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Program

Espaces connectés (2025)

Artists:
Myriam Boucher
Simon Chioini
Mimi Allard
Nicolas Bougeois
Merlin Campbell
Sabe Caron
David Caulet
Gilles Grenon
Rémy Jannelle
Jean-Philippe Jullin
Jérémie Martineau
Nicola Giannini
Gabriela Hébert
AC Riznar

This project offers a sound experience within the MMR room, exploring spontaneous collective creation and new practices integrating body, objects, light, sound, and video through gesture and movement. The experience plays with our perceptions of distant places while being part of the same network, creating imaginary connections between different spaces through varied but always situated listening postures. It relies on Max for Live tools developed in collaboration with the Society for Arts and Technology in Montreal, allowing for direct interconnection between participants and the audience. The project emphasizes co-creation based on a score of intention, participation, and listening, while exploring the potential for new forms of relationships and interactions between bodies and spaces.

Biographies

Myriam Boucher

Sound and visual composer Myriam Boucher is a professor and researcher at the Faculty of Music, University of Montreal. Her sensitive and multifaceted work focuses on the intimate relationship between music, sound, and image. Her research-creation activities integrate musical composition, improvisation, deep listening, sound ecology, immersive technologies, and site-specific practices. Her research aims to understand and analyze the mechanisms of perception and representation in audiovisual works and multidisciplinary concerts that combine sound, music, image, and performers, with the perspective that art can be a practice capable of transforming reality and generating new forms of sensitive representations.

Simon Chioini

Simon Chioini is an artist-researcher and composer. His work explores the relationships between sound, the environment, and social dynamics through an interdisciplinary lens. Drawing from philosophy, geography, and anthropology, he seeks to rethink sound composition through ecological and relational approaches. In the context of the current climate crisis, his practice challenges the divide between nature and culture by investigating how sound art can serve as a tool for mediation and transformation. His methodology combines theoretical research with site-specific creative practices, often involving performative, participatory, and context-responsive elements. Alongside his academic work, he continues his electronic and experimental music projects as S. Chioini and with the Humidex collective.

Mimi Allard

Mimi Allard develops digital instrument-systems that enable real-time assemblages between sound, movement, code/text, and image. She uses various processes of synthesis and sound generation, along with collections of field recordings and personal sound archives. At the intersection of audio art, experimental music, and audiovisual performance, her live collages explore notions of presence, relationships, and sensory storytelling. Mimi is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Composition and Sound Creation at the Université de Montréal.

Nicolas Bougeois

Nicolas Bourgeois (Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC) explores technology-assisted movement at the intersection of sound arts and performance. Using the body as their primary means of expression, they develop biometric devices to create new musical gestures. In this way, their body transcends its static nature to become an embodied site of exploration: the result of a real-time dialogue with programmed logics. Affirmative, tangible, and raw, their work celebrates a plurality of 2ELGBTQIA+ realities. Their performance Nœuds au ventre (2024) earned them the Gotfrit-Barlett Prize at the 25th edition of Jeu de temps/Times Play. A candidate for the Master’s in Composition and Sound Creation at the Université de Montréal (Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang), Nicolas Bourgeois’s creations are recognized across emerging artistic and academic spheres, both in Canada and internationally.

Merlin Campbell

Merlin Campbell is a Quebec audiovisual and sound artist. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University and a Specialized Graduate Diploma in Digital Music from the Université de Montréal. He is pursuing a Master of Music degree there, under the supervision of Myriam Boucher. His research-creation work focuses on the convergence of experimental cinema and noise music, drawing on the relationships between sound and image. Campbell is also the creator, founding member, and artistic director of Ensemble de Feedback Libre, an innovative collective exploring the expressive possibilities of feedback interpretation and improvisation in music. Campbell's work has been recognized by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Canada Graduate Scholarship, which supports his master's research. His works have been presented in Mexico, the United States, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Canada.

Sabe Caron

Sabe is an audiovisual performing artist based in Montreal. After earning a degree in photography from Concordia University, she explored various aspects of tonal music, including different vocal techniques, before developing a passion for electronic music and obtaining a D.E.S.S. from the University of Montreal. She is currently pursuing a master’s in composition and sound creation under the supervision of Myriam Boucher. Her research-creation focuses on intention in audiovisual performance, with body, intuition, and sound feedback at the core of her approach, fostering audiovisual improvisation. Each performance serves as an opportunity to deepen her exploration, drawing on her personal experiences to address various social issues.

David Caulet

Trained as a saxophonist, David Caulet’s artistic journey has led him to explore a wide range of musical cultures. In the 1990s, he engaged with ska, punk, salsa, and funk, and around the 2000s, he turned to jazz, improvised music, and electronic music. Strongly guided by improvisation, his creative work is influenced by these diverse currents and navigates the crossroads of these musical paths. Through various projects, he has collaborated and recorded with numerous musicians, including J.F. Oliver, O. Lété, C. Lété, D. Fournier, R. Bottlang, R. Charmasson, and G. Pansanel. Now based in Montreal, he is pursuing a doctoral program in “Composition and Sound Creation” at the University of Montreal and has devoted himself almost exclusively to electronic music and composition in recent years.

Nicola Giannini

Nicola Giannini is an artist-researcher who creates immersive sound experiences. His
practice lies at the intersection of experimental music, sound art, collaborative
practices, and creation in public space. By exploring the interactions between people,
sound, and context, he designs sound spaces as ephemeral architectures where
intensity and lightness, the real and the surreal, the natural and the synthetic intertwine. His works have been presented in North and South America, Australia, and Europe. He
holds a doctorate in composition from the University of Montreal and is a postdoctoral
fellow funded by the FRQSC at UQAM and McGill.

Gilles Grenon

Gilles Grenon was born in Chicoutimi and currently lives in Montréal. He holds a master’s degree in Communication from the Université du Québec à Montréal and completed a graduate diploma (D.E.S.S.) in Arts, Creation, and Technologies at the Université de Montréal. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Music, with a concentration in Composition and Sound Creation, at the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Music. His main focus is on interactive digital arts. Gilles Grenon presented a collaborative performance with visual artist Mancy Rezaei at Lieu formes · ondes on March 13, 2025, as well as at the Sonopixel Festival on April 23, 2024. He also performed at the Ultrasons Festival on April 22, 2024, and his animated film Yi Ching, The Book of Transformations was selected for Dérapages as part of the Sommets du cinéma d’animation International Festival in Montréal on May 12, 2022.

Gabriela Hébert

Multidisciplinary artist Gabriela Hébert explores the relationship between sound, image, and gesture to create immersive and interactive experiences. From dance to scenography, from music to garment design, from installation to video, she shapes her artistic journey by integrating technology into her practice, enriching her creations through sound composition, electronics, and programming. Her portfolio — featuring a sound installation at the Cluj-Napoca Art Museum (Romania), a synthesizer composition with augmented performance at CIRMMT (Montréal), a multichannel sound installation at Sporobole (Sherbrooke), sound compositions for dancers, soundtracks for fashion shows presented at the Société des Arts Technologiques and Toronto Fashion Week (2019), a virtual reality short film for the SOIR Festival (2018), as well as numerous collaborative performances — reveals a constant exploration of artistic boundaries between live and digital art.

Rémy Jannelle

Rémy Jannelle is a Montreal-based music artist active in the fields of digital art and experimental music. After studying art history, where he discovered architecture and sculpture, he turned to digital music and developed an interest in digital lutherie as well as interdisciplinary performance. His work explores different ways of performing music by grounding it in scenographic action through the design of interactive sets, drawing inspiration particularly from architecture and design. His music, situated at the crossroads of noise, glitch, and ambient, has led him to collaborate with various artists, including Brigitte Poupart, Cirque Éloize, Martin Messier, and Bascaille, as a composer, arranger, programmer, and digital luthier. In parallel, he is involved in two musical projects: désolé courage, a noise-ambient duo, and Surcompensation, an experimental improvisation collective.

Jean-Philippe Jullin

Jean-Philippe Jullin is a Montreal-based audiovisual artist and creative developer. His practice explores the relationships between humans and machines through interactive and immersive systems, integrating machine learning and embodied cognition. He holds a Master’s degree in Composition and Sound Creation from the Université de Montréal, with a thesis dedicated to the exploration of latent sound spaces guided by perception. Recipient of the Marcelle-Deschênes Prize and an FRQSC scholarship, he has also received excellence scholarships from the Faculty of Music. His work has been presented at NIME, ICMC, AIMC, and Sound/Image, and has been published in Musicworks.

Jérémie Martineau

Jérémie Martineau is an audiovisual artist and researcher based in Montreal, active in experimental music and visual music. A doctoral student in Composition and Sound Creation at the University of Montreal and a lecturer, he is developing a research-creation project exploring vulnerability as a relational and transformative force. His multifaceted work spans music videos, audiovisual performance, instrumental, mixed, and electroacoustic composition, and installation. He takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on audiovisual spatialization, sound-image relationships, field recordings, and perceptual thresholds to create sensitive multisensory experiences. Recognized by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) JTTP and the CIRMMT Student Award, his work has been presented internationally at festivals and symposiums such as Sound/Image (UK), Noisefloor (UK, PT), and The Performing Media Festival (US).

AC Riznar

AC Riznar is a Montreal based musician, composer and visual artist, as well as singersongwriter. They’re studying mixed media at the department of digital music at the University of Montreal. Mainly interested by textures, dream-like superposition of images and narratives, involving shot scenes and loops, they’re following the feeling of something being off, while encouraging intuitive-automatic creative process.

Manuel Bolduc

Manuel Bolduc is a researcher-developer interested in various artistic applications of technology in the field of computer vision. He contributes notably to the research and development of the software LivePose, which aims to democratize the artistic use of AI for designing interactive experiences. He is also interested in generative visuals.

Zachary L’Heureux

Zachary L’Heureux is a technologist and creative developer, skilled with all kinds of digital creation equipment and software. His background, straddling both development and design, gives him a deep understanding of various multimedia systems. This diverse expertise allows him to find quick and efficient solutions to complex and varied challenges.