OEM x Black Bough presents: Cloud Circuit + Conyer Clayton + Mark Molnar

Ottawa Experimental Music & Black Bough Records presents: 

An evening of experimental sound, improvised music, and poetry. 

CLOUD CIRCUIT (Montreal)
CONYER CLAYTON
MARK MOLNAR

October 4. 2026
Avant Garde Bar
135 Besserer St. K1N 5X6

$15 advance | $20 door

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Cloud Circuit's debut self-titled record was released in June 2026 on Watch That Ends The Night Records. Since 2017, the poetry-sound project Cloud Circuit has built its practice around communication glitches and lost connections. Poet Deanna Radford channels and mixes iterative text into deconstructed words of mouth and facial gesture, while sound artist Jeremy Young employs sine waves in flux, 1/4" magnetic tape, and captured radio airs. In performance, Cloud Circuit's approach is collaborative; their sound is improvisational, structured but grid-less; it is dissected and then refracted into the present tense.

In 2020, Cloud Circuit released its debut EP, Bur sting brea k'r, with Archive Officielle, and performed as part of Vicky Mettler and Zach Scholes’ Live in Concrete series, which was issued on 10” lathe-cut vinyl and cassette. In 2023, the group served as “Ambassadors of the Embassy of Utopia” at the Prima Vista International Festival in Tartu, Estonia. In 2024, Cloud Circuit sonified Radford’s contribution to R A D I O, a poetry zine in print and sound published by Occulto, in a collaborative performance with Martin Rodriguez for Berlin’s Errant Sound space. Cloud Circuit has shared the stage with artists including: Phew, Sam Prekop, Lea Bertucci, David Grubbs, Vito Ricci, crys cole & James Rushford, Jessica Pavone, skin Tone, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Paul Dutton, Ron Whitehead, Sarah Pagé, Greg Davis, Khaleefa "Apollo the Child" Hamdan, Alessandra Eramo, Rafael Toral, Jessica Ackerley, and more.

https://cloudcircuit.ca/

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Conyer Clayton is a queer writer and editor from Louisville, a dual US-Canadian citizen living between Ottawa and Kentucky. They are the author of But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award), We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Winner of the Ottawa Book Award), and many chapbooks. Conyer’s novel-in-progress has been supported by a MacDowell Fellowship, a McCormack Writing Centre Scholarship, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and The City of Ottawa. the lake-shaped excuse, their third book, is forthcoming in October 2026 with Buckrider Books, Wolsak and Wynn.

https://www.conyerclayton.com/

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Mark Molnar is a Canadian composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work spans contemporary composition, free improvisation, and experimental sound. Performing on strings, electronics, erhu, and rebab, he has co-founded or contributed to countless projects across three decades of creating and curating in Ottawa. He established Kingdom Shore as a vehicle for touring his compositions and Black Bough Records as a platform for releasing boundary-pushing music. 

His collaborators have included artists like Sam Shalabi, Craig Pedersen, Sandro Perri, Peter Zummo, Phil Minton, Satoko Fuji, Tetuzi Akiyama, Naoto Yamagishi, Akira Sakata, and Keiji Haino. He has played a central or recurring role in bands like Land Of Kush, Black Seas Ensemble, Seppuku, Gamelan Semara Winangun, 1/4 Tonne Overhaul and Horseman, Pass By.

https://blackbough.ca/