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Akousma is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and Estelle Schorpp will be performing at Usine C on October 16. Sound artist, composer, researcher and teacher at the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Music, Estelle Schorpp is active in the field of experimental music. Research-creation enables her to develop an elaborate, reflexive design process.
Drawing on sound ecology, sound studies, media theory, the history of science, acoustics and psychoacoustics, her polymorphous approach combines performance, installation and algorithmic composition. Celebrating the art of creating music using a set of pre-established rules, the Franco-Canadian determines a strict framework while allowing random phenomena to intrude.
Her work has been performed or exhibited at Sporobole in Sherbrooke, Mutek Montreal, La Nuit Blanche with Eastern Bloc, the Biennale du son in Le Mans, France, ISEA22 at Barcelona’s Centre Culturel Contemporain, and in cities such as Stockholm and Helsinki.
For PAN M 360, Salima Bouaraour spoke to Estelle about reconciling the artist’s absolute freedom in algorithmic composition, her performance at Akousma and possible ways of popularizing and even democratizing so-called “scientific” music.
Photo Credit : Andrea Avezzù
