mini get to know - A/V

A/V is Philip Clark. He's from New Brunswick. Electronic music in the Maritimes? Who woulda thought. A/V rocks the party ensconced in cords, synths, drum machines, pedals, vocoders, and a bunch of other nice toys. Reference point? A Canadian Dan Deacon?

Check out his myspace (duh) for music:
http://www.myspace.com/avhotaction

He also remixes porn: http://destroyhotaction.com
Fun!

A/V played to a mostly empty Tribeca last Wednesday . We had a brief but amicable chat afterwards.

HotClique: So is there a big interest in electronic music in New Brunswick?

A/V: Yeah I don’t know… there’s a few of us out there….

HC: Is that why you decided to just go it alone?

A/V: Yeah it can be hard to find people to start a band so I just did it myself.

HC: Right on. Just coming from the other side of the country I didn’t really expect to see an act like you.

Surprisingly there’s more electronic music in New Brunswick than in the city here [Halifax].

HC: I guess its just my bias/ignorance, I was probably thinking there would be tons of fiddles.

A/V: (laughs) Where are you from?

HC: Vancouver.

A/V: Oh yeah, I played a show there this summer.

HC: Whereabouts did you play?

A/V: Ummm…

HC: Uh.. The Media Club?

A/V: No it was some art space that a bunch of kids set up, they got a couple of them in the city.

HC: Oh the Emily Carr students probably. Was it called the Emergency Room or something?

A/V: Yeah that was it.

HC: How’d it go?

A/V: It was wild! There was a gallery opening first or something and they all showed up drunk on their bicycles. Some were wearing sleeping bags on their heads. They were bouncing off the walls man.

HC: Those crazy art students….