Société des arts technologiques (SAT)

MUTEK 2023 | Satosphère 2 : UNION — Nancy Lee & Kiran Bhumber

by Alain Brunet

Photo credit: Ash KG

Here’s a summary of this 25-minute work, part of the Satosphère program on August 23 at MUTEK: “UNION is an immersive narrative that tells the story of two beings discovering their ancestral memories through the desire for touch and the rituals practiced during their post-apocalyptic wedding ceremony.”

Nancy Lee and Kiran Bhumber have imagined their story as an artistic illustration of their diasporic identities. Their aim is to “unveil and reconstitute cultural memory through the sacred ritual of spiritual union and physical intimacy”. In other words, this spiritual union cannot function smoothly if the strains of its actors are not identified, understood and integrated.

The immersion proposed here is based on abstract images projected onto a dome: shimmering colors mingle on the concave screen, giant hands whirl around, suspended humanoid busts, deposits of gems, two flesh-and-blood women sketching short choreographies, an evocation of post-apocalyptic marriage.

In terms of sound, the soundtrack includes a brief narration of this fictional story and offers the ear a series of electronic effects typical of this type of immersion: synthesized percussion, industrial sounds, and electroacoustic processes generally familiar to dome immersion enthusiasts. The sound quality is also exemplary.

In short, the abstraction of this work outweighs its background, the aesthetic coherence of this work needs to be perfected, the integration of forms and sounds testifies to an art that is still exploratory and above all interesting for its fragmentary effects and not for their integration into an integrated whole.

This is a recurring problem with immersive works that include sound and images: a fascination with these new creative tools rarely leads to an integrated aesthetic, and we contemplate their technological advances without being marked by a total work.

MUTEK 2023 | Satosphère 1 : Metaract et Iwakura

by Théo Reinhardt

The first Satosphère event of the MUTEK 2023 festival features a double program, with the audiovisual projects Metaract and Iwakura. The former is, according to MUTEK’s website, “an exploration of the duality between analog and digital”, and the latter, “a supernatural journey to rediscover the transcendence of nature.”

Photo credits : Ash KG

Metaract

Metaract is the first of two presentations, created by Japanese artists Manami Sakamoto and Yuri Urano. It’s an immersive film focused on nature which, in the context of the SAT, certainly questions the relationship between the natural and technological worlds. 

From a dust particle in nothingness, to a drop of water in a freezing river, to a lump of earth in a forest, we seem to be taken through all the states of matter, as if we were experiencing them in first person. Things move slowly, even if it feels like we’re crossing universe-scale time jumps in the space of 20 minutes or so. What’s more, the exploratory but still modest tone of this rather abstract representation of nature is reminiscent of the curious and avid lens towards nature shown in Terrence Malick’s films, in particular The Tree of Life (2011) and his recent documentary Voyage of Time (2016).

The music remains fairly calm, with ambient layers that place us in a space without beginning or end, with a few distant sounds of bells and chimes here and there. The most recurring image is that of thousands of tiny dots floating in nothingness, which can be infinitely small or large. There’s no real scale of reference here, but even the small seems immense when sitting down, head up, under the dome of the Satosphère. 

At the end of the film, as low-frequency blasts mimic a living heart, the thousands of colored dots acquire some intelligence and form trees, before hatching, falling back into galactic chaos, and finally returning as trees, their final form. At least, for the time being.

Iwakura

This second presentation, by artists Kazuka Naya, Ali Mahmut Demirel and Maurice Jones, is more abstract, more bizarre, more preoccupying and, above all, more psychedelic.

Born from what appears to be an obsession for geology, our journey begins by surveying very, very closely the walls of various caves, which merge into one another. The music here is dark, murky, calcified. It’s like being immersed in a meticulous, if not slightly fantastical, search for a fossil. But we won’t stop there. The journey will take us much further into the limbo of form, and we’re not sure we’ll be coming back. 

As the images unfold, the rocky entities, now solitary in the void, follow one another, and their movement becomes increasingly supernatural: they collapse in on themselves, open out towards us in a tunnel that crushes and lengthens to infinity, at the same time hollowing out and unfolding in geometric, symmetrical excrescences, while we forget the music and all our attention is trapped in this geological black hole.

Eventually, we’re back where we started, with rock walls blending with waterfalls and trees, as the music builds in intensity, orchestration and sentimentality. Quite a journey. Have we reached transcendence? The sublime? Horror? A little of all three, maybe…

deep techno / Electronic / House

MEG Montréal présente Joris Delacroix et Stereoclip à la SAT

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Joris Delacroix

Producteur, Dj et performeur live basé en France, la carrière de Joris débute en 2010. Pianiste depuis son enfance, il découvre la musique électronique à l’âge de 10 ans avec le mouvement French-Touch et la House music britannique. Plus tard, il se tourne vers un son plus underground avec des artistes allemands de Minimal-Techno. Son style est un mélange unique de ces influences House et Techno, avec beaucoup de sons mélodiques provenant directement du piano.

Producer, Dj and Live Performer based in France, Joris’s career starts in 2010. Pianist since his childhood, he discovers electronic music at the age of 10 with the French-Touch movement and House music from UK. Later, he got into a more undergound sound with mostly german artists of Minimal-Techno. His style is a unique mix of these House and Techno influences, made with a lot of melodic gimmicks coming directly from the Piano.

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Stereoclip

Né à Bruxelles en 1989, Stereoclip compose une musique techno profonde, vocale et mystérieuse. Maîtrisant à la fois les performances live et la production musicale, il a été accueilli sur des labels prestigieux tels que Hungry Music, Armada Music ou Délicieuse, pour n’en citer que quelques-uns. Projeté sur le devant de la scène de la musique électronique après le succès de son premier album, l’icône belge livre aujourd’hui de nouvelles inspirations dans les festivals, les clubs et les salles de concert du monde entier.

1989 Brussels-born Stereoclip composes a deep, vocal, and mysterious techno music. Mastering both live performances and music production, he’s hosted on prestigious imprints such as Hungry Music, Armada Music, or Délicieuse, just to name a few. Thrown in the front of the electronic music landscape after the success of his first album, the Belgian icon now delivers new inspirations to festivals, clubs, and concert halls alike around the world.

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Electronic / House

MEG Montréal présente COEO à la SAT

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COEO est composé de Florian Vietz et Andreas Höpfl, deux gars qui se sont rencontrés au lycée et ont partagé un amour commun pour la musique Hip Hop et Soul. Quelques années plus tard, ils sont tombés amoureux de la musique house et ont passé de plus en plus de nuits à jouer dans les bars et les clubs de leur ville natale, Munich. Le nom du duo, “Coeo”, est une expression latine qui a une signification profonde : bien que difficile à prononcer, elle peut être traduite par “unir” ou “former une alliance” et prend tout son sens pour un duo de DJ dont le but est de rassembler les gens sur la piste de danse.

COEO consists of Florian Vietz and Andreas Höpfl, 2 guys, who met during high school and shared a mutual love for Hip Hop and Soul music. Some years later they fell in love with House music and spent more and more nights Djing in bars & clubs of their hometown Munich. The duo’s name, ‘Coeo’, is a latin expression, which comes up with a deeper meaning: Though hard to pronounce, it can be translated as “to unite“ or “to form an alliance“ and makes absolute sense for a DJ Duo who’s aim is to bring people together on the dancefloor.

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Electronic

MUTEK présente Nocturne 5

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La série Nocturne se termine en apothéose avec une programmation sur deux étages jusqu’au bout de la nuit. Appréciez un départ plus exprimental et contemplatif avant de lacher votre fou une dernière fois sur la piste de danse, toustes ensemble.

The Nocturne series ends on a high note with a two-stage program that runs through the night. Enjoy a more experimental and contemplative start before enjoying the good vibes one last time on the dance floor, all together.

Salle 1 : Satosphère

Caro

Caro Wilson est un·e producteur·trice, un·e DJ et un·e animateur·trice radio qui vit et travaille sur les territoires non cédés du peuple Sinixt en Colombie-Britannique.

Caro Wilson is a producer, DJ and radio host who lives and works on the unceded territories of British-Columbia’s Sinixt Nation.

Whatever the Weather

Whatever The Weather fonctionne en degrés ; des paramètres élémentaires permettent à Loraine James de se concentrer sur les nuances afin de façonner l’atmosphère. Son univers en suspension fluctue, gelant, dégelant, oscillant et fleurissant avec fluidité de pièce en pièce, à l’image d’événements climatiques déferlant soudainement sur un environnement unique; un emplacement fixe aux conditions variables.

Whatever The Weather works in degrees; simple parameters allowing Loraine James to focus on the nuances as a mood-builder. Her suspended universe fluctuates; freezing, thawing, swaying and blooming from track to track, with an intrinsic fluidity to them, akin to sudden weather events passing over a single environment — the location feels fixed while the conditions vary.

Ramzi

Plus connue sous son alias RAMZi, Phoebé Guillemot est une compositrice, conceptrice sonore, curatrice musicale et artiste visuelle basée à Montréal.

Better known under her alias RAMZi, Phoebé Guillemot is a Montréal-based music composer, sound designer, music curator and visual artist.

Edward

Gilles Aiken, alias Edward, est un DJ et producteur berlinois produisant des morceaux à l’esthétique sonore club. Avec un intérêt prononcé pour le groove, la techno sombre et surréaliste, il crée des sets uniques et immersifs à la limite du cosmique.

Gilles Aiken, aka Edward, is a Berlin-based DJ and producer producing tracks with a club sound aesthetic. With a strong interest in groove, dark and surreal techno, he creates unique and immersive sets bordering on the cosmic.

N/UM

Le trio électronique new-yorkais N/UM est largement considéré comme un pionnier de la musique électronique en temps réel, et ses prestations live pleinement improvisées mettent en vedette certains des instruments analogues les plus iconiques, tels les TR-808, TR-909 et SH-101 de Roland, le tout combiné à des voix, des synthés modulaires et des guitares afin de créer une expérience radicalement transcendante.

New York-based electronic trio N/UM has come to be regarded as the quintessential pioneer of live electronic music, with fully-improvised live sets featuring the most iconic of analog electronic instruments available, such as Roland’s TR-808, TR-909 and SH-101, combined with vocals, modular synths and guitars in order to create a truly genre-bending experience.

Salle 2 : Espace SAT

Echönymphia & le désert mauve

Projet collaboratif entre la pianiste Vivian Li et la harpiste Coralie Gauthier, Echönymphia peint des paysages sonores aux textures scintillantes et aux couleurs éthérées. 

A collaborative project between pianist Vivian Li and harpist Coralie Gauthier, Echönymphia paints sonic landscapes with shimmering textures and ethereal colors.

Parts Project 

Né à Winnipeg en 1982, Allan Hanley a développé sa créativité et est monté sur scène dès son plus jeune âge, pratiquant le théâtre, la danse, l’improvisation et jouant dans plusieurs groupes. Sous son alias, l’artiste explore et interprète la culture du sound system, la techno, le breakbeat, en faisant la part belle aux samplers, boîtes à rythmes et autres loopers pour créer des expériences brutes, entraînantes et indéniablement humaines sur les pistes de danse. 

Born in Winnipeg in 1982, Allan Hanley developed his creativity and took to the stage from a young age, performing theater, dance, improvisation and playing in several bands. Under his alias, the artist creates live hardware act that explores and interprets sound system culture, techno, and breakbeat styles, leveraging samplers, drum machines and loopers to create raw, driving and undeniably human dance floor experiences.

Azu Tiwaline

Azu Tiwaline est une productrice franco-tunisienne proposant un son organique et brut, vibrant aux rythmes berbères des grands espaces du désert Saharien et des profondeurs du dub et de l’electronica.

Azu Tiwaline is a French-Tunisian producer offering an organic and raw sound, vibrating with the Berber rhythms of the Saharan desert and the depths of dub and electronica.

Dj Plead 

D’origine libanaise et suisse, l’artiste natif de Melbourne et basé à Berlin multiplie les riches inspirations culturelles avec des productions empruntant librement à la pop libanaise et aux percussions, gammes et timbres du Moyen-Orient, le tout fusionné au RnB contemporain, à la music club et autres styles dansants.

The half-Lebanese, half-Swiss, Melbourne-born, and Berlin-based artist has had no shortage of rich cultural inspirations, rather evident in his productions that frequently reference Lebanese pop and Middle Eastern drum rhythms, scales, and timbres, blended with contemporary RnB, club, and other dance styles. 

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Electronic

MUTEK présente Play 3

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Gabber Modus Operandi 

Un duo survolté composé de Kasimyn et Ican Harem, qui fusionnent la musique folklorique traditionnelle indonésienne à de vigoureuses influences footwork, grindcore et gabber pour créer un son frénétique, exubérant et diasporique.

Hyper-charged duo Kasimyn and Ican Harem, who merge traditional Indonesian folk music with vigorous footwork, grindcore and gabber influences to create a frantic, exuberant diasporic sound.

Liliane Chlela

Productrice et DJ hybride, Liliane Chlela est reconnue pour son traitement sonore distinct, repoussant les limites du son, du mouvement et de l’écoute.

Hybrid DJ and producer Liliane Chlela, known for her distinctive sound processing, pushes the boundaries of sound, movement and auditory perceptions.

Nahash 

Derrière Nahash se cache l’artiste, producteur et DJ français Raphaël Valensi, longtemps basé à Shanghai et aujourd’hui établi à Montréal.

Hiding behind the moniker Nahash is French artist, producer and DJ Raphaël Valensi, based in Shanghai for a long time and now established in Montreal.

NSDOS

L’artiste hybride parisien Kirikoo Des, alias NSDOS, fusionne danse, musique et arts numériques afin de repousser les frontières existantes et envisager un nouvel ordre sonique.

Paris-born hybrid artist Kirikoo Des, aka NSDOS, merges dance, music and digital art to push existing frontiers and imagine a new sonic order.

Olivia Lathuilliere

Olivia-Faye Lathuillière réalise des installations et sculptures sonores pour ensuite passer progressivement aux arts de la scène. Le corps, l’objet en mouvement et l’éphémère sont autant de concepts émergeant systématiquement de son travail plastique et scénique. 

Olivia-Faye Lathuillière centers her approach on the body and its intimate relationship with the environment. She created installations and sound sculptures, then progressively moved to performing arts. Bodies, objects in motion and the ephemeral are among the concepts that systematically emerge from her work, whether material or scenic.

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Electronic / Techno

MUTEK présente Play 2

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Éclectique et versatile, la deuxième soirée Play est un concentré d’artistes talentueuses d’Europe et du Québec. De la musique classique à la techno organique en passant par le chant folklorique et la house, la destination sera tant charmante qu’inattendue.

Eclectic and versatile, the second Play night is a concentration of talented artists from Europe and Quebec. From classical music to organic techno, from folk singing to house music, the destination will be both charming and unexpected.

Ambre Ciel 

Ambre Ciel est le projet de l’auteure-compositrice-interprète et multi-instrumentiste montréalaise Jessica Hébert, dans lequel on retrouve un alliage d’ambient, de néo-classique et de pop.

Singer-songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jessica Hébert’s latest project, Ambre Ciel, expertly blends ambient, neo-classical and pop influences.

Carmen Villain

L’artiste et productrice norvégienne et mexicaine Carmen Villain crée une musique atmosphérique combinant des éléments de fourth world, de dub et d’ambient.

Norwegian-Mexican artist and producer Carmen Villain creates atmospheric music combining elements of fourth world, dub and ambient.

Tarta Relena

 Le temps et l’espace s’entrechoquent au coeur de la musique du duo folk catalan Tarta Relena. Avec guère plus que leurs voix et une approche résolument contemporaine sur des répertoires oraux vieux de centaines d’années, Marta Torrella et Helena Ros revisitent les coins les plus reculés de la tradition musicale méditerranéenne. 

Time and distance collapse in the music of Catalan folk duo Tarta Relena. With little more than their voices and a decidedly contemporary take on oral repertoires dating back hundreds of years, Marta Torrella and Helena Ros revisit and interpret the far corners of Mediterranean musical tradition.

Ellxandra

Ellxandra est une chanteuse, compositrice et productrice camerounaise résidant actuellement à Montréal, au Canada.  Son expérience internationale lui permet de mélanger les genres, en incorporant des grooves de la musique électronique avec des voix jazzy et soul, le tout saupoudré de mélancolie.

Ellxandra is a vocalist, songwriter and producer from Cameroon currently residing in Montréal, Canada. Her international background allows her to blend genres, incorporating electronic dance grooves with soulful jazzy vocals, le tout peppered with melancholy.

rRoxymore

Née en France et basée à Berlin, Hermione Frank crée une musique dance abstraite et sournoisement ludique sous le pseudonyme rRoxymore.

Born in France–based in Berlin–Hermione Frank makes abstract, slyly, playful dance music as rRoxymore.

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Electro-Pop / Glam Rock / Indie Pop / Synth-Pop / Yacht Rock

INFINI 8: Le Couleur, Ormiston, Paupière, Radiant Baby and Russell Louder at Société des Arts Technologiques

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Lisbon Lux Records is proud to present INFINI 8 projections, for the label’s 8th anniversary.

For this mini virtual festival, there will be 5 performances from fabulous artists and 5 different stages set by Pestacle.

You’ll see and hear these Lisbon Lux artists :

Le Couleur

Montreal trio Le Couleur, created by Laurence Giroux-Do (vocals), Patrick Gosselin (bass), and Steeven Chouinard (drums), delivers rich and irresistibly danceable performances.

 In the album’s music, we find vintage influences, recalling the faded charm of 70s erotica, warm tones also rooted in psychedelia, disco, yéyé, and French chanson.

Radiant Baby

Radiant Baby, aka Félix Mongeon, comes from the Montreal music scene. His most recent album, Pantomime, draws inspiration from 70s vintage, passing through glam rock, punk, disco, and new wave. The fiery and rough energy of his music cultivates paradoxes, juxtaposing vulnerable, melancholic, and romantic ambiance, similar to artists such as Bowie, Blondie, Suicide, Pulp, and Serge Gainsbourg.

Ormiston

Ormiston is the solo project of Montreal born Nicola Ormiston. Singer-songwriter and producer of a sunny and laidback sound, somewhere between indie-pop, chillwave, and yacht rock where you can find influences from Toro Y Moi, MGMT, and electro-disco. 

Russell Louder

Russell Louder (they/them) is a trans artist originally from Prince Edward Island, living part-time in Montreal and Charlottetown. They make electro-pop that’s carried by a powerful clear voice reminiscent of Florence and the Machine, London Grammar, Austra, Eurythmics, or La Roux. You only have to see Russell Louder in concert once to fall for the luminous and authentic world they built, both poignant and danceable, just like their music. 

Paupière

Paupière

Mixing British synth-pop and French songs, Paupière is a “neo-romantic” band. Now led by Julia Daigle (visual artist) and Pierre-Luc Bégin (Polipe, We Are Wolves), they are a glamorous and flamboyant Montreal duo with an underground sensuality that creates a pop that is both naïve and profound. If one can hear echoes of Human League, Deux or Depeche Mode, their intertwined voices sing of the adolescent and hedonistic romanticism of the 80’s as much as contemporary disenchantment.

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Original content from Lisbon Lux Records and Société des Arts Technologiques, adapted by PAN M 360.

Electronic

Dance for Ukraine, Palestine, Afghanistan

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Montreal’s underground music community comes together amidst, and against, the ever-present global atrocities at the hands of a few, suffering of the many.
Join us for a 6-hour-rave fundraiser. 100% of all profits will be donated to three charities actively delivering critical assistance in Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Palestine.
We are conscious that there are ongoing conflicts in many other areas and have chosen the above three charities to balance wide reach with focused impact

Defence for Children Palestine

Rainbow Railroad

Nova Ukraine

Every person involved in the event –– artist, staff, organizer, etc. –– is doing so as a volunteer. If you’d like to collaborate, exhibit, or lend a hand in any way, please reach out to us.

Co-organized by all of us, together:
Exposé Noir, OCTOV, Homegrown Harvest, Inner Circle Mtl, FrontRite, shesaid.so, MTL24/24, BeatSpec, MFC Records, ECHOisONE, The Ants, RE:UNION, Coolground, North of Nowhere Records, Montréal Dances Across Borders, Tech Me Out, La North, Shift Radio, Chez Kito,Kat Records, Le Festival International du Film sur L’Art and la Société des arts technologiques.

Tickets are donation-based. The price you set is your contribution to the fundraiser – thank you for your support
Les billets sont à base de don. Le montant décidé est votre contribution à la levée de fond – merci pour votre soutien.

SCHEDULE

19:30 – 20:00
Montreal Dances Without Borders:
Jean Grünewald + Firas Nassri (Poetry Recital)

20:00 – 21:00
Tech Me Out & La North:
TBC b2b 90.sr

21:00 – 22:00
FrontRite:
Alexa Borzyk

22:00 – 23:00
RE:UNION
Moaad & Daura

23:00 – 00:00
Homegrown Harvest:
Dileta b2b NAP

00:00 – 01:00
Exposé Noir:
Ossifer b2b Marcos

01:00 – 02:00
*switch to daylight savings time*

02:00 – 03:00
OCTOV:
BitterCaress

VJs all night
QUINT
RØRØ

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Electronic

Nuit blanche @ SAT

by Alain Brunet

For the Montréal en lumière festival’s 17th Nuit blanche, la Société des arts technologiques (SAT) finds a good use for its extensive expertise in immersive and telepresence: being in two places simultaneously!

Telepresence and projection technologies developed by the SAT make it possible to merge spaces. You can “teleport” from one floor of the SAT to the other by immersing yourself in interactive audiovisual works, including real-time audiovisual performances.

The opportunities are twofold:

1. L’effet vert: racing game

Together with the public, dreamlike interactive scenes will be created by a video designer. A video inlay process will lead performers and audiences on both floors to be projected onto the video imagery as they move through the green space.

2. Graffiti numérique : line of light

Collaborating with artist Louis-Robert Bouchard, audiences on both floors will be able to jam on the creation of digital graffiti in a common space.

Rechristened l’Envers for the occasion, the Espace SAT (ground floor) will be open to the public free of charge. The invited DJs are Karaba, Nat Barrera, Odiile Myrtil and Jerico. The VJs are Maylee Keo and Gold Casanova. Snack are offered at Café SAT.

The top floor of the SAT (where the Satosphere is located) is bestowed with the name Vers l’envers, accessible for $10 (at the door only). Guest DJs are Lis Dalton, DJ Frog, Gene Tellem, Kris Guilty, and Guillaume Michaud. Visual projections in 360˚ are orchestrated by Daph4000- and Name. The public gathered on this floor gets treated to a selection of snacks and cocktails offered by the Culinary Lab.

For both floors of festivities, telepresence experiences are courtesy of The Green Effect and Graffiti.

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