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Presented on Saturday by Codes d’Accès, an organization whose purpose is to promote the work of emerging composers, the electroacoustic program Troubles et méandres (Turmoil and Meanderings) presents “innovative artists whose works blur the lines of musical and performance conventions.” For those who responded to the call, PAN M 360 is posting their responses online and wishes them a long and fruitful creative career! Here is Maxime Gordon, who is presenting the piece Retrieving Currents, for loud speaker array at the Espace Bleu du Wilder.
PAN M 360: This is your chance to increase your visibility, so introduce yourself!
Maxime Gordon: I’m a Montreal-based music producer and sound artist. Since 2015, I have been been creating and performing experimental electronic music under the name Bénédicte. My practice expanded into spatial sound art in 2017 during an internship at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest. I have since performed and presented work across North America and Europe, notably at MUTEK, CTM and Akousma. Her music has been released on Blueberry Records (NYC) and Casual Chain (Montreal).
PAN M 360: Present your work in the program: title, subject matter, content, form, stylistic references, instrumentation, performers (if any), live performance, angle of approach:
Maxime Gordon: Retrieving Currents is a spatial sound art piece about memory. In this piece I weave together field recordings from personally significant landscapes and explore water as a site for personal memory. Each location, tied to a specific memory, was revisited – an act of re-listening, re-feeling, and re-inhabiting. The piece is made entirely from these recorded sounds, which were then spatialized, layered, and digitally altered to form an exploration of place and memory. Recording locations include Montreal, Toronto, and Trois-Pistoles. Memories date back 4, 13, and 24 years.
PAN M 360: How are you connected to this program, whose title Troubles et méandres seems to suggest a theme? Or to the organization Codes d’Accès? Or to an emerging cohort on the creative music scene?
Maxime Gordon : I was an artist in residence for Codes d’Accès and prim and am premiering the work I created during this residency. It was a great experience and I got to really dive into field recording for the first time, use new recording gear and work in a professional studio.
PAN M 360: What are your upcoming projects or events?
Maxime Gordon: I’m currently working on my next Bénédicte album.
