Saturday, February 24, 2007, 8:00 pm
Société des arts technologiques
1195, boulevard Saint-Laurent [métro Saint-Laurent], Montréal, Québec
Info: 514-844-2033
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.
Theresa Transistor, Cristaux de temps: hiver (2007)
live electroacoustics
Nicolas Bernier, Delphine Measroch, “She Under a Sherrington Tree” (2004, 07), extract from Treelogy (2004-05, 07)
Christian Bouchard, “Impasto 46” (2006), extract from Impasto (2006-08)
Commission: Codes d’accès, with support from the CALQ
Louis Dufort, Matério_* (2006) (premiere)
Commission: Francisco López, Quartier Éphémère
Nicolas Bernier, “This Is a Portrait” (2005, 07), extract from Treelogy (2004-05, 07)
Éric Rocheleau, Shreds (2007) (premiere) (extract)
Commission: Réseaux des arts médiatiques
Yves Daoust, “Nuit” (1998), extract from Bruits (1997-2001)
Commission: IMEB
Martin Leclerc, … et le ça (2000-01)
Nicolas Bernier, Delphine Measroch, “Orchid” (2005, 07), extract from Treelogy (2004-05, 07)
Alain Dauphinais, André Hamel, Alain Lalonde, Michel A Smith, Spatio Lumino (2007) (premiere)
six improvisers
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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