Soirée concert spéciale Canada-Québec

Concert evening with Adam Basanta, Ianna Book, Joël Lavoie and Nicolas Bernier

This concert follows on from the Panorama des arts audios au Québec round table entitled "Trajectoires, scènes et politiques publiques".


Adam Basanta - 'Small Movements' (live feedback)

Drawing on controlled feedback techniques perfected through a series of sound installations between 2014 and 2019, this performance is based on the collaboration between the performer's actions, the specificities of the sound production equipment and the modification of the acoustic and spatial relationships between the different technologies.
Hand-held microphones produce delicate, low-volume melodies and harmonic feedback chords; jars are placed over loudspeakers as physical sound filters; cassette recorders record their environment and play it back in out-of-phase loops, creating a sense of mystery and wonder about how the musical results are achieved.


Ianna Book - "Eros Circuitry" (modular A/V performance)

Eros Circuitry is a performance in which Ianna Book explores an intimate connection using a modular synthesiser and sex toys.
Using skin sensors that she slides over her skin, she captures the electricity naturally generated by her body to create sound modulations.
By also integrating vibrators as sound sources, she offers a unique audiovisual experience that provokes a disturbance: a paradoxical feeling combining warmth and coldness, closeness and isolation.


Joël Lavoie - "Cet horizon qui se déplie" (Live modular)

Using concatenation and algorithms to manipulate micro-loops and fragments of recordings captured during sound drifts in various urban environments, this performative piece explores the improbable permutations and musical entanglements in the spontaneous recomposition of a time-landscape of sensitive duration; a horizon that unfolds before us.


Nicolas Bernier - "Visions Couleurs" (live A/V modular)

Offering an uninterrupted flow of vivid sonic and visual colours, "Visions couleurs" is a solo for modular synthesiser. To enable the artist to play the colours like music, the sound parameters are closely linked to a video programme that interprets the synthesiser's sound textures in real time.


About the artists :

Adam Basanta (b1985) has lived and worked in Montreal since 2010. After studying contemporary music composition, he developed a broad, experimental and self-taught artistic practice in the field of mixed-media installations. Through various media and techniques, he investigates technology as a meeting point of simultaneous and superimposed systems; a nexus of cultural, computational, biological and economic forces.

Ianna Book is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montreal. Her practice, at the crossroads of visual arts, performance and experimental music, questions identity, emancipation and the links between the body and technology. Through projects such as the essay "Trans Avenue" and the performance "Eros Circuitry", she generates experiences that create spaces for affirmation and help to construct new cultural narratives.

Joël Lavoie is a composer, sound artist and sound engineer based in Montreal. His works, which take the form of performances, installations and recordings, explore the individual and collective subconscious through soundscapes made up of field recordings and generative synthesis. His work questions memory, elsewhere and the perception of inhabited spaces.

Nicolas Bernier is an artist, producer and professor of composition and sound arts at the Université de Montréal. The recipient of over twenty awards, including Ars Electronica's prestigious Golden Nica (2013), he has been exhibiting and performing at major international festivals and art centres for over twenty years. The author of Sur le diapason (Les Presses du réel, 2019), he is developing a body of work in which the performativity of electronic sound meets the visual arts, dance, theatre and poetry.

Visual: © Marco Giugliarelli