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Program

Jean-Philippe Jullin: Spectra

Audio-visual performance with dance and electronics. Duration: approx. 15'

Performer·s: Ariane Levasseur

Spectra explores latent sound spaces through dance and the perception of human gestures. Inspired by the growing influence of modern technologies on cognitive processes, this performance explores various relational paradigms where the boundary between artist and machine becomes blurred.

Alexis Blais: Bellows

Spatialized electroacoustic performance with a digital accordion controller. Duration: 16'

Performer·s: Darko Dimitrijević

Bellows is a comprovisatory acousmatic experiment, with spatial boundaries and sonic trajectories dictated by the quintessential expression of the accordion as an instrument—bellows movement. Using the digital accordion as a primary input method for sound generation on a meta-instrument designed by the duo, the piece grows and moves organically with the movements of the instrument and the performer.

Mélanie Frisoli: Trilogie Sinueuse – part 1 : Keeping Quiet et part 2 : Percussions

Acousmatic compositions. Duration: 22’

Trilogie sinueuse is an acousmatic piece in three movements originating from the spatial sound installation Keeping Quiet, presented in May 2024 as part of the LFO festival. This installation was designed as a sound walk within a confined and dark space, aiming to explore the effects created by the interaction of various sound waves in a meditative and reflective atmosphere.

The first two movements of Trilogie sinueuse will be presented during this evening: Keeping Quiet and Percussions. These two pieces explore different facets of sound and musical space, using sine waves, a few voices, and a recording of a kettle.

Biographies

Jean-Philippe Jullin

A sound and audiovisual artist who explores co-creation with machines through interactive and immersive systems. Funded by the Fonds de Recherche du Québec (FRQSC), his work has been acclaimed by Musicworks magazine and has received the Marcelle-Deschênes Prize. His research, presented at various conferences on musical creativity and artificial intelligence, leverages emerging technologies in collaborative projects to explore and challenge perceptions of space and time.

Ariane Levasseur

Trained at UQÀM in dance and winner of the Prix William-Douglas, uses the body as her primary artistic medium. In 2021, she participated in Caroline Laurin-Beaucage's "Habiter nos mémoires" project, began collaborating with Carré des Lombes in 2023, and co-presented "ceci n'est pas un mouvement" at Danses Buissonnières. In 2024, she joined Compagnie Catherine Gaudet. As a performer-creator, she explores themes of resistance, demands, and intimacy through movement.

Alexis Blais

Alexis Blais (born in 1998, he/him) is an electroacoustic music composer based in Montreal. Graduated from the Conservatory of music of Montreal in the class of Louis Dufort, he is currently pursuing his master's degree in composition and sound creation at the University of Montreal with Ana Dall'Ara-Majek. His research focuses on the continuum uniting the language of instrumental and electroacoustic music. Classical pianist by training, his acousmatic works are part of a plastic and textural research of concrete materials against a background of modal harmonies.

Alexis Blais also works in theater and dance, in addition to teaching sound design at the National Circus School in Montreal and at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf. His piece Skand (2021) won the first prize at the 2024 Destellos competition (Argentina). His works have been performed in England, Europe, Brazil, Japan and Canada.

Darko Dimitrijević

Darko is a classically trained accordionist with a keen interest in digital instruments and the array of options and possibilities for interaction with other machines that they offer. His general artistic interests lie in the algorithmization of the act of performance on an instrument and all its accompanying techniques and nuances: coding, decoding and translating them with the purpose of achieving control of an immersive multimedia environment by the performer live via their performance parametrics.

As a performer, he premiered over 60 new pieces for and with the accordion in all of its various shapes and forms, performing solo or with various orchestras across Europe, Asia and North America.

Mélanie Frisoli

Mélanie Frisoli (she/her) is a French-Canadian composer, sound artist and sound technician. She has played and sung her own songs on French and international stages for fifteen years (approximately 700 concerts) and accompanied several French and Canadian artists as a guitarist. She has published six albums and written three books as well as composed for dance, theater and cinema. Passionate about studio work, she trained in sound engineering before moving on to study Digital Music at the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in composition and sound creation under the supervision of Dominic Thibault and Caroline Traube. Her pieces have been performed in Canada, Italy, Germany and the United States, and have received several awards.