Day 3 - 
9pm

Julien Racine (ca)

Montréal composer, sound engineer and producer Julien Racine, or simply Racine, has published five albums, the most recent of which, Boue, was released in March 2024 through Czech label Gin & Platonic. Quelque chose tombe, released on Danse noire back in 2020, was widely praised by international media, giving him the opportunity to tour Europe in the spring of 2020, then later that year at MUTEK Montréal. Throughout his career, Racine also composed music and soundscapes for several films shown in numerous cinemas, festivals and galleries. He is also one-half of duo Corporation alongside Keru Not Ever, with whom he hosts the radio show Scene on the HKCR platform; the duo also released Graffito on Czech label Genot Centre.

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Program

Hamelin (2023-2024) 20’00

In the village of Hamelin, a mysterious flute player weaves through the unfortunate tumult of daily misery, wrought by the bubonic plague. His music rids the desperate village of its pests. However, the villagers, refusing to reward him, the flute player played again. This time, it was not the rats but all the village children who followed him out of the walls, disappearing forever.

In this futuristic-medieval piece, Racine creates an anachronistic sound world blending electroacoustic, noise, and film music. The piece began to take shape in 2023 and has been evolving ever since.

Olivier Alary (fr/ca)

Olivier Alary, born in France and based in Montreal, is a versatile composer known for his expansive repertoire spanning albums, film scores, dance music, and art installations. Trained in architecture, sound arts, and instrumental composition, Olivier blends acoustic and electronic elements to explore the limits between experimental, popular, and contemporary music. Influenced by noise, baroque, and post-minimalist genres, his compositions intricately weave together diverse sonic landscapes. Throughout the years, he collaborated notably with Björk, Nick Knight, Cat Power and Doug Aitken. He has released music on labels like Rephlex, Fatcat Records, 130701, and LINE. Additionally, he has also composed music for over fifty films, earning numerous awards at prestigious film festivals such as Venice, Sundance, and Cannes.

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Présences imaginées (2024) 15’10

What will be left of our time after we're gone? An artificial entity attempts to remember our existence.

Présences imaginées is the first work in a series of compositions that seek to capture the sonic footprint of our contemporary civilization, as it might be perceived and reconstructed by an intelligent machine. The entirety of the sonic and musical material in this piece was generated by an artificial neural network, then composed as a classic acousmatic work, with minimal sound processing to preserve the unique quality of the generated sounds.

Felisha Ledesma (us/se)

Felisha Ledesma is a sound artist and musician currently based in Malmö, Sweden. A distinctly warm and organic palette permeates Ledesma’s work, each moment slowly unfolding into an intimate aural experience. Inspirations from the everyday are distilled into sonic memories that invite a meditative and deep listening.

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Uppender (2024) / 20’00

Uppender was commissioned for Ina GRM Focus in 2024. Uppender was created utilizing an updated multichannel version of the AMQR, a software synthesizer created in collaboration with Ess Mattisson.