Special SAT[MixSessions] & EpsilonLab

BLUNT

Special Paul Keeley Album Launch :: With the EpsilonLab
special collaboration
January 25 – 9pm :: $5

21h
Jan Pienkowski :: onorecords
VJ Athanore
VJ Sakara

22h
The Autist
VJ Futil

23h
Paul Keeley
VJ Les Passagers

24h
Eloi Brunelle
VJ TIND
VJ chef_joseph

Paul Keeley :: www.epsilonlab.com

Paul Keeley began writing his particular style of
house music after living in Montreal, Quebec for a year and a half,
and being influenced by performances by Luomo and Akufen, as well as
the always-inspiring Mutek festival held there every spring. A lifelong
musician, Paul has also created music of varying styles under different
aliases, including electro-infused IDM (Silent Q), and chaotic textural
atmospherics (Gyges). Currently living in Vancouver, B.C., Paul continues
to evolve his house music style, combining dub-inspired synthesizers,
deep percussion grooves, and glitchy vocal snippets of various origins.
Look for Paul’s upcoming 12″ release on the Irish-based Psychonavigation/Offshoot
records, as well as his web release on Panospria records under his Gyges
moniker.

The Autist :: www.epsilonlab.com

Still only in his 20s, The Autist (Mathieu Arsenault)
is recognized as a rising star in this, one of the hottest scenes in
North America. He is a cofounder of top Montreal parties, including
Refuge Électronik and more recently Tistik. In addition to his
own venues, the Autist has been the headline act at leading Montreal
events, such as Swirl. He is also a partner in the cutting-edge disc
and net label Epsilonlab (www.epsilonlab.com).

In both 2005 and 2006 The Autist had the honor of
being voted one of the best electronic acts in Montreal by the city’s
residents.

His interest in music started at a very young age,
encompassing the flute, the organ and later the guitar and a stint with
his own garage band. Growing up, the spectrum of his musical tastes
ranged across all genres, from jazz, to rock… to techno and house.

Eloi Brunelle :: www.epsilonlab.com

“Cool contours and
a warm heart” is how the French magazine TRAX describes his funky
tech-house. However, it’s his energetic live and dj performances
and his affinity for his audience that has brought Eloi Brunelle recognition
in the electronic music scene since 1998.

His reputation in Montreal leaves nothing to be
desired; he has played in all the important festivals in the city, including
the Meg, the Montreal jazz festival, Elektra and Mutek. He maintains
close relationships with nightlife venues such as Stereo and cultural
venues such as SAT (Société des arts technologiques).
The SAT that was forged by the legendary Epsilonlab parties held there.
He is in fact the director of the associated record label and netlabel
witch have a total of 27 releases.

The quality of his music has often been recognized
via numerous prestigious nominations: “Electronic Music Artist
of the Year” at the 2001 MIMIs (Montreal Independent Music Industry
awards), “Electronic Album of the Year” 2 years in a row,
for his albums “Elsonic Project” and “Live @ Neuchatel”
at the ADISQ awards, and again “Electronic Album of the Year”
at the Independent Canadian Music Awards in 2003.

Jan Pienkowski :: www.onorecords.com

A composer, musician, sound designer, DJ and physicist,
Jan Pienkowski writes and performs music reflecting his diverse background.
From his Electroacoustic training and love of World Music comes a mixture
of mechanical bleeps, acoustic spaces and ethnic themes. From his theatre
(DIALOG) and dance (A.R.M. with choreographer Nikolas Dixon) experience
comes a flair for the dramatic and a feel for intricate rhythms.

Jan’s performances span Canada, U.S., France
and Hong Kong. His 2005 Shiva project with VJ Nokami has been shown
at festivals in Thailand, Germany, UK, Sweden, Austria, Romania, Italy,
Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, USA and Canada, with India finally
being added to the list of countries for 2006.

Jan has been also very active on the Montreal scene
with shows at the Black & Blue Festival, Mutek, Montreal High Lights
Festival, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Fantasia Festival, Fringe/
Pop Festival, Divers/Cité Festival, Tangente, Agora Festif, Exit,
and regular appearances at the SAT, U Lounge, Saphir, Luba Lounge and
Green Room. Jan’s Live and DJ mixes have landed him spots as featured
artist on New York’s Proton Radio, Chicago’s Clubland Underground,
Chicago’s 92.5 FM and Montreal’s CKUT 90.3 FM.

Jan is constantly expanding on what it means to
be an electronic musician by collaborating with soloists (saxophone,
violin, voice), visual artists, painters and dancers. He organises evenings
and performs often at the SAT, with a range of shows including: the
first Technopera (Turandot) with the singers from the Atelier lyrique
de l’Opéra de Monréal; Incidents improvisés,
blending Schubert and Chopin with electronic structures; and regular
[Mix_Sessions] combining the talents of musicians, dj’s and vj’s.

Athanore :: www.athanore.com

Athanore is a collective of conceptual art, winning
price Tip of the hat 2004, working both in Quebec and in South America
in the fields of video, photo, visual anthropology and vj. Athanore
endeavours to explore and chart the human psyche and its hypnagogic
imageries through a visual symbolic questioning the relationship between
onirism and representation of the human body in a space and temporal
reconstruction of the contemporary Man identity. Athanore has been participating
as VJ at more than events in Montreal and South America.

TIND :: thisisnotdesign.com

TIND (thisisnotdesign) est un regroupement artistique
de Montréal formé d’artistes et de professionnels des
arts. Actif depuis 2001, TIND compte comme membres plusieurs VJs, artistes
vidéastes et photographes. TIND joue avec des textures visuelles
créées principalement par les erreurs vidéo retrouvées
dans la compression, les interférences et la rétroaction
(video feedback). Cette texture s’accumule par couches successives créant
une zone floue entre le figuratif et l’abstrait. Les visuels sont structurés
sur le rythme de la musique, l’un fait echo à l’autre.

chef_joseph (ENG) :: www.jocoolmultimedia.ca

New media artist, Joseph Lefèvre aka VJ chef_joseph
is the co-founder and coordinator of the SAT[MixSessions] a collective
of Vjs & Djs creators at the Society for Art and Technology (SAT)
in Montreal.

He is active in the technology arts field since
1995 as an artist and a visual performer. His style may be figurative
or abstract but most often poetic. His original visual sources fit inside
the various thematics of the events where he performs LIVE. He likes
to explore every gender and he is aware of the musicians feedbacks and
the public reaction to his work.

Joseph Lefevre has been involved beside many other
venues, in the pixelACHE VJ Festival, Helsinki, Apocalypse Rave 2004,
Montreal, in the New Media Film Festival (FCMM), Montreal, in [Ex]teriori
exhibition, Mexico-City and in NexArt, new media part of the Florida
Film Festival.

FUTIL :: futildesign.com

Alexandre Berthiaume, founder of FUTIL design is
a multidisciplinary artist working in the field of the industrial design,
the lighting design, graphics arts, Web programming, video animation
2D and 3D. Futil design gathers several design of pieces of furniture,
luminaries and objects sold throughout America. Web work counts nearly
thirty Web site including 2 recommended by Infopresse and Graphika.
Several graphic design to it’s credit of which album for Hakan Libdo
and Miguel Graça. On the level of the 3D graphics, 3 years of
work on multiple architectural projects. Having obtained a baccalaureate
in architecture in 1999, its formation was supplemented by multiple
researches in industrial design, graphics and multi-media. The video
comes from the deepening of research in 3d graphics and flash, programming,
developing new ways of creating algorithms random graph combined with
sound interactions.

The first concern is the sound inter-action, the
luminous intensity and the color. The remainder is composed of elements
generated or transformed mathematically. The programming is at the heart
of the creation. Generation of form, distortion and movement randomly
while integrating the sound variables. Simple, pure and an interactive
result.

Les Passagers :: www.epsilonlab.com

Since 2001, Les Passagers (Jean-Sébastien
Baillat and Mathieu Bélanger) have hypnotised many crowds of
the Montreal techno scene with their unique style of visuals: fictitious
characters — funny, weird or creepy, mixed with enigmatic words,
lines and simple graphic animations. Full-time graphic-designers and
part-time filmakers, Les Passagers are also promoters of special multidisciplinary
techno happenings. When they are not with each other, Baya is a rock-solid
techno DJ, and Mat is a clever illustrator.