Gabriel Saloman

As an artist using a variety of mediums, Gabriel Saloman is perhaps best known as one-half of the experimental, electronic noise duo Yellow Swans. Originally joining forces with Pete Swanson in 2001, the pair went on to issue over 50 recordings and toured internationally, before disbanding in 2008. Saloman also spent his time as an artist, exhibiting and giving presentations and performances, as well as curating and writing for various publications. After Yellow Swans split, Saloman released his first proper solo work under the guise Sade Sade. The four-track album Peaceful Protest was issued via his own Diadem Discos label -- an intermedia art collective which was also run by his wife, Aja Rose Bond. 2011 saw the release of his first work under his own name. The album Adhere -- which was composed for a contemporary dance piece created by the Contingency Plan and featured instruments that he rarely played -- was issued on Miasmah. At the same time, Saloman was also majoring in MFA Visual Arts at Vancouver's SFU School for the Contemporary Arts. After graduating in 2013, he released his third album, Soldier's Requiem. Once again composed for a dance piece, the album saw him utilizing piano and drums as he had done on his previous release, moving his solo work more into the realms of contemporary classical rather than the experimental noise that he'd developed with Yellow Swans. 2014 saw him teaming up with experimental composer and musician Peter Broderick on the Beacon Sound-released Peter Broderick + Gabriel Saloman, while that same year saw him joining up with the Shelter Press label to issue various works that had originally be written for dance. Movement Building, Vol. 1 featured the 34-minute piece "The Disciplined Body," which had originally been written for Daisy Karen Thompson's Re-Marks on Source Material. 2015 saw the release of the second installment of Movement Building, this time featuring work that had been composed for the multi-media dance performance The Sensationalists, while also featuring a reinterpretation of a Miles Davis version of "My Funny Valentine." The third and final installment of the trilogy, Vol.3, appeared in 2017 and saw Saloman composing for longtime collaborator Vanessa Goodman's piece What Belongs to You.
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