Vinyl Interventions

“Stinky” Marinko Jareb aka DJ Machine has been working with music since the age of 8. His first forays into music were based on work with a radio cassette deck (read: ghetto blaster) and a fistful of blank tapes. Little Marinko would sit and record pop songs and snippets of audio off the radio as well as recording his own voice, pretending to be a radio personality. 8 years later, in high school he started his own dj company, playing mostly all request music at dances, weddings and nightclubs. At the age of 21, Marinko became bored with playing all request music. Moving away from popular music, he delved deeper into the art of mixing music or “dub” by getting involved with the burgeoning rave scene in Toronto after reading an article that boasted “total creative freedom for the dj at raves”, by working closely with people at the Niagara Artists’ Company who, unlike bars, focused on pushing the boundaries of music and artistic expression rather than filling the venue and pleasing paying patrons, and beginning to focus on recording his own music. Since then, Marinko has built a reputation as the best known and skilled professional DJ in Niagara, released a number of 12” records, cd’s and performed all over North America and Europe at nightclubs, raves, outdoor festivals and art venues.

Links to shows, sound-events, workshops, performances, installations, and links to audio archives of performances are listed through the links below. Contact info can also be found through each of the artists' pages.

Esther Bourdages (Montréal, PQ)
	Esther Bourdages is a Montréal based art historian and author of many articles and critical commentaries on contermporary art. She holds a Masters in Art History from the Université de Montréal, where she focussed on new forms of sculpture within an expanded field. This brought her to explore art in situ, installation art, sound art and more recently, multimedia and web art. She is also involved with some artist-run centers in Montréal and collaborates with the collectives mobilegaze, muzikaktiv, notype and Dame
Marinko Jareb (St. Catherine's, ON)
	“Stinky” Marinko Jareb aka DJ Machine has been working with music since the age of 8. His first forays into music were based on work with a radio cassette deck (read: ghetto blaster) and a fistful of blank tapes. Little Marinko would sit and record pop songs and snippets of audio off the radio as well as recording his own voice, pretending to be a radio personality. 8 years later, in high school he started his own dj company, playing mostly all request music at dances, weddings and nightclubs. At the age of 21, Marinko became bored with playing all request music. Moving away from popular music, he delved deeper into the art of mixing music or “dub” by getting involved with the burgeoning rave scene in Toronto after reading an article that boasted “total creative freedom for the dj at raves”, by working closely with people at the Niagara Artists’ Company who, unlike bars, focused on pushing the boundaries of music and artistic expression rather than filling the venue and pleasing paying patrons, and beginning to focus on recording his own music. Since then, Marinko has built a reputation as the best known and skilled professional DJ in Niagara, released a number of 12” records, cd’s and performed all over North America and Europe at nightclubs, raves, outdoor festivals and art venues.
Carrie Gates (Saskatoon, SK)
	Carrie Gates is an interdisciplinary artist, event organizer, and writer, currently finishing her Art History degree at the University of Saskatchewan. Gates has coordinated many experimental music and new media events in her communities over the last decade, fueled by a desire to work at enriching the sphere of cultural production in the Prairies while providing a setting for challenging media confrontations. DJing downtempo and experimental music at 90's raves provided Gates with a place to develop a love for sharing sound and shaping space; now she is known to facilitate audio workshops at galleries and festivals. She is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Saskatoon media arts artist-run centre, paved Art + New Media. Gates is the designer of the Vinyl Interventions site and the site designer and co-curator of the new mp3 label, BricoLodge. Specializing in blank record manipulation, field recordings, situational composition, and improvisation with homemade contact microphones, Carrie brings a unique pallette of ideas, sounds, and skills to the Vinyl Interventions project.