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Tiger & Woods (IT) @tigerandwoods North America Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Expérience 6 on August 28, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ After focusing on their productions and DJ sets for the last 5 years, Tiger & Woods came back with a brand new form of live show : a performance based on "sound patterns sculpturing", blending Italodisco, House, Booogie and even Techno...

Magnanime (CA/QC) @magnanime World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Expérience 4 on August 26, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Live, Magnanime’s forward-thinking production process and enthusiasm for listeners’ reactions shines. Aware of her environment, she manifests a dance music experience that is a kind of exchange with the audience.

Tarta Relena (ES/CAT) @tartarelena North America Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Play 2 on August 26, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Tarta Relena perform with a neat blend of technologies both modern and ancient. The two musicians flesh out different vocal techniques (flamenco, lyrical, traditional, jazz) with percussive patterns on a ceramic amphora outfitted with a con...

Handsome Tiger (CA) @handsometiger Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Expérience 2 on August 24, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Fresh from the release of his DECOLONIZED EP, Handsome Tiger made his debut on the MUTEK stage at the esplanade Tranquille by showcasing the Indigenized Bass sound he’s been cultivating for the past two years.

Nik Colk Void (UK) @nik-colk-void World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Play 1 on August 25, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ A seasoned electronic musician and artist with a vast reputation in experimental shapeshifting and collaboration, Nik Colk Void’s musical expressions stem from the unconventional encounters with her tools, both analogue and digital.

Flandez (CA) @michael-flandez World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Expérience 6 on August 28, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ With Human, Flandez showcases an eclectic collage of sounds recorded and reworked over the last year. Throughout the performance, unexpected turns and a quasi-cinematic narration were brought forward in a conventional 4/4 tempo sprinkled with sync...

Myriam Bleau (CA/QC) @myriambleau Canadian Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Nocturne 4 on August 27, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Hypermobility is an audiovisual performance by Myriam Bleau combining distilled hints of dance music with volumetric laser projections. The hyperkinetic patterns of Supercollider's digital synthesis are visualized by a laser beam creating scu...

Mue & Katherine Melançon (CA/QC) World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Nocturne 2 on August 25, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ The waste generated by people and their interaction with food constitutes the central theme of A Discard Study. As part of this unique performance, Mue and Katherine Melançon will eat various foods in order to create real-time sounds and visuals,...

SIM (CA/QC) @sim_mtl World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Expérience 5 on August 27, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Defined by the artist as “Molecular Music”, his sound translates into a constant exchange between matter, time and space. By recreating his own studio environment, consisting of a synthesizer, a drum machine, effects pedals and Ableton, SIM creates the per...

Icky Magdala (CA/QC) @ickymagdala Live at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Expérience 2 on August 24, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ A veritable pillar of Montréal’s underground scene, Icky Magdala finds much appreciation for the soundsystem and vinyl cultures. Having started her career by mixing classic hip-hop and house vinyls, she became inspired by different musical styles, nowad...

Caro (CA) @carosound World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Nocturne 5 on August 28, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Caro blends layers of field recordings and sounds either found or created in order to craft innovative sonic landscapes. Drawing from site-specific inspiration and supported by the composer’s finely-tuned ear, Terra Incognita is an immersion into the queer e...

Parts Project (CA/QC) @partsproject World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Nocturne 5 on August 28, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ For MUTEK, Parts Project’s performance Steps And Dreams celebrated the beauty of imperfection with sample rate reduction, background noise, distortion and saturation in all their time-worn character.

AGUMA (CA/QC) @soundsofaguma World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Expérience 1 on August 23, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Aguma, a Québec duo composed of producers Guillaume Sauvé and Gabriel R. Drapeau, presents this new collaborative jewel carrying a practice centered on atmospheric explorerations based on synthesizers, modulars and other "hardware" machines.

Echönymphia & le desert mauve (CA/QC+CN/QC+FR/QC) @echonymphia World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Nocturne 5 on August 28, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Oasis is an attentive conversation between Echönymphia & le desert mauve, who mix their respective instruments–harp, synthesizers, effects and video modules–with amplified blown glass objects that act as elements of...

Gábor Lázár (HU) @gaborlazar Canadian Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Play 3 on August 27, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Gábor Lázár’s seventh studio album Boundary Object collects eight tracks of his works released by Planet Mu. According to Pitchfork “Lázár’s sound is rawer in concept than his peers’, and manipulated with an implacable, iimpressive fussiness most prod...

Automatisme & Marilou Lyonnais Archambault @automatisme01 & @mariloulyonnaisa World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Play 1 on August 25, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Recent audio works by Automatisme from his two albums Gap/Void (Constellation) and Statique (Mille Plateaux) were merged with visuals of digitized natural landscapes by Marilou Lyonnais Archambault.

Noha (IT/QC) @noha_bekind World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Expérience 6 on August 28, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Italian DJ and producer, Noha spent many years painting before moving into electronic music production. Much of his creative process is driven by his love of travel and his enthusiasm for collaborations.

CMD (CA/QC) @c-m-d World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Expérience 3 on August 25, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ CMD's performance for MUTEK 2022 played with the perceptual possibilities of repetition and abstraction, combining cumulative machine rhythms with textural melodic elements to move both bodies and minds.

Gaëlle Scali(FR/KC) @gaelle-scali World Premiere at MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Nocturne 1 on August 24, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Gaëlle Scali employs sequencers, synthesizers and samplers in order to elicit dub, acid, house and experimental-laden sound textures created from series of integers, in turn generating speculative, post-psychedelic and frankly glitchy visual uni...

machìna (KR/JP) @yeoheemusic MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Nocturne 1 on August 24, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ For her live performance, machìna will employ her ever-growing collection of modular synthesizers, drum samplers and analog gear. On stage, she’ll appear fragile; this small human form controlling a sprawling installation of interconnected machines will only accentuat...

Edna King (CA) @edna-king1 MUTEK Montréal | Édition 23 Expérience 2 on August 24, 2022 Mastered by @pheek (audioservices.studio) __ Edna King is a Toronto-based electronic artist. She focuses on mixing polyrhythms with her vocal samplings and industrial textures to create a very unique experience that eludes any genre.

🎧 PODCAST : MUTEK x Eastern Bloc Last podcast of our MUTEK x Eastern Bloc series and last artist: Icky Magdala. To be found on Wednesday, August 24 during Experience 2 on the Esplanade Tranquille. __ Dernier podcast de notre série MUTEK x Eastern Bloc et dernière artiste : Icky Magdala. À retrouver le mercredi 24 août à l’occasion de Expérience 2 sur l’esplanade Tranquille.

🎧 PODCAST : MUTEK x Eastern Bloc A new podcast in about MUTEK Forum with the creative producer and music journalist Sarah Mackenzie in conversation with Malte Leander of Eastern Bloc. She will be presenting at the Forum on Friday August 26th on a panel entitled: Welcome to the Musicverse: Music in the Age of Web3 __ Nouveau podcast en lien avec MUTEK Forum car c’est la productrice créative et jou...

Airing today on CKUT: MUTEK Dialogues, a podcast/radio mini-series that aims to explore the conceptual arcs and creative rhythms that connect the diverse musicians, artists and practitioners that make up the festival year. For this new episode, Matthew Raymond talks to Orphx & Diagraf, Toronto-based musicians Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey, and Montréal artist, VJ, DJ, designer and producer Patri...

Airing today on CKUT: MUTEK Dialogues, a podcast/radio mini-series that aims to explore the conceptual arcs and creative rhythms that connect the diverse musicians, artists and practitioners that make up the festival year. For this broadcast, Matthew Raymond (modal.future) sat down with composer/AV duo Chloe Alexandra Thompson and Aesthetic Stalemate to discuss the history of their collaborative p...