La s\u00e9rie Nocturne du festival MUTEK investit la SAT du mercredi au dimanche, offrant une immersion sensorielle unique au c\u0153ur de Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MUTEK\u2019s Nocturne series takes over the SAT from Wednesday to Sunday, offering a unique sensory immersion in the heart of Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Espace SAT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sabrina Ratt\u00e9 & Roger Tellier-Craig \u2013 Cyberdelia\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Avec\u00a0Cyberdelia,\u00a0Sabrina Ratt\u00e9 et Roger Tellier-Craig\u00a0fusionnent paysages sonores et visuels g\u00e9n\u00e9r\u00e9s par l\u2019IA dans un espace mental mouvant. Inspir\u00e9e de la cyberculture des ann\u00e9es 90, cette performance explore les frictions entre esprit et machine, d\u00e9voilant une vision troublante d\u2019un futur anthropoc\u00e9nique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In\u00a0Cyberdelia,\u00a0Sabrina Ratt\u00e9 and Roger Tellier-Craig\u00a0merge sonic architecture and AI-driven visuals into a shifting mindscape. Echoing 90s cyberculture, this live performance probes the psyche-machine interface, revealing mesmerizing and disquieting visions of a techno-future haunted by the Anthropocene.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Topdown Dialectic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Entour\u00e9 de myst\u00e8re,\u00a0Topdown Dialectic\u00a0\u00e9volue aux fronti\u00e8res de la forme et de la perception, fa\u00e7onnant une techno ambiante qui semble exhum\u00e9e plut\u00f4t que compos\u00e9e. Sans titres de morceaux, sans cr\u00e9dits, avec une esth\u00e9tique visuelle r\u00e9duite \u00e0 l\u2019essentiel, le projet \u00e9chappe \u00e0 toute identification directe \u2014 ne laissant que des \u0153uvres \u00e0 la fois pr\u00e9cises et \u00e9nigmatiques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shrouded in anonymity,\u00a0Topdown Dialectic\u00a0operates at the edges of form and perception, crafting ambient techno that feels unearthed rather than composed. With no track titles, no credits, and a visual aesthetic stripped to its bones, the project resists easy identification\u2014offering instead a body of work that is both precise and enigmatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n aria \u2013 a fine line between crises and opportunity\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n aria\u00a0(aka Dan Driscoll) d\u00e9voile\u00a0a fine line between crises and opportunity, une performance live inspir\u00e9e de sa convalescence \u00e0 la suite d\u2019une amputation. Il y m\u00eale basses profondes, effets analogiques, breakbeats et fragments sonores m\u00e9diatiques, transformant le dub en refuge auditif face aux turbulences personnelles et aux distorsions du r\u00e9el contemporain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n aria\u00a0(aka Dan Driscoll) explores sonic resilience in\u00a0a fine line between crises and opportunity, a dub-rooted live performance shaped during his recovery from leg amputation. Fusing deep bass, analog FX, breakbeats, and media fragments, he transforms personal adversity into textured soundscapes inspired by dub traditions and the noise of modern disinformation.<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Shackleton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Producteur insaisissable et visionnaire,\u00a0Shackleton\u00a0s\u2019impose comme l\u2019une des figures les plus singuli\u00e8res de la musique \u00e9lectronique contemporaine. Cofondateur en 2005 de l\u2019iconique label Skull Disco, il s\u2019\u00e9loigne rapidement des codes du dubstep pour explorer des territoires sonores plus \u00e9sot\u00e9riques, m\u00ealant percussions polyrythmiques, pistes m\u00e9ditatives et atmosph\u00e8res mystiques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shackleton\u00a0is one of the most singular voices in electronic music\u2014a producer whose work transcends genre and remains rooted in emotional depth and spiritual intensity. Emerging in the mid-2000s as co-founder of the influential Skull Disco label, his early releases sidestepped dubstep orthodoxy with polyrhythmic percussion, mystical atmospheres, and a distinctly ritualistic aesthetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Satosph\u00e8re<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n SIM \u2013 SLOWTECHERS\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Producteur et chercheur bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al,\u00a0SIM\u00a0est une figure singuli\u00e8re de la sc\u00e8ne club contemporaine, \u00e0 la crois\u00e9e du dancehall et de la techno. Inventeur du genre\u00a0Slow Tech, il con\u00e7oit le son comme un champ gravitationnel o\u00f9 les genres s\u2019attirent, se d\u00e9forment et fusionnent, tra\u00e7ant des liens audacieux entre les rythmes carib\u00e9ens et l\u2019abstraction \u00e9lectronique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Montr\u00e9al-based producer and researcher\u00a0SIM\u00a0is a singular voice in contemporary club culture, known for sculpting bold collisions between techno and dancehall. Originator of the\u00a0Slow Tech\u00a0genre, SIM approaches sound as a gravitational field where genres orbit, stretch, and intertwine\u2014merging foundational Caribbean rhythms with the tensile minimalism of electronic music\u2019s vanguard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Valesuchi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Valesuchi\u00a0con\u00e7oit la musique comme un espace d\u2019\u00e9change sonore, \u00e9motionnel et spirituel, plut\u00f4t qu\u2019un simple produit \u00e0 consommer. Elle commence \u00e0 produire et \u00e0 mixer \u00e0 l\u2019adolescence, \u00e0 la suite du d\u00e9c\u00e8s de son fr\u00e8re a\u00een\u00e9, dont elle h\u00e9rite du mat\u00e9riel. Cette transmission marque le d\u00e9but d\u2019un processus intime de deuil et de cr\u00e9ation, dans lequel les machines deviennent des outils d\u2019introspection et de lien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Valesuchi\u00a0approaches music as a space for sonic, emotional, and spiritual exchange, rather than a product to be consumed. She began producing and DJing in her teenage years, following the death of her older brother, whose equipment she inherited. This transmission marked the beginning of an intimate process of mourning and creation, in which machines became tools for introspection and connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bitter Babe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pour sa premi\u00e8re performance live \u00e0 MUTEK Montr\u00e9al,\u00a0Bitter Babe\u00a0livre un set percutant, travers\u00e9 de rythmes \u00e9clat\u00e9s et de textures mouvantes. Entre tension, douceur et chaos ma\u00eetris\u00e9, elle explore toute la charge \u00e9motionnelle d\u2019une club music latine en pleine mutation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bitter Babe<\/strong>\u2019s debut live set at MUTEK Montr\u00e9al promises a raw, high-voltage trip through fractured rhythms and volatile textures. Balancing bass-heavy intensity with moments of softness and dissonance, her performance shifts from collapse to control in a heartbeat\u2014channeling the full emotional spectrum of future-facing Latin club music.<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kaiwa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kaiwa\u00a0est une cr\u00e9ation in\u00e9dite de\u00a0Nicola Cruz\u00a0et\u00a0mach\u00ecna, d\u00e9voil\u00e9e en primeur \u00e0 MUTEK. Entre rythmes dub modul\u00e9s et voix synth\u00e9tiques en tension, le duo tisse une performance o\u00f9 dialogue et improvisation nourrissent une alchimie sonore sans fronti\u00e8res.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kaiwa\u00a0is a new creation from\u00a0Nicola Cruz\u00a0and\u00a0mach\u00ecna, debuting exclusively at MUTEK. Combining Cruz\u2019s shape-shifting dub rhythms with mach\u00ecna\u2019s modular vocals and tactile techno, this collaboration promises a dynamic live dialogue \u2014 raw, unpredictable, and charged with cross-continental chemistry.<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n