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Program

Un/Stitching is an immersive dome concert bringing together six performers, each equipped with a digital instrument designed for the real-time exploration of sound databases. The work is rooted in a research-creation approach centered on corpus-based concatenative synthesis, a sound generation technique that organizes audio fragments according to timbral proximity and allows performers to navigate them as a dynamic sonic space.

Each performer develops a distinct sound bank, built from instrumental, electronic, or concrete materials, while also contributing to a shared corpus. This coexistence of individual and collective resources forms the aesthetic core of the project. Through gestures of navigation, selection, and transformation, the performers continuously weave, unweave, and reassemble the sonic material, generating evolving textures and emergent musical forms.

The metaphor of stitching runs throughout the work: assembling and connecting heterogeneous fragments while allowing the seams to remain visible. Un/Stitching explores the tensions between collective imagination and individual identity, between convergence and differentiation. Sonic identities intersect, contaminate one another, and assert themselves, revealing a musical space in which the individual and the collective coexist without dissolving into uniformity.

Immersive dome sound diffusion places the audience at the center of the experience. The performers are positioned centrally within the space, making perceptible the human, instrumental, and algorithmic interactions that structure the performance. The concert takes the form of a collective interpretation emerging from a shared creative process that combines ideation, improvisation, and distributed composition.

From a research perspective, Un/Stitching makes audible the knowledge gained through the development of Mosaïque, particularly regarding the instrumentality of timbre spaces, gestural navigation strategies, and sensorimotor learning processes associated with concatenative synthesis. The immersive setting turns the concert into a living laboratory for the study of collective musical practices mediated by AI.

Biographies

Mimi Allard

Mimi Allard is a sound artist whose practice focuses on “body–system” relationships within a live performance context. Using custom-built instrument-systems, she creates connections between sound, movement, code/text, and minimal visual elements.

Inspired by the somatic dimension of the body, she explores notions of memory, feedback, and sensory storytelling. Mimi is currently a master’s student in Composition and Sound Creation at the Université de Montréal.

Gabriel·le Caux

Gabrielle Caux is an interdisciplinary artist who specializes in audio spatialization, immersive sound experiences and music for well-being and relaxation. They utilize field recordings of both natural and urban environments to create soundscapes that range from abstract to lifelike. Additionally, they employ synthesized sounds, creative sound recordings, musical instruments and ASMR elements to enhance their compositions.

Jacob Desjardins

Jacob Desjardins is a composer and multi-instrumentalist working in electroacoustic music. He holds a master’s degree in urban sociology and is currently pursuing a PhD in music at Université de Montréal. His musical practice is centered on cybernetic systems using modular synthesizers, as well as a compositional approach based on field recordings and concatenative synthesis.

Vivian Li

Vivian Li is a sound artist and composer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Her practice explores hypnotic soundscapes that blend ethereal atmospheres with field and autobiographical recordings. Rooted in deep listening and well-being, her music creates intimate spaces for introspection while revealing the poetry of everyday sounds. She is one half of Echönymphia (with Coralie Gauthier) and a member of the ensemble Audio Placebo Plaza (with Julia E. Dyck and Erin Gee).

David Piazza

David Piazza is an electroacoustic music composer based in Montreal. His work focuses on human–machine interaction, sound synthesis, and the ways artists appropriate generative models for sound and music.

Dominic Thibault

Dominic Thibault is an electronic musician, a composer, an improviser, a coder, a teacher, member of the duo Tout Croche, co-director of the label The Silent Howl. His music is at the crossroads of concrete music, noise, minimal techno and the soundscape.

Dominic Thibault is assistant professor in the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal. He teaches composition, computer music and studio techniques in the undergraduate studies. His research focuses on systems in the field of digital music. More specifically, he is interest in the human-machine interactions and their impact on musical creation.