Dômesicle — Éditions Appærent • Nadah El Shazly • Liliane Chlela • Lash • Orchestroll

Egyptian composer and vocalist, Nadah El Shazly, is known for her fresh and fearless performances, and is a prominent and captivating voice in the electronic music underworld of her hometown, Cairo. Her debut album “Ahwar” both radically reinvents the popular music of her homeland and explores new sonic and harmonic frontiers. Using voice, field recordings and instruments she creates haunting sound pieces and song forms that hijack your perception of time. Backing up her release with extensive worldwide touring through a solo set and a four-piece band, Nadah has been featured in many local and international festivals .Nadah is currently working on her second music album, and continues to compose for film and moving image.

Producer, DJ and performer, Liliane Chlela is known in the electronic and experimental scenes for her unique and daring approach to sound, often challenging audiences to push the boundaries of their auditory experience. Using her own techniques, she explores the links between improvisation and sound manipulation across many musical genres. After three self-released albums, her most recent, Safala, blends field recordings, memories and incantations with innovative and destabilizing sounds. Her penchant for transdisciplinarity has led Chlela to develop audio and visual skills and apply them to fields as diverse as fashion films, interactive installations and performance art. With this diverse and adventurous sonic palette, the Montreal-based Lebanese artist has become one of the most versatile producers and musicians in the Middle East, West Asia and Europe. Middle East, West Asia and North Africa.

Lash is a Montreal based trio composed of Canadian producers Andrew Alain, Asaël Robitaille and Mexican-American vocalist Frances Verdugo Lash. A genre-agnostic project, Lash takes inspiration from pop, industrial, noise and latin music to create dramatic compositions which underpin Verdugo Lash’s acerbic writing and sultry vocals in Spanish and English. The debut EP, House of Women, inspired by Spanish dramatist Federico Garcia de Lorca’s tragedy La Casa de Bernarda Alba, is an examination of the ways in which the feminine self, in her multiplicity, navigates inhospitable internal/external expectations and demands.

Since 2016, Jesse Osborne-Lanthier and Asaël Richard-Robitaille have been collaborating on a variety of music, sound-design and media-arts related projects, touching on a variety of genres, styles, tools, mediums and techniques. Together they've worked as composers, live performers, arrangers, producers, and engineers for numerous artists such as, Bernardino Femminielli, Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu, Anna Arrobas, Alex Zhang-Hungtai, Feu St-Antoine, WHIMM, Lash. They have also worked as sound-designers, beta-testers and programmers for industry-leading digital instrument and digital audio workstation companies such as Ableton, Arturia, Native Instruments. Orchestroll's uniquely aestheticized sound palette can be heard throughout their production catalogue as well as the multiple sound libraries they have programmed for virtual synthesizers and instruments.

Myriam Boucher is a composer and video artist based in Montreal. Her sensitive and polymorphous work focuses on the organic relationship between music, sound and image. Her creation is oriented toward works of visual music and audiovisual performance.

GUILLAUME BOURASSA is a new media artist, co-founder of Création Ex Nihilo (Interactivity, Immersive, AI, App, Mapping, 3D; Nuit Blanche, MUTEK, PQDS, SAT, Place-des-arts ). He is now Director of Research and Development at Moment Factory, after having been until 2016 technical manager of the Satosphere at the Society for Arts and Technology. He has more than 15 years of experience in digital arts and is continually renewing himself by learning new software and technologies, including TouchDesigner, as well as by his involvement in a wide variety of projects.