Adam Basanta is an award-winning composer and sound artist whose work traverses electroacoustic and instrumental composition, audiovisual installations, site-specific interventions, laptop performance, and dynamic light design.His artistic output interrogates intersections between conceptual and sensorial dimensions of listening and audiovisual perception, the re-animation of quotidian objects, and the articulation of site and space.
His concert works have been performed worldwide and awarded multiple national and international prizes, including Métamorphoses 2010 (Belgium) and the John Weinzweig grand prize in the SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers (Canada). His sound and audiovisual installations have been presented across North America and Europe, and awarded in the Prix Ars Electronica 2013 (honourable mention, Hybrid Art category) and the 2014 Edith-Russ-Haus Awards for Emerging Media Artists. Adam holds a BFA in composition from Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC) and an interdisciplinary MA in composition and sound art installation at Concordia University (Montreal, QC). He lives and works in Montreal, QC.
Andrea-Jane Cornell improvises with field recordings, radio waves, and object-instruments. A gleaner of sonorities, she transforms and transmits ambiences though performance, installation and across short and long range radio transmission channels. Her solo work has been presented at the Htmlles festival (Montréal), Signal and Noise (Vancouver), NSCAD (Halifax), Modern Fuel Vapors Series (Kingston), Kunstradio (Vienna), and Free103point9 (New York). Her collaborative radiophonic works with Émilie Mouchous have been presented by Chicago’s the RADIUS network (Rise and Shine), Espace project in Montreal (Organes quel conques), and Galerie Verticale in Laval (Radio Tricycle). She is a member of the FÜNF collective, a group consisting of improvisers and electronic instrument creators Magali Babin, Martine H. Crispo, Anne-Françoise Jacques, Émilie Mouchous and Erin Sexton, who have presented concerts at MUTEK, AKOUSMA, and the électrochocs series. She formed the hymnotic duo Le fruit vert with Marie-Douce St-Jacques in 2011, which has presented concerts at the centre des arts actuels SKOL, Suoni per il popolo festival, MUTEK and Festival Écho, in the Mauricie national park. She conjures susurrations in the spoken-word-swashing sound duo with Tim Darcy.
Peter Courtemanche (Absolute Value of Noise) is a contemporary sound and installation artist from Vancouver. He creates radio, installations, network projects, performances, curatorial projects, and handmade CD editions. He likes to work with "gadgetry" - custom turntables, lamp filaments, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, magnetic transmitters and receivers. His art works often have a literary basis - inspired by narrative texts and the history of specific installation sites. He has done numerous projects for Art's Birthday - an annual celebration and "network event" on January 17th. In 2007 he founded Second Site collective - a group of artists creating electronic art for outdoor spaces.
GAMBLETRON is a sound artist and musician based out of Montréal who is known for her noise-electronic improvisations, experimental karaoke and for curating performances in unique outdoors locations. She creates loud, glitch, textural soundscapes with a slight reference to dance music accompanied by lo-fi, circuit bent toys, found objects, musical saw, home made mics, radios, bowed bike wheels, cheap synths, reel2reels and other types of electronics. Gambletron has toured internationally and participated in various festivals and residencies, some of which include the Donau Festival (AU), Nuit Sonores (FR) and Étoilles Polaires (BE). She is also found performing and collaborating in numerous projects on Constellation Records such as Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista, Hrsta, Clues, and Matana Robert’s Coin Coin. She plays with Greenland’s current pop sensation, Nive Nielsen and the Deer Children, and is currently curating Objet inusite in partnership with Eastern Bloc and Suoni Per il Popolo.
Kristen Roos is a Vancouver-based artist whose practice includes site-specific installations, sound design for dance, and performance. His exploration of underground, low frequency, and electromagnetic frequencies is a prominent feature of his work. The muted sounds and tactile vibrations implicitly suggest a primal association, mingling with the deep droning noises of modernization and labor, the spectral, resonant shimmer of the past, present, and future. He has exhibited in artist-run centers and festivals across Canada, The United States and Europe. His writing on sound and radio art appears in the Errant Bodies publication Radio Territories and the New Star Books publication Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada.
Julian Stein is a sound and media-artist based in Montréal, QC, whose work ranges from soundscape and electroacoustic composition to collaborative performance and kinetic sound installation. Influenced by methods of audiovisual synchronization and the urban environment, his work focuses on intuition and present experience, demonstrating musical applications of the everyday in both composed and realtime environments. Julian is a co-creator of the Montreal Sound Map (http://www.montrealsoundmap.com), and has a BFA in Electroacoustic Studies from Concordia University (Montreal, QC). He is currently a research associate at matralab, part of the Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation at Concordia University. http://www.julianstein.net
Max Stein is a sound artist based in Montréal. His work explores urban soundscapes through electroacoustic composition, online mapping, sound installations, and site-specific performances. Stein designed and runs the Montréal Sound Map (2008-present), an ongoing Google-maps based archive of sound recordings uploaded by inhabitants and visitors from various locations around the city. He has since collaborated on several other sound mapping projects including TSIKAYA, Oljud Sthlm, My Favorite Brussels Sound, Portland Sound Map, Belfast Sound Map, SF Bay Area Sound Map, and the Soundprint Archive. He has presented sound installations and performances for various Montréal festivals and series (Suoni Per il Popolo, POP Montreal, Nuit Blanche, HOWL, Innovations en concert, Journees de la culture) at galleries and venues including OBORO, Société des arts technologiques (SAT), Bibliothéque Nationale du Quebec (BANQ), Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Espace Projet, Espace Cercle Carre. Stein has also presented work abroad in New York, Vancouver, Saskatoon (Sounds Like Festival), Toronto, Meaford (Electric Eclectics), Lisbon/Barcelona/Marseille (Sound Development City), Iceland (NES), Helsinki (Aaenen Lumo), Verona (PATH Festival), Venice (Live Arts Cultures), Milan (MADAM), Lausanne (Les Digitales). maxstein.net
Nancy Tobin is a sound artist and designer for theatre productions. In 2004, she was nominated for the Masque de la conception sonore (sound design prize) by the Académie québécoise du théâtre for her work in the production of Le Procès directed by François Girard. Her composition and design for the piece Concerto grosso pour corps et instruments choreographed by Danièle Desnoyers was presented at the MBZ 2003 (Music Biennale Zagreb). Over the past twenty years, Nancy Tobin has developed an approach using unusual audio speakers to transform the sound qualities of her creations. As a solo audio artist she performed at several international festivals and for sound event organisers, among others: MUTEK (Montreal), IMMERSON (Montreal), NAISA (Toronto), TONE DEAF (Kingston), B-312 ART GALERIE (Montreal), DHC/ART Foundation (Montreal), AVATAR (Québec), GALERIE LACENTRALE POWERHOUSE (Montreal).
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[The User] is a contemporary art collective comprised of architect and installation artist Thomas McIntosh, and composer and sound artist Emmanuel Madan. The duo’s collaborative projects re-imagine relationships between technological systems, culture and human experience in striking ways. Formed in 1997 in Montreal, [The User] has attained wide international recognition in international media arts circuits. The Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers project has toured extensively on the international stage, while the ongoing Silophone project, active since 2000, transforms an abandoned grain elevator in the Port of Montreal into a musical instrument which is accessible the world over via internet and telephone. In 2008, [The User] launched the first in a series of homages to György Ligeti entitled Coincidence Engines. The collective has been awarded numerous prizes and distinctions, including the Telefilm Canada Prize for Canadian New Media work (FCMM, Montreal, 1998), An Honourable Mention at Prix Ars electronica (Linz, 1999), an Honourable mention at Festival Interférences (CICV, Belfort, 2000), First Prize in the Performance Section of the FCMM (Montreal, 2001) and a Nomination to the Nam June Paik Prize (Kunststiftung NRW, Dortmund, 2004).