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Saturday, February 25, 20236:30 pm – 2:30 am
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L’instrument et l’humain en mutation
Enjoy an unprecedented immersive experience in a world-class spatialized environment. Bringing together some 25 works by experienced composers from here and abroad, La Grande Nuit 2023 explores the different nuances of sound in an immersive dome of 32 loudspeakers. The sound artists will take turns throughout the night to take you through a musical marathon around the theme The Instrument and the Mutating Human. A 360-degree immersion at the cutting edge of technology!
As part of the Série GRMS La Grande écoute and the Nuit blanche à Montréal of the Festival Montréal en lumière.
Participants
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David Babin, sound designer (Ca)
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Dany Beaupré, interactive medias (Ca)
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Diego Bermudez Chamberland, diffusion
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Sandeep Bhagwati, composer (Ger/In/Ca)
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Francesco Bianchi, composer (It)
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Giovanni Corgiat Mercio, composer (It)
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Gabrielle Couillard, composer (Ca)
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Ricardo Dal Farra, composer (Arg/Ca)
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Jean Décarie, composer, videographer (Ca)
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Julie Delisle, composer (Ca)
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Audréanne Filion, cello
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Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, composer (Ca)
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Pablo Geeraert, composer (Be)
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Simon-Pierre Gourd, composer (Ca)
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Hraïr Hratchian, composer (Arm)
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Aiyun Huang, director — University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble (Ca)
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Claude Lamothe, cello
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Iris Lancery, composer (Fr)
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Florence Landry, composer (Fr)
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Jean-François Laporte, siren organ (Ca)
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Andrea Laudante, composer (It)
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André Éric Létourneau, composer, sound artist (Ca)
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Cal Lyall, composer (Jp/Ca)
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Anatole Michaud, composer (Fr)
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Navid Navab, composer, performer (reactive and performative pipe organ) (Iran/Ca)
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Phill Niblock, composer (US)
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Kasey Pocius, composer (Ca)
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Jen Reimer, sound artist (Ca)
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Margot Ricard, media creation (Ca)
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Elisabeth Shimana, composer, live electronics (Au)
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Rodrigo Sigal, composer (Mx)
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Alexandre St-Onge, composition, improvisation (Ca)
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Xavier Tremblay, invented instruments (Ca)
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Philippe Vandal, diffusion
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Dominic Walther-Battista, composer (It)
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University of Toronto Percussion Ensemble (Andrew Busch, Randall Chaves Camacho, Kelsey Hoi Kiu Choi, Alex Fraga, Aiyun Huang, Nikki Huang, Hoi Tong Keung, Thomas Li, Bevis Ng, Cassandra Wolff, Jeffrey Zhu, found percussions); Aiyun Huang, Sandeep Bhagwati, musical codirection; Charles Harding, Kasey Pocius, generative score; Kasey Pocius, real-time sound processing
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LOVE Project Team (Sylvio Arriola, Charles Voyer, Virginie Ouellet, Mimi Allard, Sandrine Rousseau, Kevin Zemmour, Sylvain Grignon, Sofian Audry, Mouloud Boukala, Alain Berry, Kevin Whittingstall, Catherine Lejeune, Bálint Demers, Philippe Gendron, Sophie Payeur, Roxanne Fay, Laurence Roy, Garance Guinard, Angélique Lehoux, Simon Plouffe, Philippe Gendron)
Program
18h30 — Bloc 1: Concours Totem électroacoustique
- Kiss (2022), 14:46Premierestereo fixed medium
- Pipa Aura Suichi (2022), 10:31Premierestereo fixed medium
- Density (2022), 10:35Premierestereo fixed medium
- 12th Perception of Prakṛti (2022), 9:07Premierestereo fixed medium
- On the Practice of Waves (2022), 9:28Premiere8-channel fixed medium
- AMA Lga (2022), 7:45Premierestereo fixed medium
- Rekhale (2022), 14:27Premiere8-channel fixed medium
- Climax Room (2022), 10:48Premierestereo fixed medium
20h10 — Bloc 2: Anti-Kairos
- Anti-Kairos (2021-22), 45:00PremiereArr. Sandeep Bhagwati, 2023 [original work]percussion ensemble with live score, and live electronicsUniversity of Toronto Percussion Ensemble (Andrew Busch, Randall Chaves Camacho, Kelsey Hoi Kiu Choi, Alex Fraga, Aiyun Huang, Nikki Huang, Hoi Tong Keung, Thomas Li, Bevis Ng, Cassandra Wolff, Jeffrey Zhu, found percussions); Aiyun Huang, Sandeep Bhagwati, musical codirection; Charles Harding, Kasey Pocius, generative score; Kasey Pocius, real-time sound processing
21h — Annonce des gagnants du concours Totem électroacoustique
- The list of winners will be posted on the Totem contemporain website. Jury: Sophie Delafontaine (Be), Mélanie Frisoli (Fr), Émilie Payeur (Ca), Stéphane Roy (Ca), Elisabeth Schimana (Au), Benjamin Thigpen (Fr).
21h10 — Bloc 3: Organism
- Organism (2023), 30:00Performance on invented logi-acoustic instrumentPhilippe Vandal, diffusion
21h50 — Bloc 4: Performances
- Stardust (2009), 30:00Genesis of Starts, Explosions, Solar Storms. Live electronic
- Confessions (2023), 20:00Premiere
- Gâteaux fantômes (2023), 10:00PremiereGabrielle Couillard, diffusion
- Exploratory (2019), 30:00Arr. Phill Niblock, 2023
23h40 — Bloc 5: Sous des flots incertains
- Sous des flots incertains (2023), 50:00PremiereDany Beaupré, Jean Décarie, Margot Ricard, performance and architectural projections; Audréanne Filion, Claude Lamothe, cello
00h30 — Bloc 6: Œuvres acousmatiques et performances
- Ashram (1991), 9:20PremiereArr. Ricardo Dal Farra, 2023multichannel fixed medium [dome]Version for immersive domeKasey Pocius, diffusion
- Sonance (2021), 8:00PremiereArr. Simon-Pierre Gourd, 2023 [original work]multichannel fixed medium [dome]Version for immersive domeXavier Tremblay, spatialization collaboration
- Brain in pulse (2012), 7:23stereo fixed medium
- Convergence (2022), 8:00live-electronicsPerformance on invented instrument
- Dispositif Espace-Corps (2022-23), 10:00Premiere
- Listening to our voice experience (2023), 15:32PremiereLOVE Project Team (Sylvio Arriola, Charles Voyer, Virginie Ouellet, Mimi Allard, Sandrine Rousseau, Kevin Zemmour, Sylvain Grignon, Sofian Audry, Mouloud Boukala, Alain Berry, Kevin Whittingstall, Catherine Lejeune, Bálint Demers, Philippe Gendron, Sophie Payeur, Roxanne Fay, Laurence Roy, Garance Guinard, Angélique Lehoux, Simon Plouffe, Philippe Gendron)
- The Loudest Tone (2022), 15:00Premiere
- Waiting on the storm to break the heat (2023), 7:46Premiere
- Dans le four stellaire (2022), 9:42Premiere
- Le silence des foules (2022-23), 8:00Premiere
- Grichage (2022-23), 7:00Premiere
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Production GRMS (Groupe de recherche sur la médiatisation du son), in collaboration with matralab, Hexagram-UQAM and Montréal/New Musics.