Cabaret audio

Audio live
February 14th to 16th 23h / Café-bistrot L’Abraham-Martin

In this latest edition of Mois Multi’s audio cabaret, the exploration of sound will have one thing in common:  analogous handled with a digital perspective. We invite you to evenings that propose three appropriations on the electric theme, from the very garage to the most subtle!

Micro-commissaire : Érick d’Orion

The Birds are Starting to Mate
Kathleen Kelly
           
One European medieval belief says that on February 14 birds begin to mate. This image of avian mating rituals drawn from the imagination of the two noize artists of Kathleen Kelly, provides an inevitable violent result, closer to pornography than sensuality.  As so forcefully explained by Kathleen Kelly, “placing this piece in images would translate into a succession of firecraker blasts in a nest of baby birds.”

Object Left Behind in the Sea
Nicolas Bernier et Simon Trottier

Halfway between naive music, sound effects, staccato rhythms and soundscapes, it is through a realtime collage that Nicolas Bernier and Simon Trottier take on the theme of water in Object Left Behind in the Sea. A combination of tradition and technology, with this project the two artists deliver melodies influenced at the same time by American folk and quiet ambient music, with continuous and hypnotizing electro-acoustics.

À l’infinitif
Érick d’Orion

A l’infinitif is a minimalist improvisation that uses excerpts of poetry read by dada artists Raoul Hausmann, Tristan Tzara, and Kurt Schwitters.  An electric bass guitar, a laptop, two walkie-talkies, a few microphones, a damaged mixing console with no sound signal input and a FireWire mixer, out comes Erick d’Orion ready to revisit in his own personal way this literature where  everything is called into question.

About the artists

Kathleen Kelly
(Quebec, Canada)

Created in 1999, the Kathleen Kelly duo is composed of Christian Messier and Francois Simard who present ambiguous artistic projects that have shifted to sound material over the last years.

Inspired by noize music, their art goes from analogous, unprogrammed sound to, on the other end, unstable and unpredictable digital sounds.

Introducing Kathleen Kelly: a teenager in crisis who turns abruptly from the mood of drone to a maximalist sound.

Nicolas Bernier et Simon Trottier
(Montreal, Canada)

The electro-acoustic composer Nicolas Bernier and guitarist Simon Trottier have worked together since the summer of 2007.  Their album Objet abandonné en mer was also released in September of the same year under the German label 12rec, drawing excellent reviews in Canada and Europe.

Nicolas Bernier is known for his work in live electronics, the installation, video and music for dance and cinema.  As for Simon Trottier, he has worked with a number of instrumental rock and improvised music groups, and has composed for contemporary dance.

Érick D’Orion
(Quebec, Canada)

Erick d’Orion is a sound artist whose work bears a close semblance to noize, concrete music, free jazz and electroacoustics.  His exploration is centered on digital maximalism.

He also develops installation projects that interweave sound and new technologies to create work in constant movement, becoming either sources or sound distributors.

He is a member of the duo morceaux_de_machines and of the Montreal collective Perte de Signal.  His work has been featured in Canada, Europe, Australia and Mexico.