{"id":23320,"date":"2020-07-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?post_type=interviews&p=23320"},"modified":"2020-07-05T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T14:45:53","slug":"marie-gold-rappeuse-chloe-pilon-vaillancourt-ingenieure","status":"publish","type":"interviews","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/interviews-panm360\/marie-gold-rappeuse-chloe-pilon-vaillancourt-ingenieure\/","title":{"rendered":"Marie Gold, MC… Chlo\u00e9 Pilon-Vaillancourt, engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The attitude, the words, the tone of voice, the assurance, everything seems to work for this 27-year-old woman. What gets Marie\/Chlo\u00e9 so fired up? A few months after her solo flight, PAN M 360 wants answers! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her trajectory, as she tells it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was born in Lasalle. I grew up in a beautiful part of what some call the Bronx of Montreal. I had a beautiful childhood. After high school, I studied arts and communications at C\u00e9gep du Vieux-Montr\u00e9al. At the age of 19, I travelled by bicycle for six months in India. When I got back, I reoriented myself \u2013 I got into rap and science.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the frosted side, Pilon-Vaillancourt is passionate about beatmaking, electric bass, and rap. In her early twenties, she loved hip hop like her friends. It suddenly became a real commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI started listening to a lot more of it when I began doing beats. I found my footing while listening to a lot of music. I\u2019m currently a big fan of Belgian rap, so much so that I\u2019ve been to Brussels twice in a year to meet people. That particular scene inspired me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her first group was Bad Nylon, and she\u2019s been in different feminine configurations since 2014. For an EP by Bad Nylon, she needed a stage name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was squatting on a neighbour\u2019s internet connection and the network name was Marie Gold. Perfect for me! The first name Marie is typically French, Gold has the bling of hip hop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her parents don\u2019t really listen to hip hop but her father, Ga\u00e9tan Pilon, is a sound engineer. He owned Studio Victor, and later transformed the family home into a recording and mastering studio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI did a lot of stuff at my father\u2019s studio myself. He lent me some equipment and I set up a small studio at home. And I do a lot of stuff there. School during the day, the studio at night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Passion for rap coincides with engineering. Upon returning from her nomadic post-adolescent year, she caught up on her high school and college studies in science to eventually enroll at the \u00c9cole Polytechnique of l’Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. Today she is at the end of this long process and will soon become an engineer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI’d still like to swing between science and rap. But rap is not a plan B! I want to go all the way.\u201d You can understand her. If Marie Gold’s career really takes off, Chlo\u00e9 Pilon will have to soft-pedal the physics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And why persist in science at all when you have a rap career?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI gained intellectual confidence by studying at Poly,\u201d she says. \u201cIt gives me a sense of perspective, a capacity for analysis and a capacity to question things. These values are very important. As an engineer? I don’t see myself working at Bombardier, but rather in a startup, in an NGO dedicated to the environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt’s going to be a game of elbow room, but there\u2019ll always be a presence on both sides. I’m really glad I did this! I\u2019m always going to do rap and engineering. I\u2019m also a big reader, I don\u2019t have the internet at home. Either I read, or I make music, or I study, or I see my friends, that\u2019s my circle of activities. I\u2019m an artist trying to find a balance between her personal, artistic, and intellectual lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After having reformed Bad Nylon with a new cohort of collaborators, she chose to bring Marie Gold to the forefront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor my first EP, I produced myself with the support of a musician. I was doing my beatmaking, I was doing my bass tracks. I\u2019m not doing that anymore. For the album, I surrounded myself with several producers. The Parisian collective Novengitum came to Montreal for a year and contacted me on Instagram. Since then, I still collaborate with them, even if they\u2019ve returned to the Paris region. Igor Dubois mixed the whole album, there\u2019s D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu, Comat, Francis Leduc-B\u00e9langer, D\u00e9sir Lister, mammouth, Daysiz, Mowley, DJ Kool, 2300.wav… a lot of beatmakers on the album!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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