General admission: $12.50 Price including service fees, excluding taxes
All ages
Duration: between 50-65 minutes
Last entry: 5:30 PM
407 Saint-Pierre Street
Listening room
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2M3
We invite you to remove your shoes before entering the listening room and ask that you please wear socks on the day.
To ensure the best possible experience for everyone, latecomers will not be admitted into the listening room.
The experience is offered to an audience of all ages. Upon arrival, we ask all visitors to remain silent throughout their experience, to ensure a pleasant experience for all.
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Featuring Wake Island & Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Totalement Sublime, Moe Clark and Pursuit Grooves.
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This program presents ambient soundscapes crafted to provide a genuine escape from daily chaos—offering a soothing retreat. The featured artists and their respective projects offer tranquility, inviting visitors to immerse themselves in rich and enveloping sonic landscapes.
All pieces were mixed in Atmos at PHI, utilizing the advanced tools of our sound studio. With guidance from our team, the artists shaped their compositions while exploring the depth of spatialized sound. This collaborative process ensures an exceptional listening experience. We are thrilled to share it with you.
Thursday: 1 PM, 4 PM
Friday: 2:30 PM, 5:30 PM
Saturday: 11:30 AM, 2:30 PM, 5:30 PM
Sunday: 1 PM, 4 PM
Running time: 50 minutes
Tickets for Program 1 ↗
Thursday: 2:30 PM, 5:30 PM
Friday: 1 PM, 4 PM
Saturday: 1 PM, 4 PM
Sunday: 11:30 AM, 2:30 PM, 5:30 PM
Running time: 65 minutes
Tickets for Program 2 ↗
خُلق/هُجر | Born to Leave by Wake Island & Radwan Ghazi Moumneh
خُلق/ هُجر is a new ambient album by Wake Island, part of a tryptic adapting and sampling their 2021 album Born to Leave. Written and recorded in collaboration with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem in My Heart), the album is the soundtrack to a new video game where Wake Island mine the complex relationships they have with their homeland of Lebanon and their host country Canada—their identities torn between two seemingly irreconcilable universes.
This new spatial audio mix aims to add a new dimension to the music and deliver a more in-depth, intimate listening experience. By creatively placing and spatializing elements of the music, the band created new narratives, unraveling new meanings and interpretations. Mixing in spatial audio also allowed them to highlight and expose the interplay between the three musicians, giving the listener the feeling of being present with them as they improvise and react to each other in the three-dimensional space.
[Master Recording/Composition] Courtesy of Wake Island; Mixed in Dolby Atmos by Philippe Rochefort; Dolby Atmos mastering by Justin Gray / [Photo] Wake Island
Albédo/Parhélie by Totalement Sublime
Totalement Sublime, composed of Marc-Antoine Barbier (Choses Sauvages), Élie Raymond, and Thomas Bruneau Faubert (Frais Dispo), is a trio that celebrates creative freedom. Their music, navigating between introspection and electronic pop, is inspired by influences as rich as they are diverse, ranging from 1980s Japanese music (Yasuaki Shimizu, Ryuichi Sakamoto) to New York avant-garde (Philip Glass, Arthur Russell).
The THRU OAEE UIE improvisations, captured between 2022 and 2023 in unique locations (Le WIP gallery, Carleton-sur-Mer for BLEU BLEU, SAT for MUTEK), gave birth to the double album Albédo/Parhélie, refined in the BESIDE habitats. For Habitat Sonore, the group revisited this opus, highlighting its most instrumental and contemplative passages. This new mix, designed for an immersive listening experience, was meticulously crafted in the PHI sound studio, offering a fascinating and ethereal sonic journey.
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piyêsiwak wâhkôhtowin / thunderbirds kinship by Moe Clark
Old words create new worlds. piyêsiwak wâhkôhtowin invites us inside the dream lodge to remember piyêsiwak (thunderbirds) great migration to skyworld. piyêsiwak wâhkôhtowin is a prayer, singing open sovereign sites of futurity which animate the flux and fluidity of existence. Centring nêhiyawêwin (Plains Cree language) as a generative transmission for far into the future generations, this dream song crosses listening thresholds to highlight trans*dimensional kinship relations with beyond human relatives. A mirror is sung between earth and sky, reflecting the gifts both piyêsiwak and 2Spirit kin embody as guardians between realms. We call on prophecy and the vital importance of nipiy (water) in this future realm, layering source recordings of nipiy with têwêhikan (drum), sisikwan (rattle), and voice.
[Photo] Kinga Michalska
Visiontuition by Pursuit Grooves
Pursuit Grooves presents Visiontuition, a multichannel immersive sonic journey through space and time, delivering a grounding rhythmic calm for peaceful reflection and enhanced visual imagination.
Habitat Sonore is an intimate listening space designed to accommodate up to 10 people. This small capacity enhances total immersion into the sound world of artists from here and elsewhere. The experience unfolds in near darkness, which helps to emphasize the sound. We invite you to settle in comfortably, let your mind wander, close your eyes if you wish, and be carried away by a unique and captivating auditory journey.
Learn more about the listening room and its programming here ↓
Tune out outside noise and immerse yourself in one of Montreal's only spatial audio listening rooms.
Tune out outside noise and immerse yourself in one of Montreal's only spatial audio listening rooms.
