Day 3 - 
8pm

Marie Anne (ca)

Marie Anne Bérard (she/her) is a Montreal-based composer and keyboardist. Her practice focuses on electroacoustic and audiovisual performances, sound installation and the use of sound journaling as a compositional method. She is also interested in the mediation of electroacoustic music. With financial support from the Observatoire interdisciplinaire de création et de recherche en musique(OICRM) and the Observatoire des médiations culturelles (OMEC), she is currently working on a master's degree in sound creation at the Université de Montréal.  Her performance Éphémérides (2021) was awarded the Martin-Gotfrit-Martin-Bartlett prize in the Jeu de temps/Times play (JTTP) competition.

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Programme

Solace (2023) 20’00”

Solace: a term signifying a source of comfort and calmness, the action of moving towards this state.

This live performance of ambient music attempts to find a path to solace, both for the musician and the audience. The person on stage wishes to show the countless sounds of her inner world by recreating personal soundscapes and melodies.

This piece was composed to be performed at a retirement home in Montreal, to introduce its residents to electroacoustic concert music.

Atte Elias Kantonen (fi)

A Helsinki-based sound designer and composer, Atte Elias Kantonen works in the fields of experimental music and performing arts.

Within his practice, Kantonen explores the potential of elastic synthesis and extremely processed sound as vessels for abstract, phantasmagorical storytelling. Building emotionally sonorous dioramas, he creates compositions where the serene and the discordant constantly fold in on each other. He has released on labels such as SODA GONG, kappa, SUPERPANG, among others.

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Program

a path with a name [a reimagined reprise] (2024) 18’00

a path with a name (a reimagined reprise) is a composition based on the sounding storylines from the album "a path with a name" (SODA GONG, 2023). The composition continues on the album's quest: drawing paths that zig-zags through digital herbage, synthetic pools of dew and clouds of sonic mist.

Ludwig Berger (de)

Ludwig Berger is a landscape sound artist, musician and curator. In his compositions, installations and performances, he enables sonic encounters with plants, animals, buildings and geological entities. He holds degrees in electroacoustic composition, as well as musicology, art history and literature. As a researcher and educator at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich, he studied the sonic dimension of alpine glaciers and water infrastructure. His work has been presented at GRM Paris, Ars Electronica and the Venice Biennale. He recently moved to Montreal after living in Zurich and Milan.

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Garden of Ediacara (2024) 20’00

The musical eco-fiction Garden Ediacara unfolds a speculative ecosystem through synthesized vocals, physical modeling instruments and microscopic field recordings. Infused with storytelling techniques from sci-fi and fantasy, Ludwig Berger intertwines melodic songwriting with electroacoustic sound design. The project alludes to the geological period of Ediacara 600 million years ago —a peaceful underwater ecosystem inhabited by soft-bodied creatures without eyes and bones, which were completely wiped out through the appearance of a new species. Garden of Ediacara (released as album on -OUS) celebrates both the pleasures of biodiversity as well as mourning its inevitable loss.