Publik Secrets is the umbrella for a constellation of multi-disciplinary art projects. Our work includes a variety of public space interventions, performances, installations, and ephemeral gatherings. We support and enable artist-led initiatives that spark critical conversations and risk-taking through new configurations of artists, audience, and community. Within our projects we seek to assert music as always much more than a time-based medium of aesthetic interest, but as a material extension of our thinking and interaction with the world, and thus as a form of world-building that can bring new communities into existence.
we are located in unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ territories, Vancouver, British Columbia
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Contributors
George Rahi
George Rahi is a composer and sound artist based in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish territories. He works with experimental instruments and technologies as a method of exploring acoustic and digital anomalies, modes of listening, and spatial and architectural thinking. His work includes installations, instrument making, composition, solo + ensemble performance, and works for radio, theatre & public spaces. His work has been supported by awards and grants such as the Lab30 Audience Award, Canada Council for the Arts Guest of Honour (Frankfurt), R. Murray Schafer Soundscape Award.
more at www.georahi.com
I Putu Swaryandana Ichi Oka
I Putu Swaryandana Ichi Oka, known as Ryan, is originally from Tabanan, and grew up in Ubud, Bali. He studies Balinese gamelan music, having earned a B.A. in 2019 and Master’s degree in 2022 at the Institute of the Arts (Denpasar). He is also a member of Cudamani, a well known performing arts group based in Pengosekan, Ubud. As a Balinese musician, teacher, and composer, he has taught and composed actively all over the island, and toured abroad several times. His last two compositions are “Legong Swatika” for Cudamani East Coast tour 2021 and “Anglelana Lamuk” for Bali Arts Festival 2022. He is the recipient of UBC’s 2022/2023 Andrew Fellowship in Creative and Performing Arts and is a guest composer in residence with Gamelan Bike Bike at the Hadden Park fieldhouse.
Adrian Avendaño
Adrian Avendaño (1993) is an emerging sound artist, musician and recordist based in Vancouver / Surrey, Canada [unceded First Nation territories]. His work explores the connection between sound, space, and place through linear and non-linear time. Recent projects include Sonic Symbiotic with Roxanne Nesbitt, performing alongside the instruments of Harry Partch, Parallel 03 with experimental music duo ENDLINGS (Raven Chacon and John Dietriech of Deerhoof) and musicians of the Vancouver creative music community. He was a collaborator in the Rudiments for Hexadrome performance and installation project for the 2021 Vancouver International Jazz Festival. He returned to perform at the festival in 2022 playing with experimental music project LITTLES at the Ironworks. He was a recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts: Digital Originals for his project Port Parallels – Acoustic Meridians. He currently plays with Gamelan Bike Bike and studies traditional Korean drumming with Dr. Peter Joon Park.