SUBSTRAT, SOUND SERIES — Bana Haffar • Mélanie Frisoli • Vivian Li

Bana Haffar is an electronic music composer exploring the materiality of sound, and the relation of sonic worlds to the vast terrain of natural and artificial systems. Bana is a DJ at dublab who’s been active in the LA experimental music community (Modular on the Spot, 2014) and worldwide (Beirut Synthesizer Center in Lebanon, 2021). Currently, Bana is pursuing graduate research at Concordia University, Intermedia Program. (Bio by Anastasia Chernysheva)

Mélanie Frisoli is a Franco-Canadian composer, sound artist, and sound technician. She performed and sang her own songs on French and international stages for fifteen years (around 700 concerts). She has released six albums, written three books, and composed for dance, theatre, and cinema. Passionate about studio work, she trained in sound engineering before pursuing studies in Digital Music at the Faculty of Music at the University of Montreal. After completing a master’s degree specializing in sound spatialization, she is currently pursuing a doctorate in composition and sound creation under the supervision of Dominic Thibault and Caroline Traube. Her acousmatic and experimental pieces have received several awards and have been performed in Canada, Italy, Germany, and the United States.

A student of digital music/electroacoustics at the Université de Montréal, talented young Montrealer Vivian Li is driven by a fascination for the therapeutic and temporal properties of sound. Her music beautifully integrates sound frequencies that can be described as hypnotic, soothing, with field recordings of everyday life, intimate or public. Vivian Li is also host of LoSignal on CKUT, where she broadcasts the product of her research in a radio art approach.