June 15, 2010 – LSR – 8:30PM – Natura Sonoris (Magali Babin, Myléna Bergeron, & Karl Lemieux) + Steve Bates + Joda Clément

NATURA SONORIS

Natura Sonoris, a multimedia piece designed by performer/sound artist Magali Babin around the audio special effects that have ruled the world of scary movies. Natura Sonoris was originally commissioned by Productions Supermusique in 2009, and the version presented as part of Suoni per il Popolo 2010 has been slightly retooled. Babin has drawn inspiration from the incredible tones used by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki (Natura Sonoris 1 & 2, Polymorphia), whose music full of subtle details has been so good to the silver screen (Shining, The Exorcist).
Beware, things will get tensed!

For this surprisingly lively performance,Magali Babin (who will be playing electronic instruments and amplified metal objects) will be accompanied by her electronica partner Myléna Bergeron, co-composer of the music for Natura Sonoris. They both amplify, transform, and manipulate the sound of their acoustic and digital instruments in real time. By playing artfully with tension, they conjure up unnerving moods worthy of the best horror flicks. Filmmaker Karl Lemieux will be projecting his animated black-and-white images while etching on 16-mm film, all in constant interaction with the music. L’œil de verre (a duo consisting of Carl Fortin and Jean-Benoit Pouliot) will be bringing in colour, handling matters and lights on modified overhead projectors to create fugitive light scenes bent out of shape.
True Free Sound Cinema!

http://www.supermusique.qc.ca/fr/evenements/20577/
http://www.myspace.com/magalibabin

Natura Sonoris – Magali Babin

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Patrice Coulombe
Audio Art / Installations

Following years of compositional studies, Patrice Coulombe has dedicated himself to performance, audio art, and media installations. Since 2003, he’s produced sonic pieces as a solo artist or in collaboration which marry the sounds of traditional instruments with those of electronics and machines. Further, Coulombe creates different works using a multitude of other processes — electronic distortions, the disintegration of reel-to-reel analog tapes, interruptions — using precorded texts ans monologues.
Outside of his audio work, Patrice Coulombe creates media platforms for a variety of Canadian and international artists, as well as teaching media arts and sound creation at the the University of Quebec in Montreal.

STEVE BATES

After stumbling through early noise making adventures in punk rock bands, Steve developed an interest in more experimental forms of organizing sound into improvised and composed music, radio, and installation projects. This expanded notion of working with sonic material eventually leads to founding a sound art festival in Winnipeg, Send + Receive: A Festival of Sound, which he directed for 8 years. He is currently living in Montréal and is the Sound Coordinator at Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies. Current projects include collaboration with Douglas Moffat for a permanent sound installation commissioned by the City of Toronto and a full-length release on Oral Records.

http://www.stevebates.info/

JODA CLEMENT

Joda Clément was born in 1981 and raised in Ontario, Canada. He is the son of electronic/ambient music artist Tim Clement. He began his earliest experiments with electronic music at the age of fourteen. Since then he has been developing a unique repertoire of methods and techniques for working creatively with sound. His first album ‘Movement + Rest’ was released by Alluvial Recordings in 2005. Joda’s work incorporates analog and acoustic instruments, the human voice, found objects and non-descript sounds recorded from the natural and urban environment, blurring a distinction between sources to create landscapes of sound that unite properties of both musical and everyday contexts. Joda integrates these elements into compositions, improvisation, installations, and performances throughout Canada and in the US. He now lives and performs regularly in Toronto.