"...the pairing of Jamie Drouin and Lance Austin Olsen bears the sort of fruit that makes the duo form so compelling - no place to hide or obfuscate, the great potential for a unilaterally-generated disaster, but equally the potential for what buddhists call the one taste - that is the state in which the boundaries between dissolve, and, as in Drouin and Olsen's music, what is revealed is one mind. Or as Steindl-Rast has it, the form is scrapped, and we return to silence." - Jesse Goin | Crow with no Mouth

"One of those all too rare experiences when an entirely lovely recording drops in from out of the blue, or Canada in this case" - Brian Olewnick | Just Outside

"...there is something somehow quite mature and refined about this duo’s music. Its as if while their palette is familiar how they apply the colours has a subtle, yet confident voice" - Richard Pinnell | The Watchful Ear

“... like an archeological dig, where sounds are slowly unearthed through the smallest ritualistic movements” - CFUV

“...a compelling mix of performance art and the palette of broken machinery” - CBC Radio

Noted sound artists Jamie Drouin and Lance Austin Olsen have teamed up to create a series of improvised performances exploring the live stage as a laboratory and continuous work in progress.

Employing a minimalist toolset and, intentionally, no computers, DROUIN/OLSEN explore their mutual interest in sound as an extension of physical experience, both for the audience and the artists. Each performance remains distinct and unplanned, focusing on the real-time conversation between the two artists and the freshness of discovery with their respective tools: Drouin's compact suitcase modular, Olsen's amplified copper plates and toy acoustic guitar.


Listen to brief excerpts from their performances:

ONE | TWO | THREE

The DROUIN/OLSEN project draws from a collective history of over 60 years in the arts, pushing sound into compelling new directions and challenging their audiences to follow in the process.