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Mutek Immersive collection at Sónar+D – Barcelona

Mutek Immersive collection will be at Sónar Barcelona in June 2023

Project Area – Realities+D (AR/VR)

Lost worlds, surreal environments and alternate realities

Immerse yourself in a showcase of the most creative augmented and virtual reality experiences around at Project Area this year. There’ll be downloadable apps for you to test on your mobile device throughout Sónar by Day, plus 14 different virtual reality projects to be experienced, covering lost worlds, surreal environments, and alternate realities.  

Discover our first three XR artworks

As a festival presenting cutting-edge audiovisual performances — works that innovate to create a new language of sound and images — we have always strived to accompany artists across new boundaries of technology. 2022 opens up a new chapter for MUTEK, marking our first steps as an Extended Reality (XR) content producer. Five artists have stepped up to the challenge of reinventing a past festival performance into an XR artwork. The result is an eclectic yet coherent set of three different XR projects ranging from contemplative to surreal to dynamic: Entanglement XR by France Jobin & Markus Heckmann, House of Moiré by Chloe Alexandra Thompson & Matthew Edwards (aesthetic.stalemate), and Immortelle by Line Katcho

Published by MUTEK on several online content stores, starting with Steam, the Immersive Collection will also join the catalog of Astrea, the largest international distributor of immersive productions, and be presented at select festivals and spaces worldwide.

See below for more information about the artists and their projects.

World premiere during the MUTEK Festival: August 23-28 2022 — esplanade Tranquille, Montréal
Autumn 2022: Mexico city, Mexico: MUTEK Mexico | Tokyo, Japan: Beyond The Frame Festival | Rotterdam, Netherlands: Immersive Tech Week Rotterdam
Winter 2022-2023: : Tokyo, Japan: MUTEK Tokyo | Rajasthan, India: Magnetic Fields Festival | Miami, USA: FilmGate Festival (Miami Art Week)

Download the Immersive Collection onto your VR headset
Optimized for Quest 2, Quest + Link, Rift.

Immortelle available on Steam & Viveport (links below).
House of Moiré and Entanglement XR can be wishlisted as of now (links below).
Publication on further content stores in progress.

Follow MUTEK on Steam

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Entanglement AV at New Now Festival in Essen

IMMERSIVE SOUND NIGHT

Mixing Plant

01.06 , 21 – 24 h
Admission is free.

With France Jobin & Markus Heckmann
and more

Immerse yourself in electronic-audiovisual soundscapes with the “Immersive Sound Night” during the inaugural evening on the 1st of June. In collaboration with MUTEK Montréal, a festival for the promotion of electronic music and the digital arts, NEW NOW presents international artists who will fill the Mixing Plant with experimental electronic sounds and visuals. Against a unique industrial backdrop, the result is an immersive audiovisual experience that was already very well received last year.

Do 01.06.

21:00

22:00

ENTANGLEMENT

Markus Heckmann France Jobin

Admission is free.

At the crossroads between scientific research and audiovisual art, “Entanglement”, developed by France Jobin and Markus Heckmann takes its inspiration from the physical phenomenon of quantum entanglement and quantum field theory. With this artistic project, the artists studied the two dominant theories of quantum entanglement: the Copenhagen interpretation and the concept of the multiverse. In addition to these two theories, Jobin and Heckmann also took a closer look at the fluidity of time. This intensive research resulted in an ambitious and immersive experience that premiered in 2021 at Montreal’s MUTEK festival (NEW NOW cooperation partner) and can now be experienced for the first time in Germany in the impressive rooms of the Mixing Plant. 

Partner:

MUTEK Montréal

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A Sequence of Moments in Time

Releases in June 2023 on Granny Records – Greece

All sounds recorded in Montreal including the Korg Poly 800,
The Buchla 200 at Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm

credits

releases June 15, 2023

Written & produced by France Jobin
© 2023 France Jobin / p 2023 Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd Mastered by Yannis Tsirikoglou
Design & Artwork by Yorgos Vourlidas
Edition of 80 copies | CS | granny 37

license

© all rights reserved

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Mutek Immersive collection at Printemps Numérique Bruxelles

The Mutek Immersive Collection was presented at printemps numérique Bruxelles in March 2023. 5000 people in two days were able to experience works by Line Katcho, Chloe Alexandra Thompson & Matthew Edwards, France Jobin & Markus Heckmann

More about the collection here

Discover our first three XR artworks

As a festival presenting cutting-edge audiovisual performances — works that innovate to create a new language of sound and images — we have always strived to accompany artists across new boundaries of technology. 2022 opens up a new chapter for MUTEK, marking our first steps as an Extended Reality (XR) content producer. Five artists have stepped up to the challenge of reinventing a past festival performance into an XR artwork. The result is an eclectic yet coherent set of three different XR projects ranging from contemplative to surreal to dynamic: Entanglement XR by France Jobin & Markus Heckmann, House of Moiré by Chloe Alexandra Thompson & Matthew Edwards (aesthetic.stalemate), and Immortelle by Line Katcho

Published by MUTEK on several online content stores, starting with Steam, the Immersive Collection will also join the catalog of Astrea, the largest international distributor of immersive productions, and be presented at select festivals and spaces worldwide.

See below for more information about the artists and their projects.

World premiere during the MUTEK Festival: August 23-28 2022 — esplanade Tranquille, Montréal
Autumn 2022: Mexico city, Mexico: MUTEK Mexico | Tokyo, Japan: Beyond The Frame Festival | Rotterdam, Netherlands: Immersive Tech Week Rotterdam
Winter 2022-2023: : Tokyo, Japan: MUTEK Tokyo | Rajasthan, India: Magnetic Fields Festival | Miami, USA: FilmGate Festival (Miami Art Week)

Download the Immersive Collection onto your VR headset
Optimized for Quest 2, Quest + Link, Rift.

Immortelle available on Steam & Viveport (links below).
House of Moiré and Entanglement XR can be wishlisted as of now (links below).
Publication on further content stores in progress.

Follow MUTEK on Steam

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

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re.DUO

France Jobin + Richard Chartier exhibition

各作家による日本限定の版画シリーズを展示販売します

re.DUO

DUO is the first collaborative project from minimal composer France Jobin and Richard Chartier.

This an exhibition of a series limited edition prints by each artist that are exclusive to Japan.

!7 Fevbruary – 5 March 2023

OPEN PM: 12:00 – PM 06:00 – CLOSED EVERY WEDNESDAY

info@low.co.jp

+81.3.6421.1784

〒152-0033 東京都目黒区大岡山1-6-6

1F 1-6-6 Oookayama Meguro-ku

Tokyo 152-0033 Japan

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Entanglement AV and XR at Mutek Mexico

France Jobin and Markus Heckmann will present Entanglement AV and XR at Mutek MX

IMPORTANT: doors open at 18:30 and access will be allowed until 03:00.

Nocturne 360 is the most intense and diverse program of the MUTEK MX experience. With infinite universes contained in a single venue, Nocturne 360s rooms, installations and passageways will be transformed through the visions and experiments from artists and creators from all over.

This mega convergence of up-and-coming and renowned artists will take us on an exciting 360 tour that will go from virtual reality and immersive experiences, to cathartic dance sessions with the most challenging producers. In addition to the artists who will take on the different stages, Nocturne 360 will showcase the globally distinctive ambience and light design of the MUTEK experience.

Andy StottUK

CNDSD & Iván AbreuMX+CU

France Jobin & Markus HeckmannCA/QC+DE

InterspecificsMX

JS BaillatCA/QC

Kaitlyn Aurelia SmithUS

KorelessUK

Loraine JamesUK

Nik Colk VoidUK

SKY H1 & Mika OkiBE

Sinjin Hawke & Zora JonesCA/AT

Tristan ArpUS

YamilaES/BE

BarkerUK

Elías Merino & Tadej DroljcES/SI

DebitMX

INTUSMX

MFODE

AAAAMX

Boris AcketNL

Concepción Huerta + z.vektor & Milena PafundiMX+AR

Fezz Stenton, Karl Skene & Matt EckensweilerCA

MAOTIKFR

Melissa SantamaríaMX

Oculta StudioMX

Orly AnanCO

Rafael Anton Irisarri & Florence ToUS+UK

µ-Ziq & ID:MORAUK+ES

Buena Tarde & Rodrigo CidMX

RampaMX

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Entanglement AV at Hellerau in Dresden

MUTEK Collaboration Night at Hellerau

Ryoichi Kurokawa, France Jobin & Markus Heckmann, RAMZi, Flabbergast, Line Katcho

For over 20 years, MUTEK has been dedicated to showcasing live electronic music and real-time audiovisual performances in Montreal, making it one of the few venues in North America where such innovation occurs. MUTEK has built a unique model over the years that has proven to be alluringly exportable. The tentacles now span four continents and six other cities such as Tokyo, Barcelona or Buenos Aires, with each satellite adapting the festival’s values ​​of inclusion and accessibility to inspire new ways of engaging with the richness of electronic and digital art.

After the cooperation between HYBRID and MUTEK was postponed at short notice in March 2020 and could only take place digitally in March 2021 with thousands of online guests, the first cooperation will finally be live in the Festspielhaus in Hellerau on October 29th, 2022: with Ryoichi Kurokawa, France Jobin & Markus Heckmann, Line Katcho, Flabbergast and RAMZi will guarantee artists who have long been associated with MUTEK an extraordinary evening in the Great Hall of the Festpielhaus.

program

8:00 p.m. Subassemblies – Ryoichi Kurokawa

9:15 p.m. Entanglement – ​​France Jobin & Markus Heckmann 

10:00 p.m. RAMZi + Line Katcho (visuals)

10:45 p.m. Flabbergast + Line Katcho (visuals)

Duration: 5 hours

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France Jobin at EMS Stockholm residency.

France was guest composer at EMS 24 October – 2 November, 2022

 France spent 10 days working with the Buchla 200, the Serge, the nord modulars and
the syntrx by Erca Synth. She managed to build a brand new sound bank which will be used
for many upcoming album that have ben commissioned.

France Jobin is a sound / installation / artist, film composer,
and curator residing in Montreal, whose audio art can be qualified as “sound-sculpture”, reveals a minimalist approach
to complex sound environments where analog and digital intersect. Her installations incorporate both musical and visual elements inspired by the architecture of physical spaces.
Her work can be “experienced” internationally in a variety
of unconventional spaces and new technology festivals. 

Jobin has solo recordings on many renowned labels. Her sound art is also part of countless compilation albums. While her music often makes use of restraint and limit, she isn’t one to shy away from extremes. Her skillful interplay between highs and lows, louds and softs, creates an intricate narrative, which stretches the listener’s perception and continually refocuses attention. 

In 2021, she presented the world premiere of Entanglement AV with Markus Heckmann at Mutek Edition 22. Influenced by theories in quantum physics since 2008, the pandemic has allowed her time to study and dive into this scientific universe. Entanglement is the first iteration of this large-scale project.
In 2020, she composed the soundtrack for Ouroboros – Maxime Le Flaguais’s first short film. In November 2019, she presented her first modular concert (Buchla 100) at the Ernst Krenek Institute in Austria.

She has performed and exhibited at a number of different locations world wide. France Jobin’s work continues to evolve as technologies enable her to create new environments.

She is published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd.