The Upgrade! Montreal + [MixSessions]

This month we are honoured
to present two of Saskatchewan’s superbly strange artists, curators &
musicans, Carrie Gates & Jon Vaughn. The
duo run the BricoLodge sublabel of Montreal’s NoType.com and are both
producers of experimental music (Carrie as an experimental turntablist with
VinylInterventions.com; Jon, with improvisational electronics & composition).
Carrie is a curator at paved Art + New Media in Saskatoon & Jon is also
a wacked-out DJ. Don’t miss their presentation.

The rest of this motley
crew arrives from all over with a diversity of interests: Doug van Noort
is a doctoral candidate in Music Technology at McGill University and will present
some of his software creations for music production in Max/MSP and beyond; Charles
Stankievich, an ex-Vancouverite, is a performance artist and closet
Lacanian who will also delve into the realm of software and Max/MSP; and Matthew
Biederman arrives from the U.S. armed with his laptop software for
generating digital experiments.

See ya & remember kids:
it’s ALL FREE!

Program of the evening:

07:00pm – 07:10pm: Introduction to The Upgrade
07:10pm – 07:50pm: Carrie Gates & Jon Vaughn
08:00pm – 08:20pm: Charles Stankievich
08:30pm – 08:50pm: Matthew Biederman
09:00pm – 09:20pm: Doug van Noort
09:30pm – 09:50pm: Deanne | Dia Media
10:00pm – 00:00pm: MixSessions

For more information, go
to: http://theupgrade.sat.qc.ca

[MixSessions]
at 10pm – free

Sly Cormier,
member of the TOT [Territoires Ouverts-Open Territories] team,
invites you to an evening of exploration in the world of open-source software
for the production of musical composition performance and recording in a chill
setting.

Starring the following musicians:
Piano – Jessica Vigneault
Double bass – Alex Bellegarde
Clarinet – Vincent Didier
Guitar- Marc-André Morvan
Trombone- Nadav Nirenberg

And the following apps:

Zynaddsubfx
Amsynth
Hydrogen
Ardour
nSlam
PureData/Gem