Cordes électromagnétiques

Audréanne Filion

Unfortunately, due to a neck injury, Audréanne Filion will not be able to join us. We wish her a speedy recovery 💪!

As a last-minute replacement, Julie Delisle and Hugo Menchi will present two immersive digital music works. See the program below.

Julie Delisle

Julie Delisle is a composer, improviser, and multidisciplinary researcher in digital audio, as well as a flutist. She graduated from the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and from the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (in both modern and baroque flute), and holds a PhD in musicology from the Université de Montréal. Her music has been presented in Quebec (Festival Akousma, Productions Totem Contemporain, Ensemble Paramirabo) and abroad, at the Sound Days Festival (Liepāja, Latvia) and the Impuls Academy (Graz, Austria).

Julie Delisle is actively involved in Montreal’s cultural scene through organizations such as Codes d’accès and Productions Totem Contemporain. She also works in the fields of video game technology, interactive audio, and virtual and augmented reality. She is currently studying electroacoustic composition with Louis Dufort.

Programme
Contrepoint Thermodynamique (9’’)

Whether we like it or not, the Universe is expanding and seeks to dissipate the heat it contains. As a result, its entropy continually increases. This process favors the formation of complex organizations: molecules, materials, living beings, and societies, whose primary function is the dissipation of energy, something that would be much more difficult, if not impossible, without them.

This Thermodynamic Counterpoint explores the frictions, reactions, and explosions that arise from this process, both on a large scale and at the infinitely small. It presents different types of matter—velvety, rough, metallic, acidic, vaporous—and brings them into dialogue through increasingly rapid temporalities, culminating in the emergence of a materiological fugue that concludes the piece.

Hugo Menchi

The human and musical resonances that he carries within him, and which are dear to him can be felt during every performance, in memory of those colorful moments. Percussive sounds, rhythms that are both energetic and full of sensitivity: this is what Hugo's world has to offer. With a background in electroacoustics and a keen interest in field recordings, he combine all of this in an original journey. His curiosity and taste for discovering new atmospheres have allowed him to expand his experience on numerous stages in Europe, North Africa, and North America. He also co-founded and launched the Insideout platform in March 2020.

During the pandemic, it was essential for him to continue his research into this idea of exchange and
workshops, where artists from all over the world could, like him, stay connected and shar their passion for music creation. In line with this, he co-founded the SOAME Records label with Oxyde B, with the aim of delivering sonic journeys and a sense of letting go, while awakening our senses of hearing. Moving between live performance, immersive and spatialized composition, Hugo Menchi approaches music as a vast laboratory for research and escape.

He is currently furthering his studies at the Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique de
Montréal, in the electroacoustics department, under Martin Bédard.

Programme
In Mara (10’30)

This piece is the result of a year of work in the electroacoustic composition course at the  Montreal Conservatory, under the supervision of Martin Bédard. In Mara evokes a return to the foundations of all forms of living expression.

On a journey to the center of the Earth and water, we travel through a multitude of primal states, taking us back to the beginnings of all forms of life.

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Florence-Delphine Roux

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

“Rooted in a sound-based practice that draws in particular on material gathered through field recordings, largely captured outdoors, Florence-Delphine Roux’s work engages in a reflection on the possibility of playing with textures that are not perceptible in a retinal sense, notably electromagnetic fields, thereby contributing to a subtle disruption of reality.”

Text by Frédéric Bonnet

Programme
Chronicle of Ether (30”)

Chronicle of Ether is a performance that seeks to materialize the invisible. It brings to light the omnipresent yet imperceptible radiophonic and electromagnetic landscape of our environment. Sculptural antennas capture sometimes distant frequencies, revealing a third space shaped by hidden sounds and communications. The artist disrupts these frequencies in a reciprocal, interactive dialogue between space, the antennas, the body, and electronic craftsmanship.