The Live More Lightly Tour 2008
Victoria and her trusty Yamaha FJ 1200 motorcycle tour with the least possible impact on the environment.
As she travels through the Canadian countryside she broadcasts the beauty and variety of her motorcycle tour by streaming audio and video directly on to the internet. She will continue her internet broadcast when performing, and during other interesting social and cultural occurrences. Some material will be recorded and archived so it will be available for visitors to the site when streaming is off-line. A blog of her journey will be constantly updated at rest stops. Communication with venues, media and performance collaborators will be maintained through live internet and satellite cellular telephone.
It is anticipated that the footage will be high quality and suitable for television broadcast as well as internet streaming.
A documentary will be produced from the footage recorded on this tour.
There is musical equipment everywhere in North America, so Victoria plans to arrange for suitable guitars, amplifiers and other equipment to be obtained from the area she is performing in. [She will carry a computer equipped with music production software.] These items have already been transported to this location, so it is the goal is to create the least possible environmental impact to move them to the venue. Victoria works in many traditional forms that are familiar to Canadian musicians so it seems more environmentally friendly to work with members of the community rather than import other musicians. This plan is a continuance of her work using the concept of “found” musicians that was most completely realized with “Play the Moment Composer’s Collective” in 2000 and 2001.
Victoria is also capable of solo performance: leading workshop/performances in electronic music, songwriting or choral performance of her original song “Live More Lightly” (arranged by Eric Hominick). She is also available as a solo performer as an electronic and multi-media artist or singer/songwriter.
The itinerary will be established by plotting out a timeline of travel from Vancouver to eastern Canada and researching festivals, events and venues that are within a comfortable riding distance of approximately 200km per day travel. There are a large amount of summer festivals, events and year-round venues in Canada and participation in this project would be affordable for smaller venues and community gatherings that usually cannot engage an artist organizing a national tour. Key venues will be approached to inquire if they are interested in participating in this project. The time of departure will be arranged to create the largest probability of presenter intersection while maintaining commitments to key venues.
