Composer Nicolas Gilbert’s “La vie quotidienne”, for saxophone quartet and electronics will have its radio premiere on Thursday May 20, 2010 on Radio-Canada’s Espace Musique (100,7 FM Montreal), during the Soirée Classique (8 pm). The electronic component of the piece was realised at matralab.
Nicolas Gilbert is a post-doc researcher at matralab
Friday May 21 2010, 8 pm
territoires inexplorés @interstice
Interstice, 242 Young St. (Peel & Wellington), Montreal, $7
Electroacoustic and mixed works by Lou Bunk, Karlheinz Essl (Canadian premiere), Dai Fujikura, Thierry Gauthier, Olivier Girouard and D. Andrew Stewart.
Krista Martynes, clarinet; Solomiya Moroz, flute; Xenia Pestova, toy piano; D. Andrew Stewart, méta-instrument
territoires inexplorés @ interstice is a new series for contemporary music curated by Xenia Pestova and Solomiya Moroz, focusing on rarely performed or unexplored music of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together many musicians from diverse disciplines and promotes collaborations between various art forms and media.
(Artistic directors: Xenia Pestova and Solomiya Moroz)
D. Andrew Stewart is a new post-doc researcher at matralab.
Conference : Interdisciplinary Art : Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech, No-Tech ?
http://raiq.ca/en
Performance: Le devenir machine
Sophie Castonguay’s proposed work will allow
the audience to discover the various opinions of those attending the
conference. Sometimes wise, at times controversial, the “thoughts” that will
be put forward will address the question of technology’s place in art.
It is with great pleasure that the Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du
Québec, in association with the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels) and ECLECTIK 2010, announces the first
edition of its annual conference, this year’s theme being: Arts interdisciplinaires: Hi-Tech, Lo-Tech, No-Tech?
The two-day conference will showcase the intersection of technologies being researched and practiced in the interdisciplinary arts, while exploring the ways in which artists embrace, appropriate, question, even dismiss “technology” – towards artistic ends. Artist talks, performances, round-table discussions, workshops, and installation will take place at the MAI, 3680 Jeanne-Mance in Montreal, on May 28th and 29th, 2010, starting at 9:30am on Friday morning. The installation will be on view as of May 26th at articule, 262 Fairmount West, Montreal.
Opening the program on Friday May 28th will be two talks: Natacha Clitandre (Montreal) discusses creative
transmission through mobile devices while Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman (Baltimore and Rochester, USA)
address the links between GPS technology and artistic creation. At 1:00pm the three artists offer practical
workshops and demonstrations related to their morning presentations. Later in the afternoon, a performative lecture by the Office for Archival Review (Montreal) on the subject of archival practices – based on the archives of conference participants – will be followed by Devora Neumark (Montreal), who uses the “The Jewish Home Beautiful” community play as starting point into a critical case study of interdisciplinarity. Following that, a presentation from Kelly Jaclynn Andres on non-verbal communication includes a practical demo in the form of a city bike-ride. At 5:30pm, program director Claude Schryer, and program officer Sue-Ellen Gerritsen, will be on hand to answer questions concerning recent changes to the Inter-Arts section at the Canada Council for the Arts.
Saturday May 29th will commence with a lecture by Doyon-Demers (Quebec), on the notion of the “un-
artist” and of an “undisciplinary” art. Following will be a performance by Sophie Castonguay (Montreal), who
creatively deconstructs our relationship to technology, then a round-table entitled Wetwares: When biology and art meet – moderated by Tagny Duff and bringing together Alison Lauder, Kelly Jaclynn Andres, Vanessa Rigaux, Claire Kenway and Antonia Hernandez (Montreal). In the afternoon a second panel discussion, The Territories of Technology: up to what point…and why? – gives the floor over to Anna Biró (Montreal), Lynne Heller (Toronto), Radwan Moumneh (Montreal) and karen elaine spencer (Montreal). The day will wrap up with a presentation by kondition pluriel (Montreal), reflecting on their ten years of interdisciplinary creations, and an excerpt of the performance AVATAR, by Freya Olafson (Winnipeg).
Sophie Castonguay will be collaborating with matralab research associate Matheiu Marcoux on a reseach project at the matrabox this summer.
matralab would like to welcome Postdoctoral student D. Andrew Stewart to our team.
Andrew has also received confirmation of funding from the FQRSC.
Artist Sophie Castonguay recently launched her website at http://www.sophiecastonguay.ca.
Sophie will be collaborating with sound artist Matheiu Marcoux on a reseach project at the matrabox this summer.
Mathieu Marcoux is a matralab research associate.
The comprovisational journey Nexus will be performed at Congress 2010 being held at Concordia University from May 28 until June 4.
Through a dedicated wireless network being built for the project, four to six New Music Performance students – each with a belt-mounted speaker system – begin in different location throughout the building being used by Congress and will play and improvise their individual musical parts of a Bhagwati composition while “jamming” with the others through the network. As they move through Congress wearing “Follow Me” t-shirts, they will gather delegates and will come together for a performance.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the matralab director.
Members of Elektra and CIAM, as well as international media arts festival curators will be visiting matralab on May 6 and 7, 2010.
Sandeep Bhagwati will briefly discuss his projects Nexus and Lamentations. Michal Seta will present [IR]Rationnel.
Sandeep Bhagwati is the matralab director.
Michal Seta is a matralab research associate.
Composer Chantale Laplante premiered her electroacoustic piece “Surface [Étang]” on April 21st, 2010 at Espace Senghor in Brussels. This event was part of the Musiques & Recherches series.
Chantale Laplante in an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Composer Farangis Nurulla will be premiering “La cloche fêlée II” for organ and percussion in Germany, Freiburg on the 27th of June. Farangis recently returned from Milan where she was premiering this piece.
Farangis Nurulla is an artist-in-residence at matralab.
Choses étonnantes vues en rêve:
The Orchestre Métropolitain will be premiering composer Nicolas Gilbert’s “Choses étonnantes vues en rêve” as part of a one-week tour : 12 avril, 20h, Salle Sylvain-Lelièvre du Collège Maisonneuve, Montréal 14 avril, 19h30, Église Notre-Dame-Des-Sept-Douleurs, Verdun 15 avril, 19h30, Théâtre Outremont, Montréal 16 avril, 20h, Auditorium, Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School, Pierrefonds The piece will also be webcasted by Radio-Canada here.
Nicolas Gilbert is a post-doctorate researcher at matralab.
Jerusalem:
Composer Chantale Laplante will be premiering Jerusalem on April 20 in Calgary. Jerusalem for tenor saxophone, piano, live electronics and tape to be performed by Jeremy Brown and Luciane Cardassi from Rubbing Stone ensemble New Works Calgary concert series, Calgary April 20 Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall
Chantale Laplante is an artist-in-residence at matralab.