SAT CIRCUIT - International tour of fulldome shows

INTERPOLATE incorporates live coding and generative processes to create an experience where visuals control audio, and audio controls visuals. Minimal generative 3D geometry and particle systems take the audience through the music, conveying the physicality of the sound while mapping out the emotional landscape of the melodies.

This project benefitted from the support of the SAT's artwork creation program.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Gleefully muddying the waters between motion design, 3D and audio reactive visuals, Push 1 stop’s output has been incredibly varied. While each of her performances is poles apart from the next. Her live sets are invariably characterized by the build up of elegantly precise and complex narrative environments.

Woulg creates dark sonic landscapes disrupted by glitches that are equally likely to break into hypnotic pounding techno as they are to expand into ambient bubbles of texture ready to burst; reminding us that nothing lasts, that we should always expect the unexpected. His mind bending live sets explore these ideas while taking the crowd on an unpredictable journey.

ENTROPIA is an immersive audio visual performance exploring spatial interaction between sound, physical light and 360° visuals. It aims to create an immersive scape made of interconnected layers of medias. It’s based on a audio reactive geodesic led filled sphere that keeps a constant interaction with immersive visuels projection, and is synchronized to the sound. Sound artist stands inside the sphere while visual team performs real time pixels mapping and generative visuals.

Created by Fraction (FR) and Louis-Philippe St-Arnault (CA) in collaboration with Nature Graphique (FR) and Création Ex Nihilo (CA).

This project benefitted from the support of the SAT's artwork creation program.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Fraction (aka Eric Raynaud) is a French musician, composer and producer of experimental electronic music. After the release of his first EP Superposition on the French label InFiné, Raynaud moved away from traditional music fields to focus on digital arts, working on complex stage designs and hybrid writings that combines visual, sound and physical medias. Fraction has kept on merging 3D immersive sound with contemporary art and architecture together, incorporating his questioning on themes that combine science and contemporary sociology. Experimentations on the spatial, physical and emotional characteristics of sounds are on the epicentre of his atypical work.

Visual artist and space designer, LP Starnault has been creating for more than 15 years creative projects, public installations and digital scenography that transform light into movement, and image into journey. In 2014, he created UrbaMorphic Vol1, a permanent digital art installation embedded in the front of Montreal’s Marc-Favreau library. He also participated in several collective creative projects, such as Irradiance in 2016, an urban mapping that reacts to the environnement; Dream Collider, in 2015, an oneiric immersive installation in which a group interacts collectively; and Entropia, presented in 2015 and still on tour. This experiential project was featured in The Creators Project, DesignBoom and XLR8. A Montreal-based digital artist, LP Starnault has also been directing the SAT [Immersion] department at the Society for Arts and Technology since 2007. He was head of the Satosphère project design and integration team from 2008 to 2011 and now acts as its programming director.

Guillaume Bourassa is an A/V and new media artist, and co-founder of Création Ex Nihilo. Having worked at the SAT for close to ten years, among which four as the technical director of the Satosphere, he is now the technical director of the R&D experiment program at Moment Factory. He has more than 15 years of experience in digital art. He constantly reinvents himself through learning of the latest state-of-the-art software and technology, like TouchDesigner, as well as through his implication in various creative projects.

Multimedia artist working on the design of installations, digital scenography and immersive displays, Aurélien Larfargue (Nature Graphique) is a graphic designer, developer and filmmaker. His process involves architecture as much as design, lighting, and all forms of interconnections between arts and technology. His creative pieces are always one with an object, space, or real or virtual architecture, of which he reveals or reinvents the geometrical volumes, angles, surfaces, textures, whether they are organic or digital.

Written as an immersive audio visual album, each track takes a unique look at the concept of an orbit. Both the music and film elements will explore rhythm, period and cycle through many different avenues, from the regular and repeating path of an orbit to the complex interactions of many bodies influencing each other. The live performance integrate synth driven electronica with a string quartet using multi point surround sound to create an extremely rich immersive experience.

This project benefitted from the support of the SAT's artwork creation program.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Montreal Life Support is a musician signed to Ninja Tune as ‘Dems’ and freelance installation/interactive designer from London England. After graduating David went on to work for United Visual Artists & D3 Technologies. Working as an electronic and mechanical project fabricator.Montreal Life Support has produced work and collaborated with companies including the BBC, United Visual Artists, English National Ballet, Ballet Rambert, Barbican and Channel 4. He has also helped with the programming of the light show on the tallest building in London, «The Shard ». He has also built live AV shows for Dems, Emmy the Great and Max Cooper.

An audio-visual collaboration between Wiklow, Diagraf and Ewerx, Liquid Architecture approaches generative composition in an immersive environment. Combining LIDAR data and creative modelling, real-world buildings and structures and imaginary landscapes are displaced and reconstructed point-by-point in a 3D immersive projection environment. Ancient churches, waterfalls and forest environments melt into one another, combining to create impossible structures. As each scene builds and dissolves, a transformation of energy takes place, contrasting the ideas and beliefs they represent. The creators generate content from their individual machines. Data is sent back and forth, communicating spatial, rhythmic, colour and various signal information…

This project benefitted from the support of the SAT's artwork creation program.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Patrick Trudeau (Diagraf) is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Montreal, Quebec. While mostly recognized as a digital visual artist, he is also a VJ, DJ, composer, and filmmaker. His work in those fields features a forward thinking minimalist aesthetic combined with a science fiction sensibility, exploring notions of futurism, metaphysics, existentialism and humanism. His current trajectory is leading him increasingly towards generative performances, immersive audiovisual works, and virtual/augmented reality projects.

Ehsan Rezaie (Ewerx) is a programmer / artist / designer that specializes in creating visual and interactive experiences using technology and code. His works include real-time simulations, data visualization, interactive installations, mobile applications and live performance.

Michael Dean (Wiklow) is a composer, technologist and digital artist based in Montréal. Under the pesudonym ‘Wiklow’, he creates “a world of familiar digital sounds given organic autonomy” [MUTEK 2015]. Either solo or in collaboration, Dean brings together concepts from sound art, techno and contemporary art music..

In physics, the body's inertia is the tendency of an object to maintain its speed, to persevere itself without any external influence. INERTIA is here an audiovisual and immersive study of the movement, speed, strength and resistance to abstract bodies facing physical and temporary changes of their condition.

This project benefitted from the support of the SAT's artwork creation program.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Desaxismundi is an independent visual artist and creative developer specializing in generative design and audiovisual performances. His work ranges from creating interactive and multimedia experiences to designing motion and monumental video projections. Always at the border between art, sciences and technology, Desaxismundi gives shade to light and carves emptiness to make complexity emerge.

Olivier Rhéaume (Terminal Wolf) is a sound artist, composer and sound designer who stepped into the Quebec electronic music scene more than 15 years ago. After studying film, he quickly gravitated towards creating themed multimedia shows that brought him to explore and develop sound techniques for the stage and for art installations. For 7 years now, he has worked as the audio lead in the Immersion department for the Society for Arts and Technology, in addition to being an instructor and sound designer for its immersive shows.

A/V performance combining VJing, saxophone, voice, electronics and spatialization, in which the connexions between performers and audience are explored.

This project benefitted from the support of the SAT's artwork creation program.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jane/KIN is a duo composed of saxophone-player and singer Ida Toninato and electronics artist Ana Dall’Ara Majek. Together, they invent a hybrid and visceral language in between electronica, drone and instrumental.

Myriam Boucher is a composer and video artist based in Montreal. Her sensitive and polymorphic work examines the organic relationship between music, sound and visuals.

Mailis G. Rodrigues works on interactive media applied to the arts. She holds a Doctorate in science and technology of arts from Portugal, during which she designed a digital musical instrument, Intonaspacio, which uses a space’s acoustics to influence the live musical performance.