Visual art + Music

Megan Boyle + Sam Wilson


Wilson and Boyle have been improvising and collaborating together for 2.5 years as an interdisciplinary music and visual art duo. Wilson, guitarist, composer, and improviser, and Boyle, visual artist and improviser, are both alumni of the Creative Music Workshop, a workshop grounded in mindfulness, improvisation, and creativity, which informs their collective practice. The duo are currently working on a seasonal, Atlantic Canadian, based project where they each creatively respond to nature’s signs of the season in one Atlantic province, and finish in tandem, inspired by one another’s art pieces. They completed their winter project in Ross Creek, Nova Scotia, titled Wintertides, and are currently working on their project inspired by spring in St. George, New Brunswick, titled Sowing Spring. Wilson and Boyle are passionate about exploring collaboration between their art forms, and are eager to share the possibilities with the wider artistic community one interdisciplinary project at a time.

Megan Boyle 
Wintertides (2022)
Acrylic and pastel on canvas
The visual interpretation and translation of Wilson's album of the same title. 
 

Megan Boyle 
5719: The Graveyard (2024)
Acrylic and pastel on canvas 
  The visual product of a site specific, interdisciplinary improvisation.

Film + Music

FICTIONAL MUSIC: In 2023 I was apart of a site specific performance lead by Tom Richards. The performance was recorded and Tom made a beautiful short film of it. "Occupying four floors of the Halifax Central Library, Tom Richards' Fictional Music weaves together elements of architecture and literature. On every level you will find a group of musicians, each playing a part in the composition. As you pass from one floor to the next, you will hear one element fade out and another emerge. In this way, you can “mix” the music by moving through the space. Fictional Music asks “Can a library become a labyrinth? Can sound be a cypher? Is our experience a mirror for the stories we tell?”

NOW.HERE.THIS: I was commissioned to wrote a piece titled ‘Waterside’ for Upstream Music Association's video project NOW.HERE.THIS “a streaming music performance documentary that uses chance and randomizing algorithms to create a new and unique viewing experience every time.”  Check out the film here: https://upstreammusic.org/now-here-this