Ticket Reservations
Please note this concert is a part of CIRMMT's first international conference, Le son du futur / Le futur du son. Priority will thus be given to our conference guests with any remaining tickets made available to the public.
** A limited number of tickets will be available at the concert door, these are free and available to the general public on a first come, first served basis. **
Program
Xue HAN - en passant [premiere]
Martin Daigle (percussion), Xue Han and Quentin Lauvray (electronics), Seph Li (visual artist), Xiaonan Da, Francesco Capone (technical assistance)
Joshua BUCCHI - Shrubberies of semiconductors: Les lambeaux de mon cœur [premiere]
Ensemble Aukio: Anne Chabot-Bucchi (percussion), Justine Pelletier (piano), Joseph Fox (percussion), Felipe Verdugo (piano), Joshua Bucchi (electronics/diffusion)
Mélanie FRISOLI - Le bruit I - Spatialized acousmatic work [premiere]
Jason NOBLE - Freeze - For augmented drum kit [premiere]
Martin Daigle (performer), Edu Meneses (electronics & mapping)
Program Notes
en passant is a work for the live performance of a percussionist and audiovisual projection. The idea of the composition is to explore interactions among the gestures occurred in sounds, images, and physical movements. The natural relationship between the musician’s performing gestures and their resulting sounds is enhanced, distorted, and theatricized through the participation of the real-time video projection and the audio diffusion.
Shrubberies of semiconductors : Les lambeaux de mon cœur is an essentially autoethnographical project which serves as a sort of broken diary inspired by the destructive techniques of artists such as Jacques Villeglé or Bill Bourroughs. It feeds on a variety of sources such as pre-existing musical material extracted from a selection of my previous compositions produced between 2017 and 2021, recordings of broken toys, videos from personal and public archives, AI generated images or even saturated closeups.
The first acousmatic piece of a series of three spatialized works, Le Bruit I emerged from the sound materials of the digital instrument created for the live performance of the same name. This instrument has the particularity of using only a simple noise generator, but is capable, through various technical processes which it would be painful to discuss here, of delivering a wide and generous range of sounds. The acousmatic writing of studio allowed, then, to develop a succession of sound landscapes, with the contours sometimes blurred and dystopian. Le Bruit I wanders between several atmospheres and wants to pay tribute to all the sounds that surround us, whether they are natural or mechanical, with the will to place them on the same footing. Thus, the "background noises" have the possibility to become "figure noises", the tumults become murmurs and the interferences are agitated in the middle of the almost-silence.
Freeze for drum kit and AMIwrist, gives the drummer control over musical features outside the usual scope of the kit such as melody and harmony, effectively making him soloist, conductor, and ensemble for a mini-concerto. The title refers to spectral freeze, with which all signal processing in the piece begins, and also to psychological withdrawal, expressed here by a transition from the real time of acoustical sounds to the frozen time of a digital soundworld.
Biographies
Xue Han is a Chinese composer whose interests concern body languages, spoken languages, and their manifestation in music. Han started her music training in piano and dance. She is currently pursuing her doctorate at McGill University with Philippe Leroux. Her works have been performed by the China Youth Symphony Orchestra, Quasar Saxophone Quartet, Meitar Ensemble, Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, Ensemble Multilatérale and Les Métaboles, and soloists from Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Suono Giallo, and Ensemble Schallfeld.
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Seph Li
Born in 1988 in Beijing, China, Seph holds bachelor degrees in both Compute Science and Digital Design from Tsinghua University. After obtaining his M.F.A. in the Design/Media Arts department, School of Art & Architecture from UCLA in the United States in 2012, he has traveled and worked around Asia and Europe. Seph’s works have been exhibited internationally in the U.S., China, Japan, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Norway in many major media arts festivals.
Originally from France and the United States, Joshua Bucchi is a versatile musician who divides his time between contemporary creative music and various popular styles. He is currently pursuing a PhD in mixed composition at the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal under the direction of Pierre Michaud. He is also an arranger, bass player, singer and percussionist active in progressive rock, jazz, Afro-Cuban, Caribbean and Brazilian music.
Mélanie Frisoli is a French composer and musician based in Montreal. Before composing acousmatic music, she published 6 albums, 3 books and gave 700 concerts. Her research work focuses on the spatialization of sound and is inspired by soundscape, noise and the limits of technology. She received the Marcelle 2020 Prize and the 1st prize of the JTTP 2020 competition, awarded by the CEC.
Jason Noble is a composer and researcher whose work focuses on meaning in contemporary music. He currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the Université de Montréal, funded by FQRSC. Previously he worked as a postdoctoral researcher with the ACTOR project (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration). His Ph.D. from McGill University was funded by the prestigious Vanier Scholarship (SSHRC).
Martin Daigle is a native francophone from the Greater Moncton Area in New Brunswick. He currently studies contemporary percussion at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University as a doctoral candidate. He is in the process of creating a novel augmented drum kit that will be used as a research-creation laboratory for the integration of acoustic drums, electronics, and gestural controllers.
Edu Meneses is currently a Ph.D. candidate in music technology at McGill University, developing embedded digital and augmented musical instruments (Linux/Rpi and ESP32), gestural control of sound systems, mapping (including sound spatialization), and instrument/installation design.