Collins and Alex Lazaridis Ferguson
VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver, Collaborating Artist
VIA BEATRICE
by Jenn Griffin
directed by Laura Di Cicco Fugue Theatre, (2009). Set Design
XIDAR ENTERPRISES CORP.
Radix Theatre, 2008
Created by Sean Devine, Andreas Kahre, Sean Lang, Andrew Laurenson, Paul Ternes Costumes: Kirsten McGhie Sound: Stefan Smulovitz, presented at
HIVE 2008, Great Northern Way Performance Space, Vancouver, Creative Consultant
CITY OF SAND
The Only Animal >> 2008
Workshop Production, Spanish Banks, Vancouver
Scenographic Consultant
by Simon Johnston,
directed by Barbara Tomasic
Gateway Studio Theatre, Richmond, (2006)
SOULLESS
by Aaron Bushkowsky,
Directed by Norman Armour Rumble Productions>> Theatre at UBC, 2005,
Set Design
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James Long and Stephen E. Miller in Soulless
OTHER FREDS
written and directed by Kendra Fanconi
The Only Animal and Arts Club Theatre,
Granville Island, Vancouver, 2005
Graphic and Web Design
OMNISCIENCE
by Tim Carlson Western Theatre Conspiracy,
Performance Works, Vancouver, 2004
Set Design [Jessie Award, Set Design]
Jennifer Clement and Craig March in Omniscience
BRILLIANT!
The Enlightenment of Nicola Tesla The Electric Company,
Touring Production, 2004
Set Design
THE MONUMENT
By Colleen Wagner
Rumble Productions/Felix Culpa, 2004
Performance Works, Vancouver, Set Design
The Monument
TRANSIT LOUNGE
by Anosh Irani, Kendra Fanconi, Maiko Bae Yamamoto, Ami Gladstone, Conrad Alexandrovitsch, Andreas Kahre and Rachel Ditor,
UBC Theatre, Vancouver, 2004
Co-Writer, Sound Design, Moduilar Set Concept
Photo by R. Gardiner
HALF A TANK
Radix Theatre Collective, 2003
Premiere Performance Vancouver, Freefall Festival Toronto, Co-ceator, Co-writer, Live Narrowcast Radio Station and Sound Design
by Marie Clements,
Directed by Peter Hinton
Firehall Theatre, Festival des Ameriques, Toronto, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, 2003
Scenography, with Peter Hinton,/Set Design
SNIFFY THE RAT (the Bus Tour)
I smell a rat productions, 2001
Timelaps Drawings for 22 Short films about Sniffy the Rat
Savage Media, Directed by Nelson Gray
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Gardens, Dramaturg, Set Design, 2001
VANUNU: I am your spy
NeWorld Theatre and Rumble Productions, 2000 Co-director and Set Design, with Norman Armour, Performance Works, Vancouver, High Performance Rodeo, Calgary, Montreal, Toronto Tour.
Sketch for Venunu. The size of the set was based on the actual square footage of Vanunu's cell,
THREE IN THE BACK, TWO IN THE HEAD
by Jason Sherman,
Rumble Productions, PI Theatre,
Roundhouse Performance Centre, Vancouver, 2000
Set Design, Dramaturg
Two in The back, Three in the Head, Roundhouse Performance Centre
WAR OF THE WORLDS
a Dream of the Twentieth Century,
By Alex Ferguson
Rumble Productions,
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, 1999
Set Design, Art Direction
War of the Worlds, Roundhouse Performance Centre. Note the Ring in the Air...
or the terrible but incomplete journals of John D.,
by Guillermo Verdecchia
Wireless Graffiti, Rumble Productions
Vancouver East Cultural Centre/ATC Calgary/Performance Works, Set Design,
Sound Design, CD Production, 1998
Norman Armour and Peggy Lee on the Set of Truth
TRUE LIES
by Guillermo Verdecchia
Rumble Productions,
High Performance Rodeo, ATC Calgary, 1999
Set Design
THE WARRIORS
by Michael Garneau
Pink Ink Theatre, Vancouver, 1998
Set Design (Jessie Award Nomination)
The Warriors at Work. Alex Ferguson and Kevin Conway
THREE IN THE BACK, TWO IN THE HEAD
by Jason Sherman
Simon Fraser University, directed by Norman Armour,
SFU Theatre, March 1997
Set Design
THE GANG
by Tom Cone, Music by Peter Hannan, directed by Peter Hinton
Vancouver New Music Opera, Premiere Production: Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 1997
Scenography with Peter Hinton, Set Design
OFFENDING THE AUDIENCE
by Peter Handke, directed by Norman Armour
Simon Fraser University, 1992,
School for the Contemporary Arts,
Translation/Dramaturgy/Production Design
WIRELESS GRAFFITI II
Rumble Productions, 1992
directed by Norman Armour and Darren Copeland,
Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Production and Set Design
PAPER THEATRE
BEING AND TIME, ABRIDGED
24. Internationales Papertheaterfestival Preetz, Germany, 2010, Single Sheet Play
Performance for Gamelan, New Media and Text, commissioned by Vancouver Community Gamelan. Premiere: June 4th, 2009, Roundhouse Performance Centre, Vancouver, Performances at VanDusenGardens, Vancouver and The 22nd International Paper Theatre Festival, Preetz, Germany, with David Garfinkle and Gerlinde Holland
Maxillo-Facial Surgeion's Dance party aboard the Nile Cruise vessel MV Leonardo Da Vinci.
THE LINEAR ANIMAL
Text, Sound, Media and Paper Theatre
conceived, written by Andreas Kahre,
performed with Kenneth Newby and Aleksandra Dulic
David Garfinkle and Ashlan Phoenix Gray and Stefan Smulovitz. Premiere: April 19, 2007, Phoenix Auditorium, The Haven, presented by Lulu Performing Arts, Gabriola, and at The Western Front, Vancouver, 2007
Above: Jeff Koons and Jeff Wall in a pillowfight. Paper Theatre Puppet from The Linear Animal
X,Y: THE SOLDIER'S TALE
)by Igor Stravinsky, & C.F. Ramuz
newly invented for paper theatre and musique actuelle ensemble, with Talking Pictures: Ron Samworth, Peggy Lee, Bill Clark, Dylan Vanderschyff. performed by David Garfinkle, Hiro Kanagawa and Lesley Ewan, created with Adrienne Wong, Francesca Albertazzi,
Western Front, Vancouver, 2001
WOYZECK (basic)
Havana Performance Space, 1997
in "Cheap Illusion", Vancouver Pro Musica
Newly translated and adaptated for Paper Theatre and micro-orchestra
Above: Still from Woyzeck, 1997
DANCE
PROVINCIAL ESSAYS
Lola McLaughlin Dance >>
Scenography, Video Design, Dramaturgy
Cultch Historic Theatre, Vancouver,
Memorial Performance, 2009
Ziyian Kwan and Ron Stewart in Provincial Essays. Photo by David Cooper
HOMEWERK
Mascall Dance >> 2007
In collaboration with Bill Pechet, Ami Gladstone, Jeff Corness and Noah Drew,
Scenography
Above: Sketch for Homewerk, 2007
ENTER/EXIT
Hard Rubber Orchestra >>
directed by John Korsrud,
Alcan Award Project, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 2006
Set Design
PALIMPSEST
by Bradshaw Pack
Standing Wave Ensemble,
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 2006
Scenography
PROVINCIAL ESSAYS
Lola McLaughlin Dance >> 2004
Scenography, Video Design, Dramaturgy,
The Dance Centre Vancouver,
Dance Canada Festival,
SLAB
DanStaBat, choreographer: Chick Snipper, 2004
with Kathleen McDonnagh, Susan Elliott, Anne Cooper
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver
FUSE
Lola McLaughlin Dance, 2002
Premiere: April 2001, Vancouver East Cultural Centre,
Festival Internationale du Danse , Montreal, Zagreb
Design, Dramaturgy
Still Image of FUSE (Susan Elloitt and Day Helesic at a picnic) Photo by David Cooper
RAVEN OF THE RAILWAY
Karen Jamieson Dance >> 2001
Two Year Performance Project, with Tsimsian Storyteller Victor Reece
Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver
Scenography, Video Design,
VOLIO (2000)
Lola McLaughlin Dance
Premiere: April 1999, Vancouver East Cultural Centre,
Festival Internationale du Danse , Montreal, Zagreb
Set Design, Videography, Dramaturgy
Reconstruction of the Video Projection (Origianl shot on Gabriola Island, 2000)
RESTLESS PRAYERS
by Chris Gerrard-Pinker
Toronto Theatre Centre, Rumble Productions,
The Theatre Centre, Toronto, 1999
Co-composer with Lori Freedman and Tina Kiik
FOUR SOLOS | FOUR CITIES
Lola McLaughlin Dance
Premiere: April 1999, Vancouver East Cultural Centre,
Festival Internationale du Danse , Montreal, Zagreb
Scenography, Image and Set Design
Still Image of Berlin. Photo by David Cooper
BIG DIVA
DanceCorps, choreographer: Cornelius Fischer-Credo, 1994
Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver, Sound Design
COMPANY
Rumble Theatre, 1990
with Chris Gerrard-Pinker, Peter Ryan, Norman Armour
Sound Design, Scenography
THE ANATOMY OF DOUBT
Dancecorps, choreographed by Harvey Meller, 1990
Music Consultant, Scenography
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