EXPERIENCE

Name: Habitat Sonore: Listening room
Start: 2024-08-17T00:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-15T00:00:00-04:00
Location: PHI Centre

240817 Habitat Sonore credit Julien Grimard Cover — Photo: ©Julien Grimard

August 17 → November 3 Habitat Sonore: Listening room

Experience
Music
Immersion

PHI Centre Listening room
407 Saint-Pierre St
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2M3

For the specific schedule of each program, please refer to their respective web pages

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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.

Before visiting, please review some essential information about the visit, including details on accessibility at the Centre.

To plan a school, community or corporate visit, go to our Group Visits page.

Tune out outside noise and immerse yourself in one of Montreal's only spatial audio listening rooms.

ON THE PROGRAM

Habitat Sonore: Listening room is in constant evolution. Please check back regularly to discover new artists.

Centre

Habitat Sonore: A Kind of Harmony

September 21 → November 3

A series of immersive interviews and sound pieces exploring the transformative powers of sound

Experience Music

Centre

Habitat Sonore: A Kind of Harmony

September 21 → November 3

A series of immersive interviews and sound pieces exploring the transformative powers of sound

Experience Music

WHAT TO EXPECT

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.

"High-quality sound experiences without visual 'bling' are very rare. This one was amazing."

"The concept is really good with a small intimate room and high-quality sound. A true moment of pleasure."

"The joy of surrendering to music without any other distractions."

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HABITAT SONORE: THE COMMUNITY

The Habitat Sonore community is a gathering of dedicated sound art enthusiasts. Through regular communications, community members receive exclusive offers, early releases, cocktail invitations, interviews with the artists and much more.

Let's celebrate the listening room together! Join the community and enjoy the benefits today.

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ABOUT
HABITAT SONORE

Habitat Sonore offers a new way of appreciating the local and international musical landscape by proposing a different kind of auditory experience beyond stereo listening.

The albums and soundscapes proposed in Habitat Sonore are the result of a thorough reflection from the artists on how their work should be presented and experienced.

Tune out outside noise and immerse yourself in one of Montreal's only spatial audio listening rooms.

FAQ

Habitat Sonore is an invitation to sound immersion. PHI welcomes you to an intimate and relaxing environment where you can discover sound in all its forms—from sound baths to short audio films and music albums to chromotherapy. Enjoy a wide variety of poetic, meditative, and performative content.

Habitat Sonore was designed to be as technically flexible as possible, prioritizing the utmost sound quality. The sound system consists of a 16 speaker multichannel array powered by a high-end JBL pre-processor. The space allows the playback of several commercial immersive formats and can also be used as an “instrument” for artists to explore spatialization possibilities. Habitat Sonore is a place that offers multiple creative opportunities for collaboration, mediation, and experimentation.

There are many different ways to experience sound, whether in a communal environment or for individual listening.

Habitat Sonore is a communal space that encourages shared listening with others. The listening room can seat a maximum of 10 people at a time. Invite your friends and loved ones to experience a riveting piece of sound together.

The space will feature a range of programming across different genres including: musical albums, sound art, live performances, sound baths, narrative pieces and sound installations.

Glossary

A sound bath is a deep, immersive, whole-body listening experience that intentionally uses sound to nourish therapeutic and restorative processes of the mind and body.

Deep listening explores the relationships between all sounds, whether natural or technological, intended or unintended, real, remembered or imagined. It's also a state of mind, similar to meditation, that allows for a deep appreciation of a work or sound environment.

A soundscape is the acoustic environment—the sounds we find in the natural environment, amongst flora and fauna, and the unintentional sounds found in man-made environments (technology, machines, cities). It can also refer to the intentional sounds found in music, generally referring to creations in ambient electronic or electroacoustic music.

An "immersive" experience completely envelopes the visitor or participant in another reality, sensory or narrative. In sound, it is a sonic representation of a virtual space.