Soirée concert avec Erick d’Orion et Stephanie Castonguay

As part of Le Mans Sonore

Erick d'Orion (live electronics) followed by Stephanie Castonguay (live DIY device)


"Traces de Gauvreau" by Erick d'Orion (CAN/Québec)

Resonances rather than references. Echoes rather than quotations. Accident as the escape route.
The AI stutters, fragments, produces vocal glitches like so many involuntary resonances of the explored language - the phonetic language that Claude Gauvreau carved out of conventional meaning.
Two systems respond to each other over time: one seeks to free the voice from convention, the other produces language by fracturing itself.

Feedback becomes an instrument of pure resonance, a self-perpetuating loop of sound. Rotating surfaces picked up by contact microphones amplify invisible vibrations.

What remains of Gauvreau is not his quoted work, but his resonant presence: the echo of a poetic gesture that already sought to turn language into raw sound matter. Traces are frequencies that cross the decades, transform and reverberate in circuits and algorithms.


"Soft cuts" by Stephanie Castonguay (CAN/Québec)

"Soft_cuts" unfolds like a tactile and luminous ritual for modified turntables, prepared vinyl records and motorised objects. The performance takes its name from the delicate incisions of grief and memory, gentle but permanent marks etched across time, bodies and sound.
In slow rotations, shards of light diffract from the broken surfaces. Soft_cuts" is a meditation on the ephemeral, a tactile choreography of light, sound and the invisible textures of what we lose and what persists.



About the artists :

Erick d'Orion is an interdisciplinary audio artist and curator based in Montreal since 2015. He explores the intersections between sound art, performance and new technologies.
Curator of FIMAV since 2010 and former programmer of the Avatar centre, he has organised numerous events dedicated to sound creation. His work, close to noise and musique concrète, is also embodied in installations where the acoustic space and the spectator's imagination become the subject of research and expression.

An experimentalist at heart, Stephanie Castonguay is constantly refining her DIY instruments, inviting us into her inventive and captivating audiovisual universe. Rooted in materiality, her approach to sound and electronic circuits is processual: she dismantles and reuses obsolete machines to reveal their hidden resonances. Her works and performances are presented around the world.

Visual: © DR