Gatineau Owl Event is a lofi beat composition that was created with a field recording of an owl from Gatineau Park. The recording was made by friend and musician Luciano Porto. The process of making this composition involves sampling, resampling, chopping and transforming the original field recording. Many new instruments were created from the owl sounds, namely percussive and melodic ones.
Gatineau Owl Event was produced as part of ‘She is Awakening’, a community art & sound project led by Myths & Mirrors and the Coalition for a Livable Sudbury in Atikameksheng Anishnaabek territory. The project invited field recordings from all over the country to be submitted over the internet in the summer of 2020. 61 recordings were received and mixed into multiple tracks in the creation of 2 albums.
Emilio Portal is a mixed transdisciplinary artist, maker, designer, musician, producer & sound engineer who was born in New Westminster, British Columbia.
Emilio holds a BFA in fine art from Laurentian University, a bachelor of environmental design studies (architecture) from Dalhousie University, a permaculture design certificate, a natural building passport issued from o.u.r. ecovillage, & a masters of fine arts from the university of victoria.
in Space Grey was a durational mostly a-synchronous online exhibition running in fall-winter 2021, meditating on themes of connection, environmental extraction and accelerated capitalism. Works presented by Ashley Bowa & Lesley Marshall, WhiteFeather Hunter, Maize Longboat, Tina Pearson, Manuel Piña-Baldoquín, Emilio Portal and Tosca Teran.
