Nocturne
Entrancing Melodies
From August 20 to August 25 | Society for the arts and technology [SAT]
The Nocturne series takes root all week at the SAT, with an amplified experience from Thursday to Sunday, as performances are presented on two floors, both in the SAT space and under the Satosphère dome. The program features innovative works that reinvent electronic music within a state-of-the-art immersive visual environment.
Nocturne 1
Tuesday, August 20, 2024, from 10:00pm to 1:30am
Lamin Fofana US
Daito Manabe JP
Nosaj Thing & Jacques Greene US+CA/QC
Satosphère
Lydia Yakonowsky CA/QC - Trajectoires interrompues et autres modèles de déséquilibre transitoire
Allison Moore CA/QC - Mystic Vale
Nora Gibson US/QC - Tree of Life
Jules Roze & Pablo Geeraert FR/QC+BE/QC - Lignes de fuite
Focus on Daito Manabe
After captivating audiences in Tokyo and Barcelona, Japanese artist Daito Manabe, founder of Rhizomatiks, brings his latest audiovisual performance to MUTEK Montréal this summer. With generative visuals, Manabe explores everyday materials and phenomena, uncovering essential potentialities of the human body, data, programming, and computers. Experience a unique blend of analog and digital, real and virtual.
Focus on Jacques
Jacques transforms the everyday into a dazzling symphony for his new live performance at MUTEK Montréal. Using clips from movies, documentaries, and sounds captured over time, he creates a soundscape where rockets, barking, and baby cries turn into instruments. His unique approach blends audiovisual performance and live interaction, offering an experience where sound and image merge to captivate and get the audience dancing.
Nocturne 3
Thursday, August 22, 2023, from 10:30pm to 2:45am
Espace SAT
Technologies of Consciousness CA/QC - Numinous Machines
Ela Minus CO
Octo octa US
Ciel CA
Satosphère
Bénédicte CA/QC
Nick Schofield CA/QC
Mesocosm CA/QC - Terra Flecta
Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones CA/QC+AT/QC - Fractal Fantasy Surround
Focus on Sinjin Hawke & Zora Jones
Fractal Fantasy: Surround immerses audiences in Sinjin Hawke and Zora Jones' unique sound and visual world. Developed at Satosphère, their first spatial audiovisual exploration employs AI and motion-capture to create a realm of liquid metal creatures and sci-fi erotic grotesque visuals. The performance blends genres like footwork and baile funk, showcasing their innovative use of technology to expand the sensory experience of music.
Nocturne 4
Friday, August 23, 2023, from 10:40pm to 4:45am
Espace SAT
G L O W Z I C O M B O CA/QC - To The Mirrors of Y(our) Desires: The Introduction
Fred Everything CA/QC - Love, Care, Kindness & Hope
Cobblestone Jazz CA
Galcher Lustwerk US
Satosphère
Tati au Miel CA/QC - Reverie
Korea Town Acid KR/CA
N3ZHA CH/CA - REBIRTH
Focus on Cobblestone Jazz
Cobblestone Jazz melds jazz's improvisational flair with the precise beats of minimal techno. Known for crafting their music live using keyboards and drum machines, the trio of Danuel Tate, Mathew Jonson, and Tyger Dhula eschew pre-recorded elements, ensuring that each performance is a unique sonic exploration.
Nocturne 5
Saturday, August 24, 2024, from 10:45pm to 4:00am
Espace SAT
Aïsha Devi + }§{ CH+FR/UK - Les Immortelles
Orchestroll CA/QC - Hyperwide Ellipsis (Do Not Fear the Melody Master Suite)
Meuko! Meuko! & NONEYE TW - Invisible General
aya UK
Satosphère
CLOUD BODIES CA/QC
Bana Haffar LB+SY/QC - Ancient Futures Live Set
Mateo Murphy & Lydia Yakonowsky CA/QC – ARIMA
DAPASHU? CA/QC - Dancefloor Chronicles
Focus on Cloud Bodies
Playing with scale and perspective, CLOUD BODIES is an immersive performance that explores the body as landscape and investigates its relationship with virtual spaces. As bodies and landscapes waltz, the topography of bodies morphs with the topography of the natural world. Allison Moore’s CLOUD BODIES is a generative immersive experience in the Satosphere combining dance and technology. Using live volumetric capture, dancer Lucy Fandel’s choreography is tracked by sensors during the performance. The geometric metadata collected is processed and reconstructed in the virtual environment projected onto the dome where Fandel’s body and movements merge with digital landscapes and Arthur Desmarteaux's soundtrack.
Nocturne 6
Sunday, August 25, 2024, from 10:15pm to 5:55am
Espace SAT
Pole DE - Tempus
Kode9 UK
Ayesha US
Liliane Chlela LB/QC - Anatomy of a Jerk
Satosphère
Cy-Ens CA/QC - Synapse
Andrea IT
Mike Shannon CA/DE
Salar Ansari IR/US
Focus on Kode9
Kode9 presents his Escapology live a/v show, a sonic exploration drawn from his latest album. This performance merges asymmetric club rhythms with sharp, immersive sound designs, embodying a digital escape narrative. Infused with socio-political commentary through the lens of science fiction, the show features dynamic visuals by his creative cohort, emphasizing Kode9’s role as a visionary sound architect in contemporary electronic music
Six days and nights of discoveries and immersive audio-visual experiences
The festivalgoers will have the opportunity to enjoy nearly 80 live performances presented at five iconic venues in the Quartier des spectacles: MTelus, Société des arts technologiques [SAT], Théâtre Maisonneuve at Place des Arts, New City Gas and the esplanade Tranquille, which once again hosts the free outdoor stage.
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