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Alcazar is a new rock quintet born of Montreal electronic snow which takes its wings. With their frenetic rhythms bewitched volcanic voice, the electro-rock band, defies gravity for you to float in their supersonic space … Alleluia!

Sometimes playful, the work of Jessica Arseneau questions the reciprocal transformations of the individual and his social environment. It shows the limits of desire and seduction soumisent consumerism omnipotent. During a residency at ElMadina for Performing Arts and Digital Alexandria (2014), and as an echo of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, she made mouthpiece of…

Marilyne Fournier is a performance artist who lives and works in Montreal. His artistic research is concerned with potential theatricality, the gestures of the body and the poetry of the object. In her performances, she discusses staged in a cramped to the object and space report.    

Winner of the first championship of France beatbox in 2006, LOS aka  Laurent Dupras is recognized for its level of beatbox disconcerting. Multiplying projects and artistic encounters this world class beatboxer became a key figure in the field.

Multidisciplinairy artist, Allison Moore employs in her work varied mediums such as video, installation and drawing. Montreal adoption Moore searched to represent her art that combines traditional practices – puppets – new technologies – video projections and print.

Arm is hand written and the voice of rap collective Psyckik Lyrikah. His flow is infused with influences from the street, from the darkness of life until the tragedy of theater. Music that bears his texts is powerful, dark, affected both by the rock, blues and electro.

Guillaume Arseneault is a transmedia digital artist who is interested in the kinetic reinjection of the body into interactive environment. Driven by a desire to find meaning in the digital age, he hybridizes technology to provoke interpersonal reactions and dialogues. From immersive installations to architectural projections, lighting, sound and technological designs, the breadth of his…

Julie Boillot-Savarin is a set-designer and since 2011, she is developing her artistic activity within the interdisciplinary group WOS (Work On Stage) / agence des hypothèses. This collaboration creates free zones, laboratories-camps, ambulantage kits, deflexives maps and audiovisual sequences. With WOS, Julie goes beyond theater, but whenever a nice occasion occurs, she goes up on…

2010: Loïc Touzé settles in Nantes. He engages with Anne Kerzerho Autour de la Table. This project questions the plurality of knowledge and practises surrounding the body in different cultural contexts and the interchange between them. During the 2009/2010 season Loïc Touzé creates La Chance at the Mettre en Scène festival (Rennes). La Chance follows…

Tedi Tafel is a Montreal-based choreographer currently working in the fields of performance, installation and video. The overall arc of her career describes a movement away from ‘spectacle’ and closer to the notion of public event inventing new forms that narrow the divisions between art and life, between performer and audience. Her works are site-specific…

André Eric Letourneau is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and author. A professor at UQAM, he is a researcher at the Hexagram Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, whose mandate is to develop projects that combine art and digital technology. Eric Letourneau has collaborated with the Escales Improbables de Montréal three times since 2007….

A composer and sound artist trained in the Lyon Conservatory’s Acousmatics program (under Denis Dufour)and an INALCO graduate in Inuit Language & Culture (with Michèle Therrien) For over twenty years, Philippe Le Goff has developed a singular body of work around sound and music in various artistic and scientific settings. His approach is complemented by researchwork…

Through his work in a variety of disciplines, Alexis Bellavance addresses themes in which his whimsical ideas blend with silence, noise, the details of time and its contours. His observations are transmitted in various forms: sound art, photography, performance and installation. He is co-founder of the performance event VIVA! Art action, and active member and project manager with the art center Perte…

Claire Dehove developed her artistic activity with WOS/agence des hypothèses, the collective she initiated. With its members and its punctual and from varying fields partners, WOS experiences of citizens and political protocols in socialized areas. WOS uses the interactive possibilities of open source and GPS to generate deflexive maps, remote controlled tactile or Ambulantage communication…

After studying both art and architecture, he turns to different domains in what is called applied arts – notably, design, architecture, and graphic art. Considering typography as a graphic and plastic material, Jocelyn Cottencin experiments it through different forms : performance, interventions in public spaces, installations, drawings, books, and scenography as in the work Vocabulario…

After studies in sociology and cultural administration, she worked as a producer for dance companies. In 2002, she joined the CCN of Rennes (direction Catherine Diverrès) for seven years as head of development. She develops support for young artists, training courses and with the choreographer Alain Michard with whom she initiated an event A domicile,…

Alain Michard is a film-maker, choreographer and visual artist. He creates and presents his works in theatres, dance festivals, but also in contemporay art centres (museums, bienniales). Most of his works take place in a tight link with its context producing site-specific events and forms. He invites other artists to join him for collaborations, as…

Choreographic works, installations, lecture demonstrations, pluridisciplinary collaborations: mixing genres, reflecting upon and redefining formats, Latifa Laâbissi’s work seeks to bring onstage multiple offstage perspectives; an anthropological landscape in which stories, figures and voices are placed and highlighted. Dance “codes” are disturbed by recalcitrant bodies, alternative stories, montages of materials infiltrated by certain signs of the…

Kurt Perschke is an artist who works in sculpture, video, collage and public space. His most acclaimed work, RedBall Project, is a traveling public art project that has taken place in Abu Dhabi, Taipei, Perth, England, Barcelona, St. Louis, Korea, Portland, Sydney, Arizona, Chicago and Toronto, and received a National Award from Americans for the…

First known as the female half of Tricot Machine, Catherine Leduc is now back with Rookie, a first solo album which spreads beautifully and bewitches with its fragile force. A true fontain in today’s folk trend ditch. Exhuming her guitare, she takes the needed time to tame her new strenght and fully takes on her…

Born in France, Ludo Pin was raised in Sarcelles, in Paris suburbs. His first contacts with music were through the guitare and ethnomusicology classes he took, but all the rest, he taught himself. In 2006, he had a great success with the song 3 secondes, and in 2008, he released his first self-titled album, quickly…

She does « pop song without makeup ». Refined and nonchalant at the same time, the singer-songwriter Josianne Paradis has all that it takes to spread happiness . Many French Canadian song lovers already know her: in 2006, she won the honnors at Petite-Vallée’s Festival en chanson. With her warm texts, her pop grooves at the piano…

Olivier Alary is a Montreal-based musician and composer who has released his own recordings, as well as composing for film and exhibitions. Since 2000, he has collaborated with Björk, Nick Knight, Doug Aitken, Yung Chang, V&A museum and Centre Pompidou amongst others. 
For the past five years, he has also provided soundtrack for several feature-length films,…

At the beginning, there is the love of Émilie Laforest for Kim Doré’s collection of poems, Le rayonnement des corps noirs (Poètes de brousse, Émile-Nelligan award 2004). The singer, usually found in contemporary music circles, loves this incandescent, uncompromising poetry which lights up suns on the verge of desasters. She loves it enough to compose,…

Huu Bac Quach masters many instruments such as the dan bau (Vietnamese single chord), the erhu (Chinese hurdy gurdy), the quena (Peruvian flute) and the guitare. Pupil of Pham Duc Thanh, dan bau master, Huu Bac also studied jazz guitare at McGill University and erhu at Shanghai College of Music. He also worked on shows…

First introduced to kora in 1986, Nathalie keeps perfecting the mastering of her instrument by going regularly to Africa to meet with great masters, with the help of Canada Council for the Arts and Quebec Conseil des Arts et des Lettres. During several years, playing with the Guinea-Bissau singer Lilison and the group Takadja, she…

Unconventional singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Émilie Proulx is passionate about folk, underground and words. After having several jobs, she now dedicates her time to writting airy, intimist and sometimes melancholic songs, whose images and atmosphere transport us elsewhere. Her singular poetry alone is worth the detour.

Drawing inspirations from many styles stemming from folk, jazz and pop, Canadian singer songwriter, Thanya Iyer and band create beautiful soundscapes which resonate throughout the city of Montreal. The music is filled with rich string textures, deep dark bass lines and a soulful voice floating on top.

Harpist for 22 years, Évelyne Grégoire-Rousseau has an uncommon career path. She has a solid classical training and sometimes plays with the greatest symphonic orchestras of the province (she was invited by the OSM in 2012), but she also likes to bring her harp on the less trodden path of pop music and original composition….

Roger Tellier-Craig is a Montreal-based electronic musician obsessed with the history of electronic sound whose work revisits an array of approaches and technologies. Working with digital tools such as granular synthesis and sampling, as well as with computer controlled analog synthesizers, he hopes to develop an aesthetic that hints at some unknown and impossible memories….

thisquietarmy is an experimental guitar-based project from Montreal, Quebec, Canada – active since 2005. Revolving around improvised guitar-based drone music, he takes his sonic experimentations further by adding textural and structural elements of post-punk, shoegaze, krautrock, post-rock, black metal and doom metal to them. The results can be described as dark, melodic, expansive and engaging…

Following a unique artistic path, Pierre-Yves Martel is constantly renewing his musical identity and practice. Though an instrumentalist, he identifies himself first and foremost as a sound artist whose work oscillates between research and experimentation. It is in this spirit that he has revisited the viola da gamba, utilizing this traditional instrument in new contexts…

Alexis O’Hara is a multidisciplinary artist working in the bright darkness of her den in La Petite-Patrie.

Cinematic electronic music from the cold north, Boundary explores minimalistic soundscapes and channel the spirit of classic ambient music.

Zachary Gray is an electronic songwriter and producer based in Montreal. His past releases include his debut LP Montréal I/II, and Reinterpretations, a compilation of remixes and edits – both released with Camomille Music. More recently, Gray released two split singles (Modern Mathematics 4 and Split, respectively) via Montreal based art/music imprint Trembl. A new…

Turn-table player, improviser, sound and visual artist, Martin Tétreault creates sound performances with turn-tables he builds or adapts to his needs. He participated in numerous festivals and sound art performances, in the province of Quebec and abroad. He is involved in many music, danse and poetry projects. He released many albums with artists from Quebec…

Catherine Major is among the strong talents of Quebec song and she arouses a deep interest abroad. Her world is singular: she delivers, without restraint, colorful and eclectic songs tinted with humanity. Some are explosive and frantic, others are deeply intimate. She lives her songs in symbiosis with her instrument, the piano. In 2002, Catherine…

Author of two albums combining folk and spoken word – the most recent released under Audiogram label in 2012 – Tristan Malavoy also published three poems collections and many columns and short stories. As a songwriter, he worked with Stéphanie Lapointe, Catherine Durand and Gilles Bélanger among others. He had also conceived and staged shows…