{"id":1887,"date":"2011-06-21T19:40:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T01:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2011-06-21T19:40:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T01:40:56","slug":"2011-manitoba-electronic-music-exhibition-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/06\/21\/2011-manitoba-electronic-music-exhibition-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"MEME Returns with More Int&#8217;l Flavour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/memetic_slide1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1892\" title=\"memetic_slide1\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/memetic_slide1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAbout to begin its second year, Manitoba\u2019s first<em> <\/em>electronic music festival is getting ready for four electric days and nights.<\/p>\n<p>Starting tomorrow, June 23 and running until Sunday, the Manitoba Electronic Music Exhibition (MEME) features a slew of aural and visual talent. International headliners include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memetic.ca\/?portfolio-item=thomas-fehlmann\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Fehlmann<\/a> (Berlin, The Orb) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memetic.ca\/?portfolio-item=dandy-jack\" target=\"_blank\">Dandy Jack<\/a> (Geneva) alongside national and local performers like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/hitoritori\" target=\"_blank\">Hitori Tori<\/a> (Vancouver) and Winnipeg\u2019s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venetiansnares.com\" target=\"_blank\">Venetian Snares<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/lebeato\">LeBeato<\/a>. Meanwhile, visual artists Amber Solstice, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrghosty.net\">mrghosty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rylaangimby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rylaan Gimby<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifitmoves.net\" target=\"_blank\">jaymez<\/a>, among others, will be busy keeping your eyes entranced.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Montreal\u2019s legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutek.org\">Mutek<\/a> festival, MEME\u2019s free outdoor performances at Old Market Square and club shows are where people have the chance to be exposed to local and international talent they might never hear otherwise. And the festival organizers have injected more international flavour into the festival this year. \u201cA lot of the music is dance music, but a lot of the songs are quite listenable,\u201dsays Nathan Zahn, producer and DJ. He\u2019s also excited about the beer gardens and food stalls, which were absent last year. \u201cIt\u2019s nice for people to come out on a warm afternoon and enjoy the sun, or in the evening, to come and dance, sit and hang out with their friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shows at the Zoo, Whiskey Dix and Alive will also be different from your usual club scene. Zahn is enthusiastic about showcasing music that\u2019s not your standard Top 40 and projected visuals which will make for a more immersive experience. International and local VJs promise that MEME will be more than\u00a0just a\u00a0music festival. \u201cA lot of them are cutting and pasting from classic TV shows, cartoons. The whole thing about VJing is that it\u2019s not just some people putting on some cool visual show; they\u2019re actually mixing different sources of visuals live, almost improvising,\u201d Zahn explains.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event also involves two half-day workshops on June 24 and 25 on how to make electronic music, with presentations from performing DJs.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memetic.ca\/\">www.memetic.ca<\/a> to see what you\u2019ll be hearing and where.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About to begin its second year, Manitoba\u2019s first electronic music festival is getting ready for four electric days and nights. Starting tomorrow, June 23 and running until Sunday, the Manitoba Electronic Music Exhibition (MEME) features a slew of aural and visual talent. International headliners include Thomas Fehlmann (Berlin, The Orb) and Dandy Jack (Geneva) alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[307,563,602],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-electronic","tag-local","tag-meme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}