EXPERIENCE

PROGRAM 1:
Wake Island & Radwan Ghazi Moumneh

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

PROGRAM 2:
Totalement Sublime, Moe Clark, Pursuit Grooves

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.