Saturday, February 24, 2007, 8:00 pm

Société des arts technologiques

1195, boulevard Saint-Laurent [métro Saint-Laurent], Montréal, Québec

Info: 514-844-2033

Tickets

  • $10.00
  • Tickets: Réseau Admission: 514-790-1245 / 1-800-361-4595

Coproduction MNM / Réseaux / CMM / ESI, in collaboration with SAT

Electroacoustic music, acoustic pieces and improvisations come together with visual art at one of Montreal’s “trendier” spaces as part of an “eclectic” and “electric” evening — a three-part event featuring four leading groups from the Montreal avant-garde music scene.

A quartet of electroacoustic composers, Theresa Transistor will get the evening started with their “winter set”: digitized and invented instruments, gizmos, microphones, radios, digital and analogue synthesizers for 45 minutes of music that blends electroacoustic techniques and “instant” composition.

Next in the lineup is Treelogy, a videomusic by the young collective Milliseconde topographie who will perform a selection of electroacoustic works chosen by both Réseaux and the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. This will be an occasion to discover two new works by Éric Rocheleau and Louis Dufort, as well as pieces by Yves Daoust, Christian Bouchard, and Martin Leclerc.

To complete the evening, Espaces sonores illimités (ESI) will deliver a work in which six improvisers take their cues from lighting. Here lighting codes replace the score, guiding the performance through variations in colour and intensity (staging and lighting by Éric Belley). These codes also create formal ballasts within which the improv musicians may give free reign to their creativity.

Presented as part of thee Les Arts La Financière Sun Life series of the Festival Montréal en lumière.

Programme

Composing in the Present!

The SMCQ has been moving in step with the lively rhythms of new music for over forty years. With its regular concert season, its Série Hommage (Tribute Series), an international festival, and a young listener’s programme, the society has served both as a platform for today’s composers and as a window on creative works for everyone.

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