PROGRAM 1:
Dominique Fils-Aimé
Thursday: 12 PM, 3 PM, 6 PM
Friday: 1:30 PM, 4:30 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 12 PM, 3 PM
Duration: 36 min.
Tickets for Program 1 ↗
PHI Centre
Listening room
407 Saint-Pierre St
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2M3
Monday to Wednesday:
Closed
Thursday to Sunday:
12 PM to 7 PM, click here to see the schedule for each artist
Last entry:
1 hour before closing
All ages
General admission: $10
Price including service fees, excluding taxes
We invite you to remove your shoes before entering the listening room.
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Tune out outside noise and immerse yourself in one of Montreal's only spatial audio listening rooms.
The artists:
Dominique Fils-Aimé
Michael Gary Dean
SlowPitchSound
Tanya Tagaq
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Discover the upcoming programming ↓
The experience inside Habitat Sonore: Listening room is in constant evolution. Please check back regularly to discover newly added artists and more time slot availability.
Thursday: 12 PM, 3 PM, 6 PM
Friday: 1:30 PM, 4:30 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 12 PM, 3 PM
Duration: 36 min.
Tickets for Program 1 ↗
Thursday: 1:30 PM
Friday: 12 PM, 6 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 1:30 PM, 4:30 PM
Duration: 40 min.
Tickets for Program 2 ↗
Thursday: 4:30 PM
Friday: 3 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 6 PM
Duration: 34 min.
Tickets for Program 3 ↗
From May 1 to August 11, discover four new programs in our listening room from a variety of artists.
MAY 1 → AUGUST 11
Wednesday: 4:30 PM, 6 PM
Thursday & Sunday: 1:30 PM, 3 PM, 4:30 PM
Friday & Saturday: 1:30 PM, 4:30 PM, 6 PM
Duration: 66 min.
Tickets for Daft Punk ↗
MAY 8 → AUGUST 11
Wednesday: 3 PM
Thursday & Sunday: 12 PM, 6 PM
Friday & Saturday: 12 PM, 3 PM
Duration: 51 min.
Tickets for this playlist ↗
MAY 1 → MAY 7
Monday & Tuesday: 3 PM, 4:30 PM, 6 PM
Wednesday: 3 PM
Thursday & Sunday: 12 PM, 6 PM
Friday & Saturday: 12 PM, 3 PM
Duration: 42 min.
Tickets for Wake Island ↗
You can also see the Wake Island album launch show at the PHI Centre on May 3, 2024!
JUNE 19 → JUNE 23
Wednesday: 3 PM
Thursday & Sunday: 12 PM, 6 PM
Friday & Saturday: 12 PM, 3 PM
Duration: 30 min.
Tickets for KALLITECHNIS ↗
You can also see the KALLITECHNIS album launch show at the PHI Centre on June 16, 2024!
Rising star in vocal jazz, Dominique Fils-Aimé presents her fourth album Our Roots Run Deep released in September 2023 on Ensoul Records. Dominique Fils-Aimé is a JUNO Award winning singer-songwriter from Montreal who puts the history of African-American musical culture into the heart of her work.
In her fourth album entitled Our Roots Run Deep, Dominique Fils-Aimé frames her latest installment with a loose, dreamlike narrative structure that tells a story of growth. For Dominique, nature acts as an anchor—a source of inspiration that provides her with metaphors to express the unique but interconnected journey of a human being.
"Just as we cannot see the mycorrhizal network that allows trees in a forest to communicate with each other underground," says Dominique. "I believe our souls do the same and that music can be a fertilizer for this invisible communication network."
[Master Recording/Composition] Courtesy of Ensoul Records / [Photo] Jetro Emilcar
Forever Meditations by Michael Gary Dean
Collaborating with musicians across numerous genres and artistic styles, Michael Gary Dean’s Forever Meditations merges flowing ambient electronics with intimate instrumentation, drawing on reflective moods and long moments of deliberation. Forever Meditations is the soundtrack to elongated moments for reflection while enduring the long and harsh Canadian winters.
The creation of this work was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
[Master Recording/Composition] Courtesy of Michael Gary Dean; Mixed in Dolby Atmos by Philippe Rochefort; Dolby Atmos mastering by Justin Gray / [Photo] Sarah Kim
Alternate Forest - Nature Minutes and Transport Station by SlowPitchSound
Alternate Forest - Nature Minutes is a quick reminder of how precious our planet is. It was remixed for the Habitat Sonore space with the intention of making the 2-minute message really sink deeper into our minds, using the room's unique audio system. SlowPitchSound repositioned sounds to dance around your entire body so that you can feel more connected to the sonic forests, rivers and fields created by him.
Transport Station was originally composed with spatialization in mind but it was done using only stereo panning at the time. Having the opportunity to remix the piece in the Habitat Sonore room is really a dream further realized, an opportunity for the piece to be fully immersive. The composition is based on the prompt: "Sight Isolates, Sound Incorporates". Familiar sounds are transformed into other worldly rhythms, dancing around the room and stimulating your imagination.
This album enters deep chasms and dangerous spaces. Tongues speaks not to horrors and crisis, as previous Tagaq albums wordlessly, powerfully encircled, but directly of these things. Tongues is a manual for inner and outer revolution, a victory over those who take without consent.
[Master Recording] Produced by Saul Williams and mixed in Dolby Atmos by Vic Florencia; Mastering Engineer: Justin Grey
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.
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.
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.
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