Bénédicte + gonima

Bénédicte(Maxime Gordon)

Maxime Gordon is a Montreal-based music producer and sound artist. She has been releasing and writing experimental electronic music as Bénédicte since the mid 2010s.

Her music combines soaring synths, distorted field-recordings and glittering vocal samples to explore moments of introspection and feeling. She has performed and presented work at venues and festivals across North America and Europe such as MUTEK (Montreal), Akousma (Montreal), Pique (Ottawa), the Spatial Sound Institute (Budapest), MONOM (Berlin), Eastern Bloc (Montreal), and Glory Affairs x Punctum (Prague).

Her most recent album is the 5 track EP “When It Binds” that came out on NYC-based record label Blueberry Records in 2021. She is currently writing a new album and hosting soundwalks around Montreal.

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Program

Untitled (2024) 9’26
Creation

Halves, Shoals (2023) 15’50

gonima (Evan Magoni)

gonima is an alias of Evan Magoni (he/him), a Montreal-based audiovisual artist exploring glitch aesthetics, complex rhythms, bright melodies, and ambient atmospheres. He employs pointillist audio editing, live playing, and generative musical processes to create detailed digital textures, ethereal tonality, and collage-like musical arrangements with an emotive core.

The gonima project started in 2011 in Philadelphia. Releases have found homes on Satellite Era in Chicago; Sunset Waves in Austin, Texas; Bullflat3.8 in Kyoto, Japan; Montreal labels ygrade and Ancient Robot; and in Munich, Germany on Slam City Jams.

Musical interests: deep listening, melodic tension and release, glitch sound design, drones, syncopation, gestural movement, sound collage.

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Program

Immaterial, Unbounded (2024) 10’
Creation

Homeostasis (2023) 15’40 

An extension of Homeostasis, a piece composed for Akousma in 2023, this suite explores themes of transcendence. Field recordings and atonal flourishes resonate into warm ambience and melody through the use of vocoders and reverberation, creating high-definition synthetic spaces. Sharp fragments of the material world fuse with dreamlike, ethereal tonalities in slow waves.