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> Pascale Malaterre-

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Title of this endemic and pagan Oratorio. Portion of Montreal’s cemetery still being worked on. In English, French, Spanish, Arabic … Instrument for techno pulsation :a woman’s nose used as a symbol for space freedom against muslin extremism. Mine was slightly curved off following a blow in an antifascist demonstration (in Paris). Blood as an erotic tool of transgression. I made this mourning ritual, this virtual burial inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead with the videograph after I had the chance and honour to perform for the orchestra conductor Véronique Lacroix (Ensemble Contemporaine de Montréal) when she was re-reading John Cage (Musical event of the year, Opus Prize 2002 of the Conseil québécois de la musique). Her huge and generous talent help me to understand the desire to have all sounds heard in composition. I have accepted to be a simple single voice between several universe.


> Tamara Vukov


At a time of everlasting wars shown in media, Balkan Mediations arise from the army of questions raised for North American by the 1999 Nato bombings of Kosovo and Yugoslavia. For a long time, Balkan countries have seen themselves through the “ balkanise ” lens of western media : as an introductory territory between Europe and the East, a zone of ethnic impurity, instability and irrationality, an ideal stage for monstrous horrors. Balkan Mediations is structured around the breach I had to face, as other North-Americans of Yugoslav origin, between two very disconnecting experiences linked to Nato military intervention : on the one hand, having a cold and distant war in the media, on the other, the devastating possibility that a collateral damage could hit my own family. The starting point of the Balkan meditations creating intervention lies in the irony raised by the close links between media and military technologies, and it analyses the contradictions and brutality of the context in which, to use Bob Ostertag words, we now use the same tools to play, to create media and to kill.


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Anna Friz + Annabelle Chvostek
The radio is often a harbinger of bad news i.e. wars abroad, wars at home, hate-filled official speeches etc; and the listener response to this aural bombardment is often not one of action but depression, fear, and political apathy. The Automated Prayer Machine repositions radio as an antidote to despair. We create an expansive radiophonic sound environment by manipulating signals rebroadcast through a low-watt FM transmitter to multiple receivers in the audience. Digital video projection, live accordion, violin and voice complete the circuit, activating the metaphorical prayer machine.


Anna Friz is a sound artist and radio pirate living in Montreal. She has presented installation and performance works incorporating low-watt FM transmission in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal, as well as at the Third Coast Audio Festival in Chicago, PS 122 in New York; Ars Electronica 2002; and at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. She has produced numerous original radio works for Kunstradio, Austria, as well as for campus/community radio stations across Canada, and national radio in Canada, Austria, Denmark and Spain.

Annabelle Chvostek is a Montreal-based composer, videographer, singer and multi-instrumentalist. Her audio creations range from abstract electroacoustics and sample- rich grooves to contemporary folk songs. She has created multi-media performances and soundscores for dance in New York City, Montreal and Toronto and has made award-winning short videos aired at festivals like Chicago's Geoconference and Vancouver's Edgewise Electrolit Videopoem Festival. Annabelle Chvostek tours North America incessantly as a singer/songwriter and her recent self-produced album "Water" has earned widespread critical acclaim.



Alexis O'Hara

Alexis O'Hara is a non-disciplined, triligual artist who bends forms, painting complex soundscapes and elaborate stories using nothing more than her body, a microphone and a series of electronic pedals. A former poetry slam champion and newspaper columnist, she now divides her time between three parallel artistic pursuits: spoken word, sound art and live action art. This year, her work has graced stages in 35 North American cities from the swamps of Louisiana right on up to the midnight sun of the Yukon. She has published books of poetry and her recordings can be found at www.grenadinerecords.com. By exploiting pseudo-virtuosities in verbal, gutteral and technological melodies, LX6 engages in spontaneous sound and body combats, reverberating the essential absurdities of life.

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Natural Clutter

Natural Clutter aims to trigger a visceral reaction through a dialogue of audio and video imagery. By broaching the theme of clutter, the piece asks of its audience to inspect their own internal displacement. The spectator is invited to reflect upon the emotional stress that it perpetually creates, which in turn is nurtured by social and environmental disorder.

What first manifests itself as idyllic pastoral landscape with its seemingly immaculate components will, through closer inspection, reveal the detritus of our urban lives. Scenes of placid fields, pristine waters, and primal fauna prove to be elusive machinations of our collective experience.

A live soundtrack of manipulated audio field recordings plays in tandem as the video unfurls. The exercise proposes a meta-dialogue exposing the elusive meaning of a nature indelibly tainted by our own heightened anxiety.


I8U

I8U's musical path is rather special. From classical music to the blues, it took only one chance meeting with David Kristian to get her involved in electronic music. I8U has participated in various music and new technology festivals across Canada, Europe and the US, such as Silophone (Montréal, 2000), Mutek (Montréal, 2001), Le Festival de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (2002), Ver Uit de Maat (Rotterdam, 2002), and a soundtrack by Bubblyfish and I8U for the movie Swordswoman of Huangjiang / Huangjiang Nuxia presented at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater Festival : Heroic Grace : The Chinese Martial Arts Film in New York.

Her CDs have been released on Canadian and European labels,( bake / staalplaat, Oral, Piehead Records ) including a collaborative piece with Goem (Amsterdam). She regularly presents solo performances and often collaborates with Martin Tétreault, David Kristian and Magali Babin. I8U's particular interest in music, sound and Web art allowed her to produce her first Web art project, Obstacle, which was presented as part of Périphérique, a laboratory curated by Nicole Gingras and created in collaboration with the Groupe Intervention Vidéo (Montréal, 2001). A second Web art project, _ S Ü was presented at the Musée du Québec in the fall of 2002 in the context of the Web art exhibit “ Ellipse “, curated by Valérie Lamontagne and included 5 other Canadian artists.Her latest project Median, is an interactive piece created in the context of a Web art residency at LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE.
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