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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; ">RENDER social and official record release</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">October 15th from 8 - 11 pm at RENDER, East Campus Hall, University of Waterloo</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">October 17th from 7 - 9 pm at School of Architecture Cambridge and 9 pm to closing at the Black Badger Pub at 55 Water Street North in Cambridge</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial"><i>Admission is free. Twoonie bar available at both events.</i></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">This past spring, RENDER commissioned artist and DJ Chris Flanagan to produce a new work and the results will be launched at two upcoming related, but distinct, events on October 15th and 17th. Flanagan has created a new musical score in response to recordings found in the many junk shops and thrift stores around the region, places to which he is consistently drawn to feed his voracious appetite for vintage and obscure vinyl.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Chris Flanagan: “One of the businesses that seems to be thriving in this climate are the <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>thrift stores which pepper the townscape. It was these that originally brought me to the <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>region several years ago, on the never ending quest for strange and obscure vinyl <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>records. As a collector and DJ for over 10 years, music subcultures and record <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ephemera have permeated my installation practice. For this project, I’m composing a <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>soundtrack for Cambridge built entirely from samples taken from vinyl records sourced <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>from the City’s many thrift stores. This will not be a “mixtape” of various songs but <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>rather entirely new compositions based on reworking snippets of hundreds of hours of <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>music. These albums, the source material for this new score, are the aural refuse of <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the town’s inhabitants which bore witness to the drama of their lives over many years."</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 16.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; color: #222222">Flanagan's new score has been pressed as a limited edition vinyl record and surreptitiously returned to the thrift stores in which the original albums were found (for those unwilling to scrounge through thrift store milk crates, the record will also be available for sale in limited quantities at both events). Both events will include additional visual and installation components.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Join us on Thursday, October 15th from 8 - 11 pm at the main RENDER space in East Campus Hall, University of Waterloo to hear Flanagan's score and to enjoy an evening of music DJ'd by the artist.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Join us again on Saturday, October 17th from 7 - 9 pm in the atrium of the School of Architecture Cambridge for the official record release. The festivities will continue at the Black Badger Pub on Water Street until we shut the place down.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">RENDER</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">263 Phillip Street </p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">University of Waterloo</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Waterloo, Ontario</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">School of Architecture Cambridge</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">7 Melville Street South</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Cambrige, Ontario</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Black Badger Pub</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">55 Water Street North</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">Cambridge, Ontario</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial">For more information please visit: <a href="http://www.render.uwaterloo.ca">www.render.uwaterloo.ca</a></p>
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