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SUBSTRAT, SOUND SERIES — Estelle Schorpp • Ida Toninato • Checkpoint303

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A Conversation Between a Partially Educated Parrot and a Machine

Using archival bird recordings from the 1930s, this performance explores the historical and sonic relationships between birds, humans and sound reproduction technologies. The performance recontextualizes the history of bird song recordings by blending documentary archives, shellac records, gramophone and contemporary interactive algorithmic technologies. The project emphasizes a dynamic back-and-forth between different types of discourse, technology, gesture and sound. In so doing, A Conversation Between a Partially Educated Parrot and a Machineproposes an immersive sound experience in which birds, machines and humans make music together.

Estelle Schorpp

Estelle Schorpp is a French sound artist, composer and researcher based in Montreal, active in the fields of experimental music and sound ecology. She uses the tools and methods of research-creation to set up projects that take a critical and creative look at our relationship with the sound environment. Integrating concepts from disciplines such as sound ecology, sound studies, media theory, history of science, acoustics and psychoacoustics, her polymorphous approach combines performance, sound installation and algorithmic composition, as well as academic communication and the writing of scientific articles.
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Lions on the Run

An encounter between a cinematic sound universe and the stubborn rhythms of Intelligent Dance Music, Lions on the Run creates a bridge between the instrumental and electronic worlds. Baritone saxophone, voice and electronics occupy the sound space, in which an imaginary character is invited to create his own fantasy world, embracing the tumultuous flow of life. For the Substrat series, Lions on the Run will take on an immersive dimension, inviting the audience into the heart of the character's experience.

Ida Toninato

Ida Toninato is a saxophonist, composer and artistic director. Her practice unfolds at the intersection of acoustic exploration and the creation of hybrid sound worlds where electronics and instruments are in symbiosis. Praised for her unique way of channeling vulnerability and power, attentive listening and explosiveness, Toninato brings to the fore specific spaces with reverberation, in which she uses her baritone saxophone as a revelator of acoustic beauty. Toninato committed herself to electronic music as a solo artist in 2024, with the video Lions on the Run on the Live in Concrete platforms.
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Checkpoint 303

Checkpoint 303 is an avant-garde activist sound art project that creates experimental electronic music raising awareness about the struggle for liberation, justice and self-determination, and against settler-colonialism, occupation and apartheid. Using archives and recordings predominantly from Palestine and countries throughout the Arab world, Checkpoint 303 constructs soundscapes that weave cinematic audio with experimental sound processing, breakbeats and glitch.

Checkpoint 303

The project is led by Tunisian producer SC Mocha and has numerous collaborations with Palestinian artists including Rim Banna, Jawaher Shofani, Ministry of Dubkey and more. The project performed all around the world and has even been invited as a supporting act by the band Massive Attack.
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