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Montreal 11.08.2006 – Les Soirees Exploratoires du Mercredi

Wednesday, November 8th 2006

i8u and Magali Babin, live on
“Les soirées exploratoires du mercredi”,
Bande à Part’s satellite radio, #93 on SIRIUS
http://www.radio-canada.ca/radio/sirius/

The show Electro, is hosted by Tony Tremblay
with the help of Hélène Prévost and focuses on
exploratory music.
i8u and Magali Babin are the second guests
to appear live on the program while Aimé Dontigny
started off the series this past October.

For those of you who won’t be able to listen to
this live performance, it will be archived on
Bande à Part’s site.
http://www.bandeapart.fm/

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Montreal 01.28.2006 – Textures_03

TEXTURES_03: Jan 28th 2006 – 9pm
i8u | tomas phillips
with Clonal Machina
from San Francisco

Textures is a series of deep-listening events held on the last Saturday of each month at Pharmacie Esperanza. These salon-style concerts focus mainly on live performances of ambient, noise, improv and experimental music in a comfortable and intimate setting.

Two Montreal debuts at our Textures concert series. First up will be the ambient stylings of Clonal Machina, who has recently relocated from San  Francisco. The second performance of the evening will be the first live collaboration between I8U and Tomas Phillips, in anticipation of their upcoming release Anther on petite sono.

La Salle D’Attente (Pharmacie Esperanza)
5490 boul. St-Laurent (corner St-Viateur)
Montreal, QC

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Montreal 01.02.2005 – Studio XX

IN THE CONTEXT OF ” LES JOURNÉES DE LA CULTURE”
 SATURDAY THE 1ST OF OCTOBER 2005
13:00 – 17:00

STUDIO XX PRÉSENTS :

 A DAY OF EXCHANGE, NEW MEDIA AND CULTURE

Join us for a festive fall day when we will present the latest interactive works produced through the Studio. Experience the multimedia installation of Stéphanie Lagueux. Look and listen to the computer generated and assisted works from musicians I8U, and cellist, Vera Ronkos. The Studio XX team members will be in the house to keep it warm and tell you about this year’s programming, production activities, our wide gamut of workshops, our open source lab and our online revue, .dpi.


 Schedule

1:00 – doors open

presentation : The Social Body :
 a multimédia installation
by Stéphanie Lagueux, in coproduction with Studio XX

The Social Body is a video and web installation in which surfers on the web, through their responses, affect a body modelled in fat. Demonstrating the powerful effect of ideas on matter by a process of “art-statistics”, this sensitizing device evokes the massive influence of the social body on each individual one.

1:45
launch of the fall program and workshops at  STUDIO XX :
jake moore and Marie-Hellène Lemay

2:00 : Performances by artists from the MAX/msp workshops
Introduction by instructor Patrice Coulombe.

-Vera Ronkos :on the cello/max patch
accompanied by Patrice Coulombe on violon
 Vera will play the cello that will be effected different ways by a patch that resulted from the Studio XX course Max/MSP.
followed by :

 -The first live processed audio-visual performance of I8U,
 “BURDEN”

Burden is an ongoing project inspired by the metamorphosis of the soul from Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The concept is that when art becomes subjectively stale, the artist feels burden. Once this Burden becomes too heavy, the paradigm shifts and the artist can create anew. Through MAX/msp and jitter, I8U explores this concept with a live performance using a patch that acts as a new instrument to show this metamorphosis.

I8U’s audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture.” It reveals powerful, opaque and complex sound environments where analog and digital meet. Her Web art can be said to follow a parallel path, incorporating both musical and visual elements. Her work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create in new environments.

and throughout the day we will  be streaming live :

Refresh: The first International Conference on Media Art Histories
from the Banff New media Institute

The presentations will be in both French and English.

Please pass on this invitation! Hope to see you there

STUDIO XX
338 Terrasse Saint-Denis, Montréal (Québec) H2X 1E8
Métro Sherbrooke, ou autobus 24 (Sherbrooke) ou 125 (Ontario).
(514) 845-7934 / http://www.studioxx.org
Information: info@studioxx.org

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Montreal 06.04.2005 – Mutek 2005

Le Placard @ Mutek 2005

The première of Mrs White, a trio comprising of
Myléna Bergeron + Magali Babin + i8u.

Saturday, June 4th 2005
18h40-19h20

Museum Just for Laughs,
2111 Boul. St Laurent, 1st floor
Montreal, Qc
Canada

Le PLacard welcomes 60 artists from the canadian electronic scenes and Mutek internationl guests. Le PLacard is a a MAJOR gathering, an unique event !
3 days of concerts for deep listeners connected to the stage by wires, hearing all performances through headphones, and 3 days of Internet streaming for far away lovers of experimental music.


Le Placard

Initiated in 1999 by Parisian organization BÜRO, LE PLACARD is a unique concept for a nomadic, international festival: it is based around the presentation of live musical performances to a public outfitted with headphones, along with the simultaneous transmission of the concerts over the Internet.

PLACARD//MUTEK 2005 is the initiative of Eric Mattson, curator of this first collaboration between LE PLACARD and MUTEK. The event-laboratory welcomes over a period of three days over sixty performances of original and untamed electronic music. The selected artists come from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as well as several other countries-all of whom will be taking advantage of this exclusive platform to diffuse an eclectic assortment of original, unedited, and untamed electronic music.

A festival within a Festival, PLACARD//MUTEK 2005 also serves as an outlet for meetings and exchanges-a forum for impromptu collaborations and unexpected demonstrations.

The Yokomono project from duo Staalplaat Soundsystem debuts the festival in its performance format, and then follows with its installation mode-assuring a playfully animated break during the interludes which dot the program.

The calendar of performances will be published on www.placard.org, www.mutek.ca, and www.bandeapart.fm. The BANDEAPART.FM/Radio-Canada website will also present a blog where internet-users can interact more directly to share their impressions on the performances. PLACARD//MUTEK 2005 inaugurates the 2005 season for LE PLACARD, which will unfurl over three months in different venues.

Büro
Paris, FR
 www.placard.org
www.bandeapart.fm

Spearheaded by Parisian artist Erik Minkkinen, BÜRO is a structure for the organising and producing of events, dedicated to the promotion and diffusion of all kinds of “adventurous” music, while also maintaining an interest in extreme, innovative, critical, or playful artistic approaches in the grand scheme of electronic music. It’s within this context that LE PLACARD-a nomadic, international festival that, since 1999, proposes a three-month long season of live performances coupled with simultaneous streaming over the Internet-thrives. This diffusionary method stimulates creation and favours experimentation, permitting performances in rather unconventional environments: a Parisian maids’ bedroom, a Tokyo gallery, or the backstage of a concert that can become as good as diffusionary venue for the festival as any. Incorporating a large number of people present or connected live via the Internet, this event-laboratory creates a network of ephemeral concert sites, “placards (closets),” and integrates the audience into each creative step along the way.

Staalplaat Soundsystem
NL_DE

Conceived by Geert-Jan Hobijn and Carsten Stabenow, this project is regarded by its authors as a Mono Erosive Surround Sound Installation. Resurrecting the mechanic, playful aesthetic characteristic of all the creations from Staalplaat Soundsystem, the Yokomono installation consists of ten vinyl killers-toy car spinning record players, each customised with its own fm transmitter. The emerging sounds are due to a collection of radios that receive the randomly transmitted signals from the toy cars, yet instability and unpredictability ensues since the cars run on batteries and will ultimately die out, hence the term “vinyl killers.”
The presence of Yokomono at PLACARD//MUTEK 2005 will offer the occasion for Staalplaat to inaugurate their wireless video extension and entertain certain sonic loops from the likes of Anton Nikkilä, Charlemagne Palestine, Fennesz, fm3, Ignaz Schick, Ilpo Väisänen, Justin Bennett, C.M. von Hausswolff, Phill Niblock, Radian and Tim Hecker.


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Montreal 04.28.2005 – Les Poules: Volapük 3

Les Poules: Volapük 3

April 28th is the last of  a series of 3 concerts presented in the context of Volapük. This concert brings together Les Poules and the trio of young innovative musicians I8U, Magali Babin and Myléna Bergeron. The show, while exploring the diverse avenues of today’s musical language will follow Volapük’s thematic : a mix and exchange of new languages. These guests have distinguished themselves by their research and their will to push beyond the boundaries of electronic and noise music.

Les Poules: Joane Hétu, saxophone, voice; Diane Labrosse, sampler; Danielle Palardy Roger, percussions + a trio of young innovative musicians I8U, electronics; Magali Babin, electronics and found objects; Mylena Bergeron, electronics and vocals.

–  Jeudi/Thursday April 28 avril 2005 –  20h30 –

O Patro Vys
356, avenue du Mont-Royal Est — Montréal
[métro Mont-Royal]
[t] : 514-845-3855

La soirée du 28 avril de la série de trois concerts Volapük jumelle le trio Les Poules et le trio des jeunes musiciennes innovatrices I8U, Magali Babin et Mylena Bergeron. Ce concert, qui explore les diverses avenues du langage musical d’aujourd’hui, se déroule sous la thématique Volapük: mélanges et échanges de nouveaux langages. Les formations invitées se distinguent par leur esprit de recherche et leur volonté de repousser les frontières de la musique bruitiste et électronique.

Les Poules: Joane Hétu, saxophone, voix; Diane Labrosse, échantionneur; Danielle Palardy Roger, percussions + le trio des jeunes musiciennes innovatrices I8U, électroniques; Magali Babin, électroniques et objets; Mylena Bergeron, électroniques, voix.

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Montreal 03.12.205 – Proximité

Proximité

Proximité is a project presented at the Clark Gallery in the context of their “Postes_Audio ” initiative. Set up in a area of the gallery referred to as the lounge, Postes_Audio offers an array of sound exploration. It invites the listener to put on a set of headphones and enjoy the music of a   featured artist. 2 sets of headphones, 2 artists.

Proximité is a collection of tracks that have been released on Canadian and European labels as well as unreleased tracks including the only collaboration of this catalogue recorded with artist Akira Rabelais. This material was specifically selected by i8u to reflect upon the intimate relationship between listener and the music, therefore utilizing the space, be it audible or physical

Plenty of thought and analysis comes into play when dealing with proximity in the visual world, yet proximity in the aural world is more abstract and for most of us under explored. With the visual, proximity is usually measured in distance between you and an inanimate object, yet in the aural world it is usually more personal. Although, sound can be caused by objects making us aware of our relationship to it, usually it is people or relationships that are brought to our attention through sound. A whisper or a yell, even when alone, has power because of its proximity. The music needs of a listener can sometimes be satisfied in a large auditorium, and with others, only earphones will suffice.

This project attempts to explore the organic nature of what sound evokes in us within the context of its aural proximity.

Curators : Gennaro de Pasquale and Sébastien Lapointe.

Featured Artists:

I8U
Racam

At the Clark Gallery – March 10 to April 2005
5455, Avenue de Gaspé, Room 604, Montreal (QC)
Opened Wednesday to Saturday, from 9 am to 5 pm.


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Cologne 02.17.2005 – SoundLab Channel edition II



ConcertHall atLe Musee di-visioniste

http://concerthall.le-musee-divisioniste.org
is very proud to launch edition II of.SoundLab Channel -a joint-venture with
[R][R][F]2005—>XP
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org

“Memory Channel 7” of this
global networking project by
by Agricola de Cologne, media artist and
New Media curator from Cologne/Germany,
and part of the physical events series in Palestine, Israel and Germany,
entitled: IMPACT ME’05 starting on 17 February at
CAVE Gallery at Bethlehem International Center/Palestine
http://www.annadwa.org/cave/agricola.htm
–
SoundLab Channel,
a project environment which is focussing
on non-visual aspects of “collective memory”
manifested in soundart -is happy to include on this occasion online three (3) new curatorial contributions

a) from Sofia/Bulgaria
Ivan Bachev, curator and soundartist
is curating soundart works by these Bulgarian artists

1. popcrash
2. skylined
3. navn
4. ambient anarchist

b) from Montreal/Canada – a second curatorial contribution
by Tobias Van Veen who is curating soundart works by:

1. Esther Bourdages
2. I8U
3. Tomas Phillips and Dean King.