DARK SKY SOCIETY
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Dark Sky Society is a composition and recording project led by Vid Cousins and William Hesselink in collaboration with Ryhna Thompson, and is 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.
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William Hesselink
Co-director, composer, band-leader, drumset, marimba, vibraphoneVid Cousins
Co-director, composer, recording producer, pedal-steel, chapman stick, harp guitarRyhna Thompson
Producer & ManagerDavid Barlow-Krelina
2D / 3D / Dome film direction / animationCielle Graham
Hand-drawn / Digital illustration / animationTracy Maurice
Cinematography, Dark-Field Microscopy, Chemical macrophotographyCorinne Merrell
MiniaturesAJ Korkidakis
VideographerKeiko Devaux
PianoNathan Gage
ContrabassJonah Fortune
ContrabassSarah Pagé
Harp, Bass Koto, ElectronicsStefan Schneider
Drumset, marimba, vibraphoneTommy Crane
Drumset, marimba, vibraphoneBruce Cawdron
Marimba, vibraphoneMathieu Charbonneau
Synthesizers, ElectronicsDavid Gossage
FlutesLuigi Allemano
Trombone, EuphoniumPietro Amato
French HornJason Sharp
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