AV Evening #2
Modulated lyrical singing, living structures, and eclectic collages
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MERGING SPECIES, Gabriela Hébert and Michelle Bawden
MERGING SPECIES is a live performance where gesture, operatic voice, electronics, and stage presence merge into an evolving composition. Using a wearable gesture-control device, Gabriela Hébert modulates soprano Michelle Bawden’s voice in real time, distorting, triggering, and disrupting it. Between them lies a dialogue of control and resistance: two forces in tension that seek, lose, and find one another.
The soundscape brings together modular textures, synthesizers, violin, and operatic vocals, unfolding through progressive tensions and shifting rhythmic dynamics. The result oscillates between rupture and calm, until the voice eventually contains what it cannot quite name.
Structural Drift
Inspired by the rhythms, patterns, and structures found in nature and his surrounding environments, Antoine De Schuyter has developed a practice where electronic music and audiovisual performance intertwine and respond to one another in real time. Through the live deconstruction and recomposition of sound and visual forms, he shapes immersive landscapes where sound becomes space and image becomes emotional material.
Under the name STRUCTURAL DRIFT, this performance explores the progressive drift of systems, rhythms, patterns, and sensory architectures toward unstable, organic states. Woven from sound and visual layers that defy classification (IDM, ambient, field recordings, experimental), the project engages the audience in an experience that is both intimate and expansive.
The materials used are drawn from a continuous stream of personal captures—photographs, videos, and recordings made during daily life and travels—transformed into living structures where memory and perception are recomposed in real time.
Blurring Identities, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier & Tanya St-Pierre
New work
Blurring Identities is a new video and sound performance by Tanya St-Pierre and Philippe-Aubert Gauthier. Drawing from hundreds of Tanya St-Pierre’s paper collages, the performance uses video collage as a score to articulate sound and music in a fragmented, frenetic assembly of timbres, rhythms, and notes.
Venue
PHI
