MUTEK

Monolake @monolake

Opening Performance at PY1 Pyramid @pynights

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist, composer and engineer Robert Henke

Style: Utopian quantum and textured-dub techno, laser-lit ambient environments and art installations, rhythmically inventive sound design from another dimension

Labels: Imbalance Computer Music, @monolake, Chain Reaction

Organ Mood

https://soundcloud.com/user4496567

Nocturne 1

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Montréal-based group featuring musician-producer Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux, also known for Lesser Evil, Chocolat and feu doux, visual artist Mathieu Jacques and lighting artist Estelle Frenette-Vallières

Style: Buoyant electro influenced by '80s Krautrock rhythms, melodic and ambient modular synth experiments in harmony with lo-fi projections and light shows, synaesthetic audiovisual live events

Label: @daretocarepublishing

@ylangylang

Expérience 2

August 22, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Montréal-based musician Catherine Debard

Style: Ambient introspective noise-pop, artful beats and potent vocals, hypnotic sound experiments

Labels: @personalpersonalrecords @crashsymbols

Play 2

"Black Seas"

@steve-bates

August 23, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who:

Montréal-based musician Steve Bates and Montréal-based Austrian visual artist Michaela Grill, in a mutable solo and ensemble project

Style:

Electroacoustic and instrumental performance hurtling towards a sonic threshold; musical and audiovisual inquiries into hallucinatory experiences; high-contrast multi-channel visual transmissions of natural phenomena

Labels: @oral_records, https://thedimcoast.bandcamp.com/

Latest: Le double album Atmospheres, Soundtracks and Transmission (2019), Black Seas (Radius) (2018), Organ (2018)

More:

The expanded ensemble version of Black Seas has included members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Set Fire to Flames and several other local and international musicians and visual artists

Expérience 5 @dandy-jack/tracks

August 25, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Lausanne-based Chilean producer Martin Schopf

Style: Percussion-driven Latin-hued excursions in club music, enthusiastic German techno collaborations

Labels: Perlon, Ruta 5, Contexterrior, @cosmorecords, Prospector

Latest: Dandy Jack and the Twin Pigs (2015), John Keys: The Space Dandy Project with Pit Spector (2016)

More: He headed up the first editions of MUTEK Chile that started back in 2004, and is a serial collaborator

Desert Bloom (QC/CA) @desertbloom

Nocturne 6

August 25, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: West Coast-born, Montréal-based producer Rachel Nam

Style: A hazy blend of lush piano tones; bubbling and cascading percussive patterns; effervescent, swirling vocals

Labels: @moon-boy-records

Latest: DB (2018), auto-production

More: Fans of Desert Bloom can seek out a Listserv where Nam will automatically connect them to her new releases as they're created

Appears as part of Amplify.

Amplify is led by the British Council, MUTEK and Somerset House Studios, with the support of Canada Council for the Arts.

Gudrun Gut(DE) @ggut

Canadian Premiere -

Play 1 presented by @resident-advisor

August 22, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Berlin-based producer and electronic originator Gudrun Gut

Style: Glitchy motorik techno, hypnotic industrial post-punk, poetic pop-inspired coldwave

Labels: @monikaenterprise , Moabit Musik

Latest: Moment (2018), Instrumental For "Sirens" (2017)

More: Runs labels Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik, was an early member of Einstürzende Neubauten and founded '80s band Malaria!

The Quark Model (IR/QC/CA) @the-quark-model

Catalysis = Activation = Reaction Live

August 24, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Interdisciplinary sound artists and educators Honey Haq Pazhutan and Max Pazhutan

Style: Pulsating synthesizer rhythms, digital code catalyzed into organic, improvised techno explorations

More: Last year's MUTEK offering from the duo involved improvised theremin broadcast over electronically amplified brainwaves

Appears as part of Amplify - led by the British Council, MUTEK and Somerset House Studios, with the support of Canada Council for the Arts.

Pick a Piper (CA) @pickapiper

August 23, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Ontario electronic experimentalist Brad Weber, also drummer for psych-pop-house band Caribou

Style: Beat cultures channelled through organic instrumentation with atmospheric undertones of melancholic beauty

Labels: @tin-angel-records , @mint-records , Phonica White, @full-of-nothing

Latest: Distance (2017)

Joni Void & Sonya Stefan(CA)

@joni_void - Mise en Abyme

Play 2 - August 23, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Montréal-based French/British producer Jean Cousin, also known as Johnny Ripper, and Montréal-based visual artist Sonya Stefan

Style: Collaged sound samples and plunderphonic electronica, industrial beats under calming melodies, computer voiced poetry and old tech-found sounds

Labels: Constellation Records @constellation-records

Latest: Mise en Abyme (2019), Selfless (2018)

More: Cousin runs digital creative platform Everyday Ago. Sonya Stefan also curates at Lux Magna, a festival created by women and non-binary folks

Sonya Stefan "Appears as part of Amplify initiative, leads by the British Council, MUTEK and Somerset House Studios, with the support of Canada Council for the Arts.