Frédéric Savard

Curator
Frédéric Savard is a musician, archivist, and independent curator with a particular interest in the integration of archival materials into contemporary audiovisual works. His interest in history, music, and cinema has led him to serve as a guest curator at the Cinémathèque québécoise, the JazzAhead festival in Germany, as well as the Suoni Per Il Popolo and Pop Montréal festivals in recent years. He currently works at the National Film Board of Canada while continuing his activities as an independent curator.
 

Program
The experimental music produced in the studios of the National Film Board of Canada remains far too little known to this day, despite its historical significance. With the exception of Norman McLaren’s work, which has earned an international reputation, the original soundtracks created at the NFB by various filmmakers and composers constitute a remarkable archival treasure that is rarely presented.

This special program brings together eleven original works, presented chronologically, and was conceived to highlight the technical innovations developed at the NFB over the years in the fields of musique concrète, electronic, and electroacoustic music. The program features original compositions by Norman McLaren, Pierre Hébert, Alain Clavier, Jean Sauvageau, and Francisco López, to name just a few.

An event not to be missed by film lovers with a passion for the avant-garde and audiovisual innovation.

1. Mosaïque - ONF ( 1965 – Norman McLaren – 5’)
2. Test 0558 - ONF (1965 – Maurice Blackburn – 5’)
3. Op Hop - Hop Op - ONF (1966 – Pierre Hébert – 4’)
4 .Autour de la perception - ONF (1968 – Pierre Hébert – 16’)
5. Dimension soleils - ONF (1970 – Gilles Tremblay – 4’)
6. Ordinateur (1970 – Jean Sauvageau – 7’)
7. Modulo : variations sur un design - ONF (1973 – Alain Clavier – 7’)
8. Variations graphiques sur Télidon par Pierre Moretti - ONF (1980 – Alain Clavier – 7’)
9. Rectangle et rectangles - ONF (1984 - Normand Roger – 8’)
10. Mamori - ONF (2010 – Francisco Lopez – 8’)
11. Sans objets - ONF (2019 - Martin Tétreault et cie. – 6’

Exploring Electroacoustic and Immersive Music

As part of the City of Montreal’s Participation culturelle dans les quartiers program, Akousma à réalisé à l’hiver 2026 carried out a project in the winter of 2026 to introduce residents to electroacoustic and immersive music at Loisirs récréatifs et communautaire de Rosemont (LRCR). We invited two sound artists from Montreal scene—Florence-Delphine Roux and Lou Raskin—to lead a series of sound cocreation workshops with residents of the Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie neighborhood, culminating in the presentation of two pieces in concert in Montreal parks in the summer of 2026. 

This project has the dual objective of introducing electroacoustic music through community expression while also introducing two sound artists to music mediation The artists were supported by Akousma’s mediation coordinator throughout the project.

Florence-Delphine Roux

Florence-Delphine Roux is a digital and sound artist originally from Quebec City and based in Tiohtà:ke/Montreal. Her work explores the intersection of art, science, and technology, with a focus on the medium of radio. Her creations take the form of listening experiences, immersive sound installations, performances, video art, and radio works.

Driven by a sound-based practice, largely sourced from material stored from outdoor recordings, Florence-Delphine Roux's work is significantly based on the possibility of playing with textures that are not perceptible to the eye, particularly electromagnetic fields, thus contributing to a disruption of reality.

With a desire to develop a practice of fiction, the artist also invests in the field of radio production, with the ambition of creating a « cinema for the ear».

Text by Frédéric Bonnet

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Le voyage hertzien d’un écureuil (5”20)

Using radios sensitive to electromagnetic fields—built during the Radiosphère workshop—this cocreation transports us to a world where radio frequencies become the source of rhythm and imagination.

We follow the strange journey of a tiny creature as it travels through different layers of soundscapes, electric textures, and imperceptible frequencies.

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Lou Raskin

Lou is an artist interested in space and sound. The link between the two provides moments of pause and contemplation. Finding the self through sound is a lifelong journey.

For nearly a decade Lou has worked as a sound designer, dialogue editor, composer, podcaster, and musician. His musical moniker Man Happens released a debut album in 2025 titled Outside Head Dance. Lou is also one of the guitarists and creative forces behind Museums.

Lou holds an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University - having researched listening positionalities in soundscape ecology. Beyond recording, he has led workshops on ecological listening and taught sound production at an undergraduate level.

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Monde caché (8”48)

Monde caché is an exploration of time and hidden spaces: invisible worlds and layers of sounds that exist constantly but often go unnoticed. The composition is directly influenced by the recording process using handmade contact microphones. Strange, non-musical pitches give the piece a unique, microtonal timbre that reinforces the idea of an imperceptible exploration. With the contact microphones, we focused on vibrations traveling through trees, poles, bicycle chains, puddles, snow, didgeridoos, kalimbas, and acoustic guitars. These hidden worlds reveal a multitude of sonic universes, like molecular worlds observed under a microscope.