FLX HRS

Contact: flexiblehours.ca@gmail.com

Flexible Hours is a performance-driven collaboration residing in Canada. Its participants are live composer and experimental sound artist, Eric Fraser and interdisciplinary artist Stephanie Patsula.

Through an exploration of new media, live performance and sound creation the pair work to assess and manipulate their surroundings. Patsula uses her own body as a conduit and site to explore, while Fraser relies on sound creation and collection. Together they use chosen and created materials to develop live performances and scores.

The catalyst of these works is found in both artist's desire to subvert a linear or binary perspective of the world around us, and aim to create atmospheric interventions that allow both artist and viewer to take agency in the co-creation of the moment.

Stephanie Patsula is an early career artist who lives and works on treaty 6 territory ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ - amiskwacîwâskahikan, edmonton, alberta.
This past November (2020) she graduated with an MFA in Intermedia from the University of Alberta. The projects Patsula creates are focused across a variety of processes, meeting at an intersection of lens, installation and performance work and are mediated by both physical and digital locations. She is interested in the metaphor vehicle of vessels and how the body gives material form to personal and abstract experience. Patsula’s work prioritizes embodied research, exploration of site(s), reciprocity through sound and symbology, while attempting to approach concepts of relational ethics, cultural ritual and spirituality.

In addition to her art practice she aims to foster connections within the arts community, working with project spaces and arts incubators to activate sites with programming, interventions and events.

Eric Fraser is a composer and sound artist who lives and works on treaty 6 territory ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ - amiskwacîwâskahikan, Edmonton, Alberta.
He is a live performer and electronic musician who draws inspiration from the overall physical and political climate. The local industrial influences of the Places in which he works form the foundation of his conceptual and experimental process. By sampling and manipulating field recorded and synthesized soundscapes in his musical compositions, he attempts to create a mood of dissonance.

Fraser approaches his work with a hybrid of analog, digital and acoustic tools. Fraser experiments with non-linear patterns, pacing and spatial sound design as a tool to create tension for the listeners and viewers. He has been involved as a composer, sound artist and participant in various electronic music and audio-visual projects in Canada for over a decade.

FLX HRS’s tracks

• Soundscape for Short Film - In Place: Sensorial Traces by FLX HRS
• Flexible Hours Live @ The Grand Calgary, Canada 28.04.22 by FLX HRS
• Submerged by FLX HRS
• Bath Bomb Hydrophone by FLX HRS
• Flexible Hours Live @ Gallerí Úthverfa Ísafjörður, Iceland 04.12.21 by FLX HRS