Gabriel Saloman

Gabriel Saloman works across numerous artistic forms yet remains most widely recognized for his partnership in the experimental electronic noise duo Yellow Swans, which he formed with Pete Swanson in 2001. The pair produced more than fifty recordings, performed internationally, and continued until their disbandment in 2008. Throughout that period Saloman also maintained an independent practice that encompassed exhibitions, presentations, performances, curation, and writing for assorted publications. Following the duo’s dissolution, his first solo album appeared under the name Sade Sade; the four-track collection Peaceful Protest was issued on Diadem Discos, the intermedia art collective operated with his wife Aja Rose Bond. In 2011 he issued his initial recording under his own name, the Miasmah-released Adhere, a score for a contemporary dance work by the Contingency Plan that employed instruments he seldom used. At the same time he was completing an MFA in Visual Arts at Vancouver’s SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, graduating in 2013 and then releasing Soldier’s Requiem. Like its predecessor, the album was written for dance and again featured piano and drums, moving his solo work from the experimental noise of Yellow Swans toward contemporary classical territory. During 2014 he collaborated with experimental composer and musician Peter Broderick on the Beacon Sound album Peter Broderick + Gabriel Saloman; that same year he began releasing dance-commissioned pieces through Shelter Press. Movement Building, Vol. 1 contained the thirty-four-minute work “The Disciplined Body,” originally scored for Daisy Karen Thompson’s Re-Marks on Source Material. The 2015 follow-up drew from music composed for the multimedia dance performance The Sensationalists and incorporated a reinterpretation of a Miles Davis version of “My Funny Valentine.” The trilogy closed with Vol. 3 in 2017, written for longtime collaborator Vanessa Goodman’s piece What Belongs to You.