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- “Dans une sorte de rêve éveillé” Philippe-Aubert Gauthier + Tanya St-Pierre :
A starting point: computer animation videos by the duo St-Pierre and Gauthier revisited and assembled, cross-hatched. Fires of color and drips of arrangement. Hue, saturation, value and color change are the imposed pilots of an assembly of synthesized sounds. A surge, alternating video themes with purely sonic and noisy improvisations. Theme, improv, theme, improv, color, improv. Keeping the rhythm in the surge. Navigating as best you can through this syncopation of the ear and the eye.
Only Philippe-Aubert Gauthier will be performing tonight.
Philippe-Aubert Gauthier is a professor at UQÀM’s École des arts visuels et médiatiques, a mechanical engineer, master of science and doctor of mechanical engineering and acoustics. He works at the crossroads of art, science and technology. His works take forms ranging from installation, sound and digital arts to performance and music. He has produced over fifty sound and digital artworks. His work has been presented in Quebec, Canada, the United States, Mexico, France, England, Germany and Japan. As a researcher and artist, he has published more than 80 articles and lectures, and has given 30 workshops and conferences specializing in the arts and technology. He is associate director of artistic research at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology.
Since 2003, he has also worked as a duo with Tanya St-Pierre. Their work takes the form of installations, performances and videos.
Tanya St-Pierre is a visual, sound and digital artist. By exploring the possible relationships between the visual and digital arts and narrative, she transforms various systems for altering narrative into poetic and conceptual proposals. As part of a more general scheme, these proposals thwart and question notions of representation and cultural artefacts. Her works take the form of collages, installations, videos and performances. Her work has been shown in Quebec, Canada, Mexico, Germany, France and Japan.
Since 2003, their approaches have come together in collaborative projects. Their respective interests and commitments are addressed in exchanges that lead to hybrid artistic proposals resulting from self-critical jousting and duo inventions.
- “Aubes” Alexis Langevin-Tétrault + Guillaume Côté : Dawn (Aube, in French) is a natural and universal phenomenon of transition, it designates the beginning of the process leading from one state to another, from night to day. This concept is aesthetically inspiring and structuring; at dawn, the light is revealed little by little, abstract shapes and silhouettes stand out, color gradually comes back to life, meaning emerges from the night. Moving lighting changes the appearance of the surroundings, nature gradually awakens, light reflects and refracts. Dawn is both mysterious and a bearer of hope, a potential that is revealed and actualized daily.
This new 25 minutes performance seeks to offer viewers a unique sensory experience. It transcends the tools of the genre, in order to sculpt the audiovisual material and to create a personal, sensitive, nuanced and non-stereotypical perspective, in the aesthetic continuity and hatched rhythm of artists who have engraved directly on analog film, such as than Stan Brakhage and Norman McLaren, but with a sensitivity and color palette similar to the work of the pioneer of minimalist art Agnes Martin. The performance uses a 4k projection on screen, and it can be enhanced with a lighting system provided by the artists, adapting to the venue.
The audio of the performance is performed live on modular synthesizers and computers. The composition consists of exuberant, dynamic and varied sound synthesis, while the visual is created using only evolving and unpredictable noise generators. The result is colorful, rich and dense audiovisual content, in perpetual evolution and renewal.
Aubes presents an original and striking experience, playing with the effects of retinal persistence and the critical threshold of perception. This is one of Alexis Langevin-Tétrault and Guillaume Côté’s most unique audiovisual creations, both dazzling and accessible. It is an open door to their imagination, from which emerges a certain exalted euphoria.
This project is supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Quebec Council for the Arts, artist-run centres Avatar and Daïmôn in Canada, and Elektron Musik Studion (EMS) in Sweden.
Alexis Langevin-Tétrault is an interdisciplinary artist based in Montreal. He has contributed to a variety of projects such as the collectives Falaises, DATANOISE and QUADr, in addition to solo audiovisual performances such as Hypercube (one) and Interférences (String Network). He performed on the best stages of digital art at such as Ars Electronica, ISEA and Mutek. His current work explores the concept of corporality and is characterized by the design of audiovisual devices, conceptual and social thinking, scenographic and dramaturgic work, and physical performance.
Influenced by his surroundings, sound artist Guillaume Côté explores, through a mixture of concrete, synthetic and vocal materials, the territorial, linguistic and social dynamics specific to Quebec. Eclectic, his artistic research is based not only on the encounter with the Other through a musical discourse with narrative or informative aims, but also on the abstraction induced by modular systems. Avid for collaborations, he is co-founder of the digital audio creation company Trames (2016), of the Falaises collective (2017), and of the duo Aubes (2022), in addition to occupying the position of technical director at Avatar, an artist-run center based in Quebec, Canada.
- “Soap Bubbles” Floris Vanhoof : A laser shines through soap bubbles and 2 diodes listen to the lightwaves that are bend through the ever changing surfaces. Bursting bubbles make dynamic pops and photons diffracted through microscopic movements of liquid soap make glissandi.
An LED (light-emitting diode) emits light when an electrical current passes through. Here this process is reversed and the diode detects light. When light shines onto the diode, the current passes through (in the opposite direction) and we hear the amplified current.
Light travels through space as a wave. When a wave travels through a medium, certain random variations of that medium can cause the wave to spread out. This changes with time as the bubbles age and thin.
When the mediums random structure is larger than the lasers wavelength, nonlinear optical phenomena, sometimes not unlike the recently discovered “branched flow of light” can be seen and heard.
Floris Vanhoof combines homemade musical circuits and abandoned projection technologies for installations, expanded cinema performances, films and music releases.
Translating the one medium to the other to find how our perception operates and which new perspectives appear.
Part of my practice is to carefully dose sounds and visuals.
Considering how much to show or let hear and what to omit.
Subtly overloading our perception so our imagination goes to work.
Looking inside and outside.
Creating small problems that put big ones into context.