Fortner Anderson Originally from the American Midwest, Fortner Anderson has lived in Montréal since 1976. Known for the performances of his poems, he has been an active member of the Montréal spoken word scene for years prior to the use of the term “spoken word.” His poems have appeared on his solos discs on Wired on words: Sometimes I Think (1999), Six Silk Purses (2005) and He Sings (2006). His newest disc Solitary Pleasures appears on &records in November 2011. He has performed his work at the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville, Poesiefestival Berlin (Germany) and at Live Biennale (Vancouver). In June of 2002 and again in 2008, he was invited to Genoa (Italy) to perform at the 8th and 10th editions of the Festival Internazionale di Poesia di Genova. In 2007 he was awarded the La Voix électrique prize by Les Filles électriques and Wired on words for his literary accomplishments.
http://www.electrocd.com/en/bio/anderson_fo/
Magali Babin is a sound artist who has been included in international electronic music festivals in Canada, the United States and Europe. Her sound installations have been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal as part of the Quebec Triennial 2011, at Mois Multi 2012 ( QC ), at the gallery Louise and Reuben-Cohen, University of Moncton in 2012, and La Fabrique 2013 ( Nantes, France ). She has been an artist-in-residence in various art centers in Quebec, including Recto/Verso, Avatar, 3ième Imperiale, Studio XX, Dare Dare , and in France with Cie Ouïe-Dire. In November 2013, she received a grant from the Ministry of Culture and Communication of France, for a research residency at the Saline Royale (Arc -et- Senans). Magali Babin is currently pursuing a master's degree in Visual and Media Arts at UQAM. Her research with Laboratoire Sonoquête raises the question of the relationship between identity and sound.
http://www.magalibabin.com/
Steve Bates I am an artist and musician living in Montréal. The sonic is the starting point for my projects which are evocations of communication networks and systems, or expressions of spatial and temporal experience. I frequently use sound material that is site-specific in an attempt to uncover place and how the sonic effects our experience of site. Time can be measured, stretched, pulled at, ignored, and extended. Current projects include solo exhibitions and ongoing collaborations with Douglas Moffat as Field Sound, including Okta, a multi-channel, permanent, outdoor sound installation commissioned by the City of Toronto, and Lanterner, a music duo with Marc-Alexandre Reinhardt. I release music, both solo and collaboratively. My work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Europe and most recently, Senegal. I work in the field, on the air, in museological/gallery and performance contexts. These shifting territories reflect the content of my practice. I also operate The Dim Coast.
http://www.stevebates.info/about/
http://dimcoast.net/
Christian Bouchard studied with Yves Daoust at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and was awarded First Prize in electroacoustic composition in 2000. He received several composition prizes: the SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers (Canada, 1998); the Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s competition Jeu de temps / Times Play (Canada, 2000); the biennial acousmatic composition competition Métamorphoses (Brussels, Belgium, 2002).
Christian Bouchard is a founding member (with Christian Calon, Mario Gauthier and Monique Jean) of the live electroacoustic quartet Theresa Transistor (2005 Prix Opus — Best concert — Actuelle and electroacoustic music). Christian Bouchard is also working as a recording engineer and sound designer for cinema and video. The drama series Le Gentleman written by Anne Boyer and Michel D’Astous, and directed by Louis Choquette, on which he has worked, received the 2010 Gémeaux Award for Best Sound — Drama.
http://www.electrocd.com/en/bio/bouchard_ch/discog/
http://theresatransistor.ca/#/tt
Michel F Côté Half a century later, now a grown-up, he still doesn’t understand why he chose a career as a musician and composer instead of something else. With fluidity and idiocy, he gets involved with whomever he wants, thus avoiding any and all reductive labeling attempts. A Montréaler and a co-founder of the &records label, he stumbles around in various bands: bob, Klaxon, Pink Saliva, (juste) Claudette, and Mecha Fixes Clock. A designer associated with stage arts, he refuses to grow soft. As proof, in dance he adds his ear to the choreographies of Catherine Tardif, Sylvain Émard, Louise Bédard, Shanti Wadge, and José Navas; in theatre, he scratches his head alongside Wajdi Mouawad, Robert Lepage, Brigitte Haentjens, Éric Jean, and Martin Faucher. So what’s left? He favours plants, suffers from music-loving, is rather clean overall, and tends to keep in shape. Since 1999, he is a columnist for the magazine esse. Since 1988, he is omnivorous, straight and slightly alcoholic. English translation: François Couture.
> http://www.actuellecd.com/fr/bio/cote_mi/discog/
> http://www.actuellecd.com/fr/bio/cote_mi/discog/
Chantal Dumas explores the medium of sound through the production of radiophonic fictions or docu-fictions (Hoerspiel), electroacoustic musics and sound installations. Dumas uses sound to chart a new approach to listening and perception. Combining music, narrative, and real-world sounds, she constructs stories that encourage listeners to establish their own sense of a narrative. Her work invites listeners on a ramble through various spaces: mental and physical, architectural and urban, natural and cultural.
She has produced over 25 radio pieces. He music and radio works are broadcasted on radios and festivals in Europe, Canada, the United-States and the Australia. Her work has received awards. Lately, her work Les petits riens - mécanique du quotidien got: the Prix Bohemia (Czeck Republic, Oct. 2010) and the Prix opus for the best electroacoustic concert (Montreal, jan. 11).
In parallel to her musical and radio works, she pursues a research which questions the relation in between the mobility, the sound, the space and the listener and which presents under the shape of sound installations. She has just presented Le vivant bruit du corps, an interactive immersive sound installation which stages two wooden chairs from which a whole sound universe develops. >> http://vimeo.com/21803964 She got commissioned from : Kunstradio (ORF, Austria), DeutschlandRadio Berlin, Hessischer Rundfunk, SFB radio (D), CBC (CDN), silenceradio.org (Bxls/BE), Espace du son Radio-Canada, la RSR Couleur 3 (Swizerland), AVATAR (Qc), radio grenouille (Marseilles/F), Communauté électroacoustique canadienne (CEC), NAISA (Toronto), Open Space Gallery — (Victoria-BC), Quartier éphémère (Mtl), La Muse en Circuit (Paris/F), Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago/USA.
Prizes ::
• Prix Opus 2010, Electroacoustic Music Concert, New Music given by the Quebec Music Council (30-jan-11).
• Nomination at the prix phonurgia nova international radio competition, France
• PRIX BOHEMIA RADIO 2010 category : Radioart – Sound composition in a radio International, Czech Republic, International Festival of Radio Production (oct. 2010)
She is at the moment in a New-York Residency, Studio-Residency Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (july - dec. 2011). Her work can be found on CD at 326 (France), AVATAR/Ohm Éditions (Quebec), and PoGUS & Nonsequitur (USA).
chantal dumas — artiste audio / sound artist
http://www.chantaldumas.org
Mario Gauthier Mario Gauthier: teacher, researcher and independent audio artist. He was a radio producer at the cultural ex-Radio-Canada from 1986 to 2003. He received the prix OPUS / media event of the year Conseil Québécois de la Musique in 2000 for his show L’espace du son. Thereafter, he has been the project manager on behalf of the Quebec Phonothèque, CEC and others. He appears occasionally as an improviser with Theresa Transistor and various artists (including Eric Normand, Chantal Dumas, Magali Babin, and Anne-Françoise Jacques).
He is currently working to restore the tape of the piece Tétrachromie (1963) composed by Pierre Mercure and long considered lost.
> http://syntone.fr/mario-gauthier-des-deux-cotes-du-transistor/
> http://syntone.fr/mario-gauthier-des-deux-cotes-du-transistor/
Monique Jean In her work as an electroacoustic composer and sound artist, Monique Jean is interested in the tensions, ruptures and clashes of sonic matter that produce a transmutation of the real into the poetic. This search for an organic substance takes various forms according to each project and technology at play: stereo or multitrack electroacoustic pieces, mixed music with live treatments, sound installations (Point d’attaches ou les infidélités rotatives), and live performance as part of the improvisers’ collective Theresa Transistor (2005 Opus Award for Concert of the Year — musique actuelle & electroacoustic music). Monique Jean is also involved in various collaborative projects, among them: Calendar with choreographer Tedi Tafel and Dancing on the Edge of Darkness, a 5-screen video and electroacoustic music piece with visual artist Monique Bertrand. T.A.G was premiered at Akousma X Montréal, in October 2013 and at the GRM Paris, autumn 2014.
Greffes just received the award for "Album of the year – musique actuelle and electroacoustic music" award by the Prix OPUS.
http://www.electrocd.com/fr/bio/jean_mo/
http://theresatransistor.ca/#/tt
André Éric Létourneau André Éric Létourneau is active in the worlds of radio and electronic arts, audio and art-action since the late 1980s. He is particularly interested in the use of media by marginalized groups in the public sphere as a context of intervention and invisual furtive artistic practices. He regularly worked for Radio-Canada and various public, community and web radio. His works were also broadcast by Radio-France, Kunstradio (Austrian National Radio), Radio Heklsinki, Radio Métropole (Haïti) and the Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff Centre). He has completed numerous projects abroad and in the context of artist residencies, particularly in Indonesia where he studied intensively Balinese shadow theater and mediatization of the oral tradition, as well as the ArtEZ Hogeschool Voor de Kunsten where he produced in 1997 for an intensive period of 8 months, a series of radio and video interventions through the Netherlands. His artistic projects have been presented at over fifty festivals and international events, most recently at the Biennale of East Africa (EASTAFAB-BURUNDI), Grace Exhibition Space (New York), Steirischer Herbs (Austria), Experimenta/Sur (Bogota), the Paris Biennale, the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Electronic Music Foundation.
In recent years, he has given workshops at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (SciencesPo.), the École des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Brieuc, at RAIQ and Research Chair sound dramaturgy in the theater UQAC. Active in the center Dare-Dare and Regroupement des arts Interdisciplinaires du Québec. André is a member of Hexagram UQAM and of the research unit CNRS Art & Flux.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éric_Létourneau
http://www.systememinuit.com/
http://dramaturgiesonore.com/component/k2/item/168-projet-motel
Alexandre St-Onge is an audio artist, a musician/improviser (acoustic bass, bass, voice and electronics) and a sound performer. He has studied literature and philosophy and he is currently doing his PhD in art. He is fascinated by creativity as a pragmatic approach of the ineffable and he has released ten solo albums. The most recent ones are: viorupeeeeihean (Oral), Ailleurs (&records), Aimer la concrescence (MiniAlbum/Absence Of Wax) and Entités (Oral). He also plays in quite a few bands, including Et Sans, K.A.N.T.N.A.G.A.N.O., Klaxon Gueule, Pink Saliva, mineminemine, Shalabi Effect and undo. As a composer he has worked for the interactive/mixed-media company kondition pluriel, as well as composed for artists such as Marie Brassard, Karine Denault, Lynda Gaudreau, Line Nault, Jérémie Niel, Maryse Poulin and Mariko Tanabe.
http://www.alexandrest-onge.com/alexandrest-onge.com/Alexandre_St-Onge.html
http://www.alexandrest-onge.com/alexandrest-onge.com/Alexandre_St-Onge.html
Martin Tétreault Martin Tétreault is an internationally-renowned sound artist based in Montreal. He is a leading figure in improvisation using turntables, unusual vinyl surfaces and objects. Tétreault’s trajectory includes various productions on compact disc and live performances with a range of collaborators: Diane Labrosse, René Lussier, Erik.M, Michel F Côté, I8U, Otomo Yoshihide, Xavier Charles, Kid Koala, and many more. He has been the composer and director of a turntable quartet since 2006. His work has appeared under several labels including Ambiances magnétiques, Erstwhile, Japanimprov, Oral, victo and Vand’œuvre. Commissioned for music, dance, theatre, poetry and installation, Tétreault has been the recipient of many grants and awards.
http://oralrecords.bandcamp.com/album/points-lignes-avec-haut-parleurs
http://www.actuellecd.com/fr/bio/tetreault_ma/discog/
http://oralrecords.bandcamp.com/album/points-lignes-avec-haut-parleurs
http://www.actuellecd.com/fr/bio/tetreault_ma/discog/
Nancy Tobin Nancy Tobin is an audio artist based in the St-Henri neighbourhood of Montreal. Her sound designs for dance and theater productions have been part of the Festival TransAmériques, the World Stage Festival d’Avignon and the Edinburgh international Festival. Tobin has, in her twenty years of experience, developed a specialization in vocal amplification for theater and is known for her distinct style using unusual loudspeakers to transform the aural qualities of her compositions. As an audio artist she has performed at several international festivals and for sound event organisers, including among others: MUTEK, Immersion, DH/ART Foundation, Galerie La Centrale Powerhouse, B-312 (Montreal), Tone Deaf (Kingston), AVATAR (Québec), SKOLSKA28 (Prague).
http://www.mmebutterfly.com
http://www.mmebutterfly.com