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Composer and sound artist France Jobin, artist and physicist Sebastián Duque Mesa, and teaching professor Olivier Landon-Cardinal (ÉTS), moderated by Pía Baltazar (SAT), explore how principles of quantum mechanics such as interference, entanglement, and uncertainty can inspire and transform music as both a conceptual and technological practice, from algorithmic composition and granular synthesis t...

Speedy J (NL) @jochempaap Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Métropolis 1 on August 22 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Speedy J channels decades of techno mastery into a fiercely tactile live set. Navigating between hypnotic loops and raw improvisation, he constructs a pulse-driven narrative in real time. This is techno at its most physical—unpredictable, immersive, and deeply felt on e...

Luisa Ji (UKAI Projects), Rachel Weldon (Debaser / Pique), and Mira Silvers (FEMINAE NOX / FORT Agency) propose critical, hands-on interventions in building more accessible, capable, and resilient cultural infrastructures, from community-driven Pay-What-You-Can ticketing models, to festivals reimagined as adaptive platforms for new rituals and exchanges, to a blueprint for a live music ecosystem d...

Sasha Stiles, language artist, presents a talk and performance exploring poetry as both ancient technology and contemporary lens, examining how the encoding of memory and meaning through verse can illuminate the impacts and possibilities of AI, and open new ways of thinking about creativity, communication, and the future of human expression. Recorded at MUTEK Forum 2025

Game Changer : stéréotypes, diversité et pouvoir de création présenté par Club Sexu Léa Séguin et Justine Lahaie-Gagnon, chercheuses au Club Sexu, présentent les résultats de Game Changer, un projet de recherche explorant comment naissent les représentations stéréotypées du genre et des relations intimes dans l'industrie de jeux vidéo montréalaise, et proposent des pistes d'action pour bâtir une i...

A Conversation with Cristóbal Tapia de Veer Cristóbal Tapia de Veer, multi-EMMY and BAFTA-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist, delivers a rare and intimate masterclass and Q&A, offering a behind-the-scenes look into his creative process, from composition and sound design to inspiration and method, moderated by curator, scholar, and musician Jarrett Martineau (Chan Centre for the Performing...

Harry Kumar (MOTH) and multifaceted artist, producer, and vocalist ILĀ present a talk and live demo-performance exploring their collaboration RECURSE, a project applying quantum machine learning to musical composition, generated on a real quantum computer in partnership with hardware company IQM, and performed live with MOTH's quantum synthesiser ACTIAS. Unlike conventional AI tools that rely on l...

Kahentawaks Tiewishaw (Revital Software) and Vanessa Racine present two Indigenous-led game projects exploring how interactive media can serve as a tool for storytelling, resistance, and cultural revitalization, from language learning through collaborative development, to speculative 8-bit futures that challenge colonial narratives of land, followed by a live demo of orange pekoe (2023) and a disc...

McKenzie Wark writer, theorist, and performer delivers a live reading with accompanying beats drawn from Raving and Love and Money, Sex and Death, followed by a conversation on techno-sensuality, queer rave culture, and the poetics of refusal. Author of influential works including A Hacker Manifesto, Gamer Theory, and Capital is Dead, Wark has helped rethink strands of Marxist theory in books such...

Techno Para Dos (MX) @technoparados Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Expérience 3 on August 21 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) In Amor, Techno Para Dos navigates a deep emotional spectrum through shifting sonic terrains—blending ambient, IDM, techno, and breaks. This live set is a meditation on love’s many forms, merging intricate rhythms with atmospheric depth to create a performance...

DJ Oil (FR) Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Expérience 5 on August 23 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) DJ Oil unveils a new live set drawn from his album Reserve, released on Multi Culti in November 2025. Blending abstract jazz with stripped-down techno, he builds a focused, rhythmic journey rooted in texture, rare samples, and a deep sense of groove.

Alexis Langevin-Tétrault (CA/QC) Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 A/Visions 2 on August 23 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) In REPLIKAS, Alexis Langevin-Tétrault builds a glowing metallic totem live on stage, conducting sound and light with visceral precision. Using body sensors and machine learning, he crafts a dramatic arc from somber drones to pulsing luminosity—a ritual of grief an...

Stephen Beaupré (CA/QC) Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Expérience 1 on August 19 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Stephen Beaupré presents Return, a finely tuned live set blending lush micro-house, intricate sampling, and hypnotic rhythms. Featuring new material from Vanishing Night and upcoming exclusives on The Nite Owls, this immersive performance balances precision with improvisa...

Al Wootton (UK) @alwootton DJ set at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Expérience 2 on August 20 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Al Wootton delivers deep, hypnotic DJ sets driven by dub textures and finely crafted percussion. Moving between meditative minimalism and bass-driven intensity, he creates an atmosphere that is both physical and introspective, where techno sounds and experimental rhy...

Florence-Delphine Roux (CA/QC) Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Expérience 6 on August 24 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Florence Delphine Roux unveils an immersive sound work that captures ghostly voices via VHF and low-frequency radio waves. Blending mysterious testimonies with interference, the piece blurs the line between perception and the invisible.

Safia Nihil (CA/QC) Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Expérience 6 on August 24 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) In their Canadian debut, Safia Nihil unveils a refined downtempo live set to mark the release of their new EP. Rooted in Maghrebi-Italian heritage and analog textures, the Chez. Kito. Kat duo, composed of D.B.Y. and SHADYA, crafts a meditative journey—where modular synths, ge...

The Bionic Harpist & Techno Para Dos (US/QC+MX) @technoparados Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Special event at Théâtre de Verdure on August 20 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) fran·gere by The Bionic Harpist and Techno Para Dos fractures the line between ancient resonance and electronic abstraction. Altered harp and modular synthesis form a genreless, meditative soundscape—an intimat...

Gendron, Myre, Tessier (CA/QC) Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Nocturne 4 on August 23 Mastered by Aurélie Tessier In Morphose, Gendron, Myre, Tessier interweave saxophone, augmented guitar, and modular synthesis into a fluid audiovisual system. Blending ambient, dub techno, and noise, they craft evolving soundscapes that bend space and perception—live and in sync through TouchDesigner. A hypn...

Delavelour (CA/QC) @delavelour Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Expérience 3 on August 21 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) DELAVELOUR — the alter ego project of Canadian electronic music veteran François Lebaron — revisits the album Paranoid Fantasies in a live set blending atmospheric minimal house and funky grooves. Driven by a quest for sonic reinvention, his meticulous reworks blur...

L M O (CA/QC) Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Nocturne 4 on August 23 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) L M O transforms memory into a dreamlike territory with Chronomorphose, an immersive piece built from personal archives and decaying analog media. Floating point clouds and spatialized soundscapes morph in real-time, dissolving boundaries between time and space in a collective dive t...

Djeity & al11z (CA/QC) @djeity Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Nocturne 3 on August 22 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Blending melodic techno, classical roots, and ancestral sound, Things Are Not What They Seem is Djeity’s immersive debut with visuals by al11z and cello by Fili Gibbons. In the SAT dome, live vocals and audio-reactive 3D worlds conjured a surreal, emotionally charged...

Mok-T & Bar Rubinstein (FR/QC) @mok-T Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Nocturne 4 on August 23 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Blurring the lines between physical immersion and emotional healing, Mok-T and Bar Rubinstein present Surface Healing, an audiovisual odyssey based on Mok-T’s EP of the same name. Inspired by the dive reflex and the calming depths of “deep” music, the project...

Thisquietarmy & Mothrspace (CA/QC+BR/QC) @thisquietarmy & @mothrspace Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Nocturne 3 on August 22 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) In Flor do Cerrado, thisquietarmy & Mothrspace dissolve the boundaries between organic resonance and electronic abstraction. Live-processed cello and textured guitar merge into a haunting soundscape—at once intimate and alien. A...

OSTR-SIZE (CA/QC) @ostr-size (@ostr-ch & @simonsizermusic) Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Expérience 4 on August 22 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) OSTR-SIZE, aka Ostrich and Simon Sizer, merges intricate sound design with raw rhythmic energy in a potent Drum & Bass fusion. The duo’s hybrid approach, shaped by contrasting musical roots, delivers visceral basslines and striking sonic...

Daniela Huerta (MX/DE) @baby-vulture Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 26 Nocturne 4 on August 23 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) Daniela Huerta unveils SOPLO, a hallucinatory suite of spectral synths, environmental recordings, and abstract rhythms. Built from soundtracks for Iván Argote’s films, her meticulous layering and sonic mutations evoke lost memories and shifting temporalities, f...