Akousma

AKOUSMA_8

Du 12 au 15 octobre 2011
1345, avenue Lalonde
Montréal (QC) H2L 5A9
Billetterie 514. 521.4493
www.usine-c.com

Le 12 octobre : Pierre-Yves Macé (FR), Roger Tellier Craig (QC)
Le 13 octobre : Hélène Prévost (QC), Stephan Mathieu (DE)
Le 14 octobre : France Jobin (QC), Robert Hampson (GB)
Le 15 octobre : Marc Behrens (DE), Horacio Vaggione (FR)
Programmation détaillée
Mercredi 12 octobre • 20 h • Usine C
TRANS_FORMATION: Roger Tellier-Craig (QC) • Pierre-Yves Macé (FR)
Roger Tellier-Craig est un musicien de Montréal. Ces dix dernières années, il s’est investi dans de nombreux projets, s’inspirant d’un spectre de références contradictoires pour explorer de nouveaux contextes musicaux. Il a été parmi les cofondateurs de Fly Pan Am, de Et Sans (aux côtés d’Alexandre St-Onge), de Set Fire to Flames et de Pas Chic Chic, ainsi que guitariste au sein de la formation Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Sous la signature Le Révélateur, il développe actuellement une esthétique élaborée in extenso à partir de synthétiseurs analogiques, une manière qui n’est pas sans rappeler les beaux jours de la « computer music ».
(titre à venir) création mondialePierre-Yves Macé est un compositeur dont le travail se situe au croisement de la musique électroacoustique, de la musique contemporaine et de l’art sonore. Il est l’auteur de quatre disques solo : Faux-jumeaux (Tzadik, 2002), Circulations (Sub rosa, 2005), crash_test ii (tensional integrity) (Orkhêstra, 2006) et passagenweg (Brocoli, 2009) et il collabore avec de nombreux artistes, dont l’écrivain Mathieu Larnaudie, avec qui il mène depuis 2003 un travail de coécriture qui se décline en plusieurs projets parallèles : chanson pop, lecture/performance et composition électroacoustique ou radiophonique.
MINIATURES/Song Recycle (2010) – 40 minutes

***** Soirée en co-diffusion avec Le Vivier (www.levivier.ca) • Pierre-Yves Macé est l’invité d’Ekumen

Jeudi 13 octobre • 20 h • Usine C

RADIO_DIFFUSION: Hélène Prévost (QC) • Stephan Mathieu (DE)
Hélène Prévost a longtemps été réalisatrice et animatrice d’émissions consacrées aux musiques nouvelles à Radio-Canada (1978-2007). La radio et la diffusion occupent toujours une place de choix au cœur de ses préoccupations et, pour sa performance, plusieurs appareils radio sont utilisés comme source continue de matériau, flux indéterminé qui réagit à l’environnement. L’artiste poursuit son travail d’exploration et développe pour ce faire un instrument singulier, qui est un croisement entre le studio radiophonique et le laboratoire électroacoustique.
U/ONZE – 35 minutes création mondialeDesigner acoustique de premier ordre, Stephan Mathieu est considéré comme l’un des plus importants « musiciens de laptop » du moment. Il fait partie de ces artistes du son qui ont également une formation en arts visuels et dont l’inspiration peut aussi s’incarner sous forme d’installations sonores. Cela dit, au-delà des a priori conceptuels, la musique de Stephan Mathieu comporte indubitablement une grande sensualité.
Music for Columbia Phonoharp (2011) – 50 minutes création nord-américaine

Vendredi 14 octobre • 20 h • Usine C

SENS_ACTION: France Jobin (QC) • Robert Hampson (GB)
France Jobin (aussi connue sous l’alias i8u) explore les franges atmosphériques d’un vaste territoire acoustique dans lequel défilent des images qui témoignent de sa sensibilité aux arts visuels ; certains observateurs décrivent ses œuvres comme de véritables sculptures sonores. Avec Event Horizon, elle propose, dans le cadre d’AKOUSMA, un beau voyage dont le titre évoque la frontière entre la matière et le vide.
Event Horizon (2009) – 35 minutes création mondiale
La diffusion d’Event Horizon est rendu possible avec l’appui aux activités de diffusionle d’Oboro.

Robert Hampson provient du monde de la pop psychédélique et du shoegazing. Toujours actif avec son projet collaboratif Main, il se consacre également depuis les années 2000 à un travail davantage axé vers l’exploration sonore et la diffusion acousmatique. Sa musique démontre une qualité d’écoute qui se traduit par une grande finesse d’écriture dans laquelle prend forme une trame narrative mystérieuse et inouïe.
Ahead – Only The Stars (2007)
Commande du VIBRO (13 mins) – Published by Touch Music création nord-américaine
Dans Le Lointain (2008)
Commande du GRM (20 mins) – Published By Touch Music création nord-américaine
Repercussions (2011)
Commande du GRM (20 mins) – Published by At The Surface création nord-américaine

Samedi 15 octobre • 20 h • Usine C

ORGANI_SON: Marc Behrens (DE) • Horacio Vaggione (FR/AR)
Marc Behrens est un artiste sonore en perpétuel renouvellement. Son expérience musicale éclectique (musiques industrielle, concrète, minimal glitch, paysage sonore, etc.) et ses nombreuses collaborations témoignent de la diversité esthétique de ses œuvres, dont le point commun est une évidente sensibilité.
Queendom (2009) : 8:07
voice: Yôko Higashi création nord-américaine
Sleppet (2–3): Avalanches, Water and Stones (2008) : 9:35 création nord-américaine Sleppet (4) Glacier (2008) : 10:00
Irregular Characters (2010) : 19:41
using material by: Yasunao Tone création nord-américaineHoracio Vaggione fait partie des pionniers de l’électroacoustique, mais son œuvre ne porte pas le poids du passé, bien au contraire ; nous sommes ici devant une musique d’une grande vivacité. Son intérêt envers le caractère énergétique du son est au premier plan de son travail. La virtuosité du compositeur nous permet d’entrer dans ce monde invisible où matière, durée et énergie sont en pleine convolution. Ses œuvres se présentent sous forme de grandes fresques abstraites qui diffusent leur beauté au travers de la cohérence du discours et de la forme musicale.
Arenas (2007) : 15’ création nord-américaine
Ash (1990) : 15’
Points critiques (2011) : 16’ création canadienne

Akousma at Empac

AKOUSMA at Empac

Friday October 7, 8:00 PM – Studio 2

EMPAC is located at the corner of 8th Street and College Avenue, in Troy, NY.

Presenting international works across the spectrum of electronic music, this concert highlights selections from this year’s eighth annual AKOUSMA festival in Montréal. Pierre-Yves Macé (France), France Jobin (Canada), Horacio Vaggione (France/Argentina), and Louis Dufort (Canada) will be interpreting their works live over a 16-speaker system surrounding the audience.

AKOUSMA is produced by Réseaux, a composer-run organization dedicated to presenting and commissioning electroacoustic music since 1991. Montréal is the North American hub for electronic music, offering a wide range of festivals spanning dance music, acoustics research, and everything in between.

Curator: Micah Silver

Bios:France Jobin, aka i8u, is a Montréal-based sound/installation/web artist and curator. Jobin’s audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture,” and her installation/web art incorporates both musical and visual elements.

France Jobin has created solo recordings for ROOM40, NVO, and Bake/Staalplaat, among others, and has had many collaborations, including with Goem, Martin Tétreault, David Kristian, and Tomas Phillips.

She has participated in web work/installations in Québec and Toronto, and in various music and new technology festivals in Canada, Europe, and the United States, including Silophone, MUTEK, Le Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Ver Uit de Maat, send + receive, Les Digitales, Club Transmediale, velak, Shut up and Listen!, ISEA2010 RUHR, and immersound, as well as a soundtrack with Bubblyfish for the film Swordswoman of Huangjiang (Huangjiang Nuxia), presented at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Her latest endeavor, immersound, is a concert event/philosophy that proposes to create a dedicated listening environment by focusing on the physical comfort of the audience through a specifically designed space. The premise is to explore new perceptions and experiences of the listening process by pushing the notion of “immersion” to its possible limits. The first immersound was produced in February 2011 at the OBORO gallery in Montréal.

Jobin’s work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create in new environments.

Montréal composer Louis Dufort’s music ranges from a cathartic form of expressionism to a focus on the inner structure of sound matter.

Dufort developed his style through electroacoustic music, and then turned his attention to mixed music and multimedia art, and has worked with a wide range of organizations, including the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ), the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal (ECM), the Quasar saxophone quartet and Bozzini string quartet, the Ensemble de flûtes Alizé, Réseaux, the Quebec Association for Creation and Research in Electroacoustics (ACREQ), and Chants Libres, for which he wrote the music for the 2005 opera, L’Archange

In 2007, Dufort was commissioned by Société Radio‐Canada (SRC) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to make a video and acousmatic remix of Glenn Gould’s recordings for the pianist 75th birthday.

In 2001, Dufort received a mention from Prix Ars Electronica (Austria); in 2005, he was invited to work at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Germany, and in 2007, he was a guest of Recombinant Media Labs (RML) in San Francisco. He has worked with choreographer Marie Chouinard since1996, and their collaborations have been regularly acclaimed, including Body_Remix, which premiered at the Venice Biennial in 2005.

Dufort teaches at Montréal’s Music Conservatory. He was named artistic director of Réseaux in 2010, and he begins his first season with a concert at EMPAC.

Pierre-Yves Macé is a French musician whose musical practice encompasses improvisation on machines, a background in piano and classical percussion, jazz-rock/prog-rock bands, dance accompaniments, and an interest in literature and musicology. He received his PhD in musicology in 2009, which explored phonography and the “sound document” in contemporary music. His first recording, Faux-Jumeaux, was released on John Zorn’s Tzadik label in 2002. Subsequently, he released Circulations (Sub Rosa, 2005), and Crash_Test II (Tensional Integrity) (Orkhêstra, 2006) for a string quartet. He has held residencies at CalArts in Los Angeles, CNMAT in Berkeley (2004), and GRM in Paris (2006, 2008). Macé has performed in the Octobre Festival in Normandie, MIMI, Villette Sonique, Brocoli, Transnumériques, and Présences électronique. His artistic collaborations include projects with ON (Sylvain Chauveau & Steven Hess), That Summer, Louisville, artist Hippolyte Hentgen, and writers Mathieu Larnaudie, Philippe Vasset, and Christophe Fiat. He is also a member of the Encyclopédie de la parole, a speech encyclopedia crew whose goal is to constitute a compositional plan through which different forms of recorded speeches may be compared.

Horacio Vaggione is an Argentinian-born electroacoustic and musique concrète composer who specializes in micromontage, granular synthesis, and microsound, and whose pieces often are for performer and computer‐generated tape. He studied composition at the National University in Córdoba and the University of Illinois, where he first gained exposure and access to computers.

Vaggione visited every electronic studio in Europe during the 1970s. From 1969 to 1973 he lived in Madrid, Spain, where he was part of the ALEA group. He also co‐founded an electronic studio and music and computer projects at the Autonomous University of Madrid with Luis de Pablo. In 1978, he moved to France, where he still resides, and begin work at GMEB in Bourges, INA‐GRM and IRCAM in Paris, where his music moved from synthesized and sampled loops (as in La Maquina de Cantar, produced on an IBM computer) toward micromontage. Since 1994, he has been a professor of music at the University of Paris VIII, where he organized the Centre de recherche Informatique et Création Musicale (CICM).

About EMPAC

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) opened its doors in 2008 and was hailed by the New York Times as a “technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses… dedicated to the marriage of art and science as it has never been done before.”

Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.

EMPAC’s building is a showcase work of architecture and a unique technological facility that boasts unrivaled presentation and production capabilities for art and science spanning the physical and virtual worlds and the spaces in between.

DATA/FIELDS

DATA/FIELDS

“I am pleased to announce that, by popular demand, Data/Fields exhibit has been extended two weeks…through Sunday, December 11th!” – Richard Chartier due to popular demand, DATA/FIELDS has been extended until December 11th, 2011!

“Sharply installed and smartly edited mini-survey of cutting-edge contemporary art… the works in “Data/Fields” sharpen your senses, even as they blur the boundary between sight and sound.” – The Washington Post

New Media Installation Works

Sep 22 – Nov 27
Terrace Gallery
Opening reception: Fri Sep 23 / 7-10pm / Free
Gallery talk: Mon Sep 26 + Wed Sep 28 / 12:30pm /Free

Data are points that flow through fields. We can pause in these fields and extract the information. If data fields are those set boundaries in which we place, consider, and collect information, then a gallery might be a great plane of these fields. Or, leaving the natural world for the subjective, it could become an index, compiled by artist and viewer together. Created by five noted international artists, the works in Data/Fields utilize the thematic implications of the data field as they transform gallery space into hubs of sensory information: sites of signal, noise, presence, and absence. The viewer/listener becomes another connection, another point, in the flow and transferral of data.

Data/Fields is curated by renowned sound artist Richard Chartier.

These selected and commissioned works at Artisphere are the artists’ gallery debut in the Washington, DC area and include two premiere exhibitions in the United States.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Caleb Coppock (U.S.)
Mark Fell (U.K.)
Andy Graydon (U.S./Germany)
Ryoji Ikeda (Japan)
France Jobin (Canada)
About the Curator

Richard Chartier (curator) (b.1971), sound and installation artist, is considered one of the key figures in the current of reductionist electronic sound art which has been termed both “microsound” and Neo-Modernist. Chartier’s minimalist digital work explores the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception, and the act of listening itself. Chartier’s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally, including the 2002’s Whitney Biennial. He has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits.

In 2000 he formed the influential recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism. In 2007 he curated the sound/video program Colorfield Variations, a collection of works influenced by the Color Field painting movement. This program continues to screened and exhibited and digital/film festivals, museums, and art galleries around the world. In 2010, Chartier was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Artist Research Fellowship. 3particles.com + lineimprint.com

France Jobin

photo by Richard Chartier

Entre-deux, 2011, 6-channel site specific sound installation, 144 minute cycles

“Between notes and sounds lie rests and silence. I have come to regard these as the most fragile parts of music.” – France Jobin

Created entirely with actual field recordings from across the globe and on location around Artisphere, Montreal sound artist France Jobin’s site-specific work Entre-deux explores acts of systemic, yet subjective, information gathering. Spaces and times are chosen for their inherent beauty, then processed and reformed as location and experience itself becomes transposed. Entre-deux is the re-placing of data. This site-specific work is the first gallery exhibition of Jobin’s installations in the U.S.
Entre-Deux is supported in part by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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On view in Data/Fields, a new media exhibition in which the viewer/listener becomes another connection in the flow and transfer of data. The artworks presented act as hubs of sensory information—sites of signal, noise, presence, and absence.  The exhibition features works by five noted international artists, Caleb Coppock (U.S.), Mark Fell (U.K.), Andy Graydon (U.S./Germany), Ryoji Ikeda (Japan), France Jobin (Canada), and is curated by renowned sound artist Richard Chartier.