Sound Lines: an evening of live sound performance

Join us for a live sound performance with AMP Lab visiting artist Olli Aarni, with David Turner Geraghty, and an opening set by Yashvardhan Joshi.

This event will be hosted by AMP Lab director Karis Shearer at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art. It is free and open to all, and is presented by the AMP Lab, sponsored by the Principal’s Research Chair program at UBC Okanagan.

About the Performers

Olli Aarni (born in Oulu, Finland, in 1988) is a multidisciplinary artist working with sound, music, language, and literature. His work ranges from sound installations to artist’s books, and from sound poetry to ambient and noise music. His work covers themes such as perception of time, the relation between knowledge and senses, and translating phenomena from auditory to visual and linguistic realms, and back. The conceptual side of his work is sometimes upfront, and sometimes hidden and embedded in the pieces.  Aarni has collaborated with scientists, musicians, visual artists and poets. Everything he does has to do with sound in some way or another, whether it be in printed, visualized form or verbally described. A major part of Aarni’s work takes the form of audio recordings. He has released over 20 records on four continents with record labels such as Students of Decay, Flau, Dauw, Ultraääni, Mappa, Mondoj, and Superpang. He has performed live in numerous European countries and in Japan. He has made solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions, including the Helsinki Biennial. He has made works for the Finnish National Broadcasting Company YLE, radio art festivals, and poetry events.

David Turner Geraghty is a Canadian/British sound artist from British Columbia. He uses guitar, synthesizer, field recordings and homemade devices to create abstract pieces inspired by musique concrète, minimalism and drone music. He has performed live in the UK and Canada, but rarely over the last fifteen years, and released very little of his extensive archive of recordings. He loves old music hardware and pop songs that use the Yamaha DX7 electric piano preset, and in his spare time likes to learn Yiddish and play bass while his daughter practices the drums. In a previous musical life, he earned £5.32 in royalties from radio play on the BBC. He never cashed the cheque.

Yashvardhan Joshi is a multidisciplinary artist from Almora, India. His work approaches a praxis that addresses computational phenomenology and embodied interaction, viewing these systems not merely as tools, but as extensions of human cognition that redefine the relationship between performer, viewer, and medium. He works primarily in the field of sound design and an interdisciplinary art practice, often employing a range of tools (Touchdesigner, Supercollider and PureData. His collaborative work with Dr Miles Thorogood has been published in a peer-reviewed electrical engineering journal, “Closed Form Continuous Time Neural Networks for Audio Packet Loss Concealment,” IEEE Access (2025) and has held three collaborative and solo sound exhibitions in the ArtWalk utilizing the Soundwalk art infrastructure, a photography exhibition at the NEST at UBC Vancouver, the AMP Lab Press & Play exhibition and a guest presentation at TouchDesigner’s Vancouver conference.