film soundtrack composer, sound / installation artist, curator
Releases in June 2023 on Granny Records – Greece
All sounds recorded in Montreal including the Korg Poly 800,
The Buchla 200 at Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm
releases June 15, 2023
Written & produced by France Jobin
© 2023 France Jobin / p 2023 Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd Mastered by Yannis Tsirikoglou
Design & Artwork by Yorgos Vourlidas
Edition of 80 copies | CS | granny 37
© all rights reserved
The Mutek Immersive Collection was presented at printemps numérique Bruxelles in March 2023. 5000 people in two days were able to experience works by Line Katcho, Chloe Alexandra Thompson & Matthew Edwards, France Jobin & Markus Heckmann
More about the collection here
As a festival presenting cutting-edge audiovisual performances — works that innovate to create a new language of sound and images — we have always strived to accompany artists across new boundaries of technology. 2022 opens up a new chapter for MUTEK, marking our first steps as an Extended Reality (XR) content producer. Five artists have stepped up to the challenge of reinventing a past festival performance into an XR artwork. The result is an eclectic yet coherent set of three different XR projects ranging from contemplative to surreal to dynamic: Entanglement XR by France Jobin & Markus Heckmann, House of Moiré by Chloe Alexandra Thompson & Matthew Edwards (aesthetic.stalemate), and Immortelle by Line Katcho
Published by MUTEK on several online content stores, starting with Steam, the Immersive Collection will also join the catalog of Astrea, the largest international distributor of immersive productions, and be presented at select festivals and spaces worldwide.
See below for more information about the artists and their projects.
World premiere during the MUTEK Festival: August 23-28 2022 — esplanade Tranquille, Montréal
Autumn 2022: Mexico city, Mexico: MUTEK Mexico | Tokyo, Japan: Beyond The Frame Festival | Rotterdam, Netherlands: Immersive Tech Week Rotterdam
Winter 2022-2023: : Tokyo, Japan: MUTEK Tokyo | Rajasthan, India: Magnetic Fields Festival | Miami, USA: FilmGate Festival (Miami Art Week)
Download the Immersive Collection onto your VR headset
Optimized for Quest 2, Quest + Link, Rift.
Immortelle available on Steam & Viveport (links below).
House of Moiré and Entanglement XR can be wishlisted as of now (links below).
Publication on further content stores in progress.
Follow MUTEK on Steam
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
France Jobin + Richard Chartier exhibition
各作家による日本限定の版画シリーズを展示販売します
re.DUO
DUO is the first collaborative project from minimal composer France Jobin and Richard Chartier.
This an exhibition of a series limited edition prints by each artist that are exclusive to Japan.
OPEN PM: 12:00 – PM 06:00 – CLOSED EVERY WEDNESDAY
info@low.co.jp
+81.3.6421.1784
〒152-0033 東京都目黒区大岡山1-6-6
1F 1-6-6 Oookayama Meguro-ku
Tokyo 152-0033 Japan
France Jobin and Markus Heckmann will present Entanglement AV and XR as well as take part in a panel about XR production during Mutek Japan which will take place between Dec 7 – 11th 2022.
Friday, December 9, 2022
18:30_21:00 Tokyo time
BUNBUNCA/QC
France Jobin & Markus HeckmannCA/QC+DE
Myriam BoucherCA/QC
KOPYJP
Mars89 & HEXPIXELSJP
YOSHIROTTEN & TAKAKAHN feat. Baku HashimotoJP
France Jobin and Markus Heckmann will present Entanglement AV and XR at Mutek MX
IMPORTANT: doors open at 18:30 and access will be allowed until 03:00.
Nocturne 360 is the most intense and diverse program of the MUTEK MX experience. With infinite universes contained in a single venue, Nocturne 360s rooms, installations and passageways will be transformed through the visions and experiments from artists and creators from all over.
This mega convergence of up-and-coming and renowned artists will take us on an exciting 360 tour that will go from virtual reality and immersive experiences, to cathartic dance sessions with the most challenging producers. In addition to the artists who will take on the different stages, Nocturne 360 will showcase the globally distinctive ambience and light design of the MUTEK experience.
CNDSD & Iván AbreuMX+CU
France Jobin & Markus HeckmannCA/QC+DE
InterspecificsMX
JS BaillatCA/QC
Kaitlyn Aurelia SmithUS
KorelessUK
Loraine JamesUK
Nik Colk VoidUK
SKY H1 & Mika OkiBE
Sinjin Hawke & Zora JonesCA/AT
Tristan ArpUS
YamilaES/BE
BarkerUK
Elías Merino & Tadej DroljcES/SI
DebitMX
INTUSMX
MFODE
AAAAMX
Boris AcketNL
Concepción Huerta + z.vektor & Milena PafundiMX+AR
Fezz Stenton, Karl Skene & Matt EckensweilerCA
MAOTIKFR
Melissa SantamaríaMX
Oculta StudioMX
Orly AnanCO
Rafael Anton Irisarri & Florence ToUS+UK
µ-Ziq & ID:MORAUK+ES
Buena Tarde & Rodrigo CidMX
RampaMX
For over 20 years, MUTEK has been dedicated to showcasing live electronic music and real-time audiovisual performances in Montreal, making it one of the few venues in North America where such innovation occurs. MUTEK has built a unique model over the years that has proven to be alluringly exportable. The tentacles now span four continents and six other cities such as Tokyo, Barcelona or Buenos Aires, with each satellite adapting the festival’s values of inclusion and accessibility to inspire new ways of engaging with the richness of electronic and digital art.
After the cooperation between HYBRID and MUTEK was postponed at short notice in March 2020 and could only take place digitally in March 2021 with thousands of online guests, the first cooperation will finally be live in the Festspielhaus in Hellerau on October 29th, 2022: with Ryoichi Kurokawa, France Jobin & Markus Heckmann, Line Katcho, Flabbergast and RAMZi will guarantee artists who have long been associated with MUTEK an extraordinary evening in the Great Hall of the Festpielhaus.
program
8:00 p.m. Subassemblies – Ryoichi Kurokawa
9:15 p.m. Entanglement – France Jobin & Markus Heckmann
10:00 p.m. RAMZi + Line Katcho (visuals)
10:45 p.m. Flabbergast + Line Katcho (visuals)
Duration: 5 hours
France was guest composer at EMS 24 October – 2 November, 2022
France spent 10 days working with the Buchla 200, the Serge, the nord modulars and
the syntrx by Erca Synth. She managed to build a brand new sound bank which will be used
for many upcoming album that have ben commissioned.
France Jobin is a sound / installation / artist, film composer,
and curator residing in Montreal, whose audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture”, reveals a minimalist approach
to complex sound environments where analog and digital intersect. Her installations incorporate both musical and visual elements inspired by the architecture of physical spaces.
Her work can be “experienced” internationally in a variety
of unconventional spaces and new technology festivals.
Jobin has solo recordings on many renowned labels. Her sound art is also part of countless compilation albums. While her music often makes use of restraint and limit, she isn’t one to shy away from extremes. Her skillful interplay between highs and lows, louds and softs, creates an intricate narrative, which stretches the listener’s perception and continually refocuses attention.
In 2021, she presented the world premiere of Entanglement AV with Markus Heckmann at Mutek Edition 22. Influenced by theories in quantum physics since 2008, the pandemic has allowed her time to study and dive into this scientific universe. Entanglement is the first iteration of this large-scale project.
In 2020, she composed the soundtrack for Ouroboros – Maxime Le Flaguais’s first short film. In November 2019, she presented her first modular concert (Buchla 100) at the Ernst Krenek Institute in Austria.
She has performed and exhibited at a number of different locations world wide. France Jobin’s work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create new environments.
She is published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd.
18:00-21:00 | SKEPPET GBG
PIERRE-LUC LECOURS & IDA TONINATO [CA], MYRIAM BOUCHER [CA], FRANCE JOBIN & MARKUS HECKMANN [CA/DE]
Canadian sound artist Pierre-Luc Lecours and saxophonist Ida Toninato will present their audiovisual performance Inner Seas, which is an audiovisual performance that revolves around the theme of water, where baritone saxophone, modular synthesizer and electric guitar meet. Montreal based sound artist Myriam Boucher presents the work The Tuning of the Fields, a work that tends to evoke those moments of solitude and wonder, and that feeling of suspended time that inhabits us when listening to the song of the crickets, eyes closed, at night, lying in a field. Montreal based artists France Jobin and Markus Heckmann presents the audiovisual work Entanglement, which is an artistic project at the crossroads of scientific research inspired by the concept and properties of entanglement in quantum physics and quantum fields theory.
As a festival presenting cutting-edge audiovisual performances — works that innovate to create a new language of sound and images — we have always strived to accompany artists across new boundaries of technology. 2022 opens up a new chapter for MUTEK, marking our first steps as an Extended Reality (XR) content producer. Five artists have stepped up to the challenge of reinventing a past festival performance into an XR artwork. The result is an eclectic yet coherent set of three different XR projects ranging from contemplative to surreal to dynamic: Entanglement XR by France Jobin & Markus Heckmann, House of Moiré by Chloe Alexandra Thompson & Matthew Edwards (aesthetic.stalemate), and Immortelle by Line Katcho
Published by MUTEK on several online content stores, starting with Steam, the Immersive Collection will also join the catalog of Astrea, the largest international distributor of immersive productions, and be presented at select festivals and spaces worldwide.
See below for more information about the artists and their projects.
Experience the Immersive Collection in Québec (free)
World premiere during the MUTEK Festival: August 23-28 — esplanade Tranquille, Montréal
VR Garden Newmont Éléonore at Festival de musique émergente (FME): September 1-4 — FME Hub, Rouyn-Noranda
Meet the artists
XR Salon at MUTEK Forum: August 24 — Agora du Coeur des sciences, Montréal
PRESENTATIONS: The XR Projects of MUTEK’s Immersive Collection
NETWORKING COCKTAIL: XR Salon
Download the Immersive Collection onto your VR headset
Optimized for Quest 2, Quest + Link, Rift.
Publication on Steam coming up in October 2022, the three works can be wishlisted as of now (links below).
Publication on further content stores to be announced.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Entanglement is a dazzling work that distills quantum physics theories into a swooping sensorial experience. It interprets the concept of entanglement: when two or more particles link up, and no matter how far apart they are in space, their states remain linked. It is an uncanny phenomenon in quantum physics, one that defies explanations.
The piece oscillates between four theories: the fluidity of time, the multiverse, the Copenhagen interpretation and decoherence. These complex notions are translated into a visually and sonically stunning experience guided by science, technology, and the sensitivity needed to illustrate what cannot be visualized. The viewer contemplates these revolving realms, composed of intricate graphics and audio.
France JobinCA/QC is an audio and installation artist, as well as composer and curator. Markus HeckmannDE/CA is a visual artist and Technical Director at Derivative, the maker of TouchDesigner
– Alain Mongeau, MUTEK artistic director
House of Moiré invites users into a void-like realm, where one’s experience is defined by the curiosity of their eyes and ears. In self-directed exploration, the viewer advances through a succession of rooms dressed in optical patterns, audio-visual programming, and minimalist spatial design. The result is an odd and inquisitive trip through transforming sonic and visual architecture. House of Moiré is the culmination of various iterations of Moiré, a series of A/V works which employ custom audio software, depth cameras, motion capture, and interactive design principles to investigate psycho-acoustics and sensory illusion.
Chloe Alexandra ThompsonCA/US and Matthew EdwardsUS (aka aesthetic.stalemate) are interdisciplinary artists and collaborators. Chloe is a composer and sound designer interested in the physicality of sound and mediation of technology in installation and performance, and Matthew blends installation art, performance and virtual reality.
– France Jobin, artist
Immortelle is an atmospheric and figurative work illustrating the flights and falls of psychological endurance. Featuring a cathartic flux of sonic and visual fragments, this unpredictable piece opens a door onto how a mind in internal turmoil redefines the outside world. The viewer travels through different scenes and seasons, paves through evocative empty structures, wades through waves and mountain peaks, encounters a presence in a vacuum.
Immortelle evokes how visceral perceptions of our environment mirror our own transformations, showing both the softer and fiery sides of a fighter spirit.
Line KatchoCA/QC is a composer and audiovisual artist primarily interested in sound and image as demonstrations of kinetic matter. Through motion and gestures, she aims at creating a provocative sensory experience, leaving the viewer charged yet liberated.
