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EVENING #1
Myriam Bleau, Douglas McCausland, Crystn Hunt Akron
Thursday, June 18 2026
HOURS
Doors open: 7pm
Start of the evening: 8pm
PRICE
General Admission: 20$
Student rate: 15$
3 evenings pass: 50$
VENUE
PHI, 407 Rue Saint-Pierre
Montréal, QC H2Y 2M3
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© Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
Soft Revolvers
Soft Revolvers is an audiovisual performance for 4 spinning tops built with clear acrylic by the artist. Each top is associated with an ‘instrument’ in an electronic music composition and the motion data collected by sensors – placed inside the tops – informs musical algorithms. With their large circular spinning bodies and their role as music playing devices, the interfaces strongly evoke turntables and DJ culture, hip hop and dance music. LEDs placed inside the tops illuminate the body of the objects in a precise counterpoint to the music, creating stunning spinning halos.
© Alžběta Kopecká
Myriam Bleau
Montreal (QC), Canada
Myriam Bleau is a composer, digital artist and performer based in Montréal. Using music and sound as a point of departure, she creates audiovisual performances, video works, installations and interactive interfaces that articulate sound, light and movement. Her work is often channeled through performance, embracing ephemeral and elusive contexts. Her work has been recognized and presented internationally in festivals such as Prix Ars Electronica (AT), Sónar (ES, HK), Transmediale (DE), Sonic Arts Award (IT), Elektra (CA), Mutek (MX, CA, JP, AR), ISEA (CA, KR), L.E.V (ES), Rewire (NL), Café Oto (UK).
© WeSa
ENTANGLEMENT
ENTANGLEMENT is an intermedia work for live-electronics performer, higher order ambisonics audio, video projection, and programmed lights. The culmination of over a decade of research and creative practice in electronic music, this work is a paratactic collection of ten visceral and dynamic personal reflections. Aesthetically, ENTANGLEMENT demands us to experience the contrast of extremes, for example: tension and release, density and stasis, and – sometimes – discomfort and catharsis. These ten sections are structurally linked to one another by a network of interconnections in material, form, and theme.
DISCLAIMER : Please note that this performance features numerous extended periods of flashing light, periods of flashing video, and periods of extended darkness. Those who experience general photosensitivity and/or photosensitive epilepsy are strongly discouraged from viewing this work.
Douglas McCausland
Oakland (California), USA
Douglas McCausland is an composer / performer, sound designer, and digital artist from Oakland, California whose visceral and often chaotic works explore the extremes of sound, technology, and the digital medium. Described as “Tremendously powerful, dark, and sometimes terrifying…” (SEAMUS) and “Ruthlessly visceral…” (The Wire), he leverages the intersections of numerous technologies and creative practices, such as gestural performance interfaces, spatial audio, interactive systems, intermedia art, and machine-learning.
© Nora Forsthuber
PLASTICPHONIA
Maybe plastic sounds deep, light, rousing, interesting or completely foreign? Sound artist Crystn Hunt Akron embarks on the Planet Plastic journey with Greenpeace, environmentalists and Clean Up the Beaches. Together they scour beaches and collect plastic that the seas have washed up on. With PLASTICPHONIA, field recordings create sampled tones from the collected plastic parts such as brushes, bags, buckets, bottles, hoses, cups, etc. and from these recordings the artist composes her very own sound interpretation as a live concert, room installation and workshop series. „Trash goes Music“ - a sustainable utilization and examination of the legacies of today‘s throwaway society. With Plasticphonia she has been performing in galleries, museums, festivals and clubs since in Europe, Africa and America - like Sound Scene Festival in Washington DC, ADAF Festival Athen in Greece, Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, ...
CRYSTN HUNT AKRON
Linz, Austria
CRYSTN HUNT AKRON lives and works in Linz, Austria. As a music producer and artist in the fields of contemporary electronic music and the performing arts, she is constantly exploring new sound ensembles and sonic possibilities and performs internationally at festivals, clubs, museums, galleries, as well as in theater, dance, and sound installations. With her current work PLASTICPHONIA – Plastic Trash Composed into Music, she engages in a sustainable artistic exploration through musical composition, creating evocative soundscapes from plastic waste washed up on the shores of our seas and is touring in Europe, America, Africa.
