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Toulouse-born composer, electronic producer and sound architecture researcher Olivier Alary has been living in Montreal for the past 23 years, unknown to many, exploring the “gray areas between music and instrumental composition, between music and noise”.
Over the past ten years, he has composed the soundtracks for several feature-length and short films. Alongside his film work, which earns him a respectable living, Olivier Alary has recorded several albums, notably on the Rephlex, Fat-Cat Records and 130701 labels.
What’s more, he was involved in producing or remixing tracks by well-known personalities, starting with Björk (album Medulla, including the song Desired Constellation). Cat Power and Lou Barlow (Dinosaur JR) collaborated on one of his albums.
His work as a composer and sound design researcher has led him to write a variety of instrumental and electronic music inspired by several musical genres and subgenres, from European electroacoustic to noise, indie rock, no wave, punk, techno and contemporary music.
In the context of Akousma, he presents a work resulting from his recent research into artificial intelligence in composition at Usine C on Thursday. Présences imaginées attempts to map what would remain of human sounds after their disappearance, a kind of sonic capture of our civilization, documented and mapped by artificial intelligence.
For PAN M 360, Alain Brunet met Olivier Alary virtually. Let’s get to know each other!
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