DARK SKY SOCIETY

• BIO

  Dark Sky Society is a composition and recording project led by Vid Cousins and William Hesselink, and made up of 14 musicians and 5 filmmakers.

  Dark Sky Society’s sprawling, nebulous, large-ensemble draws from its membership of mind-bending musicians and filmmakers and is fully-rooted in its iconic and adventurous, Montreal artistic heritage.

  Beginning in 2018 with a pile of entangled compositional threads, over a period of six years William Hesselink and Vid Cousins enlisted the help of collaborators inside and outside the studio to develop and refine their statements and process. DSS calls on a number of talented Montreal collaborators from the musique actuelle, avant-rock and jazz scenes. They include members of well-known Quebec bands such as Bell Orchestre, Land of Kush, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Esmerine, Aaron Parks Little Big, Amon Tobin, Kid Koala and many others.

• CREDITS

  William Hesselink
  Co-director, composer, band-leader, drumset, marimba, vibraphone

  Vid Cousins
  Co-director, composer, recording producer, pedal-steel, chapman stick, harp guitar

  Ryhna Thompson
  Production, Management

  David Barlow-Krelina
  2D / 3D / Dome film direction / animation

  Cielle Graham
  Hand-drawn / Digital illustration / animation

  Tracy Maurice
  Cinematography, Dark-Field Microscopy, Chemical macrophotography

  Corinne Merrell
  Miniatures

  AJ Korkidakis
  Videographer

  Keiko Devaux
  Piano

  Nathan Gage
  Contrabass

  Jonah Fortune
  Contrabass

  Sarah Pagé
  Harp, Bass Koto, Electronics

  Stefan Schneider
  Drumset, marimba, vibraphone

  Tommy Crane
  Drumset, marimba, vibraphone

  Bruce Cawdron
  Marimba, vibraphone

  Mathieu Charbonneau
  Synthesizers, Electronics

  David Gossage
  Flutes

  Luigi Allemano
  Trombone, Euphonium

  Pietro Amato
  French Horn

  Jason Sharp
  Bass Saxophone

• CONTACT

  artists (at) envisionmanagement.com