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Estelle Schorpp is a Montreal-based sound artist and composer active in the field of experimental music and sound ecology.

Integrating concepts from disciplines such as sound ecology, sound studies, media theory, history of science, acoustics and psychoacoustics, her polymorphous approach combines performance, sound installation and algorithmic composition, as well as academic communication and the writing of articles.

Her ever-changing and immersive sonic landscapes, characterized by their ambiguous shimmering sounds and the use of field recordings, seek both a physical and intellectual experience where listening is central.

Photo: Gabrielle Godbout

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Charline Dally is an artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, half of the duo le désert mauve. Inhabited by the subversive potential of radical softness, she considers hypersensitivity as a form of power. Her practice combines analog video signals, computer generated imagery, glass and textile through films, installations, and performances. Inspired by astromineralogical research and hydrofeminist ideas, her works are intended to encourage introspection and sharpen our attention to subtleties.

Graduated from Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains and UQAM in visual arts, she presented her first solo show this womb of things to be at the Diagonale art center in Montreal in May 2024.

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Roger Tellier-Craig is a composer interested in the interstices between the "real" and its simulations. He is a founding member of Fly Pan Am, Et Sans (with Alexandre St-Onge), Set Fire To Flames and Le Révélateur (with Sabrina Ratté). These projects have seen him tour extensively in Canada, Europe, the United States and Japan, as well as releasing records with Constellation, Locust, Alien 8, Fat Cat, Root Strata, Gneiss Things, NNA Tapes, Where To Now?, Dekorder and Second Editions.

He has composed music for film and various art projects, working with Denis Côté, Brigitte Haentjens, Karl Lemieux, Albéric Aurtenèche, Zaynê Akyol, Projet EVA, United Visual Artists, Lynda Gaudreau, as well as providing the score to most of Sabrina Ratté's video works.

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Sabrina Ratté is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. Using tools, such as 3D scans, analog video synthesizers, and 3D animation, her formal approach serves as the foundation for the creation of ecosystems that manifest across various platforms, from interactive installations to series of videos, digital prints, sculptures, or virtual Reality. Exploring the convergence of technology and biology, the interplay between materiality and virtuality, and the speculative evolution of our environment, her work is influenced by the realms of science fiction, philosophy, and theoretical writings. Ratté portrays worlds devoid of humans, where forgotten remnants continue to evolve and forge new relationships with the ecosystem.

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Michael Gary Dean is a Canadian media artist and composer who straddles both the avant-garde edges of digital art and the more traditional veins of classical music. His projects have been featured internationally in film, performance, and immersive installations at renowned festivals like Sónar Festival (ES, TR), MUTEK (CA, JP, AR, MX, ES) and LEV Festival, while commercial endeavors in advertising, sync licensing, and product development. With a background in both classical music and computer science, Dean works as a technical artist, music composer and creative coder within the entertainment industry.

Photo: Sarah Kim

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Laine Butler is an audio-visual artist who combines motion design, visual art, and music to create immersive environments. With experience in VR and AR, Laine's work has been featured at events like MUTEK Montreal, Vancouver Mural Festival Winter Arts, and Neo Shibuya TV in Tokyo along with commercial collaborations with companies like Holt Renfrew in Vancouver. As a musician, Laine performs under the name Ashwell Woodland, crafting atmospheric tracks that take listeners on a journey. Laine's visual art blends various disciplines to create textured, enveloping experiences, often challenging viewers to see the world differently, merging technology with artistic expression.

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Dominic Thibault is an electronic musician, a composer, an improviser, a coder, a teacher, member of the duo Tout Croche, co director of the label The Silent Howl. His music is at the crossroads of concrete music, noise, minimal techno and the soundscape. He is assistant professor in the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal, where he teaches composition, computer music and studio techniques. He is co-director of the Laboratoire Formes·Ondes and an active member of the CIRMMT and the OICRM.

His research focuses on systems in the field of digital music. More specifically, he is interest in the human-machine interactions and their impact on musical creation.

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Alan Dunyo Avorgbedor is an artist, academic, and attorney who experiments with analog media to compose abstract and poetic audiovisual presentations. Sonically, he composes a blend of acoustic and electronic noise as DUNYO. He is also a film photographer and has exhibited at Z Arts Space in Montreal. He captures quotidian phenomena using film or analog media and generally meditates upon the function of the transport mechanism in extended audiovisual work.

If the medium complicates the affective legislation of subject and object in an aesthetic composition, he is usually there. Consequently, these interests also figure into his academic research in critical ways, particularly within African and diasporic contexts.

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