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V.ictor (CA/QC) @victor-drouin - Boréal Live

August 25, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Montréal-based producer and DJ Victor Drouin

Style: Richly textured modular synth minimalism, natural world soundscapes drawn from electronic artificiality and set to low pressure tech-house rhythms

Labels: Forests and Rivers, Unknown Artist Records, Cosmic Relay, UA Records, Tripping Records

Latest: Boréal (2018)

More: Holds a Masters in Philosophy and teaches philosophy alongside sound creation and electronic music production at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal

Nkisi (BE/UK) @nkisi

Motion 2 presented by @redbull

August 24, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who

Congolese-born, Belgian-raised, London-based techno producer, DJ and sonic activist Melika Ngombe Kolongo

Style

Cosmic pirouettes in and around pan-African polyrhythms; serene sonic particles spiralling into full-throttle techno turmoil

Labels

UIQ, Arcola, @doomcore-records

Latest

7 Directions (2019)

More

She recently completed a dissertation and MA degree in psychosocial studies, which has informed her haunted acoustic investigations

Slim Media Player (CA) @smplayer

Expérience 2 – August 22, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Vancouver-based selector and producer Sam Scott

Style: Ambient house detours from the Canadian Riviera with a preference for organic instrumentation

Labels: Pacific Rhythm @pacificrhythm, ISLA

Latest: Quicksand (2018)

More: You can catch Slim Media Player going b2b2b with both his siblings on an episode of his No Fun Radio program

Stephanie Castonguay (CA/QC)

Play 3 - August 24, 2019

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Montréal-based musician, composer and sound artist Stephanie Castonguay

Style: DIY electrical explorations, circuit-bent obsolete electronics wired for sound and motion; experimental audiovisual performances and art installations exploring memory; chaos and the materiality of technologies

Latest: La performance Scanner Me, Darkly (2019), installation Floating Ground (2018)

More: At MUTEK Castonguay performs Scanner Me, Darkly, converting the optical signals of altered scanner heads into sound. She also performs in Ensemble d'oscillateurs, an analog oscillator ensemble conducted by Nicolas Bernier, re-sculpting pieces by early electronic music composers

@JohannaKnutsson (SE)

Expérience 4 - August 24, 2019.

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Presented as part of North-West Passage, a project by Insomnia, Intonal and MUTEK, with the support of the Nordic Council and the Quebec government.

Who: Malmö-born, Berlin-based DJ, and member of the Circle of Live improvised electronic collective

Style: Melodic techno transmissions from the far reaches of the solar system paired with blossoming, nostalgic ambient arrangements

Labels: Klasse Recordings, Bror Records, Konra-Musik, Circle Of Live, Idle Hands

Latest: Tollarp Transmissions ‎(2019)

More: Knutsson’s first LP, Tollarp Transmissions, serves as an ambient homage to the 4800 resident city in South Sweden that she grew up in

TM404 (SE) @tilliander

Nocturne 4 - August 23, 2019.

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Presented as part of North-West Passage, a project by Insomnia, Intonal and MUTEK, with the support of the Nordic Council and the Quebec government.

Who: Stockholm-based Swedish producer Andreas Tilliander, also known as Mokira, Lowfour and Rechord

Style: Acidy, dub-edged polyrhythmic techno for big rooms; vintage somonolent ambient acid

Labels: Kontra Musik, Kynant Records, Mille Plateaux, Raster-Noton

Latest: 12" Endor Trico (2018), Infiltrated EP (2018), Chill Out (2018 en tant que Mokira), Cleanse and Manipulate (2019, comme Tilliander)

More: He's head of Stockholm-based underground label Repeatle and a mastering engineer, and hosts the Elektroniskt show on Swedish national radio Sveriges Radio P2

Myriam Boucher & Pierre-Luc Lecours (CA/QC)

Play 2 - August 23, 2019.

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Myriam Boucher is a video and sound artist based in Montreal. Pierre-Luc Lecours is a composer and multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal.

Style: Her sensitive and polymorphic work concerns the intimate dialogue between music, sound and image, through visual music, audiovisual performance, Vjing and immersive projects / As a researcher, Pierre-Luc Lecours is interested in the interpretation of electronic music, gesture and time management in musical composition. He draws influences as much from the currents of instrumental and electroacoustic contemporary music as from electronic and experimental music.

Latest: NUÉES. Exposition (2019), TALK. (2019) / Paysages imaginaires (2019, ELEMENTS (2018)

More: The two performers deliver a poetic work loaded with an imaginary and abstract aesthetic, passing from representational to immaterial shapes, colours and forms.

Matmos (US)

Nocturne 2 - August 21, 2019. Canadian premiere

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

Who: Baltimore-based electronic music duo of Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt

Style: Sonic collage on unusual instruments and electronics, a conceptual blend of abstract electro pop, musique concrète and minimal techno

Labels: Thrill Jockey, Matador, Vague Terrain

Latest: Plastic Anniversary (2019), On the Radio At Southend-on-Sea (2018)

More: True to conceptual form, Matmos made Plastic Anniversary using only plastic instruments and other materials, including a PVC pipes, silicone breast implants and a riot shield. Both artists also perform solo, Schmidt under his name and Daniel as The Soft Pink Truth

@Kathy-Hinde (UK) — Twittering Machines

Play 2 - August 23, 2019. North American premiere

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

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

Who: Bristol-based audiovisual installation and performance artist Kathy Hinde

Style: Exploratory fusions of nature and technology, immersive embodied experiences combining sound, sculpture, image and light to illuminate humankind's relationship with the natural world

Latest: Chirp&Drift installation (2018), ORNIS: Scattering Layer performance (2018), Phase Transition installation (2017)

More: Hinde was an artist for the 2018 European SHAPE Platform for innovative music and audiovisual art, has been a Cryptic Artist since 2015 and is a member of the Bristol Experimental Expanded Film collective

Chloe Alexandra Thompson (CA/US)— Morié

@chloealxandra

Nocturne 2 - August 21, 2019. Canadian premiere

Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio)

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.

Who: Cree, Canadian sound artist Chloe Alexandra Thompson, currently living in Portland, Oregon, and Portland-based multidisciplinary artist Matt Henderson

Style: Enveloping frequencies, multi-channel sound spatialization, immersive live-rendered 3D interference patterns

Latest: Morié (2019)

More: When Thompson performed her work Morié as a subwoofer-only composition at Portland's Variform Gallery, she used synthesis to tune the piece to over 120DB, effectively turning dishes in the kitchen into snare drums and popping balloons with bass